Obama Confused by McCain Ad

Another good headline!
That’s three in a row!
(But at least you get it right in the actual story).

Todays Gallup Poll
RV Obama + 11
LV Obama + 8
Ouch McLiar

The McCain ad just reinforces concern over his lack of judgment, he calls for bipartisanship but criticizes when someone crosses the aisle. Erratic John, erratic.

Vote ~ Obama and Biden Ticket~~~~
This is not going to be a recession. This is going to be worse than the Great Depression. ~~~
You history buffs out there know the Great Depression was causes by Republican Majorities in the 1920s that lead up to the 1929 Stock Market crash! The 1930s were the years of the Great Depression and it took a Socialist, FDR to get America back on track. It took him almost 10 years to do it. ~~~~~~~
McCain becomes President, and 99% of Americans will suffer under a Great Depression that will go on for many years. ~~~~~~~
Obama becomes President, and 99% of Americans will suffer hard times for two or three years before he can get things turned around. It will take Obama two terms to get this mess straightened out. He will have to spend his first days as President reversing all the Bush/McCain programs and policies in all areas, and then he can spend years cleaning up the mess and years more making repairs. ~~~~~~~
It always takes a Democrat that leans to the left to get America to the center! Eight years of a right wing low IQ Religious fanatic caused this mess. ~~~~~~
This is not the time for some senile old man with a right wing nutcase VP to step in with 20th century solutions to 21st century problems. This is the time for a high IQ 21st century thinking person to take charge, and that would be Obama. ~~~~~~
Obama will be much like FDR! He will save America if elected. ~~~

d)
you should do a little more reading
Reagan implemented the earned income tax credit
Teddy Roosevelt divised our “arching” tax system…
it is only deregulators like McCain and his ENTIRE economic team that screwed that up… changing the balance toward the rich.
so get a clue… the tax burden has been swayed away from Roosevelt and Reagan’s ideology…taking it way too far to the right…
which doesn’t work in a democratic capitalist nation…
do you not understand that a democratic capitalist society is successful only when there are rules and it is touched by “grace”?
idiots got us the last 8 years
and those same idiots are trying to argue for McCain Palin.

Obama is confused? Why such a surprise about a man who couldn’t even tell the difference among a few voting buttons: yes, no and presence.

Just got back from Obama’s speech here in Des Moines, Iowa. He is going to make a Great President!

How many reporters from Sam Zell papers are on the plane? Were any of the booted papers owned by Zell. Paying off Zell by kicking off his competiton?

Being poor and less-educated, as His Nothingness 0bama characterized you, you may need to be explained.
If His Nothingness is so Harvard Smart, why did he not introduce the bill he himself, instead of following other people’s initiatives, attaching his name for glory?
0f the 100 Senators, there is only One senator who wrote exactly Zero legislation.
Zero(bama) is that One.

Obama has proven himself time and again to be a true statesman.

Bhrandon,
For your sad disappointment, I have never voted for a Republican presidential candidate before. That’s why, sadly, I donate so much my time to defeat 0bama.

Hey msa123 not good form to copy without attribution an entire document no matter how full of crap said document is.

I’m always amused when people say things like “Obama is reaching out across the divide” or the like. NEWSFLASH!! Obama simply hasn’t ever done that, and has never shown any interest ( beyond canned campaign rhetoric ) of doing that. He is one of, if not the, most partisan politician in Washington. He will not, and can not, unite this country… he is simply to far from the political middle to make that happen.
I’m also amused by the “we need somebody with high IQ” bits. While I’m sure there must be some area that Obama is competent at, it’s certainly not history. His economic and foreign policies have already been tried in the past, and they’ve been utter failures each time. “Wealth redistribution” only results in everybody being poor. Hammering business at every turn only results in more jobs lost. Appeasing psychopaths only encourages them to go after more. Are history classes no longer required for law students?

And Obama has stood with the likes of Pelosi and Reed 96% of the time.

“I fear for our country if BHO is elected.”
really, and what do you feel about a man that has based his entire campaign on lies and distortion becoming president. Oh and how about a man who throws temper tantrums, a man who jokes about bombing other countries, a man who admits knowing NOTHING about the economy, a man who chose a unqualified buffoon as VP, a man who is so erratic that his own staff fear what he may do or say next?

The president does not run the country,it is basically a public relations position and you don’t need to be smart, just be someone who thinks they are so cool..thus Obama!!! There is a difference between being smart and being educated..you can be educated and brilliant but clueless how the real people live, that is not smart!!! Obama will change nothing, he has made too many promises, if senate get their magic 60, non veto congress than their agenda trumps every promise ever made. Put your listening ears on and take off your adoration eyes for when he becomes president and lets see if we can be honest and free thinking once he starts to try to fulfill his wishes without leaving this country in a “no better or worse condition”. If you hang all of your hopes on one person for your salvation you are bound to be very disappointed. Get real people they are POLITICIANS and their “agenda” will always trump what is good for America!!!!

GOD IS NOT ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE AND HAS BEEN SENDING HIS SIGNALS FOR 8 YEARS…
GOD ALLOWED:
9/11
WAR
KATRINA
LOST JOBS
LOST HOMES
ECONOMIC MELTDOWN
DO WE NEED ANY MORE DISASTERS TO UNDERSTAND THE MESSAGE?
DEMOCRATS FOR GOD AND AMERICA.

Peter…
When Obama wins… they are going to come after him (and the big, bad government) just like they did under Clinton.

“The president does not run the country,it is basically a public relations position and you don’t need to be smart”
Well at least we know how Bush got elected by Republicans.

I was a Barack Obama supporter, but I’m confused by Barack Obama’s ad(dress) about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Is he playing us for idiots? he wants us to believe that he went to Rev. Wright’s church twice a month for 20 years and didn’t know he was a rowdy hate-monger? the rest of his congregation knew; didn’t he see their possessed rabbidness? The rest of the country, who knew him for 15 minutes up to that point, had the wherwithal to throw him under the bus two months before Sen. Obama finally threw him under the bus. Was this a sale? Did he think that talking in front of 57 flags about his racist white grandmother would convince us that the Rev. Wright wasn’t so bad a guy? how did we know and he didn’t? or maybe Barack Obama is just an idiot, and he’s slower than the rest of us. “God bless America? no no no, God d*mn America, it’s in the Bible, God d*mn America!” just didn’t do it for him. He is so fond of the Rev. Wright and so dismissive of Ronald Reagan, I’m concerned that he will leave the “verify” part out of “trust but verify” when he has his unconditional chat with Iran.

Cathy: “if senate get their magic 60, non veto congress.”
Um, 60 votes has nothing to do with vetoes.

I still want to know why Obama thinks “rich” people are “selfish”. I certainly do not consider myself “rich” even though I will taxed heavily under Obama’s new tax plan. I already pay a lot of taxes. I give to my church, charities, and I help familes at Thanksgiving and Christmas. I do what I can because I can. If Obama chooses to tax me even more, then there are certain things I will have to cut out. I worked hard, took out student loans (which I’m still paying) and earned every penny I make. Every one can go to college. I didn’t have parents that could afford to send me. I worked several jobs and put myself through college and now Obama wants to call me selfish and punish me for that. It’s not fair. It’s not fair to put someone who makes 250,000 in the same tax bracket as someone who makes a million or 25 million or 250 million. It’s not the same. And what about the cost of living? It’s different throughout the country.

You dolts wouldn’t know socialism if someone hit you over the head with a state owned factory.
Now, all of the sudden, tax cuts are ‘socialist’ because a Democrat is proposing them and the GOP can’t use its tired old rhetoric of “tax and spend” since McCain tax ploices are worse for the middle class.
Conservatism failed. You are the minority now. Get used to it. we had to put up with 8 years of failure. Give the other ideology a chance.

Obama is a superior Statesman and will make an excellent President. This shows that he is willing to work across the aisle, listen to what others have to say, and give credit where it is due. Unlike McCain, who thinks that only his ideas are good (whether they are or not)and prefers negativity over addressing the issues. He is too angry and erratic to be President.

no wonder Barack Obama says that Sen. McCain’s ads are 100% negative. Even when Sen. McCain quotes Sen. Obama praising him for working across the aisle on a hot-button issue like global warming, Sen. Obama assumes it’s attacking him. Sen. Obama, you’re confused about how this McCain campaign ad is attacking you? IT ISN’T! it’s a positive ad that talks about how McCain is the Maverick of the Senate, a track record of independence and bipartisanship. You, Sen. Obama, have nothing to do with this ad. You’re not attacked, you’re not anything except full of it.

Presidential.

Palin really is a female version of George Bush
* the country accent in the talkin’
* the folksy image
* the difficulty stringing together a complete sentence if its not scripted
* the washington outsider image
* the shallow breadth of world knowledge
* the winks
* the ‘you betcha’ approach
* ambitious
* inarticulate
* calculating and vindictive (troopergate)
* born again type
* she is probably more dangerous that Bush
Republicans couldn’t get away with another George Bush male candidate, but they figured they could fool the public with a female George Bush.
Not a chance
Obama/Biden 08

No it means non-filibuster but it also makes it easier to pass a bill and get your fair haired handpicked boy to sign it into law. Why do you think the democrats have fought so hard to bad mouth george bush and try to turn everyone against the republicans. Not all republicans voted for everything gwb wanted. and you can’t blame the republicans for your own bad actions, buying a home you couldn’t afford, living on credit and on and on and on. Who are you going to blame when your life isn’t saved by Obama? He is not a republican!!!

McCain’s refusal to compromise on his party’s desire to drill in ANWR is one of the few shreds of decency he has left from McCain/2000 version. If they are elected, watch Palin try to wear him down about that. Her disregard for the environment is breathtaking.

Obama stays confused the way he flip flops on the issues. One day the tax cut is for those making less than 250K, then he has an infomerical stating is is 200K, then Biden says its 150K.
He said over and and over in all 3 debates he “agree’s” with McCain. Can he take a stand on his own, make his own decisions?
Voting “present” isn’t a decision. Does he have to run home and make phone calls to get others opinions? Clinton said he did in Florida regarding the bailout money he voted for. I don’t think he will have that kind of time for the 3:00am phone call.
If it isn’t fed into a teleprompter for him he is clueless.

Any right wingers care to dicuss a single issue about John McCain?
Anyone?

Wright? Pa—leeeeeese.
Please cath up to the rest of us.
Wright is old news. Only racist dolts and evangelicals still latch on to this nonsense.

I am a filthy rich person myself, and if you raise any of my taxes even moderately, well, I just won’t cope with it anymore. I am going to stop working. I mean it. Don’t expect me to do anything at all. I am going to close my businesses, cancel the orders for my new yaught, and just get totally lazy and die poorer. It just won’t be worth it anymore to try to make money. So there! Now I’ll tell you what you ought to do. You people who are working hard to get health care for yourselves, a roof over your head, and education for your kids — don’t expect any tax breaks. Shoulder your full share, I say. There you have it from Ebeneezer Onassis.

America already decided month ago that the Wright issue was superficial, at best.
Obama made a widely accepted speech denouncing these speeches.
ANYONE who goes to church will agree that you do not agree with everything you pastor says.
Hypocrites abound!!!!!

McCain has no plans for this economy except to continue the SAME worn out Republican ideas.Trickle down economics.We are under that type of government now and how is that working for you?This “Senator Government” mess is just as tired and ugly as that all white republican convention and old boy network where it came from.Wearing flag decorated clothes and listening to country music doesn’t make you an American.Being born here and many other factors make us Americans.BARACK OBAMA is the leader of the real America that is inclusive of many who have been shunned by a self righteous system that keeps the rich in their statis and the poor ever struggling for basic needs.Obama is fundamental change and McCain and Palin are the worst America has to offer.McCain and Palin are closet racists that love to incite other racists!Obama and Biden are the heartbeat and face of the real, current and future America.McCain and Palin are a sad reminder of the ignorance of our past that needs to be overcome.

No one cares about Jeremish Wright.

Ryan, Don’t just pick and choose my words and take them out of context. I said that there is a difference between educated and smart and you choose to pick what fits your insults. Wow!!! That is what I call smart!!!!

“When it comes to the economy, when it comes to the central issue of this election, the plain truth is John McCain has stood with President Bush every step of the way,” Obama said.
Barack Obama’s analytical skills are flawed. Nevermind his judgement, he was wrong when he said the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was a good guy and that he is just misunderstood. He had to take that back and throw him under the bus when he finally figured out what the rest of us already knew despite knowing him for only 5-minutes because we actually have some common sense as opposed to his just Ivy League instincts. He is wrong because to this day he maintains that knowing what we know today… knowing what we know today! he would still have opposed the surge. Sunni “awakening councils” are killing Al-Quaeda terrorists that claim to be Sunni Muslims, and the Shiite government is killing Iranian backed Sadrist militias that claim to be Shia Muslims. This is the war on terror; Barack Obama doesn’t get it. There is no Shia and there is no Sunni, there is only the forces of good, freedom and demcrocy vs. the forces of evil, terror, and tyrrany. Barack Obama was wrong when he wrote off our small-town American everyday values of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, which he calls a “flawed document” because it is a restrictive, and not an activist, convenant, he calls our faith and values “clinging to their guns and religion,” he equates it to bigotry, and thinks we harbor these values because we are bitter, and it’s “as a way to explain their frustrations.”

McCain/Palin = Stupidity
Obama/Biden = Intelligence
Please don’t be stupid.

@Spanky
Obama is not old enough to have participated in a war, idiot.
He got througbh college on scholarships…and graduated at the top
McCain went to college because of Adm. Daddy’s legacy…and graduated at the bottom
Wow, you mind is totally biased.

1 tour?? just like Palins Son or McCAINS Son. You were probably in the signal corp.

redwhiteandboo…you won’t be in the same tax bracket as those making a million. Look it up. It’s been all over the news. CNN broke it down this morning. Go check it out. And even those making over $250,000 you’ll be paying maybe $250 more a year.It won’t affect your quality of life at all. Unlike the middle class. Those making 35,000 to $50,000. Who will get a substantial tax break comparitive to their income. I mean really, what’s all the whinning. Look it up…

Weary of the Rhetoric: Great point. Thanks.

I’m so tired of you GOPs talking about what Rev. Wright said! For one, he doesn’t speak for Obama; 2nd, we must and should admit that the US hasn’t always been fair to others and we must reap what we sow and Rev.Wright was just bold enough to say it; 3rd, if you do your homework, Rev. Wright’s military record surpasses that of McCain’s and at least he didn’t abandon his wife after returning from the war for more riches and personal gain; 4th, the Clinton’s pastor was accused of child molestation! But, Obama didn’t bring this issues to light because he’s bigger than that and unlike his opponents, he’s sticking to issues, not personal attacks!! Wake up and use your Grey Matter (brains), while only your coffee is burning and before the house burns down!

It is very clear now that Obama, the great kid will win the jackpot on coming Tuesday and the old man, whose hands are tight, mind is tight, heart is tight and legs are tight will lose the election with at least 15% points. McCain will lose the election in many republican States and may be able to get less than 130 delegates. Sharah Palin is the biggest drag on his campaign, it shows that he is too old to take right decision. After the election McCain will retire in Arizona desert and enjoy her wife’s million of dollars, Palin will back to Wasila, she will be removed from her Governorship and apply for welfare and food stamps untill she find wolf, moose or polar bear to hunt.

Have you libs heard the latest? obama supporters are saying if “obama loses there will be another civil war, and blood will run in the streets” i hope they start in Boston to free obamas aunt from the slum.SEAN HANNITY FOR PREZ

To DO who posted on OCt 31, 2008 at 1:23:57 “Yet, none of the practitioners have achieved their noble causes, each has left millions dead, in smaller places like Vietnam and Cambodia”
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY OF THOSE WERE KILLED BY MCCAIN AND like? 2 million

Uh, Obama has been saying McCain is horrible on everything, so it goes to his demonization of his opponent. My sense is that the “plan” said:
1. Make any opponent out to be GB II, even if they are not.
2. Make us hope, everyone else anti-hope.
3. Deny any weird left wing connections
4. Project as moderate beyond belief.
We win!

I am reading some of these comments and it saddens me to think that this great nation of ours is still filled with such hatred and bigotry. I never grew up with my father and I was the better for it. At least Obama didn’t abandon is ailing wife, like McCain, when she needed him the most. I am proud to live in a nation that I can earn over 350,000 dollars a year and pay my fair share of taxes to help give a tax break,to the poor and middle class, bigots and racist too(: I am voting for a man with integrity and loyalty and it doesn’t matter the color of his skin.

Obama is NOT going to do anything for anyone in this country, but he will bring recessions, low morals and unprotectiveness for us all. If you can’t see through this guy, you deserve him!

Hey Yagle, the color of obamas skin does not bother me, however the thickness does.You libs all think singing blowing in the wind should be the national anthem. or better yet Moving on Up.

I work for a Judge in Oklahoma County and it’s something that my Judge always tell people, that come in from of him. is that you are on a stage performing for me and I get to see how well you have acted because your atty’s will let me know,The next time you are in front of me. well we are performing in front of all the world to see and all of this hatred and bitterness that the United States have displayed to to world well its one thing they have learn is what our true nature is.

It’s a toss-up whether McCain/Palin are inciting hate, i.e., hate mongers, or peddling red herrings, i.e., fish mongers. Rev. Wright = Red herring

just make sure you keep the obama yard signs up when the riots start

again
one candidate is spewing bologna
by the definition McCain supporters are trying now
Obama’s platform is less socialist than Reagan’s who created the earned income tax rebate and had higher tax rate on the wealthy.
and Teddy Roosevelt
and for those who want to spew all this about defense and military
get a clue our strongest weapon against the people who ACTUALLY ATTACKED US and have the most chance of doing it again…
is intelligence received from people who like us…
and our allies supporting us…
one candidate increases those…and one candidate increases the anger toward us and the policies we have been using for the last 8 years.
PLEASE people get a clue.
McCain Palin will be horrible for our country.

john —- 21 Jimmy carter next to this snake obama,looks good even though he was theworst president of all times.

JOhn
I do not believe for a second that George Jr.
scored higher than the other president’s on IQ.
If that were true than he is the most evil human being we have ever seen.

Anna: ” Imagine him, a Harvard graduate, being stumped by a plumber! ”
He wasn’t stumped, he just didn’t know the diplomatic way of dealing with the guy lying to his face. A plumber scraping by now looking to buy a company that has an annual PROFIT extracted of $250k a year? That’s a $3 -$5 million per year gross company. With 3 employees… what sort of plumbing do they do?!?
Joe the Plumber’s story made no sense, because it was a lie. No surprise Obama was confused a bit by it.

Anna:
re: ‘ Imagine him, a Harvard graduate, being stumped by a plumber! I love it.’
Imagine McCain, 26+ years in the republican party, ‘mavericky darlin” of the conservatives and the right,……….. getting his butt handed to him in a presidential election by a relative new comer with the expertise to handle the presidency…
I love it…

XOBAMAMAN
Obama’s half-brother does not need or want help, and he has expressed anger at all of the people using him for attacks on Barack. Is that what you meant by “values?”

Breeze:
re”Are you saying George W Bush is “eloquent”? ”
well,…breezy…… one need only listen to old ‘W’ speak over the last 8 years to get a clue on his ‘eloquence’ ,… I happen to think that if not for his family being a sort of ‘political dynasty’ in American politics, old ‘W’ would have ended up in an alley in Houston, strung out and begging for money to buy liquor.

Those of you who call yourselves christians and continue to attack people with such hatred, you are on the right track to heaven
posted by Cathy
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wow, the religious right has really gone overboard and warped their followers.

Senator Obama your not the only one confused by Mccain that man has lied flip flopped so many times he makes your head spin!

XOBAMAMAN you’re the snake you’re looking in the mirror without even realising it!!

Gramps graduated #857 out of 900 in his graduating class at Navy. He got on the strength of his daddy and grand daddy being graduates and distinguished Naval officers. he could never live up to their legacy in school nor in the military where he crashed 3 jets and surrendered to the enemy where he fed them info for years. He actually found a running mate even dumber than him.
On the other side is a man who worked his way into Columbia, graduated with honors and then worked his way into Harvard Law School where he was the President of the Harvard Law Review and first in his class. he went on to become a Constitutional law professor at one of the top universities in the world. But intellectual lightweights like Palin and Joe the lying non-plumber have the nerve to question his knowledge.
You people would be sad if you were not so funny.

Yagle Did you know that that man of fairness and integrity you speak of has proposed a sweetheart of a tax proposal for wealthy seniors making $50,000. a year which if their income comes from dividends this means they have a multimillion stock portfolio and he proposes they won’t even have to file taxes. Senior age I believe starts at 62. Now what do you think of your man of integrity. What do you think he proposes this tax plan for? To get the wealthy seniors vote and apparently it is working in Florida where many have settled to retire and they are smiling all the way to the polls. Now I am for the seniors but not for them to never have to pay a tax on their stock dividends of portfoilios worth millions.And as Obama states this will eliminate 27 million seniors from even filing taxes. Brilliant who is going to make up for the loss of this needed tax base? The poor, no the Middle class families. So please spare us with your honorable Barack who is only out there buying votes.

ryan c
you have no business talking about how seniors will be affected under Mccains plan you are confused like Obama

“you have no business talking about how seniors will be affected under Mccains plan you are confused like Obama”
Obama plans to eliminate income tax for seniors making less than $50K.
McCain plans to find a trillion dollars in waste and fraud in Medicare. When Republicans say that what they really intend to cut are benefits.
But maybe you can tell me more of McCain’s plans for seniors since his website did not have any clear info on it.

cdrr

Ryan C A senior with a stock porfolio containing 10,000 shares of Chevron with a dividend of .65 gives them an Income of 26,000 a year. Then throw in 5,000 shares of First Energy with. 56 dividend gives them income of 11,200. And lets throw in 3,000 Enterprise products at .60 cents a dividend and there is $7,200. a year. Total income $44,400. haven’t even hit $50,000.yet. Now lets add up thise stocks at todays value approx. $1,135,000.00. And Obama doesn’t want to tax them. Ok, tell me again how he is for the middle class and not the wealthy. And before you start claiming this isn’t wealthy you may be right, but lets not forget these seniors homes are probably paid for, kids are grown and they don’t have to many expenses life looks pretty good. Especially if you are one of those 62 year old seniors who doesn’t live beyond your means and just wants to play some golf sit back and enjoy. Guess what I say good for them but don’t try and tell me Obama didn’t buy the senior vote. Oh did I mention they all moved to Florida because there is no state income tax?

The Joe Plumber was just a ploy to try trap Obama on public camera. That Joe “liar” is what he is. I mean, look at him eating this “sh..” up. He will not be remembered as a celeberty, but more as a liar.
How can anyone in this day and age with the condition the US is in today not want change? ALSO, how can any true American in his/her right mind want another REP-President or REP-Congress in the White House? We have been SOLD out by these people. This country has been through alot of misshapps and she is now losing much integrity within her own boundaries…”sad”. WAKE UP, WE HAVE NEVER HAD A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT IN OFFICE AND DIDN’T GO INTO RECESSION. THINK PEOPLE!!!!!! We are in a mess NOW, if a REP win office, we will go into “Depression” for sure. Think about this, how many American families are actually making more than $250,000/year? Even more sad is the fact that we have not even felt the true impact of what this REP administration has done to the American people…”US”.

I have recently migrated to the USA. What I have seen in this election campaign is petty and childish behavior by senior politicians who behave like hawks. Lipstick on pig, pitbull, hockey mom, sixpack joe, barracuda, JOE- the plumber ( one who is not really a plumber) and nothing of intelligence for the development of America. Has John Public lost his IQ ? IS THIS WHAT THE POLITICIANS THINK?? Politicians treat you according to how they access your intelligence.I want policies and strategies for making the country better. Yet sections of the American population revel in this nonsense. You who are poor, listening to the millionaire politician telling you that the sharing of wealth is evil and socialist, needs your head to be examined.Are you crazy or like to be treated as stupid? Since when is the paying of tax a crime and not a civic responsibility for the betterment of society.Since when the rich should not pay taxes but the poor only? Since when providing for the less fortunate a crime and not Bible teachings. Is this a christian country? Use your better judgement Tuesday.

You people that are finding fault in Barack Obama are making up and slandering Obama like one does when someone with an intelligent mind and ideas makes an entrance…you tend not to lean to that individual but instead go another direction thinking that if you defame their character you’ll be safe and they’ll be ruined but most times that illogic backfires!

For those paying attention the last 8 years should have taught us a couple of things: 1) Anyone can become President 2) It hurts the country when both executive and legislative branches are under the control of the same group of jerkoffs. If you value true diversity and want to restrain the ideological excess, patronage, and corruption inherent in any political party, then you want divided government. In this election that means voting McCain–even if you disagree with his policies and find him a less-than-magnetic personality. Those touting Obama as a savior of the nation need to study the history of the “Great Men” of the past who were rushed in to power on a wave of the dreams of the downtrodden and the alienated. Hint: It usually doesn’t work out as their supporters had intended.

“Obama Confused by McCain Ad”
This is a misleading, even “confusing” headline. It should say, “Obama Says He is Confused by McCain Ad.” Is Obama *really* confused by the ad? Of course not.

Bryan T, you wrote:
“I was confused when John McCain came out and said, ‘THE FUNDAMENTALS OF OUR ECONOMY ARE STRONG!’ and then the investment companies went bankrupt the following day!”
Obama and Biden were taking a cheap shot at McCain for what he said. It was not untrue – the fundamentals are strong. If you look at our positives, and not just our negatives, you can see that. Here are two articles on it: “No, Really, the Fundamentals of the Economy Are Strong,” NY Times), and “The Economy Really Is Fundamentally Strong,” Time. I’ve heard it reported a number of times that the economy is forecasted to improve in late spring. I’d also be interested to see the media interview economists on whether they think McCain was right or wrong.