Obama on Attacking Keating Attacks on McCain: ‘We Don’t Throw the First Punch, But We’ll Throw the Last’

Problem with this angle is that it now opens up Obama as fair gamer to Rev. Wright attacks from McCain and Palin. Just look at the Kristol column in today’s NYT.

Hannity’s little insanity army will need to get a life in about 30 days!

What about Obama and the $20 million HUD roject in Chicago now in question and he’s concerned about the economy?

Yesterday the RNC was demanding that FEC investigate Obama’s Campaign contributions. Today we have this:
The FEC sent a letter to Sen. John McCain’s campaign treasurer Sept. 30 demanding the candidate turn over more information about “contributions that appear to exceed the limits.”
Hmmm………….
The letter is accompanied by a nine-page list showing scores of overages from McCain’s August campaign finance report, including nearly $13,000 from Texas rancher Ray R. Barrett Jr.; $9,200 from an Iraqi security consultant, H. Carter Andress; and $5,000 from Joseph F. Davolio, an executive at a major national liquor, beer, and wine distributor.
“Please inform the Commission of your corrective action immediately in writing and provide photocopies of any refund checks and/or letters reattributing or redesignating the contributions in question,” the letter from the FEC’s senior campaign finance analyst, Leah S. Palmer, says. “The acceptance of excessive contributions is a serious problem.”

LOL! now get this, today Axelrod claimed that Obama didnt’ know about Ayers when he first met him!
Can you believe this?
First, he was a just a guy in the neighborhood. Then, their kids went to school together (even though Ayers kids are 20 years older than Obamas’). Now, Obama didn’t even know about Ayers? And even after he supposedly knew, he still maintained contact with him?
Does Obama think that Americans are just plain stupid? Well, maybe his supporters will listen to every lie he says.
LIES, LIES, LIES!!!
Facts: Obama clearly knew Ayers before he was selected to chair the Annenberg challenge.
I ask you, good voter: How many terrorists have you known in your life? And, of all the people that Obmaa could have associated with, why a terrorist?
Either Obama was just plain stupid for not knowing about Ayers, or else, he is lying, and has poor judgment, or is greedy, or is truly radical and hates America.
Either way, would you trust someone like that with your money?
You see how relevant this is to our economy?
Patriots, fight with me, say NO to the Obama trash, he is disgusting!

McCain is a DISGRACE

Yesterday the RNC was demanding that FEC investigate Obama’s Campaign contributions. Today we have this:
The FEC sent a letter to Sen. Obama’s campaign treasurer Sept. 30 demanding the candidate turn over more information about “contributions that appear to exceed the limits.”
Hmmm………….
The letter is accompanied by a nine-page list showing scores of overages from Obamas August campaign finance report, including nearly $13,000 from Texas rancher Ray R. Barrett Jr.; $9,200 from an Iraqi security consultant, H. Carter Andress; and $5,000 from Joseph F. Davolio, an executive at a major national liquor, beer, and wine distributor.
“Please inform the Commission of your corrective action immediately in writing and provide photocopies of any refund checks and/or letters reattributing or redesignating the contributions in question,” the letter from the FEC’s senior campaign finance analyst, Leah S. Palmer, says. “The acceptance of excessive contributions is a serious problem.”

Mccain picked Palin for VP to not only try to win Hillary supporters (WOMAN)backfired. no Hillary women supporter will ever support that lying fraud PALIN,He also picked her to do his dirty work to smear and lie HES USING HER. REAL NASTY MCSHAME once again you show you have no respect for woman and you call yourself a hero lol your hiding behind a woman and her empty skirt she is clueless about what is going on in this country REAL PITIFUL MCCAIN COUNTRY FIRST MY A$$

You go after Wright, you open yourself up to… troopergate.. rev. hagee… leaving your sick wife for a younger, richer woman…. being part of the alaskan seccesionist movement…. abuse of power…. not wanting equal pay for both sexes.
am i missing anything?

Let me gueess -Obama ordered the veggie platter. Watching his figure for tomorrow night.

It’s going to get a lot worse before it gets any better. Is it too late to draft Bill Clinton.

“At 12 Bones Smokehouse he ordered take out for his campaign staff: Brisket, 2 racks of ribs, pulled pork, a barbecue platter, a veggie platter, 6 sweet teas, corn pudding, macaroni and cheese, and a double order of collards.”
That explains why he won’t release his medical records. His bad cholesterol count must be stratospheric. That’s THE heart attack diet.

Two crooks arguing about who gets to steal more from you over the next few years! This country is lost.

It’s the ECONOMY STUPID !
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Why would America REWARD complete Republican failure ?
We wont.

FINALLY
A DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE THAT CAN FIGHT BACK
FINALLY

“That explains why he won’t release his medical records. His bad cholesterol count must be stratospheric. That’s THE heart attack diet.”
He has released that information actually. Obama’s doctor stated that as of his last medical checkup, Obama’s cholesterol level was ’173 (normal under 200).’

I normally just give Obama $100.00 a month. I just sent off $250.00 because this is to important. Send what you can and if you can not just be sure to register today and vote on November 4th. Peace!

Matt…then we can open up talks about McCains paster who hates Catholics and Palins paster who is afraid fo witches, and her membership in a club which wants to withdraw Alaska out of the US, because we are all sinners in the US…
PLEASE……….

Now I believe McCain is the PAST and
Obama is the FUTURE.
McCain is always talking about the
past and Obama is giving his vision
where we should go.
Make your choice: PAST vs. FUTURE!

FINALLY…then go vote for McCain and end up on the poor house with the witches…cause McCain will “kick th bucket” and you’ll be stuck with Palin….

Matt…then we can open up talks about McCains paster who hates Catholics and Palins paster who is afraid fo witches, and her membership in a club which wants to withdraw Alaska out of the US, because we are all sinners in the US…
PLEASE……….
Posted by: cindyct | Oct 6, 2008 2:41:41 PM
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LOL LOL SEE! Palin the bit bull that keeps on gettin to YA!! She has you chasing your own TAILS!!!! HA HA HA

THE STOCK MARKET IS CRASHING!

Good — let Obama win, he will be impeached when all of these scandals come out — because they are never going to be let go — they will keep after him — he won’t have a minutes peace. Then we will get Sarah Palin — it will be sweet justice. Sarah Palin will win in 2012. GO SARAH!!!!!

Let me see if I have this right:
During the VP debate, when Biden tied McCain to Bush, Palin cried, “Quit looking at the past.”
But now, all they can do is “look to the past” with this Ayers garbage?
Once again, Republicans are the biggest hypocrites alive.

HP Boston:
LOL LOL SEE! Palin the bit bull that keeps on gettin to YA!! She has you chasing your own TAILS!!!! HA HA HA
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Sarah is more like a junk yard dog…more bark then bit….
Let not forget Sarah Palin association’s with the radical Alaska Independence Party that wants to secede from this great country, the United States of America.
And here is a quote from Alaskan Independence Party founder Joe Voegler:
“The fires of Hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government, and I won’t be buried under their damn flag!”
I wonder how Palin explains her husband”s verified membership in the “ALASKIAN INDEPENDENCE PARTY?” Seems she doesn”t believe in the UNITED States of America, does she??
hey Sarah, go ahead and bring up Obama’s pastor…
I’ll take an angry marine pastor over some witch doctor…
and also don’t forget McCain’s pastor(s) the one who said New Orleans desrved what it got, it was punishment from God….
OBAMA..THE ONE WITH GOOD JUDGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP!!! THE ONE WHO THINKS ABOUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FIRST….

If McCain wants to go ugly, bring it on. His Keating Five involvement perfectly mirrors the current financial crisis. It shows his utter lack of credibility and trustworthiness on the defining issue of the moment.
And if he wants to make it personal, he’s opening himself up to a detailed discussion of his lifetime of womanizing. How many dozens of extramarital affairs have been documented thus far in betrayal of both of his wives? They are too numerous to count. The guy’s a philandering pig.
If I were McCain, I’d get back to the issues and quick.

Marylou, a little reading material. You need to update your blogs with a little truth… I know, it will be hard for you but please read:
Charlie Keating, the banker and anti-pornography crusader, would ultimately be convicted on 73 counts of fraud and racketeering for his role in the savings-and-loan scandal of the 1980s. That crisis, much like today’s subprime-mortgage meltdown, resulted from misbegotten banking deregulation, and ultimately left taxpayers to pick up a tab of more than $124 billion. Keating, who raised more than $100,000 for McCain’s race, lavished the first-term congressman with the kind of political favors that would make Jack Abramoff blush. McCain and his family took at least nine free trips at Keating’s expense, and vacationed nearly every year at the mogul’s estate in the Bahamas. There they would spend the days yachting and snorkeling and attending extravagant parties in a world McCain referred to as “Charlie Keating’s Shangri-La.” Keating also invited Cindy McCain and her father to invest in a real estate venture for which he promised a 26 percent return on investment. They plunked down more than $350,000.
Unfortunately, any lessons McCain learned from the Keating scandal didn’t affect his unbridled enthusiasm for deregulating the finance industry. “He continues to follow policies that create the same kind of environment we see today, with recurrent financial crises and epidemics of fraud led by CEOs,” says Black, the former S&L regulator. Indeed, if the current financial crisis has a villain, it is Phil Gramm, who remains close to McCain. As chair of the Senate Banking Committee in the late 1990s, Gramm ushered in — with McCain’s fervent support — a massive wave of deregulation for insurance companies and brokerage houses and banks, the aftershocks of which are just now being felt in Wall Street’s catastrophic collapse. McCain, who has admitted that “the issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should,” relies on Gramm to guide him.
OBAMA FOR CHANGE!

McCain/Palin campaign is all about the past, no new ideas.
McCain and the Republicans want “Swift-Boat” Obama or steal the election this time around.
McCain is living in the past.

Secret, Foreign Money Floods Into Obama Campaign
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
More than half of the whopping $426.9 million Barack Obama has raised has come from small donors whose names the Obama campaign won’t disclose.
And questions have arisen about millions more in foreign donations the Obama campaign has received that apparently have not been vetted as legitimate.

Jake, we Americans are smart enough to know why McCain is playing the guilt by association game, and why Obama is focusing on the economy. But dows the press only ask questions about the character attacks and not the economy because they understand the former but lack the brainpower for the latter?

golfgirlusa: Please don’t believe every ad mccain puts out.. your blog is total false.

Secret, Foreign Money Floods Into Obama Campaign
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
More than half of the whopping $426.9 million Barack Obama has raised has come from small donors whose names the Obama campaign won’t disclose.
And questions have arisen about millions more in foreign donations the Obama campaign has received that apparently have not been vetted as legitimate.
From:
Secret, Foreign Money Floods Into Obama Campaign
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
More than half of the whopping $426.9 million Barack Obama has raised has come from small donors whose names the Obama campaign won’t disclose.
And questions have arisen about millions more in foreign donations the Obama campaign has received that apparently have not been vetted as legitimate.
From:

Obama is ONE of the Senators behind the economic mess, yet he hammers McCain. Why? Because of the STUPID people who have consumed the Koolaid. YES, stupid. Obama is a radical in record, in thought and in life. The only explanation is that people who have never taken a interest in the political process have been scammed into registering and voting for someone they KNOW NOTHING about other than his pretty speeches, and even those are not so pretty when you really listen. He’s corrupt as the day is long, and unfortunately, too many stupid Americans are going to vote for him.
Don’t bother attacking me. Stupid is as stupid does.

Palin said she told McCain that he might as well take off the gloves during the debate tuesday.
Seems that Palin has tyaken over the McCain campaign.
McCain is a joke, or does he have dementia and is being used?

More than half of the whopping $426.9 million Barack Obama has raised has come from small donors whose names the Obama campaign won’t disclose.
And questions have arisen about millions more in foreign donations the Obama campaign has received that apparently have not been vetted as legitimate.

Folks…..Search on McCain and corruption. You will find numerous articles detailing the “real” John McCain. The man has been in Congress for 27 years and has had his share of shady acquaintances. Us small-town folks always say “people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”. Seems John McCain and Sarah Palin really don’t have small-town values. They only pretend to. McCain may or may not be as corrupt as portrayed in many of those articles….however, it doesn’t matter once the debate starts heading down that path. If McCain\Palin were truly honorable and truly put America first they would call an end to personal attacks. But I don’t expect that to happen because they are desperate and above all else want to win, sadly even at the expense of the country they so boisterously profess to love.

I’m so glad Obama is fighting back, something that Kerry didn’t do and it cost him.

Dear Jon Lawrence — we will forgive your ignorance because you are British, but regarding your analogy of Timothy McVeigh: YES, his schoolmates and chums would be scrutinized for being terrorists themselves, if:
– they continued to associate with McVeigh, very closely, to the point of working together and having your campaign launched at his house
– this association continued AFTER McVeigh did his atrocious terrorists acts.
–they were running for President.
And Yes, to Obama, to all of the above.
Would you bring on a dangerous man to be PM of the UK? NO? then why are you expecting the US to do that with Obama?
Kindly tend to your own matters, britty.

“Obama called subprime loans a good thing.”
And why not? We’ll bail everyone out! How much did he get from Fannie and Freddie again?

A new SurveyUSA poll finds John McCain’s chances of winning Virginia slipping away. Barack Obama is ahead in the state by ten points, 53% to 43%.
OBAMA TAKING OUR NATION BACK FOR US!!!
Welcome aboard Virginia…
Also, I read Texas and Montana are not far behind…
YES WE CAN!!! THANK YOU OBAMA!

McCain’s friend, unrepentant G. Gordon Liddy spent more than 4 years in prison for the 72 Watergate burglary. Far from repudiating him, McCain has embraced him.
In 1998, Liddy’s home was the site of a McCain fundraiser. He has made at least 4 contributions totaling $5,000 to the McCain’s campaigns, including $1,000 this year.
Nov 07, McCain went on his radio show. Liddy greeted him as “an old friend” McCain said. “I’m proud of you, I’m proud of your family,” he gushed. “It’s always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great.”
Liddy proposed to kidnap anti-war activists so they couldn’t disrupt the 1972 RNC. He planned the murder (never carried out) of an unfriendly newspaper columnist

HP Boston
You are just confused. You are making assumptions based on other assumptions. WOW. No wonder you are so confussed.
You forgot to mention who started the foundation in the first place. He was a Nixon appointee. OH MY!

McCain has alread lost. He knows it.
People are tired of the Bush-McCain economy.

I have one suggestion that may help McCain and Palin, Sarah can pretend to shoot and quarter the republican elephant from a helicopter, this will show the country what tough mavericks they really are, then they can get themselves a dog and pony show to go with their clown act, and maybe a midget to show how they are for the little guy.

HAHAHA
Charles Keating is still giving McCain money. That is hilarious. Keating 5 McCain still has corrupt banking friends.
OMG!

Obama 5
REZKO, “five hours of legal work”
WRIGHT, “not controversial”
AYERS, “never knew his history”
FARRAKHAN, “Okay, Hillary. I reject and denounce him”
MICHELLE, “That’s America. Ignorant”.

America is such a bigoted nation.
You throw around the word Muslim like it’s a cuss word.
And if you REALLY think Obama is a terrorist, call your local FBI with your proof!
But you won’t do that, cause you don’t have any proof or any real grounds for that terrorist accusation. You’re just being ignorant.

Wow all of these negative comments are starting the rally the democratic base…
Everything Mccain and Palin do seems to work to our advantage.
Posted by: karen | Oct 6, 2008 3:09:05 PM
If you think this negative stuff by McCain is going to work, we’ll see come Nov. People are tired of those types of distractions.
Here we have an economy in crisis and McCain’s lipstick pig is rambling on about something she has no clue about.
These swift boat tactics won’t work this time.

Tanya…
how bout this list instead.
Liddy
Ifshin
Quinn
Hagee
keating
Singlaub
Gramm
Davis
the AIP

Charles Keating is still giving McCain money. That is hilarious. Keating 5 McCain still has corrupt banking friends.
OMG!

memyself
and John Gleen isnt relevant…I dont think so

You people aint seen nothing yet the OCTOBER SURPRISE IS YET TO COME mccain and vietnam just wait folks this is not gonna be pretty for mccain he knows this is why he is starting to attack obama HE KNOWS ITS COMING!

McCain displayed little of Hope’s valor. Although he would soon regale The New York Times with tales of the heroism of the brave enlisted men who “stayed to help the pilots fight the fire,” McCain took no part in dousing the flames himself. After going belowdecks and briefly helping sailors who were frantically trying to unload bombs from an elevator to the flight deck, McCain retreated to the safety of the “ready room,” where off-duty pilots spent their noncombat hours talking trash and playing poker. There, McCain watched the conflagration unfold on the room’s closed-circuit television — bearing distant witness to the valiant self-sacrifice of others who died trying to save the ship, pushing jets into the sea to keep their bombs from exploding on deck.

Mack
I expect hes going to be explaining them for half the debate tuesday night

angie
you ought to be worried about your weakling candidate obama with no real gravitas… if hes not up by 6 on Nov 3rd hes gone

Niah
thats irrelelvant but thanks for not contributing to the conversation!

Karen
no its not relevant but Obama must lay out every association with ayers rezko wright etc to be able to move on thats it that is a requirement

As McCain’s Lead Among White Virginians Shrinks, So Too His Chances of Holding The State’s 13 Electoral Votes: 29 days until votes are counted in Virginia, Democrat Barack Obama is ahead 53% to 43%, according to this SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, WJLA-TV in Washington DC, WTVR-TV in Richmond, and WJHL-TV in the Tri-Cities. In 4 tracking polls conducted since the Republican Convention, McCain has gone from up by 2 to down by 10.

ANYBODY, with a brain, can go out on the net and see Obamas answers to the junk Falin is peddling for McCain this week,. Heck he answered ALL of that months ago but McCain has NOTHING left and is now trying dredge up old news.

OMG GUISE JESUS WAS A FRIEND OF PROSTITUTES AND TAX COLLECTORS! HE IS OBVIOUSLY WICKED!
Seriously, is that what we’ve come to? I fault BOTH campaigns for bringing up personal associations as some sort of proof of wrongdoing. I don’t give a damn who the Keating 5 are, I don’t care what Bill Ayers did. I care about John McCain and Barack Obama and what they are going to do for this country.
Anyone who believes that McCain is going to get into office and hold Congress at gunpoint to force them to give all their money to banks and oil companies is just as freaking STUPID as someone who believes that Obama is going to get into office and force Congress at gunpoint to salute the Koran.
Both sides need to grow up.

McCain has his own Bill Ayres. His name is G. Gordon Liddy. He was a right wing radical that wanted to bomb his own targets, and he spent 4 1/2 years in prison.
The difference? Whereas Ayres was performing his acts while Obama was 8 years old, Liddy is a contemporary of McCain’s. And whereas Obama has denounced the former Ayre’s actions, and his ties to Ayres are circumstantial, McCain has said about Liddy, “I’m proud of you, I’m proud of your family,” he said on his radio show. “It’s always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great.”
McCain need only push a little farther, and talk will begin to shift from Ayres to Liddy, and from Wright to Muthee.

Let’s see what important really means to Americans. McCain fighting for DEREGULATION to do a favor to Keating and NOW we have him voting 55 times for DEREGULATION over the last 26 years and we have failure on Wall Street or Obama’s sitting on a board with a man who was a terrorist 40 years ago….gosh what to choose what to choose……

Wow
thats true but the ones who supported clinton and now are aundecided or supportign mccain are far more advanced developmentally than the obamaphiles.. his main constituency 18 yr olds now voting were 12 yrs old when they heard their patrents rant on about how evil Clinton was I take personal offense to that and the fact is their parents weretn thrn and arent now grown up… its like the kids are the parents thats screwed up… NO we wont have that in the white house

GREW UP
AMERICA

J
I didnt bring anything up about the Clintons I went to both Clintons innaugurations worked for Dukkakis before that… the thing is you have a prob with your own Dem base and you are too arrogant weak and pissant to realize it
Posted by: staniam | Oct 6, 2008 3:37:51 PM
It’s the same type of witch hunt with Obama was what I was getting at. That produced nothing and so will this.

Yes, McCain was absolved of any involvement with the Keating 5 and OJ was acquitted of murdering two people, think what you may.

At first I was upset that Senator Obama would not hit McSame hard about the Keating-5. Now it’s ok that he does not do it because his campaign and the media are doing it for him. Who am I to say what he should do? What he has been doing has worked wonderfully for him. All the polls are in his favor heavily.
I’m behind you 100% Mr. President.

Sarah has ‘ties’ to people who think it is ok to bomb abortion clinics.

So, while McCain and Palin prattle on about nothing, the world still turns:
Let’s see how it’s turning:
-The DOW’s on it’s way to one of its worst ever point losses – again. And now down about 30%+ in the last year.
-97% of the NYSE listed companies are down (3,200 companies) and of that 1600 hit a new low.
-Financial markets around the world are falling. Europe saw a record % fall today.
-The dollar is tanking against the yen (and likely the Chinese Yuan as well).
-U.S. bank stocks are tanking – down over 6% as an industry:
Bank of America has lost about $12 billion in market value – today.
Citibank has lost about $6 billion in market value – today.
-Airline stocks are down 10-11%.
-Steel and Iron industrial companies are down 13%.
And with those falls the values of 401k accounts go with them. It didn’t matter if you were diversified or not, you got hammered. All industrial segments lost value. All major markets (perhaps every single foreign market) dropped today.
And all McCain can do is prattle on. What exactly is he going to do for America other than cut corporate tax rates? Hmmmm? And how is he going to pay for those tax cuts? He’s going to tax the health care benefits of American workers.
John McCain, an American nightmare that CAN NOT be allowed to be president! If you thought a clueless George Bush was bad, just wait for what happens with a clueless and ANGRY John McCain in the White House (and a completely clueless Palin waiting in the wings).
That would be a scary time to be an investor.

“That would be a scary time to be an investor.’
Yes the sky is falling! Pull out your money now and stick it under your mattress. That should help.

The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States

Mack
yea I heard today that Obama would be the one that would be the “herbert Hoover” president… because he would last 1 term if that and mccain would be the one to trully change the finacial ystem… obama is impotent in all senses of the word which is prob why his supporters like him because they are that way

“The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser”
The man that helped to launch Obama’s political career is an unrepentant domestic terrorist. He doesn’t regret setting bombs.

McCain and Fluff Bunny are desperate and it shows. Instead of talking about the economy they are bashing Obama. How does that help any of us? I guess when you don’t know anything about the economy(McCain’s words, not mine) that is what you have to resort to.
I am glad Obama is not sitting back like Kerry did. He showed me actually has a pair.

John McCain was chided by the senate ethics committee for “bad judgement”. Gee, how corrupt do you have to be to get congress to notice?
McCain said it was the “greatest mistake of my life”. He might want to rethink that after the election.
And the corrupt financier at the center of the mess IS STILL GIVING MCCAIN MONEY!

Wow
thats true but the ones who supported clinton and now are aundecided or supportign mccain are far more advanced developmentally than the obamaphiles
For the record….I am 55. The difference between Republicans and non-Republicans (I am an Independent) is that hardcore Republicans never mature past the age of 18. Think about it. They can’t discuss issues intelligently so they have to shout or denigrate their opposition. I have three teenagers. Hardcore Republicans sound just like them. Actually, worse than them…

Obama was 8-9 years old when William Ayres formed the radical Weathermen organization. As Obama rose in Chicago politics, he was selected along with Ayres and Republican members alike to serve on various non-profit boards in Chicago. John McCain was an adult and a US Senator when he voluntarily intervened to assist “his good friend” Charles Keating in the S&L financial scandal. McCain was not “dragged” into the Senate hearings on the S&L crimes because he was a Republican being scapegoated by Democrats, those are the words of McCain’s attorney who is trying to put lipstick on McCain’s piggish behavior in an earlier financial crisis.

We all wish the negative stuff would go away, it is childish. But when McCain/Palin starts that mudslinging then Obama/Biden has to respond. Reason is that there are a lot of stupid Americans who will believe anything, especially negative stuff. They think this is daytime tv and are watching “one life to live”, etc.
GO OBAMA, good job on your comments in the article.

“For the record….I am 55. The difference between Republicans and non-Republicans (I am an Independent) is that hardcore Republicans never mature past the age of 18. Think about it. They can’t discuss issues intelligently so they have to shout or denigrate their opposition. I have three teenagers. Hardcore Republicans sound just like them. Actually, worse than them…”
Do you live in an alternate universe? I’ve never voted for a Republican in my life. Mull that one over.

Why didn’t the main stream media ask MCCain why he brought up the J.Wright issue?? Oh yes it is trying to make it look like Barack started it. Go Obama swing back!

smbs
you may think they are stupid americans but they will give mccain a 2 to 3 percent advantage in popular vote on election day

“Obama was 8-9 years old when William Ayres formed the radical Weathermen organization. ”
Once again, how old was he when he was seeking out Ayers’ support and guidance?

jschmidt
yep thats an example of the classic style of Obama to accuse your opponent of what you yourelf is doing!

nia
because thats what obama you talk big but thats not the reality

“jschmidt
yep thats an example of the classic style of Obama to accuse your opponent of what you yourelf is doing!”
He’s been doing that from day one. I live in a swing state and I’ve been bombarded with attack ad after attack ad for at least the last month coming from Obama. In one ad he even tried to blame McCain for helping to build an air-conditioned ferris wheel in Iraq. This is sleazy Chicago style politics. Smile to your face and stab you in the back.

J
its your fault for not voting for kerry in 2004 and throwing the election to bush… so its your fault we are in this mess!

Come on Sarah, if you are Maverick and straight with the people. Lets start here, why the cover up?
Alaska Republicans are asking the state’s highest court to block an abuse-of-power investigation into vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s firing of a state commissioner before a potentially embarrassing report on the matter is released.
Five GOP state lawmakers, in a brief filed Monday, say the inquiry has exceeded its authority and is too political.
Palin is the focus of a legislative investigation into allegations she abused her power by firing her public safety commissioner. The commissioner says he was pressured to dismiss a state trooper who was involved in a messy divorce with Palin’s sister.

This meme of mortgages to unworthy home buyers causing the meltdown is wrong! That paper was sold over and over, and that, combined with no cash reserves for leveraged positions, and astronomical payouts to financial service industry exec, was the house of cards built on top of the mortgages written with terms that were fraudulent and criminal. Low income first time buyers with fixed rate mortgages have a very high repay rate. Stop blaming the consumers when it was the sellers who who resold and resold and resold – and the rulemakers allowed it all.

Charlie Keating, the banker and anti-pornography crusader, would ultimately be convicted on 73 counts of fraud and racketeering for his role in the savings-and-loan scandal of the 1980s. That crisis, much like today’s subprime-mortgage meltdown, resulted from misbegotten banking deregulation, and ultimately left taxpayers to pick up a tab of more than $124 billion. Keating, who raised more than $100,000 for McCain’s race, lavished the first-term congressman with the kind of political favors that would make Jack Abramoff blush. McCain and his family took at least nine free trips at Keating’s expense, and vacationed nearly every year at the mogul’s estate in the Bahamas. There they would spend the days yachting and snorkeling and attending extravagant parties in a world McCain referred to as “Charlie Keating’s Shangri-La.” Keating also invited Cindy McCain and her father to invest in a real estate venture for which he promised a 26 percent return on investment. They plunked down more than $350,000.
Unfortunately, any lessons McCain learned from the Keating scandal didn’t affect his unbridled enthusiasm for deregulating the finance industry. “He continues to follow policies that create the same kind of environment we see today, with recurrent financial crises and epidemics of fraud led by CEOs,” says Black, the former S&L regulator. Indeed, if the current financial crisis has a villain, it is Phil Gramm, who remains close to McCain. As chair of the Senate Banking Committee in the late 1990s, Gramm ushered in — with McCain’s fervent support — a massive wave of deregulation for insurance companies and brokerage houses and banks, the aftershocks of which are just now being felt in Wall Street’s catastrophic collapse. McCain, who has admitted that “the issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should,” relies on Gramm to guide him.
Also, News today:
John McCain’s proposals would cut funding for Medicare and Medicaid in order to keep his plan budget-neutral.
The Journal reported that McCain would cut Medicare and Medicaid funding by $1.3 trillion dollars over the next decade –  based on estimates by independent analysts — and use those savings to fund tax credits to help people purchase health coverage.
“This plan would be a disaster. It would cut Medicare and Medicaid by over 20 percent over the next 10 years. It would dramatically reduce quality of health care for older Americans and the poorest and sickest of Americans, while at the same time adding to the burden of state governments,” Obama said. “Under Medicaid there is  a set of benefits that are legally required of the state to provide. If the federal government reduces its level of support then that is just more of a burden that states – which are already in an extremely overextended basis – will have to pick up.”
Thanks McCain/Palin but NO THANKS!!

12 Bones is a great campaign stop for Obama. Asheville’s got quite the mixture of urban hipsters and grizzled locals, but you’ll see them all lining up down by the river for ‘cue at lunchtime.
(len: he won’t be back in Asheville for a while, I guess, his soon being President and all that. So allow him a local treat.)

The bottom line is this is going to be a massive blowout by B Rock.
When Ron Paul and Bob Barr bleed McChicken of votes, he’ll be lucky to get 200 electoral votes when this is over.
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK

Have you seen a picture of the Obama militant youth movement? Someone too eagered and showed their hands too soon in Kansas. Scary!

Connie: “Desperate McMad and McSad
maveric McLiers- both are laugh of the stock – in America and around the world-
McWolf & McSheWolf
McIdiot & McMoran
McStink & McStinker”
—
This, more than anything else, is an example of why I cannot and will not accept “CHANGE” as it is propounded by the Obama camp. This is CHANGE? This is CONSTRUCTIVE? This is the kind of mentality you want “in power” for our children to see and hear?
I don’t agree with McCain and Palin on a lot of things, but I do believe they have respect for other people. Obama does not, his campaign does not, his associates do not and his supporters do not – unless you agree with them 100%.
That’s not change, that’s Nazi Germany.

Stan… Did you and Sarai go to the same University? You guys really need to work on word order.
yea there were some people that did support obama that are not now it is possible …your just tioo dumb and not up on the way things should be in the world nor know anythibg about political science but at least you tried!

Nia
I dont care about correct spelling or sentence structure … because it makes as much sense as your far left reeking opinions(both litterally and figuratively)

McCain is on offense. Obama is on defense and telling lies and accusing Americans that question him and don’t support him of being racists.
Keep it up Barry. Keep telling America that we are racists!
Obama never met a lie he didn’t like or use. Same goes for Burton and Gibbs and Axelfraud.
It’s been clear from day one that the Obama campaign will be sunk by their own words. It is almost too easy.
John McCain and Sarah Palin are taking the fight stright to the empty suit liar Obama!
~ Joe Biden is silent ~
Biden knows Obama is a liar! Biden knows Obama is dangerous. Biden knows Obama’s policies are too radical for America. Biden said so himself!
Country First – ALWAYS!!
McCain-Palin ’08
Hillary 2012

Who is the real Obama?
For starters, he’s a Chicago politician and a liar!
And Obama thinks Florida will turn blue?
BWAHAHAHAHHAA!!
Keep spending those million sdown in Florida, Obama. Keep wasting your money!!

Country First – ALWAYS!!
McCain-Palin ’08
Hillary 2012
Posted by: USVet | Oct 6, 2008 4:17:30 PM
Well if you cared about your country your first line of who you support is incorrect.
Secondly if you would vote for Hillary in 2012, then McCain-Palin would not be your choice in 2008 because they are opposite ends of the spectrum.

Don’t like Ayres, but I don’t see how the Weather Underground is all that different from Operation Rescue.
Both groups went to extreme measures to save lives. Some anti-abortion people do extreme acts of vandalism to stop the taking of unborn life. Some anti-Vietnam war activisits did extreme vandalism to save soldiers and civilians.
More or less the same… but nobody is trying to smear the Republicans for their association with anti-abortion extremists. I take a Republican at their word when they say they disagree with Operation Rescue’s tactics. I take Obama at his word when he condemns the Weather Underground’s tactics.
This is just more baseless smears from McCampaign.

I read some of HP Boston’s post and saw statements in it that were refuted in the NYTimes Sunday article – so, no reason to read anymore – lies and more lies. It is sad to see McCain turn into the very same thing that he despised in 2000 – a vicious, lying, smear campaign to not only distract the voters from the economy, which he has no plan for, but to further divide the voters and make for a contentious election. So sad to see a once honorable man disgrace himself this way. OBAMA/BIDEN ’08

J
youve just been lied to by Obama thats all cant fault you for bad judgement
Posted by: staniam | Oct 6, 2008 4:20:09 PM
Well I would rather take my chances with him than have 4 more years of the Bush policies. Look where that has gotten us. Two wars, an economy on the verge of collapse…would you like me to go on?

J
Obama will not be able to fix everything he has said recently he cant ennact everything he wanted to because of the crisis… I guess you dont do enough reasearch

I think the question of Obama’s “toughness” has been answered.
The “last punch” comment is no threat, but fair warning to bullies who may be thinking of making a big mistake.
Obama/Biden ’08

Mack
yep… someone here in NC whos husband had stock and was a VP of wachovia yrs ago said that people associated with ACORN bought into wachovia and ran it into the ground just the mere mention of that name is the tip of the iceberg and its going to come out whether obama wants it to or not

J
there is not one solution that hes put forward that he came up with…like the lie that he writes his own speeches… no candidate since JFK has written any speeches themselves

J
there is not one solution that hes put forward that he came up with…like the lie that he writes his own speeches… no candidate since JFK has written any speeches themselves
Posted by: staniam | Oct 6, 2008 4:29:59 PM
You talk about lies…McCain is full of them. How do you know if they write them or not? Oh of course, you know everything.

“No kidding Einstein. At least he is looking for solutions instead of the politics of distraction.’
He is a con man that is just looking out for himself and his career. I’m sure he is happy with the economic downturn since that helps him in the polls.

The problem is, Mr. Obama, if you think this is the last punch coming from the McCain-Palin campaign, you are sadly mistaken!! Answer this please?
-You say you haven’t spoken to Ayers since 2005. So it was OK to hang out w/ unrepentant terrorists in 2005????
-You went to Ayers’ house to launch your political career. Umm … why? Are you cool w/ Ayer’s past?
Now, this is a question to all of you. Would you serve on a board, or otherwise hang out with – even lightly – w/ someone who you knew was an unrepentant terrorist??? Didn’t think so! So why would you elect someone President who would?

Great line by Obama about throwing the last punch. It’s oh so true. Throughout the primaries and this general election the Obama campaign has been all class. It has been all about the issues. They only hit back on personal issues when they are hit first. They will not allow themselves to be bullied like Gore & Kerry were. This is too important. We must fight back! McCain & Palin are nothing but liars. They have nothing new to offer America. They are going to be doing nothing but smearing with LIES in this final month while the economy goes into a downward spiral – this is the nonsense they want to bring up?
Furthermore, unlike the GOP’s stupid character assassinations, The Keating Five actually tells us something about John McCain. And it’s closely related to the economy. The Keating Five is fair game. Where’s the MSM telling America about John McCain and his CLOSE association with The Keating Five? McCain is a criminal.

I’m very upset with McCain/Palin ticket.
I just found out that McCain also has ties to Ayers. There’s another board member who has given money to the McCain Campaign AND he is openly talked about Ayers.
So if McCain throws this stone…his glass house will break.
I’mm upset as a Disabled Desert Storm veteran who treated, triage, and helped interrogate over 17,000 Iraqi Soldiers in Rafha, Saudia Arabia with the 18th Airborne Corp and 16th MP Brigade.
It is time for someone else to lead and that is Barack Obama.
McCain has broken the worst promise of ANY veteran “NEVER LEAVE A SOLDIER BEHIND”
McCain’s Veteran Record is TERRIBLE!
Obama’s Veteran Record is GOLDEN!
Palin is so hypocritical
Biden is outstanding

“Now, this is a question to all of you. Would you serve on a board, or otherwise hang out with – even lightly – w/ someone who you knew was an unrepentant terrorist???”
Yes they would because they hate America. Racism is tolerated under certain circumstances and domestic terrorism is just a means to an end.

I heard the MSM and supporters of Obama say one too many times that the only reason white people won’t vote for Obama is if they are racist. Like that’ the ONLY explanation. I’m sick and tired of being called a racist just because I am white and do not support Obama.
He’s the racist.

Obama’s going to be another Roosevelt.
That is why the GOP is pulling out all the stops to smear him.
People have forgotten about just how important the New Deal was in the emergence of US superpower status. Years of prosperity and progress followed Roosevelt’s leadhersip.
American Prosperity will hurt the Republican brand.
The Republicans say that progress and prosperity are impossible, that government cannot work, and that the only solution is giving more to those that have it.
If Obama wins, he has the chance to prove them wrong. And the GOP has spent so much time cultivating cynicism… that the public backlash is going to be ENORMOUS if a Democratic president is given the chance to prove them wrong.

Sen McShame is a shame. Dishonorable, despicable. Lying to get ahead. Tricking the American people – not giving them the facts about what he would do for the country, along with Sarah Liar, the attack DOG the Republicans are using in such despicable ways. Shame on McShame.

I’ve learned a lot about Republicans this year. They will do or say anything to maintain their power. They are masters at twisting lies, divisive, and double talking. I thought it was race with Obama at first, but I’ve come to realize that its because they are threatened by someone who is so intelligent that he doesn’t have to bend over to scoop $hit like Mc Cain or p imp out the Governor of Alaska to do their bidding.

staniam: Wachovia’s fall began in 2001 when it was bought by First Union Corp. In 2006 the Golden West Financial Corp was the nail in the coffin.ACORN had nothing to do wiyh it.|

Republicans, why can’t you accept it: YOU HAVE NOTHING. You have no ideas that have not already been tried over the last 8 years, all of which have failed miserably.
It is time for you to go back and regroup. Come back in 4 years as a principled party of true conservatives. No nation building and no deficits. It isn’t that hard. For now, you guys really suck.

stan,
Yep, Obama mocks us for “clinging to our guns and religion”. That’s his opinion of “white people” I guess.
He thinks white independent and swing voters are going to vote for him??
They say we are racists if we don’t vote for a guy who says these kind of things?? And sits for 20 years under Rev. Wright preaching hatred of “white America”???
That’s racist.

Dear John and Sarah
That big sucking sound is the sound of air going out of your campaign.

mcain sad the fundamentals are strong in the economy …the fundamentals he was talkign about was theamerican worker and the institutions themselves..
Posted by: staniam | Oct 6, 2008 4:42:17 PM
What are you now? A Sarah Palin parrot?….lol That is word for word what she babbled….lmao

Sarah Palin:
“By the way, did I mention Obama is black?”

I am happy to hear at least 1 of the candidates is still willing to talk about the serious matters at hand, such as the economic crisis. I really could care less about smear tactics and garbage talking. I want to know how the economy will be restored for middle-class Americans so we can begin having better days.
Oh and by the way, when Gov. Palin and Sen. McCain talk about representing people like themselves-who are they really talking about b/c I’m an average American but I DO NOT share the same ideals as they do.
I want to see progression not regression!

Please stop about this racist crap.
I am an Obama supporter and have not called any intelligent person not voting for him a racist. Those people who do post racist comments about him blatantly, I will say something.

laura d
yea to folow their logic just look at how Colorado has changed back to mccain and missouri has been on mccains side for a while…they dont even believe what they are saying should leave right now before their chickens come home to roost!

all I say is you better get some religion its in your own interest
Posted by: staniam | Oct 6, 2008 4:34:55 PM
You know there would be less wars in the world without religion.

“”The polls change weekly. I wouldn’t get too comfortable.”
More like the polls changed for 1 week.
Obama held the lead all summer.
McCain grabbed the lead for 1 week in his convention bounce.
Obama has since regained and held the lead since. ”
The point is that it has been very close most of the way with obama usually a couple of points ahead.

blip
its understandable that you dont even grasp simple declarative statements

J
I dont have to answer that because obama doesnt tell us what hes going to do

“Sarah Palin started the negative attacks last Saturday”
I live in a swing state and I’ve been bombarded with attack ad after attack ad from the Obama campaign for the last month, with very little response from McCain. Not really sure why McCain doesn’t have more ads.

To the person who responded to the “Timothy McVeigh” comparison by giving examples of “getting advice from him in his living room or something like that” and “continuing to work with him” etc….what you people seem to forget is (1) the event at this Ayers’ guy’s home was a fundraiser to introduce Obama as the democratic nominee for senate..Ayers was a prominent memeber of the democratic party…it likely had nothing to do with Obama’s choice of where to have the event. Second, you forget that this guy was a radical in the 60′s for god’s sake, just like lots of other people were radicals in the 60′s…..he is NOW a professor at a university….no one else is “shunning” him because of what he did 40 yrs ago…why would Obama??? It has NOTHING to do with Obama. He isn’t an advisor or close friend…this is just ridiculous! I loved what the British poster said….”now everyone who he’s said good morning to must now be linked to him” ! The same poster also states humorously that “next we’ll hear that Obama’s mother was listening to Radio Berlin when she was pregnant and, therefore, he must be a communist”. Guess what…in case you didn’t know; they are already calling him a communist! Someone said this to me and I asked her if she didn’t think our CIA would have been able to uncover this fact? She said “no”. She said he will get elected and turn the US into a communist country….hmmm… I’m not sure how he will do that exactly, being that we have a Congress, not to mention the American people, who might put up just a little fight about that…..oh, wait a minute; I know how he’ll do it…..I forgot he is the Antichrist, so I guess he has supernatural powers and that’s how he’ll accomplish that! Okay, I get it now.

Look, I don’t think that Sarah Palin’s formal address of the Alaskan secessionist party AS GOVERNOR makes her ineligible for VP.
Very recently she actually addressed their convention! As governor! And they don’t even want to be Americans. They want to break off from the USA!
If you are gonna talk about someone marginally associated with Obama who committed a crime when he was 8 years old… you kind of have to talk about Palin’s recent, unrepentant embrace of a secessionist anti-American, militia movement (and her husband’s membership in that party).

DON’T BELIEVE THE McCAIN LIES!!
McCain wa one of the dirtiest of the Keating Five…
McCain was the closest socially to Keating of the five senators…. Between 1982 and 1987, McCain had received $112,000 in political contributions from Keating and his associates.
In addition, McCain’s wife Cindy McCain and her father Jim Hensley had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators. McCain, his family, and their baby-sitter had made nine trips at Keating’s expense, sometimes aboard Keating’s jet. Three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating’s opulent Bahamas retreat at Cat Cay.
McCain did not pay Keating (in the amount of $13,433) for some of the trips until years after they were taken, when he learned that Keating was in trouble over Lincoln.

Karen
nope…… the electoral college wil miraculously be stuck at 269-269 on election day and you will be stuck with Palin as VP whom you villified

Why doesn’t McCain insult & rant & rave about the university where Ayres teaches & the students he teaches or the comittees he sits on? Are all the other professors, students etc…”palling” around with a terrorist? How about the people in Ayres lives- they must all “pal” around with terrorist too? The whole arguement is stupid and fake- just desperation from a losing campaign.

You keep talking Governor Palin. All these people who have ripped you to pieces because you are a pro-life white woman who they had ZERO RESPECT FOR can watch you expose OBAMA for just hte radical left racist with terrorist ties he really is.
That’s just poetic justice.
OBAMA is going to lose the white independent and swing vote as you keep speaking the TRUTH about OBAMA.
You people ripped on her for being a mother. For being a white woman on the Republican ticket who was prolife.
You have ticked off a lot of people – and it’s just poetic justice that the pitbull is coming to rip the throat out of hte lies of OBAMA and his RADICAL LEFT associations.
You’re going to lose – and you deserve to lose.
That man has ZERO qualifications to be President and has done NOTHING in office – and you want to elect him BECAUSE HE’S BLACK!!
That’s racist. I’m sick of all the names being thrown at Governor Palin and people that support her by this DIRTY OBAMA CAMPAIGN AND SUPPORTERS.
Look what you did to Governor Palin.
LIfe is pretty fair. What comes around goes around. She’s gonna rip Obama up so bad with a smile and a wink – you’re gonna lose this election… as you so richly deserve for the way you all treated Governor Palin,imo

If he has to lie about his past,
if his supporters have to resort to name calling and mudslinging,
if he has to change the subject every time his role in the financial crisis is mentioned,
if he has to make starring claims to bills he did not sponsor,
if accepts truth squads and camps that indoctrinate children to his status as the ‘alpha and omega’,
if the FEC has to question his illegal contributions from foreign resources,
if his organization has to commit voter fraud for him in the swing states and subvert democracy,
if he has to hide his thesis, his birth certificate and his relatives in Kenya,
if he buys his home with a $1.32 million mortgage with a below average interest rate and no points,
if he receives the second highest contribution from Fannie Mae,
if he has to cheat to win, what are these ideals he talks about?
Obama is about Obama and nothing else.

The McCain campaign’s response? :
“The Keating Five Investigation was “a political smear job on John [McCain].” WTH? He called Howell Heflin, who led the hearings, a “stooge” of the Democratic machine out to get poor, innocent John McCain.”
Wow, really? That’s not what McCain said in his book, Worth Fighting For:
“I made the worst mistake of my life by attending two meetings, the first with the chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the government agency charged with regulating the practices of the nation’s savings and loans, and a week later with four bank examiners based in San Francisco who were at that time investigating the investment and lending practices of Lincoln Savings and Loan of Irvine, California, owned by my good friend and generous supporter Charles Keating.”
And it’s not what he was saying last year:
“I was judged eventually, after three years, of using, quote, poor judgment, and I agree with that assessment.”
But now that McCain is being called out for his role in the Keating 5 scandal, he has decided to cut and run from taking responsibility for his own actions.

“FACT: Obama never worked for ACORN, never organized for them,never trained organizers for them. He did however handle a lawsuit for them and others that ”
“Since he graduated from law school, Obama’s work with ACORN and the Midwest Academy has ranged from training and fundraising, to legal representation and promoting their work.”
He barely knew them right? They were just community organizers from his block.

Obama’s got some good intelligence on the ground. 12 Bones is the best barbecue in the southeast! I tell you what.

pookie
reparations isnt one of them…and cant be taken seriously the only reason Obama is close to being elected is because hes not al sharpton or jesse jackson

We haven’t slammed Palin because she’s a woman “from Alaska.” she’s getting slammed week after week because she lies..troopergate…off account e-mails …bridge to nowhere. then she comes across as a snarly mean-spirited witch. Wink wink..ah shucks.. Can’t even answer questions. She’s McCain’s attack dog.

“Obama is about Obama and nothing else.”
Please read Len’s post. Spot on as usual.

linda
Im in NC and will offset your vote you dont have a prayer in NC and dont have a reason to be entusiastic

ANYONE who votes for Barak H. Obambagoo has forfeit their right to live in this country! ANYONE who is not able to feel proud of their country and the BEST it has produced with Sarah Palin is NOT an American and NOT qualified to stand on our soil or even to look at our proud flag. Palin is the embodyment of motherhood to me, and who cannot LOVE their mother? And us guys want to “Drill Baby Drill!” everytime we see her! McCain/Palin o8! REAL AMERICANS PUT COUNTRY FIRST AND YOU CANNOT PUT COUNTRY FIRST IF YOU DON’T LOVE AMERICA MORE THAN YOU LOVE YOUR RACE!

foxy
his isnt a banana republic if obama is elected he will not wear flowered shirts he will conform to the washington norm

“Uh-huh. I’ve just thrown back in his face all he did. But y’all just went all personal on Governor Palin from day one.”
They’re having a ball with her on SNL. It’s fine to make fun of and attack a typical American. No mention of the golden calf though. That would be racist.

J
ignorant but justified… sounds remotely like trust but verify… obama doesnt want us to verify!

blip
oh but you will when he loses and you know he will

See that’s just it, J. You have no respect. You gotta understand. She reminds me of my very own mother… and all my friends. Everything you RIPPED on her about – well, the personal stuff about her family… well, we’re all just like her in her personality and life experiences.
I have an IQ, my dear friend “J”, that my teachers say cannot be measured. Now, that don’t mean I’ll always talk like I do. But you wanna call anyone who doesn’t agree with you “stupid” or “ignorant” or just get downright DIRTY and nasty and mean… like you did with Governor Palin.
We don’t much appreciate it.
What has she done to earn your respect?? She has real experience. She isn’t just a “talker”. She has a real track record in Alaska of dealing with corruption and going against her own party to do it.
She took on the oil companies. She took a budget and made it right and gained a surplus while giving money back to the Alaska people.
She isn’t just a “talker” like OBAMA – she has REAL EXPERIENCE.
And you want me to respect mere talk?? When there’s real experience to show her intelligence as a capable executive??
Lemme tell ya what, when Obama supporters started calling someone we love “white trash” with zero respect for a white woman from Alaska who is the Governor of a state – you’re racists.
And everything you have done is going to come back to haunt you in your total disrespect for an accomplished woman as you support a man who talks and talks and talks but has no achievement in experience and isn’t qualified or experienced enough to be President.
Governor Palin is going to smile, wink, and talk to the American people… and she’s gonna take your swing votes.
Get used to the idea.
Y’all messed with the WRONG woman. :) And people who will love her.

You have been AWFUL in your behavior and treatment in total contempt and disrespect for Governor Palin – and lemme tell you = America is TICKED.. on a lot of levels cuz you played DIRTY!!!
Posted by: laura d | Oct 6, 2008 5:05:26 PM
Wahh wahhh wahh. America is ticked at what has happened to this country.
Get a big girl pair of panties for the dirty playing, because your “girl” stirred up a hornets nest.
Your “girl” is going to blow any chance she had in the national spotlight. She’s in the big leagues now.
Why hasn’t she given press conferences They have asked her simple questions and she can’t answer them!
They asked her a question about the bailout the other night and she goes into talking about energy independence because she didn’t have a clue!
Pitbull? With or without lipstick….lol

Palin is the embodyment of motherhood to me,
Are you kidding me. Have you seen the way she holds Trig. She has no interaction with him. It’s as if he is a rag doll and a prop. I have noticed this several times and my heart goes out for that little baby.

“Mack: State your source for your reply…show me where Obama did anything for ACORN except the law suit.Show me your source and i will gladly check it out!”
I copied that piece from an article that was in the Pittsburgh-Tribune-Review. It was written by Dateline D.C.

Linda – I believe there’s much about Obama and ACORN… I’ve read it. I’ll get you some info too.

“A lot of the right wingers here seem frustrated that the Dems aren’t willing to play nice and get Swift-Boated like they did in the last election. It must be frustrating when the Dem candidate ”
How is stating the truth and asking for answers swiftboating? He doesn’t have to answer questions because he’s the media darling?

You’re the one who is going to be crying “J”. You laughed and mocked, I’m sure, with all the other Obama supporters with no sense of civility – MOCKING Governor Palin because she has a Downs syndrome babyl MOCKING her because her teenage daughter is pregnant.
I’ve never seen such a horrid display of hate and viciousness thrown at a woman.
Well, now you’re going to see how America loves her and how she captures the hearts of people and is gonna take your swing votes.
None of this was called for. It was because she was a white woman from Alaska who is prolife.
You’re going to see what comes of that.
Don’t you cry about Obama being called on his lying, his dirty deals with Rezko, his associations with ACORN, and with a US terrorist in Ayers.
These are facts.
These aren’t attacks on him for being a black man who cameon the Democratic ticket. They aren’t personal attacks like you launched at Governor Palin for being a white prolife woman running for Vice President of her party.
You showed no respect. But she’ll smile, wink, and just tell the truth about OBama.. and take all your swing votes.

McCain’s campaign plans on cutting the budgets for medicaid and medicare. With people’s retirement accounts suffering under Bushonomics… I think McCain is probably going to lose the one demographic group where he is actually doing ok: Senior citizens.
It’s like he’s trying to lose.
He runs around telling blatant lies. He disses Americans by calling them whiners. He says that his campaign needs to move beyond the economy and focus on character attacks. He picks a neophyte numbskull as a running mate. And then he pulls increasingly erratic stunts to try to get press coverage.
It’s like he is trying to lose.

Yes, Obama, what do we need to do? Well it’s simple my lad:
Today–
It is very important for (Treasury) Secretary (Henry) Paulson and Federal Reserve Bank Chairman (Ben) Bernanke to move swiftly and try to restore confidence as quickly as possible,” Obama said.
Obama also called for a new economic stimulus package and the extension of unemployment insurance and said the government must address structural problems in the economy including in the housing market.”
Oh, okay, sounds like real well-thought out and solid plan to me….
These word mean nothing! “address structural problems”…”move swiftly”…”restore confidence”…tax relief would be good…for businesses too.
Unemployment extension–not good.
Also, question for you Bob…are democrats at all to blame for the crisis, or is it all republicans? If you answer the former, you are blind.

Oops meant the latter…heh

Don’t disparage Clay Aiken… He has travelled to more countries than Sarah Palen… and he is much smarter than her.
And he has certainly answered more questions about his record than Palin… which ought to count for something. She won’t even talk to the MSM, due to the conspiracy.
And, at least Aiken didn’t use his success to have his sister’s ex-husband fired.
Clay Aiken has a lot going for him.
Just because he is more popular than her, does not necessarily mean he is less qualified.

“Just because he is more popular than her, does not necessarily mean he is less qualified. ‘
That’s all well and good, but has he ever been the Governor of a State?

McCain’s campaign plans on cutting the budgets for medicaid and medicare. With people’s retirement accounts suffering under Bushonomics… I think McCain is probably going to lose the one demographic group where he is actually doing ok: Senior citizens.
It’s like he’s trying to lose.
He runs around telling blatant lies. He disses Americans by calling them whiners. He says that his campaign needs to move beyond the economy and focus on character attacks. He picks a neophyte numbskull as a running mate. And then he pulls increasingly erratic stunts to try to get press coverage.
It’s like he is trying to lose.
Posted by: Blip | Oct 6, 2008 5:25:23 PM
There you go listening to those democrats again, believing the lies.

“So if McCain/Palin win is Palin’s witchdoctor going to give the evocation at the inauguration?’
Will Reverand Wright be Damming America at Barry’s inauguration?

There you go MOCKING Governor Palin because an African minister prayed over her and she didn’t discriminate against him. She understood his African culture.
Governor Palin is much more tolerant and loving than any of you so called “liberals” who are bashing her.

“How these people have treated Governor Palin is even worse. It’s scandalous and despicable.”
I agree. Out of the millions of people in this country, she is one of 50 state governors, yet they feel that it is ok to disrespect her accomplishments.

What is all this “non-christian” stuff.
The GOP is not a Christian party. Christ would never invade Iraq or advocate for the execution of criminals.
For that matter, the Democrats are not a Christian party, either.
Calling either political party “Christian” is blasphemous. It puts in Christ’s place all the sort of mundane crap that we are talking about here.
The secular world belongs to caesar. McCain and Obama belong to Caesar.
Now which leader we pick has some implications for the world. But don’t even try to pretend that one party is Christian and the other is Anti. Because it just isn’t true.

Blip, you are getting a little silly with the Clay Aiken stuff…Get real.
Sarah is a real person and does many of the same things as normal people do everyday, and she is not like the Washington pupits.

That’s right, Mack. It’s rabid hate that Governor Palin has faced. She’s a woman of great dignity and character who has risen above these awful attacks on her personally in so disrespectful of manners.
It just shows the DIRTY politicking that has been part of this race since Governor Palin was introduced.
I think as she smiles and just tells the truth… she can take more votes from Obama than he has any clue that she’s going to take.
People should look at the stories by Stanley Kurtz and start to learn the truth about Obama. They should buy Stanley Kurtz’ book – but can at least read some of the articles to find out about radical groups that hate “white America” and all his associations.

The bottom line is that McCain/Palin are behind. THEY have announced they will go negative to switch the conversation. I as a voter have a problem with that.
Now, let’s think about this. I have read the Rezco issue and Obama was exhonerated of any wrong doing. He went to the newspaper and answered all questions. He also was vetted on the Ayers thing where he had a VERY loose association with him.
Now, lets look at his former pastor. That has been looked at so many times and found the same as when it started. IF you believe Obama in not participating in it your mind has not been changed. IF you do not your mind has not been changed. THERE is NOTHING Obama can do to change minds now.
Palin has been ugly with Obama. ANY protections as being a woman and being picked on b/c she is a woman- gone!!!! She attacked Biden without any return of fire. She has attacked Obama without any return of fire.
Let’s either get to the issues or waste our time on old news on both side. Don’t forget McCain has a lot of dirt as well. Oh and by the way who doesn’t?

”
Mack
“How these people have treated Governor Palin is even worse. It’s scandalous and despicable.”
I agree. Out of the millions of people in this country, she is one of 50 state governors, yet they feel that it is ok to disrespect her accomplishments. It’s rabid hate.
”
No, I don’t hate her. It’s all projection from you, the McCain supporters. You hate Obama and think therefore others hate Palin.
We just don’t agree with her and think she just doesn’t have enough intellect for the job as VP (okay, she is dumb).

Did you know, Mack, that Obama had supporters of his jam the lines at WGN where Milt Rosenberg was going to interview Stanley Kurtz?? See, Obama told his people that Stanley Kurtz was lying and so to SILENCE Stanley Kurtz.
Truth is, Stanley Kurtz researched all about Obama and was giving facts and the truth about Obama.
And Obama didn’t want the truth to come out.
But Obama’s supporters deserve to know the truth about Obama just like the rest of the American people. Truly open-minded people would read all Stanley Kurtz has to say – cuz he can prove what he’s saying about Obama that Obama wanted Kurtz to be intimidated from saying.
Guess Obama has plenty to hide – even from his own supporters. I think people ought to read what Stanley Kurtz has to say and learn more about Obama…. cuz he’s a tricky one that man is. He likes to stop people from speaking out… and that’s not what America believes in. Obama tries to stop free speech. That’s not American and that’s against our civil rights.

“We just don’t agree with her and think she just doesn’t have enough intellect for the job as VP (okay, she is dumb).”
And which state are you the Governor of? Don’t tell me, you’re a rocket scientist?

It is amazing that the republicans want to stoop so low as to try and tie Senator Obama to Ayers a former member of the Weather Underground and now a college professor and activist in Chicago and yet refuse to realize that Palin is MARRIED to a man who is a card-carrying member of the AIP for many years and who neither Palin nor Todd has distanced themselves from. Palin even went so far as to videotape welcoming comments to their annual convention as a sitting Governor.

“Did you know, Mack, that Obama had supporters of his jam the lines at WGN where Milt Rosenberg was going to interview Stanley Kurtz?? See, Obama told his people that Stanley Kurtz was lying and so to SILENCE Stanley Kurtz.’
They do what they’re told, like dogs. They do their master’s bidding, and need to be told what to think and what to say.

Ok it’s time to fight fire with fire. Obama you have to take the gloves off and get down and dirty like Palin and McCain. Playing the good guy will not work. Let’s start with McCain and the Keating five followed by his affinity for gambling, Lets add Palin and her witchdoctor pastor in Alaska followed by her association with her husband’s wish to have Alaska cede from the USA. As they say in my hometown of Chicago “Politics ain’t bean bag”. Its on!!!!!!

Distraction, Hate and Fear. It’s all Republicans have. No ideas, failed policies, failed ideology. Same old smear tactics that gave us Bush instead of Gore, that gave us Bush instead of Kerry. Proof’s in the pudding. How does Bush taste now?

Posted by: laura d | Oct 6, 2008 5:57:07 PM
Just what I thought. You can’t come up with one thing Sarah has said that she wasn’t parroting.

Distraction, Hate and Fear. It’s all Republicans have. No ideas, failed policies, failed ideology. Same old smear tactics that gave us Bush instead of Gore, that gave us Bush instead of Kerry. Proof’s in the pudding. How does Bush taste now?
Posted by: thebob.bob | Oct 6, 2008 5:59:04 PM
If the republicans could get the media to give their candidate the respect that they are giving this ******* we would give you McCain and not Obama.
Kerry was on tape saying the things that caused his demise. Bush had been a great governor, and he has messed up some things as President, uh, then there was Clinton, you have to be really bad to do what he did in “our house”.

If McCain gets elected, I am going to do everything within my power to move out of the country. Then I will simply sit back and watch America tear itself apart… and I’ll actually smile. You older generations have no idea what kind of a younger generation is developing at this time. If we are unhappy with our country, we will simply leave and contribute to the success of another country instead. I am a member of what I think will come to be known as the global generation. We are not merely citizens of America, but citizens of this world. You can all go down with the ship. I’m simply going to go and help build a bigger, better one.

laura d,
Here is what I was talking about earlier:(taken from the VP debate)
“Gwen Ifill: Governor, please if you want to respond to what he said about Sen. McCain’s comments about health care?
Sarah Palin: I would like to respond about the tax increases. We can speak in agreement here that darn right we need tax relief for Americans so that jobs can be created here. Now, Barack Obama and Sen. Biden also voted for the largest tax increases in U.S. history. Barack had 94 opportunities to side on the people’s side and reduce taxes and 94 times he voted to increase taxes or not support a tax reduction, 94 times.”
What does that answer have to do with healthcare?

Ken WING
“I’m a uniter not a divider”
sounds familiar

“J” wrote:
Gwen Ifill: Governor, please if you want to respond to what he said about Sen. McCain’s comments about health care?
Sarah Palin: I would like to respond about the tax increases. We can speak in agreement here that darn right we need tax relief for Americans so that jobs can be created here. Now, Barack Obama and Sen. Biden also voted for the largest tax increases in U.S. history. Barack had 94 opportunities to side on the people’s side and reduce taxes and 94 times he voted to increase taxes or not support a tax reduction, 94 times.”
What does that answer have to do with healthcare?
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Dear J:
This is yet another libtard attempt to distort Gov. Palin’s record and spread outright lies because the facts don’t suit your side!
Gwen Iifell DID NOT ask the question that you wrote! It is a matter of public record – ANYONE can go watch a clip of the debate and it is clear – she asked very clearly about taxes and how in particular McCain/Palin would invoke conservative platitudes to prove to the people that they are on their side.
Gov. Palin’s answer was perfect, and she talked without using the un-necessary “G” at the end of “-ING” words! What really clinched it for me and most folksy folks across this great land of America was when she winked at the end which made me confused at first because I thought she was me and I was her! Then I realized that I was me still, and I knew that they would know what I knew I needed if I would vote for them as if they were me and elect McCain/Palin to let me win!

Posted by: Blip | Oct 6, 2008 5:43:31 PM
Response:
Blip, how can you say that the Republican party is not the more Christian party? How can you possibly believe that it is “blasphemous” for a Republican to believe that the Republican party is not guided by the steady hand of God? America is a Christian nation founded by Christians and based on the Bible! The Bible that God gave the Republican party through his prophet Ronald Reagan, to defend and to wield as a weapon against the enemies of God which are the liberals and the communists and the denizens of Satan who don’t use their dirty parts correctly. How can you say that all that is good and right and just is not embodies in the Republican party, when everyone knows that Republicans are chosen by God to lead America? The Republican party IS God’s party and if you question it, you defy God himself!

blip, sorry my recent comment was meant for GodsPartyRightorWrong.

Laura d
“Obama voted 3 times in the Illinois legislature to cause babies that were born alive to die – with no medical care, no love, no comfort.”
Get your facts straight on this one… there was already a law on the books in IL that forbade partial birth abortions. The bills that O voted against contained wording that would, in essence, overturn Roe v Wade. The third bill finally included the constitutional wording that was included in the Federal bill and Obama WOULD have voted yes on that one but he was already in the US Senate when it came up for vote.
People who hear a snippet and take it for fact are the most dangerous people in this country… do you know that McCain voted against prosecution laws for the Domestic Terrorists who would bomb abortion clinics and kill doctors and nurses?????

Laura d
“Obama voted 3 times in the Illinois legislature to cause babies that were born alive to die – with no medical care, no love, no comfort.”
And McCain voted to allow their parents to be bombed at abortion clinics. Wouldn’t that take out two or more lives instead of just one? Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran… Bomb, bomb, bomb the clinics?
Weirdos you people are! You people are the biggest hypocrites plaguing our nation.
Obama/Biden 08!

I can’t see how anyone who loves America could fall for the lies of Palin/McCain. You’re not putting country first, you’re putting republicans first or your ideology first.
Judging by poll numbers, you are the small percentage that think Bush is doing a good job.
I am fifty years old, and in all my voting years, Barrack is the best candidate I’ve ever had the opportunity to vote for. He is the JFK or FDR of our generation. Four more years of Bush and there will be no America left.
McCain is an angry old arrogant, rich hothead, who will probably kick the bucket in his first term, leaving a beauty queen as president. She may be able to win over the president of Pakistan with her wares, but men like Putin will eat her alive. Or more likely, Karl Rove will be the controller of America for four more years.
This isn’t a beauty contest, it is the future of our country.

“show me:” please please please get OVER the Commie meme. Pick up a book. Maybe like the work of Marx/Engles and read the Communist Manefesto. It is a work of economic philosophy which, as any credible scholar will tell you, has never been truely implemented. Yes, that is right, the RED SCARE is a RED herring. The USSR under Stalin was a dictatorship. It remained a dictatorship for years, and the fact they slapped on a fresh coat of misunderstood and misapplied “Communism” does not change the underlying facts. Marx’s ideas were to take the means of production out of the hands of the few and put them into the hands of the workers themselves. There has been no country where this has happened. Taking the means of production out of the hands of powerful/rich private individuals and putting them into the hands of powerful/rich government individuals is NOT COMMUNISM as written as an econmic philosophy. See, people who are smart enough to go to Harvard often know enough to look past the surface of things. Having said that, as you might have gathered from my username I am no communist myself … nor do I believe in collectivism as Ayn Rand would say. But I do respect intelligence and competing ideologies as they truly are not as the fearmongering west would have you believe. And secondly, the Decemberists kick much indie rock booty. Sorry all music cannot be Brooks & Dunn.

It was actually Roland Martin conducting the interview on the Tom Joyner Morning Show…