Obama Basks in the Glow of Powell Endorsement

It was expected for some time now, even by places like faux news.
Powell is correct in his assessment, and has done what is best for America, not his party. I hope more americans follow his lead.

I like the reasons why Powell has Endorsed Obama and is gonna vote for him, And the way he explained his choice is the way alot of americans are feeling. Thank you Mr Powell for pointing out the truths in this Election congrats Barack!

Everybody be sure to watch Hannitys America tonight Sunday on FOX.
Part 2 of Obamas ties to radicalism, Black Panthers, Farrakahans Nation of Islam, Money trail from HAMAS PLO. etc. Part 1 was very well done,well investigated, and completely verifiable. Anybody who would support Obama after seeing Part 1 is no doubt an enemy to America.
Thank to FOX the only media outlet that exposes the true Obama,, or is it Soetero?

Well, isnt Powell’s parents Jamaican?

Honestly, who really cares? Lol.

Powell helped to ruin America,
he can go to hell along with OBUCKY

Kenny: Chuck Hagel never endorsed BHO. His wife did. Get your facts straight.

Obama has outclassed McCain on the economy, judgment, leadership, campaigning and won all the 3 debates. Collin powel knows Obama will be a better commander in chief.

Anybody who would support Obama after seeing Part 1 is no doubt an enemy to America.
Posted by: Badger1 | Oct 19, 2008 3:56:00 PM
Anybody that would even watch those hacks needs professional help. The only enemies of America I see are people like you that have such small minds that you believe anything you are told.
Your kind of hatred is the cancer that has been killing this country. We as Democrats are finally standing up and saying “NO MORE”.

BADGER
No one listens to that wannabe fake Journalist HANNITY hes slime I dare one of you Mccain supporters to call GEN POWELL UNAMERICAN OR NOT PATRIOTIC because He Endorsed Obama I dare you!

Using taxpayer dollars to bail out
colossally greedy and incompetent
bankers is “spreading the wealth
around” as well; “socialism”.

If George Bush endorsed him that would be something. This endorsement just shows that race comes before country for some people.

TRUE REPUBLICAN
You must be a paid Mccain blogger you cant even spell REPUBLICAN, look at your user name. Powell was lied to by Bush just like the rest of us and when he did find out the truth he Immediatley resigned! Smart Man HE REALLY PUT COUNTRY FIRST! Now tell Mccain to pay you some more so you can get an Education!

Here’s a scenario. What if it were Colin Powell running against Obama?

Badger1
Hannity has been discredited as a serious journalist or a talk show host. Don`t you remember how he was made to look stupid by Robert Gibbs?

Kenny: Get your fact straight – Chuck Hagel NEVER endorsed barack Hussein Obama.

Colin powell is finally showing his true colors.

Mack: “This endorsement just shows that race comes before country for some people.”
Mack, are you seriously suggesting that Colin Powell is just endorsing Obama because he’s black?
Give me a break. This is a guy who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Secretary of State. This is a guy the Republicans would have loved to run for president in 1996 and 2000.
Racist military officers might exist, but as a retired Marine officer myself, I can tell you I honestly never met one. Regardless of your background, from the time an officer hits his first unit as a second lieutenant, he or she quickly realizes there are two kinds of people – those who can consistently get things done for you and those who can’t. Through sheer survival instinct, lieutenants learn to see people like that, and thus end up pretty color blind.

Race before country? No I dont think so!

JULIE
If you are claiming Powells Endorsement is a color thing, Explain why Powell didnt endorse sooner and Donated the Max to Mccain? Its because over the course of time Mccain has become SLEAZY ERRATIC,and the Icing on the cake Was SARA PALIN Mccain HAS POOR Judgement!

Dear Kenny: Is Chuck Hagel your hero? And by the way, He NEVER endorsed BHO.

Spelling is not what matters !What matters is who brings it on Nov 4.John
McCain ,will come from behind as he has all this year.Why ,because real people believe in McCain to do whats right not just whats popular.

Julie and True American
Your next president is Barrack Obama. The earlier you got over it the better. McCain has no judgment to lead and he displayed himself as erratic when the financial crisis broke within the last couple of weeks.
Obama is the candidate with steady hands.
Before you get worried look at the electoral map. Obama is winning BIG! People are now realizing that McCain is not up to the task.

Obama seems kind of gay to me, so it doesn’t surprise me that he’s “basking in the glow” of a male supporter. hehehe

Colin Powell the closet liberal, who in my opinion is the frosting on the Obama race cake……. He is the master of deceit who should do quite well with the socialist government of Obama

Obamacrat: “Warren Buffett is a socialist”
Lol, there’s about as good an example of seeing the worst in someone who doesn’t act in accordance with the narrative.
Warren Buffett, who I believe has now surpassed Bill Gates as the richest guy in the world – the oracle of Omaha – the guy who is considered a genius when it comes to evaluating the fundamentals of publicly held companies – a socialist?

It is so very sad that Colinn Powell endorsed Obama. Powell knows better than anyone that Obama is not qualified to be president but you knew Powell would endorse Obama.

RAY STERNBERG
Powell is not a liberal,He is a Moderate Republican, And thats why he said what he said today. Sara Palin has swayed the party far too right and hes right, Sara Palin is way way to far to the right thats why the Moderate Republicans as well as Independents are going to Obama!

Obama seems kind of gay to me, so it doesn’t surprise me that he’s “basking in the glow” of a male supporter. hehehe
Posted by: Kitty | Oct 19, 2008 4:31:47 PM
I guess you have a problem with gays too. God you people make me sick. Hate anybody who isn’t like you.

True Republican: “wow the turtle crosses the finish line first.Reminds me of a old story I heard once.”
So now, confronted with the disaster of a collapsing narrative, the Republicans seek a new one – from Aesop’s fables.

Powell did the right thing. Read what the media does NOT say about the financial crisis:
http://www.vaboomer.com/the_portal_to_boomeranger/2008/10/mortgage-crisis-the-history.html

No a very old but true narrative that fits the two candidates all to well for some people.

Why are people mad at Powell’s endorsement? He’s entitled to his opinion and you can take it or leave it. If he had endorsed McCain, we would have heard the “Country First” mantra. By the way, don’t most of us put God and Family before Country? Doesn’t matter I suppose, but I can see where you get “pro-America” and “fake” parts of the US when you use a slogan like this…

Re: Chuck Hagel
His wife is supporting Obama:
“The fact is, we’re in two wars, two of the longest we’ve ever been in. We’ve run up a third of our nation’s debt in just the past eight years. We’re in the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression,” said Lilibet Hagel. “This isn’t anti-McCain. This is pro-Obama. I’m just convinced he’s the right person.”
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/07/mrs_hagel_to_endorse_obama.html
As for Chuck:
Sen. Chuck Hagel, a leading Republican voice on international affairs and an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, won’t endorse either major-party presidential candidate in 2008, a spokesman said Tuesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/12/election.2008.hagel/
Bye he has butted heads with McCain and other leading Republicans over the war in Iraq and sharply criticized McCain’s campaign in July for its attacks on Obama, calling them “Distorted” and inappropriate.
He also has been critical about Palin and her not being qualified: “‘I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, “I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,”‘ he said. ‘That kind of thing is insulting to the American people.’”
And this one: “‘I think it’s a stretch to, in any way, to say that she’s got the experience to be president of the United States,’ Hagel said.”
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/18/1415527.aspx
He may not be endorsing Obama or McCain,but he does have some pretty sharp words against McCain, his actions and his pick of running mate.

Wasn’t Aesop a foreigner? Why can’t these Republicans look to American storytellers for guidance.
Mark Twain readers and other true Americans for Obama! Those Republicans are just too foreign!

Guys….
Can we please come together as Americans, rather than Republicans/Democrats/Libertarians etc. etc. Can we stop resenting each other…
Can we -at least- try.
Ultimately we want a centrist capable of intelligent discourse/compromise governing this nation. Isn’t it factual that most of the great minds of this nation have endorsed Obama? Can we agree on this? Will you stop and ask the question why… Even if you are determined to vote for McCain – just ask yourself what the facts are (forget the FOX news character assassination garbage) … on issues that matter to you. If you can be intellectually honest about this – that’ll be a step toward moving away from voting based on garbage/hysteria vs. voting based on fact.
Be well all.
Turning off FOX news would

jwench, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. glad to know i have that affect on any obama supporter. you just made my day. thanks.
Posted by: Kitty
Why don’t you go take a look in the mirror and see what’s wrong with you. Obviously you project your hate because you hate yourself. I can see why!
I really can’t stand people who have NO tolerance for people who are different from them either in color or otherwise.

Sen. Obama sure does heap praise on rich Democrats like Warren Buffet, Jim Johnson, and Franklin Raines. but likes to smear Republican rich people like Exxon-Mobile and Wal-Mart.

– Young voters usually don’t go to the polls to vote they are to busy talking and texting to show up. –
Nope.. they are coming out in droves this year, and based on social experiments conducted at one of the top 4 largest universities in America, the vast majority are voting Obama.
Most are first time voters, and typically unaware of the issues, where each candidate stands on them and where those positions will lead this country.
When presented with the information on both candidates, 99% choose Obama and feel that he has a much better chance at improving their future. Intelligent and open minded, they have the ability to see through the hype and made rational and informed choices based on the facts.

Obama is no doubt a serial liar.

TRUE REPUBLICAN
Dont count on the young votes not voting this year i wouldnt count on that if I were you!

No way am I turning off Fox news. That’s the closest thing to soft porn I have. Hot anchors all wearing dresses about two sizes too tight.
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Oh my God that is FUNNY!
I’m rolling!
I was wondering if anyone else ever noticed that. Seems that ALL of their female news anchors are buxom blondes wearing tight sweaters.
I put some old school funk with a wah pedal in the backround when I tun on FOX.

– Young voters usually don’t go to the polls to vote they are to busy talking and texting to show up. –
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Voter turnout among those under 25 was the highest it had ever been in the last Presidential election.
Your crazy if you think they’re staying home for this one!

Normally, True Republican, I’d agree with your general argument. Just from past experience, we know young voters often don’t show up, regardless of the reasons why.
But we’ve also seen these young voters defy that trend in the primaries, and if they hadn’t, it would probably be Clinton against McCain now.
I’m betting turn-out this time is huge – with younger voters a big part of it. Registrations are up, early voting is up… much as was the case in the Democratic primaries and caucuses, I think we’ve reached the point of expecting turn-out, and the bigger shock will be if it doesn’t happen.

SUPERFLY
I was wondering the same thing why do all the woman Journalist on fox news look like they should be in a porn movie?

By the way, did everyone notice Obama announced $150 million raised in September?
No wonder they’re spending $3.5 million a day on TV ads. They probably can’t burn through all the money they have.
Posted by: Paul | Oct 19, 2008 5:03:39 PM
it’s also probably why he’s not having his ads on X-box games too and bought all the networks to push a 30 minute ad next week as well as getting the world series pushed up 30 minutes.
if you have THAT much money, i wouldn’t blame him

Angie: “I was wondering the same thing why do all the woman Journalist on fox news look like they should be in a porn movie?”
I think its possible at least one has been. Not that I’ve ever seen a porn movie, of course, but a friend… yeah, that’s the ticket, a friend told me he saw one with a woman who looks an awful lot like Julie Banderas.

Normally, True Republican, I’d agree with your general argument. Just from past experience, we know young voters often don’t show up, regardless of the reasons why.
But we’ve also seen these young voters defy that trend in the primaries, and if they hadn’t, it would probably be Clinton against McCain now.
I’m betting turn-out this time is huge – with younger voters a big part of it. Registrations are up, early voting is up… much as was the case in the Democratic primaries and caucuses, I think we’ve reached the point of expecting turn-out, and the bigger shock will be if it doesn’t happen.
Posted by: Paul | Oct 19, 2008 5:13:23 PM
@ paul, you’re right. this election is one that will be written and observed repeatedly in the history books. they may even put out a documentary of this election win or lose for obama.
and to see something like yesterday in where obama pulled 100,000 people in st. louis and 75,000 in kansas city considering that Missouri is a red state. this is NOT your typical election where the usual rules and stereotypes lay.

I guess George has drank the Kool-aid also, no surprise.
Sen. Obama, experience matters. I have made many mistakes in my short life. It is true, when I think about it, that each of those mistakes are among my greatest assets with respect to decision making, each and every one of them. This is because we all learn from our mistakes. At all times, I believe the best of my judgment is anchored in the cement that is my experience. I believe firmly that the longer I live, the more I will have experienced, and the better my judgment will be, on the balance. Sen. Obama, do you really believe that you have made enough mistakes to be the next President of the United States? I respect your ambition. I respect your charisma. I embrace your place in history, but I do not believe you have sufficient experience to lead this planet, not even close.
America, since the mainstream media has failed to examine Sen. Obama’s experience and lack of experience, you will have to determine for yourselves what exactly is Sen. Obama’s experience? What did he accomplish in the Illinois legislature? He was only there for a handful of years. What did he promise he would accomplish? What did he accomplish in the U.S. Senate? He has only been on the job as a U.S. Senator for 1xx days. What did he promise he would accomplish? What has he changed in this world? This country? The Presidency of the United States is an executive position Sen. Obama. Do you have any executive experience? Have you created a budget, negotiated a budget, revised a budget or managed adherence to a budget?
Sen. Obama insists on presenting Sen. McCain’s experience as being only an puppet of the Bush administration. I saw Senator McCain stand up to President Bush’s Defense Secretary. He stood in a manner that no other did. He changed the course of the war in Iraq. What percentage of all GOP legislative votes sided with President Bush’s? What percentage of all Democrat legislative votes sided with Presidents Clinton, Carter and Johnson’s policies? I have no idea, but I’d venture to guess that, had the media presented that information to the American public, we’d find rank and file partisanship throughout our recent history. How many Americans would be surprise by that?
Well Senator Obama, you might be able to claim that you did not support the Iraq war resolution, but what can you offer as proof that it was the right decision at that moment in our history? You were after all in the small minority. Our country was after all reeling from the worst terror attack in our nation’s history. How would history have judged President Bush had he not led our troops into Iraq and then, a massive terror attack occurred yesterday, perpetrated by terrorists that lived and trained in Iraq over the past few years, with or without knowledge of Saddam Hussein? I think about it this way: history failed to present enough evidence to push the World to coalesce and intervene in 1930s Europe. But modern history is 100% clear on that point, it would have been the correct decision. History might well judge the Iraq war to be not a right decision. History will judge the Bush administration on many points. One of those may even record it, in part, as a series of lapses in the judgment of a young President, swayed by the belief and conviction of an older, seasoned Vice President and the overwhelming circumstances of a world that had changed dramatically, in an instant. I agree with you Sen. Obama that we don’t need another eight years of the Bush Administration, we dont need another eight years of an inexperienced President.
Mr. Gibson, Ms. Couric, Ms. Behar, Ms. Mitchell … you do not get to dismantle the American vote. You and your colleagues might think you have the power to micro-filter democracy’s messages to your liking, but you do not get to dismantle the American vote. You might think you have the power to subtly, and not so subtly promote and gather others to blindly promote one candidacy, while casting another in the least flattering manner possible, but you do not get to dismantle the American vote. You do not get to dismantle America’s vote. The mainstream media bias in this election is at best described as repugnant and at worst, a slap to the face of democracy; an assault on the moral and righteous ideal that all American voters should be free to construct their vote on the basis of readily available, factually complete, accurate, relevant and unbiased fact. It is my opinion that, during this election cycle more than any other I have witnessed, the mainstream media has failed millions of American’s who rely on them, as a basis for constructing their vote. Am I wrong? I might be wrong, but I’ll ask you, the American voters to decide that for yourself, by asking yourself some questions. Questions such as why was so much time spent this election cycle mining for dirt in Alaska, why was so little time was spent tracking laundry in Illinois? Why has the mainstream media spent so little time illuminating the razor thin experience that the junior Senator from Illinois maintains as his credentials? Indeed, if the media was prepared to be fair and honest, they would have been able to report, with incontrovertible confidence, that they were reporting fact, that the candidate having the most experience directly relevant to the position of the Presidency of the United States is actually the candidate that has been relentlessly attacked by the media, both personally and professionally. The mainstream media owes an apology to American Democracy for its treatment of Gov. Palin. Why is it, that after finally deciding to give minimal airtime to the ACORN voter registration fraud issue, was it not mentioned that Sen. Obama’s campaign funded ACORN? Sen. Obama, in my mind, there is no distinction between committing voter registration fraud, serving as impetus to commit voter registration fraud or funding those serving as impetus to commit voter registration fraud. During the last debate, you did a fine job of distancing yourself from ACORN, but you failed to directly confront and condemn those that perpetrate or encourage voter registration fraud. You had a nationwide audience, and you chose not to act.
The President is the commander in chief of the United States Armed Forces. That is a serious responsibility. I question how you can expect us to believe that you will effectively maintain the moral, skill and competence of our forces after you have insulted them. What will serve as your experiential basis for leading the U.S. Military? Do you have any military experience at all? Have you ever served in ROTC? Do you know firsthand the horrors of war? I believe that firsthand knowledge and experience is the most critical element one can use in formulating decisions, including the determination of when to and when not to deploy U.S. Military forces. Sen. McCain has that experience. That I know. That he has shown. The media can’t take that away from him.
With regard to foreign policy experience, do you think you are qualified to navigate the most powerful democracy the world knows during a time when the fundamentals of democracy are very much under attack? Are you ready to face Mr. Putin? Mr. Chavez? Kim Jung Ill? China? Iran? Are you ready to answer the 03:00 phone call? What experience do you have that I should judge gives you readiness? What is that experience? What foreign leaders have you negotiated with directly? What treaties have you signed? The media has presented none and neither have you. I have a good number of stamps in my passport Sen. Obama. I lived and worked in Germany for a brief period. Sen. Obama, I am not qualified by a longshot to make United States foreign policy, and you may only be marginally more qualified than I.
The oratorical is no substitute for judgment or experience Senator Obama. I do not believe that you have the experience to be President of our country. Experience matters Sen. Obama, and you are not ready, you have not made enough mistakes. But most glaring to me, Senator Obama is the one mistake that you seem willing to make over and over and it is the worst mistake one can make. That mistake is the action of not owning one’s mistakes.
Sen. Obama, you claim that you will cut taxes on 95% of all Americans. Is that true? Or let me rephrase, how can that be true? You told the voters of Illinois that you would cut taxes, but you have failed to do so in the U.S. Senate. Did you even try? Did you present a bill? Were it a committee issue did you encourage your peers to present one? Have you ever voted for a tax cut? What did you mean Senator Obama when you told Plumber Joe that you wanted to spread the wealth? Do you mean that you want to take money from Joe and give it to those with less money? Your running mate, Sen. Biden has commented that you would not be taxing additionaly those making under $250,000 a year. Sen. Biden commented that he knows no plumbers that make over $250,000 a year. I think that those who claim your tax policies embody class warfare are wrong. Wrong, because the policies are class warfare policies, but they are not directed against the haves, they are directed against the have-nots. Senator Biden, you may well be correct that few plumbers earn over $250,000 a year, but some that own plumbing contracting businesses probably do. What do those that spin your message have planned to say to that one plumber out of maybe six or seven that was employed by a plumbing company, but was laid off, because business is slow, new homes weren’t being built and President Obama’s tax increase forced the owner of the plumbing business to lay her off? The owner tried every angle possible, but was forced to make a tough decision. They were faced with the prospect of either making a tough decision or risk running the entire operation into financial distress and end up having to close operations and fire all workers? I guess you’d have Mr. Burton tell her that, even though she has no job, she does at least still have affordable healthcare? Senator Obama what will you say to the unemployed plumber in Ohio, father of two, that nearly had a job secured, the owner had just signed a good contract for a small building and he was ready to hire that plumber, but learned from his accountant, that Senator Obama’s tax increase has made it not possible to hire another employee? I guess you’d have Mr. Burton tell that plumber, that even though he still has no job, he does have a lower tax burden
Sen. Obama, you have stated over and over that Sen. McCain supports tax breaks for corporations that send their jobs overseas. The media has not reported on this one way or another, but if you are correct, then I commend Sen. McCain for doing so. What you don’t get, Sen. Obama, or perhaps don’t want the American public to get, is that income taxes, to a for profit enterprise are expenses not much different from the costs of raw materials and salary expenses for purposes of this discussion. All else equal, ladies and gentleman, a corporation will locate itself, and its jobs, or begin to locate itself and its jobs, in areas where it is least penalized in terms of taxes. This is how for profit American corporations behave and this is how they must behave. Their competitors are operating in that manner, continually scouring expenses to search for reduction opportunities. They have to. If they do not, they will be at a cost disadvantage and if their tactical errors are sustained, they may well go out of business in which case, even those jobs which remain in the United States, could also disappear. Even if the company does not fail entirely, some jobs may be eliminated, and chances are great that the highest cost jobs would be targeted first. Sen. Obama, America is not a low cost country, in these circumstances, they would be targeted first, all else equal. When those jobs are cut Sen. Obama, those new unemployed will not have money to support the ‘under $250k’ crowd…they won’t have money to support small businesses…is it sinking in at all?
Your position of not supporting tax breaks for corporations that export jobs overseas, indeed, only encourages them, at the margin, to further export jobs, or slow their job creation in the United States or end their job creation in the United States. This is global economic reality. The media can not distort this fact for you. At the final debate, I heard you add a carrot to your plans. You pulled that same tax string attached to the back of your head and out came the message you think the voters want to hear. If I got it correct, you’ll give tax credits to corporations that create jobs in America. In case you don’t know Senator Obama, this already happens today at the state and local level all across America. Have you thought about how much additionaly, it will cost the U.S. Treasury to employ workers, in an audit fashion, in order to verify which of all the xx million jobs that corporations claim they created actually exist? What are the time constraints? How long must they keep the job filled in order to receive the credit? What would happen when that time passes? Let me get this correct, you want to first keep tax rates on corporations high or raise them – thereby encouraging employers large and small to export their operations and jobs – and then at the same time you want to turnaround and give them a tax credit? You do realize that they are policy opposites don’t you? It looks to me that you might be trying to convince us that it would be a good idea to spend more on government for an unknown expected net job increase. If you can convince us of that Senator Obama, I’d suggest you also try to sell us a bridge to nowhere. Your tax policy is bigger government, bigger IRS, more regulatory burden on American Corporations and more administrative overhead makes them less competitive in the global market and less likely to employ. It is not the right policy Senator Obama.
Go back to the Senate and accomplish something. Your candidacy is an insult to Americans.

Like George Will said, there is a fix for lacking experience but there most likely isn’t a fix for wrong temperament.

Zerobama your post is too long, nobody is going to read it!
Fox interviewed McCain today, he really sounds like he is giving up.

Haven’t heard much about Bill Ayers today. Have you McCain guys finally figured out that one wasn’t working for ya?

The national poll does not matter a single bit. It’s the state polls that count. Obama is winning all the states Kerry won in 2004 and he has Iowa and New Mexico. All he needs is one more state to either be tied at 269 or be over 270 and win the election. The chances of that happening is very high.

NEWS!
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sunday, October 19, 2008
CUMBERLAND COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS PROVIDES AID TO OBAMA CAMPAIGN
RALEIGH—North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Linda Daves released the following statement in response to the Cumberland County Board of Elections expanding hours at two additional polling sites specifically for the purpose of aiding Senator Barack Obama’s rally in Fayetteville today. (“Cumberland County adds two new polling sites,” Fayetteville Observer, 10/18/08)
“It is a gross distortion of the voting process for the Democrat-controlled Cumberland County Board of Elections to expand the number of early polling locations at the last minute to accommodate Senator Obama’s campaign rally. Their action makes the voting process an extension of a partisan political rally and that is clearly inappropriate.
“With the many unanswered questions surrounding Senator Obama’s extensive relationship with ACORN along with the ongoing investigations in numerous states into the organization by election officials and by the FBI, the North Carolina Republican Party finds it astounding that additional voting locations were made available at an ‘emergency meeting’ without adequate notice to the general public. Barack Obama will say or do anything to win.
“To be clear, the North Carolina Republican Party and the people of North Carolina are not against the expansion of polling hours or locations. However, North Carolinians are outraged when it is done at the last minute on an ‘emergency’ basis for the sole purpose of benefitting Senator Obama’s campaign.”
Posted by: HP Boston | Oct 19, 2008 4:12:15 PM
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Typical of republicans, the fewer voters the better. The have the same philosophy about money, the fewer with it the better. That way the power of money can be controlled by the few that have it.

Michelle is one ugly ass, angry militant racist gorilla, dontcha think?
ugggghh, go back to Kenya b*tch!
Posted by: MONKEY HOUSE | Oct 18, 2008 10:30:34 PM
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So you stopped screwing your sister to post this?
Posted by: McCain/Palin = Corporations First | Oct 18, 2008 11:10:01 PM
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nope, I stopped screwing YOUR sister to post this!

ZEROBAMA
Please stop with the long long long lying BS post, oh and as far as Obama being an Insult to America My friend he has been INSPIRING TO AMERICA and you will see midnight Nov 4 Just how Inspiring he has been not everyone lives in a far right world!

I also noted that ACORN is missing in action today. Guess they got whole new scripts out for the weekend over at MCcain HQ.

Kathy: “Obama is winning all the states Kerry won in 2004 and he has Iowa and New Mexico. All he needs is one more state to either be tied at 269 or be over 270 and win the election.”
Obama’s lead in Virginia is pretty impressive. The only reason most of the electoral counters aren’t calling Virginia a lean-Obama state is because they simply can’t believe the 10-point spread several polls are showing.
For instance, Larry Sabato is one political analyst who seems to be of rising prominence. I think he’s running the electoral board at Politico, but not sure. He’s doing one somewhere. Sabato is a UVA professor. He openly admitted he’s keeping Virginia in the toss-up category because as someone who lives in Virginia, its just too hard to believe. But he added if this was happening in any other state, he’d have the state blue right now.
Small lead in Florida, tied in Ohio, tied in North Carolina, lead in Virginia, tied in Missouri, lead in Nevada, within striking distance in Indiana and, amazingly, West Virginia now…
Its still possible for McCain to run the table on the battleground states, including Virginia, and thus squeak through to 270, but as you say, its a tough road for him.

Mavis,
Keep those “nice” words man! Independents love to hear that. They’ll all vote Republican thanks you…;^)

MAVIS
See you have your sheet on today! well I really resent your post I am White and I work! not that it should matter to you you racisit pig, you my friend are the kind of people this country should do without! oh by the way I got polled im white and I work your a loser there mavis!

BETH
Sweetie I dont have a thick skull I am not a right wing nut but a rational person who supports our next president Senator Obama!

How do you know when the Republicans accept defeat? When the conversation turns to whose mom is better in bed.

Amazing how so many call Gen Powell a racist. That’s a sad fact that ugly racism is still alive in the USA. However, get used to calling Obama Mr. President. The neocon war days are over and the division of America is over. I dare one of these slugs to say to my face that I’m anti-American. Hate is not an American value, it is a slug value. Nov 4th can’t come quick enough.

Do you ever wonder why presidential polls keep fluctuating like the stock market? The answer is simple. Most of them are made up polls by the media or pollsters who need work

Angie, get your fat ass out from under Bucky’s desk, your lips are turning purple!

Repugs,
How does it feel to see your John Wayne McCain reduced to Bozo the Clown with a bad case of IBS? (Internal Bowel Syndrome) How does it feel to see is VP choice of Palin go from a pitbull with lipstick to a leper with stilletos on? PATHETIC, HUH?
It’s 2 weeks before the election and McChicken is incessantly s******g his pants knowing he is going to be crushed on November 4th.
Get ready for the invitable.
THIS IS GOING TO BE A BLOWOUT!
Obama/Biden 08

MONKEY HOUSE
Its people like you is why abortion should stay legal!

NAT TURNER
Just listen to the Bumbiling Idiots they know gramps is gonna lose and they are losing their Minds!

“MONKEY HOUSE
Its people like you is why abortion should stay legal!”
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yeah that’s why you support Bucky, so everyone who don’t think like you or look like you won’t be around.
youre a fat ass stupid pig anyway!
move to Mars bitch

We should not elect a president who pals around with Terrorists.
One candidate has received $5000 from a convicted criminal and attended a fundraiser hosted by this ex-con.
This criminal had advocating that the cultist Branch Davidians shoot down government officials, and had plotted to kill a journalist and firebomb innocent civilians, and has said :
“Hitler’s sheer animal confidence and power of will [entranced me]. He sent an electric current through my body.”
This is McCain’s Good Friend Gordon Liddy.
How much do we Really Know About John McCain? Who IS he?

“we are compiling quite a large file on them and it continues growing.”
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SOUNDS LIKE NAZI YOUTH TO ME.

You know what I find interesting. These same idiots who praised us going into Iraq saying we’ll kick ass and take names, are the same ones that are now calling Powell a racist. Just like their candidate McNasty they can’t make up their mind.
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HEY WENCH YOUR BOY POWELL IS A RACIST PIG, JUST LIKE YOU!

I agree, Sen. Obama’s conduct during the financial crisis was unacceptable, reprehensable. I have co-workers that, like Sen. Obama, won’t make any big decisions and absolve themselves of any responsibility for anything. They’ll do the same, just “phone it in” and say “call me if you need anything.” But at least those co-workers of mine have the decency to not criticize for the action’s failures since they didn’t have any part in it, and call people names like “erratic” after they’ve stepped up to the plate and actually swung unlike themselves, and they won’t swoop in to try to snag the credit like Sen. Obama said he was the one that protected the taxpayers… phoning it in. at least have the decency to credit Sen. McCain for taking out the $600 million per year every year for ACORN!

To all the Kool Aid drinking Obamites…I give up. But remember, when our country resembles Cuba…DON’T COME CRYING TO ME!

To all the Kool Aid drinking Obamites…I give up. But remember, when our country resembles Cuba…DON’T COME CRYING TO ME!
Posted by: I Surrender | Oct 19, 2008 6:06:08 PM
When this country rises up out of the sewer it’s in we’ll also come and say I told you so.

I SURRENDER
Dont worry when Obama wins will be laughing at you and happy were coming out of the sewer your Good ole Bushy put us in!

“Clintonite” i think you are a liar.
No clintonite in their right mind would use words like “reprehensible”
You are a right winger trying to pose as a lefty… it didn’t work.

jwench, i think we have a long way to go before we look like cuba. And the biggest step we have made along that road has been the bipartisan effort to completely socialize our banking system with 850 million $.
But there are some things we might learn from Cuba — like how to reduce our infant mortality to be as low as theirs (yes, ours is higher). Or how to increase our life expectancy to be as high as theirs (yes, ours is lower). So maybe some things about cuba are not so bad?
But if you are really scared of socialism, you should be furious with the people who let our banking system deregulate to the point where we needed to socialize the system — that is right, the republicans!

Just listen to WHITE Supremacy writhe in pain preparing for death on November 4th.
YOUR END IS COMING……
The head will be cut first, then all else will fall.
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK

– I agree, Sen. Obama’s conduct during the financial crisis was unacceptable, reprehensable. –
Then perhaps you should take off your GOP sunglasses for a moment..
In 2006, Obama saw widespread reports of irresponsible mortgage lending and introduced the Stop Fraud Act in Congress to halt the bad loan practices immediately. Obama sought bi-partisan support. McCain showed little interest. The bill died.
In 2007, Obama wrote letters to Treasury Secretary Paulson and current Fed Chair Bernanke challenging them call an immediate Home Ownership Summit meeting to help prevent millions of us from losing our homes. McCain ignored the idea. The Bush Administration declined.
In March, 8 months ago, Obama went to Wall Street and warned of the looming crisis of confidence in the capital markets and proposed urgent, pro-active solutions including more aggressive oversight. Paul Volker, former Fed Chairman, championed his plan. McCain dismissed their concerns and called for even less regulation.
McCain claims to have championed the 2005 bill that would have done some good to prevent the meltdown, but only added his name after a 2006 congressional oversight report showed problems. That bill died in a republican controlled committee with a republican chairman (Shelby).
In other words, do nothing until Great Depression II is at hand, then look for people to fire.

Mr. Powell, say it isn’t so!!! You above all, I would have thought would not want us to have 8 more years of an inexperienced Commander in Chief.
Sen. Obama, experience matters. I have made many mistakes in my short life. It is true, when I think about it, that each of those mistakes are among my greatest assets with respect to decision making, each and every one of them. This is because we all learn from our mistakes. At all times, I believe the best of my judgment is anchored in the cement that is my experience. I believe firmly that the longer I live, the more I will have experienced, and the better my judgment will be, on the balance. Sen. Obama, do you really believe that you have made enough mistakes to be the next President of the United States? I respect your ambition. I respect your charisma. I embrace your place in history, but I do not believe you have sufficient experience to lead this planet, not even close.
America, since the mainstream media has failed to examine Sen. Obama’s experience and lack of experience, you will have to determine for yourselves what exactly is Sen. Obama’s experience? What did he accomplish in the Illinois legislature? He was only there for a handful of years. What did he promise he would accomplish? What did he accomplish in the U.S. Senate? He has only been on the job as a U.S. Senator for 1xx days. What did he promise he would accomplish? What has he changed in this world? This country? The Presidency of the United States is an executive position Sen. Obama. Do you have any executive experience? Have you created a budget, negotiated a budget, revised a budget or managed adherence to a budget?
Sen. Obama insists on presenting Sen. McCain’s experience as being only an puppet of the Bush administration. I saw Senator McCain stand up to President Bush’s Defense Secretary. He stood in a manner that no other did. He changed the course of the war in Iraq. What percentage of all GOP legislative votes sided with President Bush’s? What percentage of all Democrat legislative votes sided with Presidents Clinton, Carter and Johnson’s policies? I have no idea, but I’d venture to guess that, had the media presented that information to the American public, we’d find rank and file partisanship throughout our recent history. How many Americans would be surprise by that?
Well Senator Obama, you might be able to claim that you did not support the Iraq war resolution, but what can you offer as proof that it was the right decision at that moment in our history? You were after all in the small minority. Our country was after all reeling from the worst terror attack in our nation’s history. How would history have judged President Bush had he not led our troops into Iraq and then, a massive terror attack occurred yesterday, perpetrated by terrorists that lived and trained in Iraq over the past few years, with or without knowledge of Saddam Hussein? I think about it this way: history failed to present enough evidence to push the World to coalesce and intervene in 1930s Europe. But modern history is 100% clear on that point, it would have been the correct decision. History might well judge the Iraq war to be not a right decision. History will judge the Bush administration on many points. One of those may even record it, in part, as a series of lapses in the judgment of a young President, swayed by the belief and conviction of an older, seasoned Vice President and the overwhelming circumstances of a world that had changed dramatically, in an instant. I agree with you Sen. Obama that we don’t need another eight years of the Bush Administration, we dont need another eight years of an inexperienced President.
Mr. Gibson, Ms. Couric, Ms. Behar, Ms. Mitchell … you do not get to dismantle the American vote. You and your colleagues might think you have the power to micro-filter democracy’s messages to your liking, but you do not get to dismantle the American vote. You might think you have the power to subtly, and not so subtly promote and gather others to blindly promote one candidacy, while casting another in the least flattering manner possible, but you do not get to dismantle the American vote. You do not get to dismantle America’s vote. The mainstream media bias in this election is at best described as repugnant and at worst, a slap to the face of democracy; an assault on the moral and righteous ideal that all American voters should be free to construct their vote on the basis of readily available, factually complete, accurate, relevant and unbiased fact. It is my opinion that, during this election cycle more than any other I have witnessed, the mainstream media has failed millions of American’s who rely on them, as a basis for constructing their vote. Am I wrong? I might be wrong, but I’ll ask you, the American voters to decide that for yourself, by asking yourself some questions. Questions such as why was so much time spent this election cycle mining for dirt in Alaska, why was so little time was spent tracking laundry in Illinois? Why has the mainstream media spent so little time illuminating the razor thin experience that the junior Senator from Illinois maintains as his credentials? Indeed, if the media was prepared to be fair and honest, they would have been able to report, with incontrovertible confidence, that they were reporting fact, that the candidate having the most experience directly relevant to the position of the Presidency of the United States is actually the candidate that has been relentlessly attacked by the media, both personally and professionally. The mainstream media owes an apology to American Democracy for its treatment of Gov. Palin. Why is it, that after finally deciding to give minimal airtime to the ACORN voter registration fraud issue, was it not mentioned that Sen. Obama’s campaign funded ACORN? Sen. Obama, in my mind, there is no distinction between committing voter registration fraud, serving as impetus to commit voter registration fraud or funding those serving as impetus to commit voter registration fraud. During the last debate, you did a fine job of distancing yourself from ACORN, but you failed to directly confront and condemn those that perpetrate or encourage voter registration fraud. You had a nationwide audience, and you chose not to act.
The President is the commander in chief of the United States Armed Forces. That is a serious responsibility. I question how you can expect us to believe that you will effectively maintain the morale, skill and competence of our forces after you have insulted them. What will serve as your experiential basis for leading the U.S. Military? Do you have any military experience at all? Have you ever served in ROTC? Do you know firsthand the horrors of war? I believe that firsthand knowledge and experience is the most critical element one can use in formulating decisions, including the determination of when to and when not to deploy U.S. Military forces. Sen. McCain has that experience. That I know. That he has shown. The media can’t take that away from him.
With regard to foreign policy experience, do you think you are qualified to navigate the most powerful democracy the world knows during a time when the fundamentals of democracy are very much under attack? Are you ready to face Mr. Putin? Mr. Chavez? Kim Jung Ill? China? Iran? Are you ready to answer the 03:00 phone call? What experience do you have that I should judge gives you readiness? What is that experience? What foreign leaders have you negotiated with directly? What treaties have you signed? The media has presented none and neither have you. I have a good number of stamps in my passport Sen. Obama. I lived and worked in Germany for a brief period. Sen. Obama, I am not qualified by a longshot to make United States foreign policy, and you may only be marginally more qualified than I.
The oratorical is no substitute for judgment or experience Senator Obama. I do not believe that you have the experience to be President of our country. Experience matters Sen. Obama, and you are not ready, you have not made enough mistakes. But most glaring to me, Senator Obama is the one mistake that you seem willing to make over and over and it is the worst mistake one can make. That mistake is the action of not owning one’s mistakes.
Sen. Obama, you claim that you will cut taxes on 95% of all Americans. Is that true? Or let me rephrase, how can that be true? You told the voters of Illinois that you would cut taxes, but you have failed to do so in the U.S. Senate. Did you even try? Did you present a bill? Were it a committee issue did you encourage your peers to present one? Have you ever voted for a tax cut? What did you mean Senator Obama when you told Plumber Joe that you wanted to spread the wealth? Do you mean that you want to take money from Joe and give it to those with less money? Your running mate, Sen. Biden has commented that you would not be taxing additionaly those making under $250,000 a year. Sen. Biden commented that he knows no plumbers that make over $250,000 a year. I think that those who claim your tax policies embody class warfare are wrong. Wrong, because the policies are class warfare policies, but they are not directed against the haves, they are directed against the have-nots. Senator Biden, you may well be correct that few plumbers earn over $250,000 a year, but some that own plumbing contracting businesses probably do. What do those that spin your message have planned to say to that one plumber out of maybe six or seven that was employed by a plumbing company, but was laid off, because business is slow, new homes weren’t being built and President Obama’s tax increase forced the owner of the plumbing business to lay her off? The owner tried every angle possible, but was forced to make a tough decision. They were faced with the prospect of either making a tough decision or risk running the entire operation into financial distress and end up having to close operations and fire all workers? I guess you’d have Mr. Burton tell her that, even though she has no job, she does at least still have affordable healthcare? Senator Obama what will you say to the unemployed plumber in Ohio, father of two, that nearly had a job secured, the owner had just signed a good contract for a small building and he was ready to hire that plumber, but learned from his accountant, that Senator Obama’s tax increase has made it not possible to hire another employee? I guess you’d have Mr. Burton tell that plumber, that even though he still has no job, he does have a lower tax burden
Sen. Obama, you have stated over and over that Sen. McCain supports tax breaks for corporations that send their jobs overseas. The media has not reported on this one way or another, but if you are correct, then I commend Sen. McCain for doing so. What you don’t get, Sen. Obama, or perhaps don’t want the American public to get, is that income taxes, to a for profit enterprise are expenses not much different from the costs of raw materials and salary expenses for purposes of this discussion. All else equal, ladies and gentleman, a corporation will locate itself, and its jobs, or begin to locate itself and its jobs, in areas where it is least penalized in terms of taxes. This is how for profit American corporations behave and this is how they must behave. Their competitors are operating in that manner, continually scouring expenses to search for reduction opportunities. They have to. If they do not, they will be at a cost disadvantage and if their tactical errors are sustained, they may well go out of business in which case, even those jobs which remain in the United States, could also disappear. Even if the company does not fail entirely, some jobs may be eliminated, and chances are great that the highest cost jobs would be targeted first. Sen. Obama, America is not a low cost country, in these circumstances, they would be targeted first, all else equal. When those jobs are cut Sen. Obama, those new unemployed will not have money to support the ‘under $250k’ crowd…they won’t have money to support small businesses…is it sinking in at all?
Your position of not supporting tax breaks for corporations that export jobs overseas, indeed, only encourages them, at the margin, to further export jobs, or slow their job creation in the United States or end their job creation in the United States. This is global economic reality. The media can not distort this fact for you. At the final debate, I heard you add a carrot to your plans. You pulled that same tax string attached to the back of your head and out came the message you think the voters want to hear. If I got it correct, you’ll give tax credits to corporations that create jobs in America. In case you don’t know Senator Obama, this already happens today at the state and local level all across America. Have you thought about how much additionaly, it will cost the U.S. Treasury to employ workers, in an audit fashion, in order to verify which of all the xx million jobs that corporations claim they created actually exist? What are the time constraints? How long must they keep the job filled in order to receive the credit? What would happen when that time passes? Let me get this correct, you want to first keep tax rates on corporations high or raise them – thereby encouraging employers large and small to export their operations and jobs – and then at the same time you want to turnaround and give them a tax credit? You do realize that they are policy opposites don’t you? It looks to me that you might be trying to convince us that it would be a good idea to spend more on government for an unknown expected net job increase. If you can convince us of that Senator Obama, I’d suggest you also try to sell us a bridge to nowhere. Your tax policy is bigger government, bigger IRS, more regulatory burden on American Corporations and more administrative overhead makes them less competitive in the global market and less likely to employ. It is not the right policy Senator Obama.
Go back to the Senate and accomplish something Sen. Obama. Your candidacy is an insult to America.
oh and ps, the verdict has been in for decades on the effectiveness of spreading the wealth policies. Go visit an American Indian Reservation Sen. Obama. The only thing that has changed for the past several decades is the faces of the Washington politicians that have redistributed wealth to us. Do you have any clue what the average unemployment rate is in Indian Country Sen.Obama? Illicit drug use rate? Teen pregnancy rate? Pick a rate
Senator.

Wow. I thought the real haters had all died off by now. Luckily, they can all follow Saracuda back to Alaska and join the AIP hoping to have their own hater country. Heck, if the Dem Alaskans abandon ship for the lower 48, we might even let ‘em have their own hater country. It’ll put a dent in all that Saracuda pork, though…

GEE, DO YOU THINK COLIN POWELL IS BACKING HIM BECAUSE HE’S BLACK! DUH!WHAT A BORE, WHO REALLY CARES, GET ON WITH “REAL NEWS”.

Oh Janet,
It is fun to watch you right wingers when smoke is coming out of your ears. Finger pointing finger pointing.
Sure Obama took the $. But McCain had lobbyists from Freddy and Fannie working as advisors on his campaign. Not clear which is worse. Lets be honest there is plenty of blame going around.
But the big blame goes to those who let wall street get leveraged so heavily that a crash could bring us all down. Yes, we need some controls on wall street. Unbridled capitalism is great, except when it doesn’t work. So what is the bipartisan solution we all agree on? — that’s right, socialize the banks. So blame both parties for this mess… but particularly blame those who keep saying the government should stay out of the markets — and that would be the republicans.
McCain has been saying for years “smaller government, less restrictions” and all of a sudden he wants to paint himself as someone who thinks the government should have some oversight — I don’t think so.

Janet, your the best advertisement for abortion I’ve seen.

Janet needs 2 midol to dissipate the “mental cramps” she’s having from her inability in processing reality.
Sweetie Pie, time for bed.
Don’t wake up until November 5th. When you do, you’ll have the “TALL, DARK AND HANDSOME” prototype you’ve always dreamed up.
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK

– Cuba [...] infant mortality to be as low as theirs (yes, ours is higher). –
Slightly:
Cuba: 5.93/1000
USA: 6.3/1000
– Or how to increase our life expectancy to be as high as theirs (yes, ours is lower). –
Nope, US is higher:
Cuba: 77.27 years
USA: 78.14 years
– So maybe some things about cuba are not so bad? –
Maybe not, but Cuba has a net migration rate of -1.73/1000 citizens (fleeing the country) mostly due to the oppressive government and low quality of living, while the US has a net migration rate of 2.92/1000 (trying to get in).
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

I Surrender
you rather seem to be the one on Kool-aid thinking Americans are stupid enough to vote a republican back into the Whitehouse after running the country to the ground. Heck of a job!
POTUS Obama. Get used to it.

Anna said:
“…this guy is the biggest whacko there is and has no business running for the highest office in this country, period.”
LOL!!! Fortunately, dear, you don’t get to re-write the US Constitution nor determine who may or may not run for President. Though it’s perfectly okay with me if you become a proud Alaskan by Christmas. I think you’ll enjoy those 6-month long nights, it’ll give you a lot of broom-flying time if you don’t mind the cold.

Anna
McCain`s pastors are even worse than Rev Wright who is a Vietnam war veteran.
McCain has hatemongers like Rev Hagee and Parsley. On McCain`s own ticket, he has Palin who has direct link to the Alaska Separatists. Her husband was a registered member for 7 years. This are the people who hate America. Not Wright who served in Vietnam.

I’m sorry Janet, I thought I flushed, I’ll go back to the bathroom and try to send you where you belong, the sewer.

Hey Kaluza, another physicist out there?

Keep dreaming Concerned American. Try adding a few zeros.

JR try and add an A or an O just like your mate Obama. He might even to get send you a welfare check paid for by myself and other who happen to work for a living. As for the WC system, I’m sure you’re living the high life and wallowing in the public sewer as we speak. Laptop held high, so you can keep blogging the great one!

That woman yelling socialist at him is a disgrace and should go back to her padded room.

Teacher Allegedly Caught Having Sex With Teen In Van
TITUSVILLE, Fla. — A 32-year-old teacher at Jackson Middle School was behind bars, Tuesday, accused of having sex with a middle school student. She was caught with the student in a van in a church parking lot. Janet Hughes, the business teacher at Jackson Middle School was placed on paid administrative leave while the case is under investigation.

Hi, KlineGordon. Yup.

SOCIALIASM!!! PLEASE READ!!!
CORPORATE FRAUD & WELFARE SUPPORTED BY THE GOP!
A businessperson has the luxury of padding his/her expense account, some do it the the tune of $500/week is fraudulent expenses (you know it can be more). Annually, that comes to $26,000 per year.
That comes to $26,000,000,000 (TRILLION dollars) annually using one million businesspeople in the U.S.
CORPORATE WELFARE & FRAUD that do exist in our society today. The real reason we are in this economic and financial mess.
A tax write-off and paid for by the taxpayer, the joe-sixpacks, joe the plumbers, teachers, fast-food-chain worker, retirees whose income is taxable, etc.
Social programs do no affect our economy as bad as Corporate Fraud.
Check for yourselves.
SOCIALISM, SOCIALISM, SOCIALISM, GOP, GOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Doesn’t anyone whose IQ is over 80 which leaves most of the Obamites out of the equation. Doesn’t anyone find it strange that Obama never wrote while he was head of the Harvard Review? Why can’t we read his stuff if this guy is so brillant and an original thinker?

Surprise, Surprise. That’s what a good old soldier will do to his comrades!
Didn’t see he support Kerry if he was so concerned of the future.

– Doesn’t anyone find it strange that Obama never wrote while he was head of the Harvard Review? –
Apparently you are unaware that it is not the job of an editor in chief to write articles.. well, it’s not surprising that you might not know that really given the complete lack of intelligent reasoning you have shown thus far.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/108043/Candidate-Support-Education.aspx

Every single head of Harvard Review has written reviews…Head…reviews. See the correlation? That is what he is Head for. No reviews are available for reviewing…

Janet the kool aid crowd hang out with no lives and post the same trash over and over. Like sheep.

On the other hand,
Powell is the kind of blind follower you definitely cannot not trust.
It is Powell who made the case of invading Iraq.
If he knew, as he said he did not, he is a criminal.
If he did not know, he was unfit for his job and because of it he has brought thousands of young Americans to death. For that, he should be prosecuted along with Bush.
Now, he is helping to ruin this country into a socialist Zero.

– Every single head of Harvard Review has written reviews.. –
Pretty sad when people have to hand feed you information readily available.. please see the third volume of the 1990 harvard law review and Obamas six-page summary titled: TORT LAW – PRENATAL INJURIES – SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE CAUSE OF ACTION BROUGHT BY FETUS AGAINST ITS MOTHER FOR UNINTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF PRENATAL INJURIES.

Yeah, keep coming up w/ stuff. He’s done nothing, will do nothing and the country will be nothing! Head of Harvard Review.
He produced a wide range of edited case analyses and unsigned “notes” from Harvard students. That’s it!

Peabrainers always need to attack others cause they don’t have a whole lot to say or ask. Go drink the Kool aid that they hand out at them so called marches! Oops, rallies!

Mr. Powell, say it isn’t so!!! You above all, I would have thought would not want us to have 8 more years of an inexperienced Commander in Chief.
Sen. Obama, experience matters. I have made many mistakes in my short life. It is true, when I think about it, that each of those mistakes are among my greatest assets with respect to decision making, each and every one of them. This is because we all learn from our mistakes. At all times, I believe the best of my judgment is anchored in the cement that is my experience. I believe firmly that the longer I live, the more I will have experienced, and the better my judgment will be, on the balance. Sen. Obama, do you really believe that you have made enough mistakes to be the next President of the United States? I respect your ambition. I respect your charisma. I embrace your place in history, but I do not believe you have sufficient experience to lead this planet, not even close.
America, since the mainstream media has failed to examine Sen. Obama’s experience and lack of experience, you will have to determine for yourselves what exactly is Sen. Obama’s experience? What did he accomplish in the Illinois legislature? He was only there for a handful of years. What did he promise he would accomplish? What did he accomplish in the U.S. Senate? He has only been on the job as a U.S. Senator for 1xx days. What did he promise he would accomplish? What has he changed in this world? This country? The Presidency of the United States is an executive position Sen. Obama. Do you have any executive experience? Have you created a budget, negotiated a budget, revised a budget or managed adherence to a budget?
Sen. Obama insists on presenting Sen. McCain’s experience as being only an puppet of the Bush administration. I saw Senator McCain stand up to President Bush’s Defense Secretary. He stood in a manner that no other did. He changed the course of the war in Iraq. What percentage of all GOP legislative votes sided with President Bush’s? What percentage of all Democrat legislative votes sided with Presidents Clinton, Carter and Johnson’s policies? I have no idea, but I’d venture to guess that, had the media presented that information to the American public, we’d find rank and file partisanship throughout our recent history. How many Americans would be surprise by that?
Well Senator Obama, you might be able to claim that you did not support the Iraq war resolution, but what can you offer as proof that it was the right decision at that moment in our history? You were after all in the small minority. Our country was after all reeling from the worst terror attack in our nation’s history. How would history have judged President Bush had he not led our troops into Iraq and then, a massive terror attack occurred yesterday, perpetrated by terrorists that lived and trained in Iraq over the past few years, with or without knowledge of Saddam Hussein? I think about it this way: history failed to present enough evidence to push the World to coalesce and intervene in 1930s Europe. But modern history is 100% clear on that point, it would have been the correct decision. History might well judge the Iraq war to be not a right decision. History will judge the Bush administration on many points. One of those may even record it, in part, as a series of lapses in the judgment of a young President, swayed by the belief and conviction of an older, seasoned Vice President and the overwhelming circumstances of a world that had changed dramatically, in an instant. I agree with you Sen. Obama that we don’t need another eight years of the Bush Administration, we dont need another eight years of an inexperienced President.
Mr. Gibson, Ms. Couric, Ms. Behar, Ms. Mitchell … you do not get to dismantle the American vote. You and your colleagues might think you have the power to micro-filter democracy’s messages to your liking, but you do not get to dismantle the American vote. You might think you have the power to subtly, and not so subtly promote and gather others to blindly promote one candidacy, while casting another in the least flattering manner possible, but you do not get to dismantle the American vote. You do not get to dismantle America’s vote. The mainstream media bias in this election is at best described as repugnant and at worst, a slap to the face of democracy; an assault on the moral and righteous ideal that all American voters should be free to construct their vote on the basis of readily available, factually complete, accurate, relevant and unbiased fact. It is my opinion that, during this election cycle more than any other I have witnessed, the mainstream media has failed millions of American’s who rely on them, as a basis for constructing their vote. Am I wrong? I might be wrong, but I’ll ask you, the American voters to decide that for yourself, by asking yourself some questions. Questions such as why was so much time spent this election cycle mining for dirt in Alaska, why was so little time was spent tracking laundry in Illinois? Why has the mainstream media spent so little time illuminating the razor thin experience that the junior Senator from Illinois maintains as his credentials? Indeed, if the media was prepared to be fair and honest, they would have been able to report, with incontrovertible confidence, that they were reporting fact, that the candidate having the most experience directly relevant to the position of the Presidency of the United States is actually the candidate that has been relentlessly attacked by the media, both personally and professionally. The mainstream media owes an apology to American Democracy for its treatment of Gov. Palin. Why is it, that after finally deciding to give minimal airtime to the ACORN voter registration fraud issue, was it not mentioned that Sen. Obama’s campaign funded ACORN? Sen. Obama, in my mind, there is no distinction between committing voter registration fraud, serving as impetus to commit voter registration fraud or funding those serving as impetus to commit voter registration fraud. During the last debate, you did a fine job of distancing yourself from ACORN, but you failed to directly confront and condemn those that perpetrate or encourage voter registration fraud. You had a nationwide audience, and you chose not to act.
The President is the commander in chief of the United States Armed Forces. That is a serious responsibility. I question how you can expect us to believe that you will effectively maintain the morale, skill and competence of our forces after you have insulted them. What will serve as your experiential basis for leading the U.S. Military? Do you have any military experience at all? Have you ever served in ROTC? Do you know firsthand the horrors of war? I believe that firsthand knowledge and experience is the most critical element one can use in formulating decisions, including the determination of when to and when not to deploy U.S. Military forces. Sen. McCain has that experience. That I know. That he has shown. The media can’t take that away from him.
With regard to foreign policy experience, do you think you are qualified to navigate the most powerful democracy the world knows during a time when the fundamentals of democracy are very much under attack? Are you ready to face Mr. Putin? Mr. Chavez? Kim Jung Ill? China? Iran? Are you ready to answer the 03:00 phone call? What experience do you have that I should judge gives you readiness? What is that experience? What foreign leaders have you negotiated with directly? What treaties have you signed? The media has presented none and neither have you. I have a good number of stamps in my passport Sen. Obama. I lived and worked in Germany for a brief period. Sen. Obama, I am not qualified by a longshot to make United States foreign policy, and you may only be marginally more qualified than I.
The oratorical is no substitute for judgment or experience Senator Obama. I do not believe that you have the experience to be President of our country. Experience matters Sen. Obama, and you are not ready, you have not made enough mistakes. But most glaring to me, Senator Obama is the one mistake that you seem willing to make over and over and it is the worst mistake one can make. That mistake is the action of not owning one’s mistakes.
Sen. Obama, you claim that you will cut taxes on 95% of all Americans. Is that true? Or let me rephrase, how can that be true? You told the voters of Illinois that you would cut taxes, but you have failed to do so in the U.S. Senate. Did you even try? Did you present a bill? Were it a committee issue did you encourage your peers to present one? Have you ever voted for a tax cut? What did you mean Senator Obama when you told Plumber Joe that you wanted to spread the wealth? Do you mean that you want to take money from Joe and give it to those with less money? Your running mate, Sen. Biden has commented that you would not be taxing additionaly those making under $250,000 a year. Sen. Biden commented that he knows no plumbers that make over $250,000 a year. I think that those who claim your tax policies embody class warfare are wrong. Wrong, because the policies are class warfare policies, but they are not directed against the haves, they are directed against the have-nots. Senator Biden, you may well be correct that few plumbers earn over $250,000 a year, but some that own plumbing contracting businesses probably do. What do those that spin your message have planned to say to that one plumber out of maybe six or seven that was employed by a plumbing company, but was laid off, because business is slow, new homes weren’t being built and President Obama’s tax increase forced the owner of the plumbing business to lay her off? The owner tried every angle possible, but was forced to make a tough decision. They were faced with the prospect of either making a tough decision or risk running the entire operation into financial distress and end up having to close operations and fire all workers? I guess you’d have Mr. Burton tell her that, even though she has no job, she does at least still have affordable healthcare? Senator Obama what will you say to the unemployed plumber in Ohio, father of two, that nearly had a job secured, the owner had just signed a good contract for a small building and he was ready to hire that plumber, but learned from his accountant, that Senator Obama’s tax increase has made it not possible to hire another employee? I guess you’d have Mr. Burton tell that plumber, that even though he still has no job, he does have a lower tax burden
Sen. Obama, you have stated over and over that Sen. McCain supports tax breaks for corporations that send their jobs overseas. The media has not reported on this one way or another, but if you are correct, then I commend Sen. McCain for doing so. What you don’t get, Sen. Obama, or perhaps don’t want the American public to get, is that income taxes, to a for profit enterprise are expenses not much different from the costs of raw materials and salary expenses for purposes of this discussion. All else equal, ladies and gentleman, a corporation will locate itself, and its jobs, or begin to locate itself and its jobs, in areas where it is least penalized in terms of taxes. This is how for profit American corporations behave and this is how they must behave. Their competitors are operating in that manner, continually scouring expenses to search for reduction opportunities. They have to. If they do not, they will be at a cost disadvantage and if their tactical errors are sustained, they may well go out of business in which case, even those jobs which remain in the United States, could also disappear. Even if the company does not fail entirely, some jobs may be eliminated, and chances are great that the highest cost jobs would be targeted first. Sen. Obama, America is not a low cost country, in these circumstances, they would be targeted first, all else equal. When those jobs are cut Sen. Obama, those new unemployed will not have money to support the ‘under $250k’ crowd…they won’t have money to support small businesses…is it sinking in at all?
Your position of not supporting tax breaks for corporations that export jobs overseas, indeed, only encourages them, at the margin, to further export jobs, or slow their job creation in the United States or end their job creation in the United States. This is global economic reality. The media can not distort this fact for you. At the final debate, I heard you add a carrot to your plans. You pulled that same tax string attached to the back of your head and out came the message you think the voters want to hear. If I got it correct, you’ll give tax credits to corporations that create jobs in America. In case you don’t know Senator Obama, this already happens today at the state and local level all across America. Have you thought about how much additionaly, it will cost the U.S. Treasury to employ workers, in an audit fashion, in order to verify which of all the xx million jobs that corporations claim they created actually exist? What are the time constraints? How long must they keep the job filled in order to receive the credit? What would happen when that time passes? Let me get this correct, you want to first keep tax rates on corporations high or raise them – thereby encouraging employers large and small to export their operations and jobs – and then at the same time you want to turnaround and give them a tax credit? You do realize that they are policy opposites don’t you? It looks to me that you might be trying to convince us that it would be a good idea to spend more on government for an unknown expected net job increase. If you can convince us of that Senator Obama, I’d suggest you also try to sell us a bridge to nowhere. Your tax policy is bigger government, bigger IRS, more regulatory burden on American Corporations and more administrative overhead makes them less competitive in the global market and less likely to employ. It is not the right policy Senator Obama.
Go back to the Senate and accomplish something Sen. Obama. Your candidacy is an insult to America.
oh and ps, the verdict has been in for decades on the effectiveness of spreading the wealth policies. Go visit an American Indian Reservation Sen. Obama. The only thing that has changed for the past several decades is the faces of the Washington politicians that have redistributed wealth to us. Do you have any clue what the average unemployment rate is in Indian Country Sen.Obama? Illicit drug use rate? Teen pregnancy rate? Pick a rate
Senator.

Powell states this is not about race. And, maybe it’s not. It is about a man trying to win the good graces of the press and electorate after having been castigated for his much panned speech before the U.N. Powell is simply trying to better his image for posterity’s sake; looking for a better spot in history. Funny how much he has in common with the Clintons, Gore, Carter, and even Obama himself. The Democrats are all about their image – “do as I say, not as I do.” Hypocrites, all. I’m sure the press will now forgive the repentant Powell. His rehabilitation is now complete, as he has seen the light. Will it matter to the undecided voter? No.

– oh and ps, the verdict has been in for decades on the effectiveness of spreading the wealth policies –
Absolutely! We have been redistributing it from the middle class to the wealthy for years now, just like McCain wants to continue doing.. In his world, those on ‘main street’ must make over $100K, since those are the only ones who would see a tax break under his trickle down plan.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/

Hey Stalin,
Do yourself a favor and dont’ post your long rambling rants more than once. We read it the first time, and disagreed. When you posted it the second time it just makes you look stupid and annoying.

Concerned,
We do not need his money giveaways. The country is in deep sh!t, and it cannot afford another Zero’s boneheaded mistakes.
Had he not pushed Bush’s “bipartisian” money giveaways one year ago, had he had any clue about the real problems of the economy, had he put his country first and followed the lead of Hillary Clinton to use that $300 billion to rescue banking and mortgage lending downfalls ONE year ago when the Dow was above 14000, the market might, just might, have not fall nearly 50%.
Maybe it is a good thing for Zero to equalize wealth, or spread wealth around, it is not good for americans, especially those concerned americans who are at the brink of retirement.

It is just so awful what Powell did. What arrogance. He certainly took everything the Reublican Party offered him. I think he should go Democratic and with all of that said you knew he would support Obama. But even in supporting him he just needs to keep his mouth shut. If he thinks he is qualified to be President then that says something about the arrogance of Powell. What a real real shame.

Powell endorsement does not change my vote.
It wasn’t a surprise. I expected him to follow his suit.

– Can you point me to that? –
In 2006 and 2007, Obama teamed up with Republican Sen. Tom Coburn to pass the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, also known as “Google for Government.” The act created a free, searchable web site – USASpending.gov — that discloses to the public all federal grants, contracts, loans and insurance payments.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:S.2590:

Shouldn’t Obama be admonishing Powell for lying to get us into the Iraq war? Hillary and McCain are warmongers, but Powell is a hero? He was part of the inner circle that got us into Iraq.

– The country is in deep sh!t, and it cannot afford another Zero’s boneheaded mistakes. –
Another? Don’t remember the first.. but at least he has Buffet as an advisor, and probably the last living economic genius, former fed chairman Volker supports him and his economic policies, and Greenspan has come out and said he does not support McCains tax cuts.. I think they have a pretty good handle on it, but thanks for your concern.

– it is not good for americans, especially those concerned americans who are at the brink of retirement. –
Absolutely.. McCains proposals would be a disaster for retired Americans.. Obama has much more support for senior citizens than McCain and they will be much better off once he gets elected.. nice of you to be so concerned for our elderly.. we all are.

“nice of you to be so concerned for our elderly.. we all are.”
That’s a joke right. After all of the attacks on McCain because of his age, now all of the sudden you care about the elderly?

Concerned American,
“In 2006 and 2007, Obama teamed up with Republican Sen. Tom Coburn to pass the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, also known as “Google for Government.” The act created a free, searchable web site – USASpending.gov — that discloses to the public all federal grants, contracts, loans and insurance payments.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:S.2590:”
Oh Yeap! That’s ONE. Where he puts his paw in it along with 50 others including McCain.
He SURE took the initiative!
Thanks! But I thought you would offer something NEW.

I respect Mr. Powell, but I disagree with him. He saw, firsthand, a young, inexperienced President, in a time of crisis, cave at the insistence of an older more experienced Vice-President; driving him and us into a bad decision. That is how I see it.
I’ll say that one more time, a young, inexperienced President. Sound familiar? Do we really want 8 more years of Bush?
Mr. Powell was right I think. But he did not have the President’s full ear. We know who Mr. Obama’s Cheney is, I wonder who his Powell will be?

“Here’s what I want to know: Could any of us become the President of McDonald’s, Ford, General Motors, or any other company after working there just 143 days? ”
Not only that; he wouldn’t be able to pass a background check to work for the FBI.

“Lou, under our system of government voters determine who sits in elected office. Primary voters have already decided Barack Obama is qualified in their judgement. The presidential election is the final hurdle.”
ONLY the misguided, un-informed decided this in the PRIMARY.
The General election has more informed and well-guided voters to ensure that an empty suit can not get it.

KleinGordon – I tiptoed through it all in my day, then gave it up one year over a slight disagreement about how many clueless commuters should get blasted during rush hour on the highway just the other side of the linear’s target zone (LANL). Plus a few similarly dumb engineering escapades. Barely keeping up with CERN’s new toy these days, the grandkids are in college!

Concerned American,
“Sorry, but I’d rather not have someone with such a poor background and education with a known temper and short fuse anywhere near the button..”
Can you shed some lights into your candidate’s background since McCain’s backgorund has such a poor background?
Let see his father did not knock up his mother and left him high and dry. His mother then “hose” some other guy. And there was the ONE! Am I right?

Obama has much more support for senior citizens than McCain
Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 19, 2008 7:41:25 PM
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Sure, Zero will tax the hell out of the senior citizens. They are the richest bunch, or the poorest bunch, which ever group you belong.
Zero “promised” that he will not increase your taxes if you make less than $250K. Zero promised to raise the social security cap to $150K, increasing a warping $3000 for your poor middle class, less-educated, nothing comparable to his Harvard smart, people.
Guess you senior citizens are happy now, thinking Zero is taking good care of you to raise middle class social security taxes to save you. Dream on. He already promised to give everyone else $1000 bucks.

McCAIN HAS FOUR ENDORSEMENTS FROM EX SECRETARIES OF STATE…..WHERE IS THAT HEADLINE, ABC?
This time the Press is electing the President of the US since the Americans have lost their clear sight.

Sophia,
“I BELIEVE IN OBAMA, EMPOWERMENT, VOICE OF FREEDOM AND CHOICE IN AMERICA. WE ARE IN A DEEP MESS, WE NEED CHANGE—-’
Do you think we do NOT have empowerment, voice of freedom and choice in America? Obama will give you that?
You have to be kidding!

Concerned American,
I guess you COULDN’T answer that question (about the background).
Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

– Oh Yeap! That’s ONE. Where he puts his paw in it along with 50 others including McCain. –
Sorry, but the only involvement McCain had with it was to stuff in a little pork for himself, in the form of the FORT McDOWELL INDIAN COMMUNITY WATER RIGHTS SETTLEMENT REVISION ACT OF 2006.

The PROBLEM with media and DNC is that they have NOT completely INVESTIGATED the background of their candidate.
To Concerned American,
Obama would NOT be able to get a Security Clearance much less running the Pentagon based on his background.
This is the Candidate that the DEMS/LEFTIES/Misguided/Uninformed voters push for the POTUS.

Obama gets cold reception in NC diner
Woman shouts ‘socialist, get out of here’ at Obama
by Christi Parsons
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.–The Crown Coliseum had been full of Barack Obama’s cheering fans.
The after-church lunch crowd at Cape Fear BBQ and Chicken was less hospitable to the Democrat.
According to the pool reporter at the lunch stop, the barbecue joint was filled with dozens of older and mostly white diners.
As Obama walked in, a woman at the other end of the restaurant, a woman began shouting at him.
“Socialist, socialist, socialist!” said Diane Fanning, 54, a Sam’s Club employee. “Get out of here.”
There was a lot of noise and excitement and positive reception as well and it was unclear whether Obama heard her, writes pool reporter Margaret Talev, of McClatchy Newspapers.
But there was no disputing the animosity later, when Obama tried to shake Fanning’s hand. She refused the gesture.
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/10/obamas_a_socialist_woman_shout.html
WEL, WELL BARRY! IT LOOKS LIKE MONEY CAN’T BUY YOU LOVE IN NC..HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Powell is a bush man, he sold his soul to the devil and is personally the reason so many have lost their lives.
AA over country, just like so many other AAs. Good luck to you, we will see how that works for ya.

I love it – Colin (weapons of mass destruction) Powell endorses a candidate who states he voted against the Iraq War (oops he wasn’t in the senate yet)
Birds of a feather fly together – wouldn’t you say??????

Don’t you think it’s odd that Obama would take an endorsement from one of the main “pusher’s” of Bush’s war –AND who, along with Sam Nunn, was singlehandedly responsible for kncoking down Clinton’s plan to lift the ban on gays in the military? Obama will say or do anything to get elected. His cheerleaders should get it now. All the bad he said about “politics” applies to him as well. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing. All I’m saying is that I hope you kids have finally learned something. He’s a liar like all the rest.

To say that Obama “wasted no time basking in the glow of his latest big-name supporter” is a very condescending and dishonest account of his speech.
He didn’t even say that Powel “endorsed me” but instead said that Powell “endorsed our campaign for change”. He hardly even smiled. He appeared humbled, realizing the importance of the endorsement and the responsibility for him to live up to it as well as to the hopes of millions of people in America and beyond.

$150,000,000 and Obama said we are in a depression?? Something doesn’t smell right???
Wake up America – Obama has sold this country down the river to somebody

Forget Acorn and mickey mouse stealing votes for the democrats. The Republicans have already rigged these coming elections. Go check http://www.stealbackyourvote.org and by the way Ayers has rehabilited himself and is very involved in his community so that would make thousands of Illinois citizens palling aroung with terrorists

Mr. Powell, you saw an inexperienced President crumble against an experienced VP. ???
Sen. Obama, experience matters. I have made many mistakes in my short life. It is true, when I think about it, that each of those mistakes are among my greatest assets with respect to decision making, each and every one of them. This is because we all learn from our mistakes. At all times, I believe the best of my judgment is anchored in the cement that is my experience. I believe firmly that the longer I live, the more I will have experienced, and the better my judgment will be, on the balance. Sen. Obama, do you really believe that you have made enough mistakes to be the next President of the United States? Many say that you won’t make the same mistakes that others have because of your sound judgement (I guess they’d cite your choice of Pastor?). The only thing, Senator, is that there still remain many mistakes yet to be written into this planet’s history books. You won’t always have the benefit of others experience, you’ll have to leverage your own experience and you have too little on which to base your judgement. I respect your ambition. I respect your charisma. I embrace your place in history, but I do not believe you have sufficient experience to lead this planet, not even close.
America, since the mainstream media has failed to examine Sen. Obama’s experience and lack of experience, you will have to determine for yourselves what exactly is Sen. Obama’s experience? What did he accomplish in the Illinois legislature? He was only there for a handful of years. What did he promise he would accomplish? What did he accomplish in the U.S. Senate? He has only been on the job as a U.S. Senator for 1xx days. What did he promise he would accomplish? What has he changed in this world? This country? The Presidency of the United States is an executive position Sen. Obama. Do you have any executive experience? Have you created a budget, negotiated a budget, revised a budget or managed adherence to a budget?
Sen. Obama insists on presenting Sen. McCain’s experience as being only an puppet of the Bush administration. I saw Senator McCain stand up to President Bush’s Defense Secretary. He stood in a manner that no other did. He changed the course of the war in Iraq. What percentage of all GOP legislative votes sided with President Bush’s? What percentage of all Democrat legislative votes sided with Presidents Clinton, Carter and Johnson’s policies? I have no idea, but I’d venture to guess that, had the media presented that information to the American public, we’d find rank and file partisanship throughout our recent history. How many Americans would be surprise by that?
Well Senator Obama, you might be able to claim that you did not support the Iraq war resolution, but what can you offer as proof that it was the right decision at that moment in our history? You were after all in the small minority. Our country was after all reeling from the worst terror attack in our nation’s history. How would history have judged President Bush had he not led our troops into Iraq and then, a massive terror attack occurred yesterday, perpetrated by terrorists that lived and trained in Iraq over the past few years, with or without knowledge of Saddam Hussein? I think about it this way: history failed to present enough evidence to push the World to coalesce and intervene in 1930s Europe. But modern history is 100% clear on that point, it would have been the correct decision. History might well judge the Iraq war to be not a right decision. History will judge the Bush administration on many points. One of those may even record it, in part, as a series of lapses in the judgment of a young President, swayed by the belief and conviction of an older, seasoned Vice President and the overwhelming circumstances of a world that had changed dramatically, in an instant. I agree with you Sen. Obama that we don’t need another eight years of the Bush Administration, we dont need another eight years of an inexperienced President.
Mr. Gibson, Ms. Couric, Ms. Behar, Ms. Mitchell, Mr. Matthews … you do not get to dismantle the American vote. You and your colleagues might think you have the power to micro-filter democracy’s messages to your liking, but you do not get to dismantle the American vote. You might think you have the power to subtly, and not so subtly promote and gather others to blindly promote one candidacy, while casting another in the least flattering manner possible, but you do not get to dismantle the American vote. You do not get to dismantle America’s vote. The mainstream media bias in this election is at best described as repugnant and at worst, a slap to the face of democracy; an assault on the moral and righteous ideal that all American voters should be free to construct their vote on the basis of readily available, factually complete, accurate, relevant and unbiased fact. It is my opinion that, during this election cycle more than any other I have witnessed, the mainstream media has failed millions of American’s who rely on them, as a basis for constructing their vote. Am I wrong? I might be wrong, but I’ll ask you, the American voters to decide that for yourself, by asking yourself some questions. Questions such as why was so much time spent this election cycle mining for dirt in Alaska, why was so little time was spent tracking laundry in Illinois? Why has the mainstream media spent so little time illuminating the razor thin experience that the junior Senator from Illinois maintains as his credentials? Indeed, if the media was prepared to be fair and honest, they would have been able to report, with incontrovertible confidence, that they were reporting fact, that the candidate having the most experience directly relevant to the position of the Presidency of the United States is actually the candidate that has been relentlessly attacked by the media, both personally and professionally. The mainstream media owes an apology to American Democracy for its treatment of Gov. Palin. Why is it, that after finally deciding to give minimal airtime to the ACORN voter registration fraud issue, was it not mentioned that Sen. Obama’s campaign funded ACORN? Sen. Obama, in my mind, there is no distinction between committing voter registration fraud, serving as impetus to commit voter registration fraud or funding those serving as impetus to commit voter registration fraud. During the last debate, you did a fine job of distancing yourself from ACORN, but you failed to directly confront and condemn those that perpetrate or encourage voter registration fraud. You had a nationwide audience, and you chose not to act.
The President is the commander in chief of the United States Armed Forces. That is a serious responsibility. I question how you can expect us to believe that you will effectively maintain the morale, skill and competence of our forces after you have insulted them (I have a friend that is an Army Reservist. He is deploying, again, to Iraq. He has a wife, a son and a daughter. He does not serve so that he can kill children and raid villages Senator). What will serve as your experiential basis for leading the U.S. Military? Do you have any military experience at all? Have you ever served in ROTC? Did you at least play with the little green plastic troops when you lived in Hawaii? Do you know firsthand the horrors of war? I believe that firsthand knowledge and experience is the most critical element one can use in formulating decisions, including the determination of when to and when not to deploy U.S. Military forces. Sen. McCain has that experience. That I know. That he has shown. The media can’t take that away from him.
With regard to foreign policy experience, do you think you are qualified to navigate the most powerful democracy the world knows during a time when the fundamentals of democracy are very much under attack? Are you ready to face Mr. Putin? Mr. Chavez? Kim Jung mentally Ill? China? Iran? Are you ready to answer the 03:00 phone call? What experience do you have that I should judge gives you readiness? What is that experience? What foreign leaders have you negotiated with directly? What treaties have you signed? The media has presented none and neither have you. I have a good number of stamps in my passport Sen. Obama. I lived and worked in Germany for a brief period. Sen. Obama, I am not qualified by a longshot to make United States foreign policy, and you may only be marginally more qualified than I.
The oratorical is no substitute for judgment or experience Senator Obama. I do not believe that you have the experience to be President of our country. Experience matters Sen. Obama, and you are not ready, you have not made enough mistakes. But most glaring to me, Senator Obama is the one mistake that you seem willing to make over and over and it is the worst mistake one can make. That mistake is the action of not owning and learning from one’s mistakes. The surge worked Senator.
Sen. Obama, you claim that you will cut taxes on 95% of all Americans. Is that true? Or let me rephrase, how can that be true? You told the voters of Illinois that you would cut taxes, but you have failed to do so in the U.S. Senate. Did you even try? Did you present a bill? Were it a committee issue did you encourage your peers to present one? Have you ever voted for a tax cut? What did you mean Senator Obama when you told Plumber Joe that you wanted to spread the wealth? Do you mean that you want to take money from Joe and give it to those with less money? Your running mate, Sen. Biden has commented that you would not be taxing additionaly those making under $250,000 a year. Sen. Biden commented that he knows no plumbers that make over $250,000 a year. I think that those who claim your tax policies embody class warfare are wrong. Wrong, because the policies are class warfare policies, but they are not directed against the haves, they are directed against the have-nots. Senator Biden, you may well be correct that few plumbers earn over $250,000 a year, but some that own plumbing contracting businesses probably do. What do those that spin your message have planned to say to that one plumber out of maybe six or seven that was employed by a plumbing company, but was laid off, because business is slow, new homes weren’t being built and President Obama’s tax increase forced the owner of the plumbing business to lay her off? The owner tried every angle possible, but was forced to make a tough decision. They were faced with the prospect of either making a tough decision or risk running the entire operation into financial distress and end up having to close operations and fire all workers? I guess you’d have Mr. Burton tell her that, even though she has no job, she does at least still have access to affordable healthcare? Senator Obama what will you say to the still unemployed plumber in Ohio, father of two, that nearly had a job secured, the owner had just signed a good contract for a small building and he was ready to hire that plumber, but learned from his accountant, that President Obama’s, Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid’s tax increase has made it not possible to hire another employee? I guess you’d have Mr. Burton tell that plumber, that even though he still has no job, he does have a lower tax rate applied against his $0.00 income.
Sen. Obama, you have stated over and over that Sen. McCain supports tax breaks for corporations that send their jobs overseas. The media has not reported on this one way or another, but if you are correct, then I commend Sen. McCain for doing so. What you don’t get, Sen. Obama, or perhaps don’t want the American public to get, is that income taxes, to a for profit enterprise are expenses not much different from the costs of raw materials and salary expenses for purposes of this discussion. All else equal, ladies and gentleman, a corporation will locate itself, and its jobs, or begin to locate itself and its jobs, in areas where it is least penalized in terms of taxes. This is how for profit American corporations behave and this is how they must behave. Their competitors are operating in that manner, continually scouring expenses to search for reduction opportunities. They have to. If they do not, they will be at a cost disadvantage and if their tactical errors are sustained, they may well go out of business in which case, even those jobs which remain in the United States, could also disappear. Even if the company does not fail entirely, some jobs may be eliminated, and chances are great that the highest cost jobs would be targeted first. Sen. Obama, America is not a low cost country, in these circumstances, high cost American jobs would be targeted first, all else equal. When those jobs are cut Sen. Obama, those finding themselves newly unemployed will not have money to support the ‘under $250k’ crowd…they won’t have money to support small businesses…is it sinking in at all?
Your position of not supporting tax breaks for corporations that export jobs overseas, indeed, only encourages them, at the margin, to further export jobs, or slow their job creation in the United States or end their job creation in the United States. This is global economic reality. The media can not distort this fact for you. At the final debate, I heard you add a carrot to your plans. You pulled that same tax string attached to the back of your head and out came the message your handlers have planted in you, that message you think the voters want to hear. I was laughing a bit, but if I understand you correctly, you’ll give tax credits to corporations that create jobs in America. In case you don’t know Senator Obama, this already happens today at the state and local level all across America. Have you thought about how much additionaly, it will cost the U.S. Treasury to employ workers, in an audit fashion, in order to verify which of all the xx million jobs that corporations claim they created, were actually created or do actually exist? What are the time constraints? How long must they keep the job filled in order to receive the credit? What would happen when that timeframe passes? Let me point this out to my fellow voters. Senator Obama wants to first keep tax rates on corporations high or raise them – thereby encouraging employers large and small to export their operations and jobs – and then at the same time he wants to turnaround and give them a tax credit for jobs they create? Senator, or maybe I should be addressing your advisers, you do realize that the two are policy opposites don’t you? It looks to me that you might be trying to convince us that it would be a good idea to spend more on government for an unknown expected net job decrease/increase. If you can convince us that those are winning policies Senator Obama, then I’d suggest you save us all some trouble, sell the American voters a bridge to nowhere and retire, pen some books, give some speeches. Indeed, your tax policy is bigger government, bigger IRS, more regulatory burden on American corporations and more administrative overhead makes them less competitive in the global market and less likely to employ. It is not the right policy Senator Obama, not by a long shot.
Go back to the Senate and accomplish something Sen. Obama. Your candidacy is an insult to America.
ps, the verdict has been in for decades on the effectiveness of spreading the wealth policies. Go visit an American Indian Reservation Sen. Obama. The only thing that has changed for the past several decades is the faces of the Washington politicians that have redistributed wealth to us. Do you have any clue what the average unemployment rate is in Indian Country Sen.Obama? Illicit drug use rate? Teen pregnancy rate? Suicide rate? Pick a rate Senator.

– Pretty impressive EXCEPT we can’t get any info on these. Just WORDS like he said. –
Well, you can lead a horse to water and all that..
remember, you can be cured of ignorance, but you are have to be born with intelligence.
Love to hear any real issues and why you support McCain.. but of course, even McCain can’t seem to defend his own positions, so I understand the difficulty.

– Ayers is not rehabilitated! Anyone believing that is a fool. –
Wasn’t aware that he needed to be..
What does need to be rehabilitated for?

Doesn’t anyone whose IQ is over 80 which leaves most of the Obamites out of the equation. Doesn’t anyone find it strange that Obama never wrote while he was head of the Harvard Review? Why can’t we read his stuff if this guy is so brillant and an original thinker?
Posted by: Janet Hughes | Oct 19, 2008 7:02:08 PM
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Are you jealous of Obama because Bush and Palin writes with crayons?

And if he’s such a socialist why does Warren Buffet support him ?

A Nig supporting another Nig!

And if he’s such a socialist why does Warren Buffet support him ?
Posted by: Concerned earthling | Oct 19, 2008 8:40:16 PM
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The republicans want you to believe Obama is a socialist. So I guess that means Warren Buffet is a since he’s an associate of Barack Obama. Well that also make Bill Gates a socialist since his a associate of Warren Buffet. Wow thanks republicans for letting the world know the two richest men in the world are socialist, who knew. And how ridiculous.

Voters the Polls Neglected: All Military Branches Strongly Support McCain
http://www.militarytimes.com/static/projects/pages/081003_ep_2pp.pdf
Posted by: LightSeeker | Oct 19, 2008 9:02:33 PM
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Come election day you find that support is a farce just like McCain’s phony support of the military. McCain gets a D rating while Obama and Biden get B’s.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/10/military_vets_congress_reportcard_100708/
BTW General Powell eviscerated McCain and Palin when he explained why he was supporting Barack Obama. Check MSNBC listings for the airing later tonight or around midnight depending on time zones.

“Voters the Polls Neglected: All Military Branches Strongly Support McCain”
That is just a poll of Military Times subscribers. As they themselves write:
“The results of the Military Times 2008 Election Poll are not representative of the opinions of the military as a whole.”

Obama needs all of the positive light and endorsements he can generate. Bravo for General Colin Powell!! Now I call that truly reaching across the aisle!
Obama has been besieged by all kind of attacks on his character. Now Obama supporters are being attacked by the GOP as they pull no punches and are using a court strategy in an attempt to disenfranchise voters in Ohio and Wisconsin.
In Ohio the Democratic Secretary of State, Brunner has been in court 8 times over her tenure fighting attacks on her state’s voting operation against the Republicans. In the GOP’s attempt to suppress voting by 200,000 newly regisered voter, Brunner took her plea to the US Supreme Court last week who ruled in her favor– really in the voters favor.
But here we go again in Wisconsin…
At least in 2000 we went to court after the election.
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/310245
On Thursday, we wait for another court ruling.. 2nd court case I know of since last week’s Supreme Court case re: Ohio’s 200,000 new voter registrations.
Thursday we will listen for the verdict on a case in Wisconsin where the GOP is attempting to disenfranchise or suppress voter turn out for newly registered voters.
With the Wisconsin case, the GOP started this dirty attack right after their convention.
excerpt from the abovementioned article:
“THURSDAY’S MATCH-UP: The Democratic Nominee And Wisconsin’s Attorney General Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, a McCain-Palin campaign co-chair, came back from the Republican National Convention in early September and filed a lawsuit that sought to force Wisconsin election officials to painstakingly cross-check every new voter registration.”
When Obama wins there will be cause for GREAT celebration. He has been attacked relentlessly.

I remmember when Gen Powell with his sattlite pictures, swearing that they were Iraqs mobile weapons of mass destruction labs, and weapons labs. Yea, sure, now I’m suppose to trust his judgement on Obama. I Think Not!!!!!

As many of my fellow Canadians ,I have been watching the Presidential campaign with great interest. Its been disheartening to see the vicious slimy campaign being waged against the first African American candidate for Presidency. And many of us wonder how it is that such hateful racism is allowed to continue…surely this isnt typical of Amercian politics? Attacking a man’s character rather then his policies is reprehensible. Sen. Obama, to many of us, is the person we see as the man who can be the agent of change needed in this unstable world we now live in..both economically and internationally. Its very difficult for those of us who were not familiar with Sen. McCain prior to this campaign to comprehend how he was considered a man of great honour. A man of honour and strong moral values would not allow this type of dishonorable campaign!! It must be an embarrassment to many Americans to see the type of borderline racial hatred being displayed at the Palin /McCain rallies.As well as the vicious lies being espoused by the McCain Rebublican campaign. I cant imagine how hurtful this rhetoric is to minorities living in the US..especially blacks and Muslims…
Its bewildering to many of us that the type of rhetoric and the antics (like the robocalls)are not more loudly condemned by the media??? There have been mild reprimands to be sure…but it has been mild. Freedom of speech should not mean those who wish to promote hatred and racism be allowed to do so!! Please speak out loudly and clearly that what the Republicans are doing is wrong!! It is unfortunately hurting America’s reputation as a inclusive society..a society that will not tolerate racial divide!!

By the way, I voted Republican the last two terms and I have seen the mistake in my vote.

Obama… All Puff – No Stuff!!!

Tony Cisneros didn’t your uncle leave
in shame do to an affair?
Who cares who he endorses they all stick together for all we know the rumor about Obama having an affair with a Vera Baker could be true.

Bottom line, America, we CANNOT AFFORD TO HAVE AN AMERICA RUN BY OBAMA, REID AND PELOSI …
THAT IS A GOVERNMENT WITH NO CHECK AND BALANCE … THAT IS A GOVERNMENT THROWN TO THE HANDS OF THE EXTREME LEFT … tax and spend till we are downright broke as a country. We are already in tough s*it.
AMERICA, WHEN IN DOUBT, VOTE ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION AND VOTE COUNTRY FIRST.

Powell endorsed a candidate with ZERO military experience.
And Powell claims race has nothing to do with it?
What a joke.

Powell has lost it. Too bad. It’s sad to see this kind of behavior from a man who was once so respected. Tsk tsk.

So, hmmm, Powell has never supported a liberal Dem in his life..the fact that this one is black I’m sure NEVER factored into his decision…I am no conservative, but I gotta go with Rush on this one…
Walks like a duck…..
Notice he waited until 16 days before the election..hmm, wanted to see who’d win first?
Powell could have been a real hero if he had refused to support Iraq, but it wasn’t politically expedient to do so….
Sad….

MIguy:
The cost of one new deep water well cost in excess of 250 million dollars. The oil companies need money to drill, not a tax to stop drilling. When $8.00 to $10.00 a gallon gas comes to market, do not place the blame on the oil industry. Look at Obama economics.

I have been glancing at some of the comments on here and this is how I see Obama from the republican view point. He’s a terrorist, a socialist, an unpatriotic American, a black man, a racist, an arab, and a new term I hadn’t heard associated with him until today “gay”.
The republican party has been raped and molested by these freaky neocons who have no sense of values nor any sense of right or wrong. I was a little more than shocked when a couple of writers on here say that Hannity is a journalist. I have never heard one word from Hannity but that’s because I have never turned on Fox. Why read his gibberish when his followers post on here everyday.
The republicans on here are so angry and bitter that they cannot see where this disease is coming from that has infected their inability to formulate intelligent discourse. They have forgotten what our fore fathers have done for us and the mass of immigrants that came to this country to toil and make it a better place for all Americans.
I truly hope that Obama is the chosen one and will be elected President. He brings wit, intelligence, reasoning, diplomacy and he is a real American. I really believe that most Republicans are angry after they saw through the smoke screen of McCain and the womam from up north. Those two have made fools of the republican party.
Vote Democrat and show the world that you are American and you do want a better America.

Powell is a great man of honor and not like you BlackJack who cut and ran oh I’m sorry you resigned.
What have you done to make this a better America?
I bet not a friggin’ thing.

democratic knows crap
No body ran from anything. We went to President Johnson and fought for the veterans that everybody called baby killers. We were those that knew what was happening. Powell stayed for the rank and prestige and did not lift a finger for the veterans. Yea, his great at taking and not giving.
President Johnson felt the shame of his errors and did not run for a second term. You are truly a misguided uneducated Obama supporter like the polls indicate.
Powell stayed for the rank and prestige and did not lift a finger for the veterans

I wonder if our parents would have elected a german in 1944….does anybody remember sept.11 2001 ….

AND?

I guess, if this is the way things are going..
I might not have to wait to see both Senior & Junior Bush endorsing OBAMA, because they see his ability to BRING CHANGE for the America.
After-all, they know how much potential of judgement a war veteran can bring

they call it national service, it will be called many things, it will be given different names but the fact is that POWELL and OBAMA agree that a national service is needed,which is just a fancy name for the DRAFT.
so long to ALL 18 year olds for at least 2 years of service, this will happen BEFORE your eligability to US college funds. thats right …you pay with 2 years of military service BEFORE you go off to college…and weather you go to college or not..
YOU WILL SERVE THE MANDATORY 2 YEARS in one form of national service or another.

Cracker jack:
You are right because it is another way to reduce unemployment. The draft of our young men into the military will return with Obama. Therefore, all you mothers out there remember your vote for Obama drafted your son for the military. Here is why it will happen:
Michael F. Scheuer, the founding head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit: Senator Obama must have left a couple zeroes off his plan for reinforcements. Two brigades — which is about 6,000 men — will not make a lick of difference in Afghanistan, which is a country the size of Texas, with the highest mountains on earth, a hostile population, and a growing Islamist insurgency. If Obama starts talking about 100 brigades — about 300,000 men — then the public might be able to assume he means business. Otherwise, he is just blowing smoke. Obama and all the other candidates in the other parties constantly say that “we have tried the military option and it does not work.” This of course is a bald lie; U.S. military power has been used most daintily in Afghanistan and Iraq. If the military power we have delivered in both places so far is the best we can do, then American taxpayers have been monumentally swindled in the amount of taxes they have paid for their military during the past 25 years. And another billion dollars for aid for Afghan reconstruction would just be another billion wasted. It appears that Obama and his fellow candidates in both parties have not learned that programs for economic recovery, internal stability, and nation-building cannot be started with any hope of effectiveness and durability until the enemy has been definitively annihilated. If Obama is right and the military option has failed, then more aid is just throwing money away because — as all can see — the enemy is growing in size and ferocity and shows no signs of being on the edge of annihilation.
Democrat President LB Johnson used Vietnam to enrich the industrial-military-complex. Moreover, the Vietnam War helped LB Johnson with the unemployment problem. Sounds cruel and unreal, but it is a historic fact.

That is what Obama is all about.. “basking in the glow”. What a joke.
He has to link himself to the records of accomplishment of others because he HAS NONE. Powell is a backstabber and endorsed Obama because of his race. McCain does not play the race card, Obama does.
The American people are looking closely at Obama and choosing McCain. McCain is closing the gap in the polls. Something YOU at ABC will not report.
It is a fact.

A guy who got fired endorses Obama.
Big deal.

Colin Powell’s worst assessment for the security of this country was in the first gulf war when he was the joint chief of the armed services, just when General Schwartzkoff and his army had Sadam Hussein and his regime outflanked and defeated, he recommended to President George Herbert Walker Bush for Saddam to live and his regime to stay in power which in turn gave us a greater threat for our current President to go before the UN and with UN forces invaded Iraq for not complying with the UN resolutions to inspect for weapons of mass destruction. I personally blame Colin Powell and his judgement for the lives and the cost for having to go back to Iraq today, and I believe his assessment and judgement for endorsing Obama as a leader of this country and the free world is wrong and if elected Obama and his left wing socialist regime could be a bigger threat to the security of this country.

Kenny: Obama will never be white and he is not black. He is MULATTO. Get use to it. He is as dumb as they come and without the advice of the former Clinton advisor’s he wouldn’t be as far as he is now. Biden is right, Obama wouldn’t know what to do in a crisis. Maybe he would hide somewhere. Powell endorsed Obama because he is half black and Powell is half black. It is a race issue because the news media was talking about the Bradley Effect and Powell jumped on the Obama’s bandwagon in fear. Powell already knows that Obama can’t lead this country. He wouldn’t know where to start from day one. Obama gets all his advise on the economy and his plan from advisor’s because he doesn’t have the intelligence. William Ayers the bomber knows more than Obama hasn’t learned yet.

Keith: Obama never won a debate yet. ABC, CNN & MSNBC are all pro-obama and the majority of blacks probably voted for blackbarack. Obama doesn’t have the intelligence to win a debate but the networks had to make it look good. He doesn’t have the intelligence to lead this country. Powell endorsed him because he is half black like Obama. Jamacian’s are not white they are a brown black color. Powell was afraid of the Bradley Effect in this election and he rushed to the rescue of Obama.

ml: You are so right. Obama uses the accomplishments of other’s. He has been using the speeches of JFK and RFK for his platform adding some words of his own. He will never be a true American of this country because he associated with people like Ayers, Rezko, Wright, Father P and Farrakhan who lives next door to Ayers. But it is the majority of this generation’s college student’s that are voting for Obama and ruining this country. He has them all believing he is the best candidate to run this country and they are so dumb they believe his lies.

Badgerl: Yes, your right. I watched Obama’s life on FOX and they are the only network that brought out Ayers and Obama together. And we can’t forget Bobby Rush of the Black Panthers, who is now deceased. Between Ayers and Rush this country was in a mess in the 60′s. Obama did not use common sense when he began his close ties to Ayers who donated money to his first campaign when he ran for the senate only to lose to radical Bobby Rush. And Ayers donated again when Obama ran for the second time. After Bobby Rush got into politics he broke from Ayers. But Obama needed Ayers donations to pay for the Ads. Obama played dirty pool to the women Alice J. Palmer that was getting signatures to run for the senate seat. He is a dirty underhanded dog. He took her to court claiming she had double signatures and won. This is the woman who chose Obama to replace her when she decided to give her seat up at the time. Later she wanted to run again. He was never a community organizer, he was organizing for himself to get acquainted with people on the southside of Chicago where he lived because he wanted to be president for a long period of time. The people of this country better wake up or they are going to be in for a shocker by other countries if Obama is elected. And Biden stated Obama couldn’t handle a crisis.

Jeff, Obama will not handle any crisis, he will just hide in the Black House with angry militant racist gorilla Michelle,
while letting his 300 foreign policy advisors take care of it.

You may have not intended to do so, but I believe you have managed to express the state of mind that a lot of individuals are in. The sense of wanting to help, but not knowing how or where, is one thing a lot of us are going through.