Obama Tells Virginia Supporters of ‘Righteous Wind At Our Backs’

Looking good in VA but there’s still work to be done.

He really does sound like an angel whispering into my ear. A nice break from the broken rhetoric from the right.

I am 60 years old and the best day of my life is going to be when Obama wins, and these sleezey, scumbag Drudge, McLiar, Hannity, lying rats climb back in their holes until 2012.

Inclusive politics over exclusive…Our country tis of thee or my country first.
McCain is so off point…being unemployed does not mean that one has no prospects for the future…my wife and I are not Joe and Joann plumber, we are Joe and Joann The Artist. As it is with the self-employed we are concerned about taxes…as we struggle with roller coaster income,taxable income, debt and children we are concerned with who has our best interest in mind. We don’t believe in the socialist accusations, we do believe in opportunity. That opportunity comes from a strong economy, who will best represent this nation into the 21st century…a candidate stuck in his old ways or one that brings the winds of change…

Just a while ago, to keep the US diverted from Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda put out a call to toughen its fight with the US in Iraq. Now, unlike McCain who thought his adversary’s intentions were gospel and is still singing and dancing wildly in agreement with Al Qaeda, that the center of the war on terror is Iraq, Obama correctly smelled the ploy, and is declining to continue to be diverted away from Afghanistan, the real tangible front in the war on terror. Now, if you were Al Qaeda, whom would you endorse?

Ryan, Maybe you should also add that a man named Matthew Jacoby was just arrested. He ran an outfit named “Youth Political Majors.” He was hired by the California GOP. He pretended to get voter’s to sign a petition (against child abuse), which, without their knowedege, changed their party allegiance from Democrat to Republican, People were outraged and informed authorities. This isn”t from some ultra left wing blog. It is from the LAT. The man was paid by the California Republican Party.

“Ryan How much did Obama pay to strip the US flag off the jet?”
The flag was part of a company logo and that is why it was removed. Total refurbishing of the plane was reported to have cost $500,000.
I could not find any figures on how much McCain’s new plane cost.
“Do you know The cost of the Styrofoam pillar?”
Total cost of the DNC was $54M.
The RNC has yet to release the cost of their convention. I wonder what they are hiding?

The joke really will be on the Obama supporters when the day after the election, and if Obama is elected, they realize their lives didn’t miraculously change. Well, ok, maybe they will feel like things are better, but nope. Same life just waiting for someone to come along to make it better.

I cannot possible imagine the ignorance of some of your responders. To benefit from being a republican, it is beneficial to earn over $250,000. If you do not, you are on the wrong team. Also in regard to to cost of Mrs. Obama’s clothes. They were paid for by the Obama family….Just like Cindy McCain paid an average of $16,000 per outfit. She most likely has outfits in each of her 7 mulit-million dollar homes. Also, why is it some of the blogs are so filled with hate??

Americans were at one time a kind and generous people. They are no longer kind or generous and seem to dislike even themselves. What is happening to America? Certainly a little consternation in the financial markets hasn’t created this great divide. It’s obvious to the rest of world and it’s so sad.

“Palin is almost a completely manufactured candidate.”
Sort of like the Jr. Senator/community organizer from the south side of Chicago?

If you make up to $18,725, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will give you a tax cut of $65, while Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will give you a tax cut of $567.
If you’re in the second tax quintile, earning between $18,725 and about $37,000 a year, McCain will give you a $259 tax cut, Obama will give you a $892 tax cut.
If you’re in the third quintile, earning between about $37,000 and almost $66,000, McCain will give you a $608 tax cut, Obama will give you a $1,118 tax cut.
If you’re in the fourth quintile, making between almost $66,000 and about $110,000, McCain gives you a $1,487 tax cut, Obama will give you a $1,264 tax cut.
If you’re in the top quintile, making above $110,000, McCain will give you a tax cut of $12,144 while Obama will raise your taxes $4600 more.
Here’s where the starkest differences come in. If you’re in the top 1 percent of wage-earners, making from about $602,000 to around $2.8 million, McCain gives you a $109,214 tax cut on average, while Obama raises your taxes on average by $121,689.
If you’re in the top 0.1 percent, making $2.9 million a year or more, McCain gives you a $577,148 tax cut, Obama raises your taxes $699,872.

And I feel like we got a righteous gasbag at our backs here.

Hey, I live in Loudoun County, and I have news for the Obama team …
this isn’t “Real” Virginia. Most folks here are transplants, many from New York & California. We’re part of Metropolitan D.C., and that’s the only reason Obama has a chance in Virginia.
As a matter of fact, my husband was unfortunate enough to get caught in the traffic caused by the Obama motorcade and what he saw was loads of D.C. residents streaming into Virginia. So how many of the folks at the rally even live in Virginia?

Does that mean he has wings?

We have not voted yet. Duh.

Neo-cons are Nit-Wits…..

Littlemac,
It was correct. Jake quoted the line wrong. Obama said we’ve got, not we got.

Garrett,
Alot of people are going to be really disappointed to have voted for Obama and then find out he’s not really a socialist.

mike,
old folks still vote

Righteous wind? That’s just God trying to clear the air?
We’ll meet back here in two years, and you folks can apologize for voting this joker in office.

“… righteous wind…”
Yeah, it’s called the media.

Obambi’s a narcissistic troll. I pity the USA and all future generations if that dope wins.

Boy, you Dems are upset that an attractive female can be Conservative, a Republican, a Governor and possibly a V.P.
And that Michelle Obama, who isn’t proud of her country — except once her husband was deemed to be Presidential material and she got a big raise — was having a hard time paying for extra dance classes and outfits for the daughters, despite the largesse.
I thought it was about as telling as anything about Michelle Obama ever could be when she sniffed resentfully on t.v. that the “$600 rebate check” was “only enough to buy a pair of earrings.”

So far Obama is a muslin, bomb throwing socialist radical from the Planet Evil. McCain’s campaign is a disgrace. I would not put it past his spinners to put out a photo shop of Obama sitting in a cave in Afghanisan and sharing a crack pipe with bin Laden. Unbelivable disgrace to the GOP. The old man has lost his marbles.

I’ve been told the reason why it blows so hard in Chicago is because Obama sucks? Must be a Al Gore global warming, hot air (righteous wind?) thing.

Well, not sure about the issue of people not liking Obama as President. Name me an election where both candidates were liked. COME on…Dems don’t like Reps. AND vice versa… there ALWAYS is one side that does not like the other…
I am pretty undecided…but leaning towards Obama. I can not stand to know or fatham Palin as President should something happen to McCain. I wish he had chosen (which NO ONE ADMITS) someone better qualified. There are/were PLENTY of them out there WOMEN included!!!

That’s no righteous wind, that’s gas.

I am not the redneck Murtha talks about in his railings. I stand up when the National Anthem is played with my hand over my heart. I believe in working hard for my money…not waiting on the tax-paying citizens to support my needs. My God and Family are at the top of my list of the most important priorities in life. I believe governments main objective should be protecting this country and our rights according to The Constitution of The United States of America. Not liberal judges making new laws as they see fit. I believe in every soldier who fought and those who died for this country and my rights. I believe in one vote for one person… I don’t like the government giving my money to Acorn or any organization to nullify my vote. No felons or illegals should even expect the right to vote. Every citizen in this country has a chance at The American Dream. Just Take It. I believe in my right to bear arms and protect my family and property. I believe every one in the USA should speak the language of the United States(English).That is the way it has been for over two hundred years. No one should be in this country illegally…We have Laws now..INFORCE the law at all levels. I believe the citizen who has been violated by a criminal act should expect the criminal to be prosecuted for his crime against him. I believe one man and one woman constitute a marriage…no other should be even considered and our kids should not be taught otherwise. I believe we should use our own resources for the energy needs of this country. Drill Here Drill Now should be a high priority. We can do it safely. There is no Global Warming!!! It is a Total Lie to take your money and spread it around the world. We do not want or need the socialist policies of Europe in this country. Obama and the Democrats don’t believe as I do. If this makes me a redneck…I AM A DAMN PROUD ONE!!!!

Terrell, I do not agree with your language but you are a PATRIOT!

It is unfortunate that Obama and McCain are the only candidates worthy enough of being on the dem and repub tickets…. they both suck…
Ron Paul or Mike Huckabee would have been much better choices for VP.

I can’t believe the crude and desperate reactions here from you Republicans. The reason for all your bad-mouthing Obama is clear: you know Obama is going to win and you racist folks just can’t handle it. Face it. It’s over and poor Princess Palin is going to have to return all those “accessories.”

The housing crisis was created by Democrats. Even Bill Clinton concedes that point. Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Chuck Schumer, and even Barack Obama were paid by FNMA/FNMC to keep the fiasco going. Janet Reno threatened Countrywide if they didn’t keep up the garbage loans.
Pres. Bush has done damage, but don’t attribute things to him that were not his fault.

Ted: “Gender Studies classes” Nuff said!

We get this sort of coverage of Obama and CNN read some nasty quote to Palin to trip her up. Turns out the nasty quote was the author of the article saying the media is not fair to Palin. CNN craftily left that part out – a total misquote – and CNN ran it.
We have seen America pretty upset about a lot of things this year. The immigration deal that McCain cooked up with Ted Kennedy is on that list by the way. The bail out was another. The treatment of Palin is now on the list.
We cease to be a civil society when we as citizens let these things happen. It is the current equivalent of what we did on civil rights. When a wrong is there and obvious we as citizens will not let it go.

Hotandspicy:
Please research the viability of those alternatives you mentioned to replace fossil fuels in the next 10 years.
NO SERIOUS ENGINEER OR SCIENTIST says that sun and wind and tide can possibly make even a serious dent in fossil fuel power production quickly. Right now alternatives are at like 2% – they could double with strong subsidies in 10 years, maybe even triple. That still leaves you with at best 94-95% fossil fuels in 2019.
Please, be realistic and think, stop buying into slogans and misleading “expert” predictions.

I see there is some controversy on this list about drilling off shore. Cuba, 25 miles from Florida, has started a huge drilling effort.
The left wing fascists in this country would prefer that we buy the oil from Cuba I am sure.

I’m supporting Sen. McCain, and I don’t portend to be more righteous than Obama supporters, but I would appreciate Sen. Obama not question my righteousness.

Go dream about Global Warming that will never happen. the planet is cooling fools. Ice cap gained 30% in last year.
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Greenland’s ice cap, which covers more than 80 percent of the island, is melting faster than expected because of global warming, a Danish researcher said on Monday.
The 1.8-million-square-kilometre (695,000-square-mile) ice cap, which accounts for 10 percent of the planet’s fresh water, is losing about 257 cubic kilometres (62 cubic miles) of ice per year.

Obama has clearly won this election. There is no question about it.
Having said that the notion that “95% of the people will get a tax cut” was the “mother of all political panders”.
And it worked! People sold their votes for a $500 refund check.
This week Obama’s handlers went back and re-worded it a bit so that one actually had to be working to get a check. That clause is as easily written out as in of course.

I really can’t believe that this guy could actually be elected considering what he represents to this country. All bad!

I would also appreciate it if the GOP would quit calling everybody who disagrees with their ignorant, retrograde views “un-American.”
America was founded by intelligent, intellectual men who valued education, not morons like McLame, Michele Bachmann, and Sarah Palin.

Mr McCain should point out that his opponent has never once in his career said boo to a Democratic goose. In Chicago he got on well with everybody, from the local teachers’ unions to the Daley political machine. In the Senate he has voted with his party 97% of the time. He toes the most liberal line on late-term and partial-birth abortion. Even a highly experienced Democratic president with a record of bucking his party would find it hard to tame a large Democratic majority in Congress. A neophyte with a record of going along to get along could find it impossible.

Righteous wind at Obama’s back… yeah, his own self righteous wind. He is superficial and arrogant. ABC, NBC and CBS are going to crash and burn when John McCain wins this election. All of your dishonorable, immoral ways of reporting the news to the American people will have been in vain. We are too smart to listen to your crap.
This is from DRUDGE:
ELECTION REJECTION: NETWORK NEWS SLUMPS; VIEWERSHIP FADES
Wed Oct 22 2008 07:25:40 ET
As the shouting from the trail and the frantic spinning from the anchor desks intensify, the audience is voting with their remotes.
All 3 evening news shows experienced audience drops year-to-year for the week of Oct. 13-19, 2008.
CBSNEWS w/ Couric shed a half a million viewers, falling from 6.4 million to 5.9 million; ABCNEWS dropped from 8.1 million to 7.6 million; NBCNEWS slumped from 8.2 million to 7.8 million.

I wonder what position Charles Keating will hold in a McLame administration? Secretary of Taxpayetr Theft.

Palin or Biden? I would take Palin over not only Biden but Obama to. She has the values that I hold dear, more Executive experience than either of them and if the libs hate her as much as they do they must be scared to death of her…. go get em Sarah!

Why should the taxpayers pay for Palin’s wardrobe? Republicans=crooks!

The wind ain’t the only thing from Chicago that blows….

“After talking to a few liberal friends I can to the conclusion that the only way to change peoples minds is to change their perspective. When talking about Obama’s tax plans don’t talk about 95%, but the 5%. I worked up the following little essay, which seems to leave people finally understanding the how silly this is.
Five percent will pay for a tax cut for 95%.
Five percent will pay for health care for all.
Five percent will pay for the bailout of the banks.
Five percent will pay for better schools.
Five percent will pay for tuition tax credit.
Five percent will pay for expanded stem cell research.
Five percent will pay for broadband access for everyone.
Five percent will pay for a “digital smart grid” (what ever that is?).
Five percent will pay for American car companies new energy efficient cars.
Five percent will pay for an expanded war in Afghanistan (10,000 more troops for Afghanistan).
Five percent will pay for the new war in Pakistan to find Osama bin Laden.
Five percent will pay for new jobs for unemployed.
Five percent will pay for better salaries for the 95%.
Five percent will pay for the new technologies for energy independence, in 10 years.
Five percent will pay for all the stimulus the economy needs.
Five percent will pay to finish building 100-year protection by 2011 for New Orleans.
Five percent will pay to lower the national dept.
Five percent will pay for restoring the Everglades.
Five percent will pay to eliminate the capital gains taxes for the small businesses and the start-ups.
Five percent will pay for new roads and bridges for the country.
Five percent will pay for tax credits for companies that create domestic jobs.
Five percent will not move their investments into tax free areas like government bonds.
Five percent will not take advantage of tax loop holes.
Five percent will not hide money.
Five percent will not raise prices they have control over to offset the taxes.
Five percent will not eliminate jobs to offset the taxes.
Five percent will not notice they have enough money that they don’t have to work anymore and just go home.
Five percent will not any way impede the government’s attempts to take their money.
Five percent will not get any representation in the new government.
Five percent will not get any thanks in the new government.
Does this make sense? Even if it worked, would be moral?”

President McCain the ‘liar’ could die in office and then the idiot from Alaska would be president.
I’d rather see Cookie Monster as president, at least he isn’t a THIEF.

Dave,
Obama is a socialist because that is his ideological background and present view, as epitomized by the “spread the wealth” comment. Obama deftly tried to pivot today by saying he was really saying “spread the opportunity”.
We’ll see if that works, but seriously man, you don’t think Obama has socialist roots?
He rejected the DLC’s endorsement in 03 because it upset some socialists.
He was a member of the New Party in 1996, the New Party is an offshoot of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Seriously, you’re going to argue this?

John McCain on Socialism:
John McCain, October 11 2000
McCain: “I think it’s to some degree because we feel obviously that wealthy people can afford more.”
Audience member: “Are we getting closer and closer to, like, socialism?”
McCain: “Here’s what I really believe: That when you reach a certain level of comfort, there’s nothing wrong with paying somewhat more.”
Was John McCain right?
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No, he wasn’t right then and he is not right now. He has never really been a fiscal conservative in my opinion. He has always thought the progressive tax structure to be fair. Now we can argue whether you think it is appropriate but fair it is not. Fair is if everyone pays the same percentage or even if we paid for what we used and nothing more.

hotandspicy says “Why should the taxpayers pay for Palin’s wardrobe? Republicans=crooks!”
My goodness. Read the articles. Her clothes are not being paid out of your $500 tax refund check. That money came from the RNC campaign fund.
The same sort of fund that is used to fly these people around on private jets and eat caviar.

Your days coming “neo-cons”, November 4 and your kind are “HISTORY”.

Re: hotandspicey Why don’t you take an economics class. Bush has given the corporations deep tax cuts over the last eight years and our economy is in meltdown and the corporations are begging the government to bail them out! Voo Doo economics does not work!!!!!!
The stupidity of the average Republican is destroying our country!”
Maybe you should check you facts before you put things in print. There has been no change in corporate tax rates during the Bush administration. The rates have been the same at least since 1993. Maybe you could blame the current tax rates on Clinton – I do. If you want to see progress in the country the rates should be zero.

35,000 people again?
I remember less than a 1,000 showed up for the old man in Philly yesterday.

Fox News Fan: What a wonderful fantasy. Does that mean I don’t have to pay taxes anymore? Your ludicrous scenario, which bears absolutely nothing to the truth, pretends that only the ffilthy rich will pay taxes. Not true. Almost all of us will pay taxes and many of us will pay about the same we are paying now – just a little less. If you want to discuss economics or finance, do some work. Or listen to Warren Buffett – the richest man in American – who freely admits that his secretary pays more taxes than he does. And that he is proud to pay taxes and support a nation he loves. So were my parents. So am I. So is my husband. You must be very, very rich – in which case – why worry? Your accountant will find all the loopholes he needs.

More like, he’s got wind coming out of his b-tt.

sounds more like righteous hot air to me.
amusing

The best thing Obama could be doing is building hubris. If only McCain woudl seize on it as they did with the ‘Messiah’ ads.
-Paul
http://mccainpalin2008.blogspot.com

Jan,
I was born, raised, and live in Arlington,VA. I pass the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetary everyday.
Arlington, where we lay our soldiers who have died in battle. Where we honor the tomb of the unknown soldier. Where President Kennedy is buried.
Screw you and your opinion of what constitutes “Real Virginia”.
McCain’s brother calls this “communist country”. Palin says we don’t live in “Real America”. And now you and McCain have the nerve to say this isn’t Real Virginia?
As we fought for our Independence, George Washington crossed the Potomic River to suprise the British. Where do you think that river is located Jan?
RIGHT HERE in the Real VA!
And REAL VA is voting for Obama!

If Mayor Richard M. Daley’s proposed 2009 city budget is passed by the City Council, 929 employees will lose their jobs, promising delays in garbage pickup and snow removal while taxpayers will pay more to attend sporting events and to park their cars in garages.
WHAT HAPPENED TO CHICAGO OBAMA???
YOU RAISED THE SALES TAX 10.25% THE HIGHEST IN THE NATION

WHO CARES ABOUT VIRGINIA!
WISCONSIN AND MINNESOTA IS GOING TO MCCAIN

Jesus told the rich man to “sell all you have and give to the poor.” He told his followers that it was harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.
Is Jesus a socialist? Did Jesus believe in redistributing the wealth. I don’t see any of McCain’s supporters doing this. It’s really ridiculous that McCain and Palin claim they are holy and Christian, and yet oppose tax policies that tax the rich to give to the poor. This is NOT what Jesus would do.

When people decide to separate themselves from a standing governing body, they ought to give their reasons.
All people are entitled, but not limited to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Governing bodies are formed to ensure these rights with the power derived from the people themselves.
When a governing body fails to ensure the rights, the people have the right to modify or abolish it, and form a new governing body as they see fit to ensure these basic rights.
This should not be taken lightly, but when the grievances are sufficiently egregious, it is the people’s right and duty “to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
These are the founding principles which gave rise to our great country.
Unlike other nations, we are a mix of cultures, races, temperaments, and means. Nationality in these United States cannot be determined by DNA test, similarity of our outward appearance, or accent. Our discrimination from others is defined by our belief in God given rights and the powers “we” grant to the government to protect them.
We are a free people with a government of, by and for the people. However, the clarity of purpose that gave birth to our country has been diluted and diminished. Too often those who “represent” us feel ordained to control rather than represent the people, control in a fashion that they believe is best. They are a voice to the people rather than a voice of the people. Government has become the beast that the people have to support at the expense of their safety and happiness when our core principles demand the opposite.
Within the next two weeks, citizens have a choice to make on who they believe would be best to lead one of the three pillars of our government. Barring some extraordinary event, the fellow citizen who will take that responsibility next January will be Barack Obama or John McCain.
Qualification is easily evaluated. Both are natural born citizens. Both have attained the age of thirty five years. Both have been a resident in the United States for at least fourteen years. They are both qualified according to the Constitution of the United States. It is the balance of qualities that are less objectively evaluated.
Neither candidate is without flaw. Indeed, the number of perfect citizens within our ranks could fit in a phone both with room to spare. But, what has each done with their mistakes and imperfections? Which candidate believes that government needs to be secondary to personal freedom and responsibility? Which candidate has demonstrated leadership and the experience of making decisions that affect other peoples’ lives … without the luxury of debate? Which candidate is more likely to stand for principles that differ with external affiliations or influences? Which candidate considers the position of leadership as one of privilege and duty more so than entitlement?
Barack Obama may very well be the best to lead our country beyond 2008. But the series of decisions he has made in his life, the manner in which he has contested this and past contests, the dishonesty and lack of candor about aspects of his associations and past activities, all raise serious doubts about his judgment. His relatively short history of executive decision making ability does not exclude him, but neither does it demonstrate this capability for the future. Finally, his vision is best described by the policies he wishes to enact. Few could deny that he believes an expansion in the role of government is needed. Yes, Barack Obama may be the best to lead our country. But, he may also be the worst leader we’ve had since before 1776. That is possible and the risk is greater with a legislature from the same ideology.
John McCain is also not perfect. The distinction comes when comparing how he has dealt with his mistakes and challenges. He has been forthright and honest. He readily admits that he is an imperfect servant. But, he understands that he is a servant to the will of the people. I have watched him on the floor of the Senate opposing and berating fellow members who chose to impart their will on spending the people’s money rather than letting these appropriations see the full light of day and be subject to debate the people expect. John McCain has dismissed the influences others cherish and cater to in deference to his duty. He has allied with those of apparently polar opposite ideologies when a greater good could be served. He believes in our system of government and has risked life and limb to protect it. These are all demonstrated acts not rhetorical promises easily broken. John McCain believes, and he has demonstrated throughout his career, that government has a limited role and ultimate power resides in the people.
For me, the choice is clear. For others, the choice is theirs. But, with the state of the world today, I would implore any who intend to cast a vote to do so based upon a careful assessment of the facts and your hopes for the future. Betting your life savings, your well being, your children’s future, on less devalues the great worth you have been endowed with by being a United States citizen.

I went to a hospital in Boston today,with my daughter, for an appointment with a pediatric surgeon for my grandson. It was then I realized that there is a BIG PROBLEM!!!! We were the only ones who spoke English (except for the physician) even the registration people were difficult to understand. Wake Up people!!!!! With Obama it will only get worse, we have Deval Patrick,(Obama’s buddy) here in Boston. He was the test run for Obama, David Axelrod ran his campaign. Need I say more.

Canadian: Our media ignore the crimes of Republicans and McLame. They ignored the Keating 5 Scandal, making it seem like old news. But McLame is running on his experience, which means his whole record is important. The ignored Phil Gramm and the Enron Loophole. If McLame wins, Gramm will be in charge of our economic policy, and he will steal what little money America has left.
The media IGNORE this!

Barack Obama proclaims his judgment is better because he opposed the war in Iraq that John McCain supported. That George Bush supported. That Colin Powell supported. That Bill Clinton supported. That the Congress authorized.
There are a few distinctions that need to be highlighted. George Bush, Colin Powell, and John McCain supported the war based on the belief that Saddam Hussein (can I say Hussein now?) possessed weapons of mass destruction and was willing and able to use them. Bush, Powell, and McCain also supported the war while in a capacity where such a position had real meaning. Barack Obama did so before entering federal service and before a friendly crowd in a speech.
The “intelligence” was flawed but Bush, Powell, and McCain made their decision based upon information. Later interviews with Saddam Hussein himself revealed that he wanted the world to believe he had the WMD and would use it.
Barack Obama touts that he “opposed the war.” Barack Obama did not have access to intelligence information. Barack Obama had no responsibilities or consequences of his “position.” Barack Obama opposed using force to defend against a ruthless dictator who had used weapons of mass destruction to kill Iraqi and Iranian civilians, had repeatedly violated international mandates to deweaponize and disclose his programs, had previously invaded a sovereign state to destabilize the region, and had proclaimed the United States and her allies as enemies. Way to go Barry. Even a blind squirrel sometimes finds a nut (no reference to ACORN intended).

Mark: What a load of garbage. Stop using our soldiers as a cheap ploy to get people to vote for McLame.

This week, Biden warned America that an Obama victory would invite a dangerous global showdown between tyrants and the naïf Obama. “Mark my words,” Biden said Sunday at a Democratic fund-raiser. “It will not be six months [after the inauguration] before the world tests Barack Obama
This isn’t the truly scary part of the speech – the second half of the statement is far more telling. To paraphrase, he stated that the world community will not see credibility in Obama’s response to this supposed test – his colleagues will have to engage in a massive PR campaign (read: propaganda campaign)to make them understand that it is the proper response

I live how GOP hypocrits like Toby call redistribution of wealth in the US socialism, but all CHAMPIONED the Iraqi Oil Sharing plan where US Oil Co shareholders have the profits and dividends that should belong to them SEIZED by the IRAQI WINDFALL PROFITS TAX and redistributed to all the Iraqis in a SOVIET STYLE WELFARE PROGRAM.

There’s a very good chance that Va will go to Obama. Look at Warner, Kaine and Webb. The state is turning democratic.———————-The repubs did not vote in record numbers during the primaries. George Allen had a hit piece done on him..then Webb got it..

JR, i bet you are a theif prob thats the way you were raised.

I can’t help but wonder if half the Democrat party really believes “democrat president obama” would be a win for their party. Kind of hard to get behind that level of hype if you aren’t into it.

I find it hilarious that all of the libs fawn over Obama’s supposed intellegince. He’s slick but I will take substance over style any day. McCain has more substance by a long shot.

you’ve got to know all that we know and don’t know about obama, thier are those at the deepest levels of govt (cia) etc, who if they know whats up, will have this guy watched like a hawk. things are gonna be interesting. his first move on our right to bear arms, look for things to get interesting.

Hey, EllenO from Canada. You seem to know a few things of declining countries, eh? As we are struggling with the polarization of our country bought about by 8 years of “inept governing” it is easy to single out the media as biased and leave it at that. However, as you have seen, and sit tight, we’ll work our way through this. We are Americans, red , black, yellow, white and all other races , colors and backgrounds. We have the Internet, eh? Each and every word and action is scrutinized, chewed and spat out in a way to let the viewer decide. We are not perfect, but we arent quitters. We feed the media, beleive me, not the other way around. And as such when something doesnt play to our liking we can always blame it on the media. A natural response, not a phenomena. Sit tight it always gets whacky around here on every fourth year, ok?

What Obama really means is, “It’s payback time!”

Senator Obama, well, he “organized communities in Chicago.”
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This cracks me up. You make fun of being an organizer and yet you’re getting your butts kicked because Obama’s camapign was vastly superior in it’s organization and planning.
Oh, the irony!

Young Guy Knows History,
Well said. PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. No guarentee of happiness. I have pursued happiness by going to years of school while raising a family and serving full time active duty. I have happiness. I have accomplished much and have worked to my current standard of living. I was not given anything. I earned it. I pursued it. Why should my taxes be increased to give happiness to someone who chooses not to work. Now, don’t get me wrong. I donate above the nation average and serve my community (at times) at no charge to them. But to finance someone elses happiness is not fair to those who have work to attain their own happiness. Happinees is not guarenteed, the right for the “pursuit of happiness” is.
Old Guy

Wow. And people call Palin a religious nut. It’s almost as if Obama thinks of himself as a leader of a cult …

George Allen had a hit piece done on him..then Webb got it..
Posted by: Christie | Oct 22, 2008 9:23:50 PM
A hit, oh please. He called some a democratic volunteer of Indian descent, “macaca”. And you call that a hit, I call it being highly insensitive among other things. He certainly paid for it didn’t he.

Righteous wind…huh! The only righteousness about Obama is his majorly inflated self righteousness!
NObama…NObama…NObama…NObama!

McLame is losing in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Get real.

It is remarkable that the American people are willing to accept Palin as our next President. (yes, that was intentional)
We have in front of us a man who is exceptionally intelligent, surrounds himself with the creme de la creme (that would mean those that know what the heck they are doing for those of you who don’t know French) and is the only hope for bringing this sad Country back together.
Shame on all of you who think that McCain/Palin will do anything but bring this Country to its knees in the international arena.
Think before you vote. Vote for intelligence, calm, humility and international respect.
We as a Country can afford no less.
And yes, I am a highly educated working mother and wife who lives in (communist) Northern Virginia.

“a righteous wind at our backs”?
Is this a sermon or just another political speech???

Seems likes a very narcissistic rant on the part of Obama. I believe he will end up losing Virginia in the end even if he racks up big margins in the northern part of the state. The pollsters are just giving Democrats too much credit again!

Dave wrote:
Why is Obama a socialist, Paige? Because he wants to let the tax cuts expire for the top 2% that McCain voted against?
LOL, and you want the govenment telling women what to do with their bodies? ok….
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No Obamna is a Socialist because he espouses Socialist ideas, many of his personal contact espouse Socialist ideals and even his own party has a growing commitment to the DSA. If you are not familiar with DSA Dave, that is Democratic Socialists of America. Hey Dave, they have their own constitution, jnust like they are their own government. Now they want us to not just join them but be forced to join them. They used to a long time ago list the members of Congress on Bernard Sanders (you know him, he is a Socialist in congress) website that belonged to the DSA, but I see they have taken that page down since it is better to hide that fact from the general public. In that constitutilon it states that any member that disagrees with the current rules will be removed from the membership roll. Can you imagine being denied membership in the good ole USA because you disagree with the rules? Or worse yet be imprisoned? That happens in Socialist countries. I am not saying Obama will necessarily be going that far but we keep taking small steps towards it with these Democrats and honestly I also believe Socialists have started to infiltrate the Republican party (neocons) as well.

“Again. who cares about Virgina. McCain is getting Minnesota and Wisconsin.”
Maybe you should at least try to pay SOME attention to the polls.
There were two Wisconsin polls today (check RCP latest polls): one had Obama up 11 points, the other 13 points.
Obama is out of reach for McCain in Wisconsin.
The last 4 Minnesota polls had Obama up 11 points, 13 points, 11 points and 6 points.
Obama is out of reach for McCain in Minnesota as well.

“His arrogance is disgraceful and appalling.”

hotandspicy
If that were true why is the suit still in the courts. Why hasn’t the judge thrown it out? Why hasn’t Obama with great fanfare produced it to show the world he is qualified instead of the path he has chosen.

ou couldn’t get a job at McDonalds and become district manager after
143 days of experience.
You couldn’t become chief of surgery after 143 days of experience of
being a surgeon.
You couldn’t get a job as a teacher and be the superintendent after 143
days of experience.
You couldn’t join the military and become a colonel after a 143 days of experience.
You couldn’t get a job as a reporter and become the nightly news anchor
after 143 days of experience.
BUT…. ‘From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State
Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged 143 days of experience in the Senate.
That’s how many days the Senate was actually in session and working.
After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World … 143 days We all have to start somewhere. The senate is a good start, but after 143 days, that’s all it is – a start AND, strangely, a large sector of the American public is okay with this and campaigning for him. We wouldn’t accept this in our own line of work, yet some are okay with this for the President of the United States of America? Come on folks, we are not voting for the next American Idol! Please, please forward this before it’s too late!!!!

This one is also good:
“I am disappointed that the Senate Finance Committee preferred instead to cut the top tax rate of 39.6% to 36%, thereby granting generous tax relief to the wealthiest individuals of our country at the expense of lower- and middle-income American taxpayers.” [McCain Senate floor statement, May 21, 2001]

Rod Miller:
Were you trying to make some kind of point? Your gibberish is meaningless.
The transitive property is not viable in a sociological context. And yet, that’s every statement made by Pubs on this blog.
Someone else said something that is remotely similar to Obama if you have a vivid imagination, so Obama must be the same is NOT a credible arguement.

David Verat….I would still like the President of the United States of America to put his hand over his heart during our National Anthem. I apologize for may date error. These are the reasons so many Americans are suspect on this guy. How can we not be with all his past history….your the history major. Can you explain his history?

Dems were outraged that Bush exploited religion to win votes.
Now Obama is doing it – and it’s okey dokey.
But some Dems aren’t seeking a father figure – nor a savior.
Dems for McCain/Palin!

The only thing you have to have to become POTUS, is have people vote for you.
Actually according to the constitution you hace to be a NATURAL born citizen. be at least 35 years old and have been living in the US for more than 14 years straight. The constitution is what they swear to uphold and defend

In an idiot race your guy loses big time
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OH REALLY MARK?
WHICH STATEMENT WILL BE REMEBERED AFTER THE ELECTION IS OVER AS THE BEGINNING OF THE END? TAKE A GUESS:
But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy– Helping the — Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too. Shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americas.
And trade we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive scary thing. But 1 in 5 jobs being created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation.

It’s not that McCain can’t win, it’s that he shouldn’t. I’m a registered Republican but I don’t want another four years of this, I didn’t in 2004. We have to begin to think globally, otherwise our way of life won’t survive.
We’re in it for the species here folks, think about it.
Please…..

Ok now, Paige and David Verat….to quote a previous President of the United States, who WOULD put his hand over his heart during the National Anthem, “There ya go again”. Both of you are off topic, Why won’t he put his freakin hand over his heart during the National Anthem? why? No dates are needed to make your case, just answer why he refuses to show respect to every American that has every lived? And show respect to AMERICA!

The elitist, Cindy McCain and her senator husband, John, are headed back to Sadona while Sarah and AK’s “first dude” are going back to Alaska, “north to Russia’s own”. They’re finished, kaput, washed-up, DONE.
Palin said, if elected, she would advocate for children with “special needs” yet, she cut funds for children with special needs from Alaska’s budget. Palin also charged travel expenses, for her family to join her on the campaign trail, to Alaska’s state account. And, lest I forget, she violated AK’s ethical rules in “Troopergate”.
Yep, we really need an airhead as V.P., one heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Palin is so inept it’s difficult to understand how she got elected to governor of AK. Oh, I forgot, she supports the inhumane killing wolves from the air to increase the size of the caribou herd so AK’s subsistence hunters can kill them.
McCain’s first official decision in selecting Palin as his running mate was poor. Do we really want someone with his judgment sitting in the most powerful office in the free world? I don’t think so.
Vote for Barack Obama!

Robert
When did we make this rule about hand over heart during the anthem, or else get kicked out of the country?
I wish people would tell me these things. Silly me, I thought the flag and the anthem stood for freedon of expression.

According to yahoo today an article says Biden had more negative press than Biden

“yet at all 3 debates he wore a flag pin and mccain didnt
but i dont expect consistency or research from you guys”
You might do a little research on your own, hotshot. McCain doesn’t NEED to prove his patriotism. I wonder if your research took you to the 57 states Obama claims to have visited. Would that have been the 57 states of the islamic conference? Hmmmmmm?

wow – so after your support for Bush, eloquence is somehow important to you?

Mike: I don’t know if they are the same group as Nevada – but this guy has been operating a long time. He was involved in Massachusetts in 2004 for doing the same thing, In addition, the California GOP has hired Norman Sproul, who has been investigated repeatedly for voter fraud. He creates umbrella groups for registration – but only allows employees to register Republicans. He has donated $30,000 to McCain. Calls for federal investigation have been blocked by the Bush Administration – which controls all election oversight.

When did we make this rule about hand over heart during the anthem, or else get kicked out of the country?
When you were in grade school and the pledsge of allefience was spoken what were you instructed to do. What were you instructed to do when the anthem was palyed. You don’t get arrested when you don’t, it isn’t a law. But it is a sign of respect and loyalty. You would think someone who is running for president would understand that.

A Veteran
I was told that standing respectfully for the anthem was sufficient. I guess I must not have been in the “real” America. LOL

BILL: The Palins are going back to Alaska because they have to go back. They are both under INVESTIGATION and have to testify (or give depositions) on Friday. It’s not for R&R. It’s because of Sarah’s ehtics problems.

Hector – Isn’t it just toe-curling? It’s so strained and phony. He grew up in Indonesia, Hawaii, NY, and Chicago – where does that inane drawl come from? LOL

So, who is this Obama dude and why does he get to break Righteous Wind? Seems like Virginians would be smart enough to stand Upwind of that.

BB: Oh spare me. I guarantee you that Obama has been checked out. If he were were some criminal, he wouldn’t have made it this far.

A Veteran
He’s a Constitutional lawyer. He probably knows more about our history than you do.

hmm – about obama giving you free money
where did your multiple rebate checks from bush come from?

Obama hit the point well!!! The comment by a Republican that there was a real Virginia and then there was another Virginia was a huge gaffe. People were upset in Virginia.
Obama hopes of the “morally right” kind of wind being behind them and pushing them on, to the ultimate win is nice!! I like this!!!
I hope he is elected President. We may all be witness to seeing one of the greatest Presidents ever.
Go Obama!!

Inflammatorywit-
No, I meant that you are still alive, as well are.
Total financial collapse? How absurd. Hated by the whole world? What else is new LOL – who cares?
And don’t even pretend that you care about our soldiers except as something you can use to try and bolster your position – the same twisted, malcontent moron libs that are so worried about our men and women would sit and skicker at a man in uniform who walked into their little neighborhood Starbucks.

A Veteran “He’s a Constitutional lawyer. He probably knows more about our history than you do.”
yes he knows all about the history of the 57 states how can anyone possible question the Messiah’s wisdom?

Fact, people who earn money will always be smarter then those people who are looking to take money from them. Thus, people are going to shelter money such that President Hussein can not “spread the wealth”.

Okay… you libs can have your website back. All of us Republicans have to go get some rest because we have jobs to go to in the morning…unlike you who are ecstatic that your messiah might be elected and give you more of our money.

Ok, when Palin was asked what the VP does, it was “Questions from Third Graders,” so she answered it as if she were talking to a third-grader.
She was talking to a reporter. She thinks she can help get things done in the Senate. And this isn’t the first time she has said this.

Righteous wind….? Give me a break. Look at the latest polls Barrack Hussein. Your socialist agenda won’t fly with voters on election day…trust me.

Akela
It has been a very well publicized poll for months (Gallup i think), and it has only gotten worse. It was down to 9% last time I heard. Defintely a record for the 30 years or so they have bene asking the question.

Re: “unlike you who are ecstatic that your messiah might be elected and give you more of our money.”
The Republican base doesn’t have any money. They sit at home all day getting programmed by Rush.

Mary, the only thing you prove is that you and liberals like you are the ones spewing hatred for anyone or anything that disagrees with your viewpoint.
Calling people names only shows how immature and shallow you truly are. Why can’t you talk about why you’re voting for Obama, instead of blindly bashing people that disagree with you?

nyc and northern virginia – where all the liberals are
hey – it was McCain’s spokeperson who called northern virginia – where the pentagon is – “fake virginia”
and since new york is part of those elitist coasts that aren’t real america

Republicans called FDR a Socialist too.

“Republicans called FDR a Socialist too.”
That’s because he was.

Isn’t Virginia the place where the comet hit in Deep Impact? Somehow seems appropriate.

Sorry to shake your pat world view, d, but I have never voted for a Bush in my life.
America has been envied, hated, criticized, etc etc around the world since the dawn of our republic.
I say again – who cares?
We should act in our own self-interest, guided by the founding principles and our own moral compass, and let the chips fall where they may.
What will be will be.

“I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here.”
Righteous? All sorts of crusades were started over righteousness: Righteous cause, righteous people, righteous ideas. I admire his confidence, but his choice of word are either poor, or his Freudian slip is showing.

Some of you are just down right mean.
I vote for change!

Blue
I was trying to tell them last spring that they were wasting all of their best lies, and by November people would be pretty sick of it.

the only description for Obama that includes the word ‘righteous’ in it: self-righteous arrogance.

Yeah, B.O., I can see why you would see the mainstream media as “righteous,” though they are anything but.

John “McGrumpy” and Sarah the “loudmouthed Dingbat,” who cannot figure out what the job of the Vice President is, are the dregs of the Republican party. Indeed, “McGrumpy” is a shell of his former self. History will note that one of “McGrumpy’s” major strategic campaign errors was not picking Mitt Romney as his VP.

Obama is the most unfit candidate in the history of the US. It’s a mystery how he’s even gotten this far. With his Marxist associates and pro-abortion extremism (including the promotion of infanticide) he can’t even answer a question as to when life begins. “It’s above my pay grade.” (Guess that follows his non-commital practice of voting “present” 130 times.) Since human life has no value to him, always be sure to watch your back whenever he’s around. He can’t be trusted.
On the brighter side, however, never lose faith. Joy will soon replace the current gloom when President John McCain and Vice President Palin, the only two adults in this race, take office. And they will. Guaranteed. In God We Trust. Amen.

Obamaville: 79 degrees, sunny, righteous winds E-NE 20 mph.

johnnykav…let me remind you that Democrats control both the House and Senate. If they were so opposed to W’s policies then they would cut off the purse strings. By the way I STILL HAVEN’T RECEIVED THE LIST.

theSwimmah….Sasquatch, ripping off tree bark (immediate mental image) LOL!!
I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time…thanks for a good one….still wiping eyes…

McCain recently referred to “My Fellow Prisoners” at a rally. I think this is quite revealing. McCain is still fighting the Vietnam war and trying to redeem himself in some way. This is quite dangerous. The old bugger should hang it up and retreat to his Budweiser Estates with his aging Beauty Stepford Wife.

How about 1 change? At least throw me a bone!

Wow! The words paranoid, delusional, and gullible come to mind. Were talking about reality here,folks. Guessing some of of you might be surprised to find there is plenty of evidence that Obama IS NOT muslum (he’s Christian), Obama is in fact a US citizen (and if you did your research you would learn this), there is no evidence that he is a terrorist, nor is there any evidence that he “palled around with terrorists”, and it may surprise you to hear, but several republicans have also been associated with Bill Ayers.
Oh yeah, dinosaurs coexisted with humans, global warming is a hoax, and evolution is a myth perpetuated by liberals who want to steal your soles. Evidence, data, reality? Who the hell needs that anyway. I say screw reality, lets just all get along and pretend it doesn’t exist, shall we.

The sad fact of the entire matter is that our country is split right down the middle. The chasm is almost to the point of being irreconcilable. Two separate Americas with opposing principles and values, unable or unwilling to unite around a common purpose. A cancer eating away at the soul of America, the antidote of which will not be found in either presidential candidate. Truly, the American Century is finished.

This is it!!! I haven’t seen one example of change brought forth by B. actions in the Senate. Am I shocked? No. Am I appalled? No. I am simply dumbfounded as to why the American public is so compelled to support a “smooth talking” inexperienced candidate for president. .

The only wind the One is feeling is the hot wind coming from Joe Biden’s mouth

Hello to the individual inquiring about Obama’s activities in the Senate.
The following is a partial list of bills that he has introduced. He has also introduce bills related to health care, energy and education.
On Iran: S.J.RES.23 : A joint resolution clarifying that the use of force against Iran is not authorized by the Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against Iraq, any resolution previously adopted, or any other provision of law.
On voting Passed out of Committee and now on the Senate Calendar for Feb. 22, 2008
S.453 : A bill to prohibit deceptive practices in Federal elections
On veterans and military personnel: S.1084 : A bill to provide housing assistance for very low-income veterans;
On global warmingS.1324 : A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuel sold in the United States;S.1389 : A bill to authorize the National Science Foundation to establish a Climate Change Education Program;
S.AMDT.599 to S.CON.RES.21 To add $200 million for Function 270 (Energy) for the demonstration and monitoring of carbon capture and sequestration technology by the Department of Energy. (This last one passed both the House and the Senate as part of the budget bill.)
On campaign finance and lobbyists S.2030 : A bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require reporting relating to bundled contributions made by persons other than registered lobbyists; and S.AMDT.41 to S.1 To require lobbyists to disclose the candidates, leadership PACs, or political parties for whom they collect or arrange contributions, and the aggregate amount of the contributions collected or arranged.
On Blackwater S.2044 : A bill to provide procedures for the proper classification of employees and independent contractors, and for other purposes, and S.2147 : A bill to require accountability for contractors and contract personnel under Federal contracts, and for other purposes.
On global poverty S.2433 : A bill to require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.
On global nuclear proliferation S.1977 : A bill to provide for sustained United States leadership in a cooperative global effort to prevent nuclear terrorism, reduce global nuclear arsenals, stop the spread of nuclear weapons and related material and technology, and support the responsible and peaceful use of nuclear technology.

It’s true, Republicans should be ashamed. What has Bush done in the last 8 years…
…besides preventing another 9/11?
…besides convincing N.Korea to disassemble the nuke plant Clinton gave them?
… besides averting a nuclear showdown with Iran,
….besides giving more money to fight AIDS around the world than all other presidents combined?
Big deal! Who cares? I’m more concerned about my 401K and how it lost value because of Bush.
Oh, wait, he warned us about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, didn’t he? He warned Barney Frank to keep those two institutions in check, didn’t he?
So what? Let’s blame him anyway, everyone else does. It just feels good to blame Bush and Republicans for all our troubles. It’s a heck of a lot easier than finding solutions and heaven forbid, actually suggesting any on the record!!
Obama/Biden 08! Because America deserves it!

I remember reading All the President’s Men and thinking: That’s journalism. You do what it takes to get the truth and you lay it before the public, because the public has a right to know.
This housing crisis didn’t come out of nowhere. It was not a vague emanation of the evil Bush administration.
It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late 1990s, to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans.
What is a risky loan? It’s a loan that the recipient is likely not to be able to repay.
The goal of this rule change was to help the poor — which especially would help members of minority groups. But how does it help these people to give them a loan that they can’t repay? They get into a house, yes, but when they can’t make the payments, they lose the house — along with their credit rating.
They end up worse off than before.
This was completely foreseeable and in fact many people did foresee it. One political party, in Congress and in the executive branch, tried repeatedly to tighten up the rules. The other party blocked every such attempt and tried to loosen them.
Furthermore, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were making political contributions to the very members of Congress who were allowing them to make irresponsible loans. (Though why quasi-federal agencies were allowed to do so baffles me. It’s as if the Pentagon were allowed to contribute to the political campaigns of Congressmen who support increasing their budget.)
Isn’t there a story here? Doesn’t journalism require that you who produce our daily paper tell the truth about who brought us to a position where the only way to keep confidence in our economy was a $700 billion bailout? Aren’t you supposed to follow the money and see which politicians were benefitting personally from the deregulation of mortgage lending?
I have no doubt that if these facts had pointed to the Republican Party or to John McCain as the guilty parties, you would be treating it as a vast scandal. “Housing-gate,” no doubt. Or “Fannie-gate.”
Instead, it was Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting subprime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed.
As Thomas Sowell points out in a TownHall.com essay entitled Do Facts Matter? “Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush’s Secretary of the Treasury.”
These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was … the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was … the Republican Party.
Yet when Nancy Pelosi accused the Bush administration and Republican deregulation of causing the crisis, you in the press did not hold her to account for her lie. Instead, you criticized Republicans who took offense at this lie and refused to vote for the bailout!
What? It’s not the liar, but the victims of the lie who are to blame?
Now let’s follow the money … right to the presidential candidate who is the number-two recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae.
And after Freddie Raines, the CEO of Fannie Mae who made $90 million while running it into the ground, was fired for his incompetence, one presidential candidate’s campaign actually consulted him for advice on housing.
If that presidential candidate had been John McCain, you would have called it a major scandal and we would be getting stories in your paper every day about how incompetent and corrupt he was.
But instead, that candidate was Barack Obama, and so you have buried this story, and when the McCain campaign dared to call Raines an “adviser” to the Obama campaign — because that campaign had sought his advice — you actually let Obama’s people get away with accusing McCain of lying, merely because Raines wasn’t listed as an official adviser to the Obama campaign.
You would never tolerate such weasely nit-picking from a Republican.
If you who produce our local daily paper actually had any principles, you would be pounding this story, because the prosperity of all Americans was put at risk by the foolish, short-sighted, politically selfish, and possibly corrupt actions of leading Democrats, including Obama.
If you who produce our local daily paper had any personal honor, you would find it unbearable to let the American people believe that somehow Republicans were to blame for this crisis.
There are precedents. Even though President Bush and his administration never said that Iraq sponsored or was linked to 9/11, you could not stand the fact that Americans had that misapprehension — so you pounded us with the fact that there was no such link. (Along the way, you created the false impression that Bush had lied to them and said that there was a connection.)
If you had any principles, then surely right now, when the American people are set to blame President Bush and John McCain for a crisis they tried to prevent, and are actually shifting to approve of Barack Obama because of a crisis he helped cause, you would be laboring at least as hard to correct that false impression.
Your job, as journalists, is to tell the truth. That’s what you claim you do, when you accept people’s money to buy or subscribe to your paper.
But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie — that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain, and the Republicans. You have trained the American people to blame everything bad — even bad weather — on Bush, and they are responding as you have taught them to.
If you had any personal honor, each reporter and editor would be insisting on telling the truth — even if it hurts the election chances of your favorite candidate.
Because that’s what honorable people do. Honest people tell the truth even when they don’t like the probable consequences. That’s what honesty means. That’s how trust is earned.
Barack Obama is just another politician, and not a very wise one. He has revealed his ignorance and naivete time after time — and you have swept it under the rug, treated it as nothing.
Meanwhile, you have participated in the borking of Sarah Palin, reporting savage attacks on her for the pregnancy of her unmarried daughter — while you ignored the story of John Edwards’s own adultery for many months.
So I ask you now: Do you have any standards at all? Do you even know what honesty means?
Is getting people to vote for Barack Obama so important that you will throw away everything that journalism is supposed to stand for?
You might want to remember the way the National Organization of Women threw away their integrity by supporting Bill Clinton despite his well-known pattern of sexual exploitation of powerless women. Who listens to NOW anymore? We know they stand for nothing; they have no principles.
That’s where you are right now.
It’s not too late. You know that if the situation were reversed, and the truth would damage McCain and help Obama, you would be moving heaven and earth to get the true story out there.
If you want to redeem your honor, you will swallow hard and make a list of all the stories you would print if it were McCain who had been getting money from Fannie Mae, McCain whose campaign had consulted with its discredited former CEO, McCain who had voted against tightening its lending practices.
Then you will print them, even though every one of those true stories will point the finger of blame at the reckless Democratic Party, which put our nation’s prosperity at risk so they could feel good about helping the poor, and lay a fair share of the blame at Obama’s door.
You will also tell the truth about John McCain: that he tried, as a Senator, to do what it took to prevent this crisis. You will tell the truth about President Bush: that his administration tried more than once to get Congress to regulate lending in a responsible way.
This was a Congress-caused crisis, beginning during the Clinton administration, with Democrats leading the way into the crisis and blocking every effort to get out of it in a timely fashion.
If you at our local daily newspaper continue to let Americans believe –and vote as if — President Bush and the Republicans caused the crisis, then you are joining in that lie.
If you do not tell the truth about the Democrats — including Barack Obama — and do so with the same energy you would use if the miscreants were Republicans — then you are not journalists by any standard.
You’re just the public relations machine of the Democratic Party, and it’s time you were all fired and real journalists brought in, so that we can actually have a daily newspaper in our city.

No..you need a simple majority to control..only 3/5 to end a filibuster..read your civics book

To all you Obamabots posting Obama’s or partially posting Obama’s senate record:
Thank you for showing us proof of the most liberal record in the senate.

oh i hate to feed the beast, but all you dolts asking for “just one example” here’s just three of dozens of major, complex and important policies that Obama has led on in the US Senate.
- championed reforms for our veterans benefits so they get decent treatment after serving
- authored and fought for the first ever program for a web-based system to monitor and report on federal spending
- Fought for a program to monitor and destroy weapons of mass destruction that are in the hands of unstable nations
don’t make me get into his record in the state legislature on education, tax reform, ethics reform, campaign finance,welfare reform, predatory lending…
He’s has so much more policy experience and depth of knowledge on the range of issues a President needs to understand than McCain/Plain, and that’s before we talk about Biden’s record.
McCain/Palin is an insult. Palin is a joke. McCain was a GREAT statesman until this campaign. I do not who he is anymore. That makes me sad.

As a conservative republican, I think Bush has been terribly polarizing. All the way around he has been a man without any value compass. In his bid for reelection, he kept Cheney on the ticket instead of somebody like Kay Hutchison, so the party was left with a huge leadership void. Bush pushed for illegal aliens, pushed to see our soldiers tried for killing the enemy, got us into a protracted war which is what democrats do.. Woodrow Wilson WWI, FDR WWII, Truman Korea, JFK and LBJ Vietnam. Bush spent like a democrat with no compunction and no value. He cut himself off from conservatives and listen to nobody. He was bad for our country and horrible for our party. But now comes obama who is hated by about 50% of the population. He is a black muslim, untrusted, and perhaps even more polarizing than Bush. Sometimes the country needs bland for a while. Nixon was polarizing and Ford was bland but the country healed. The democrats tried to run the two most polarizing people in America… hillary clinton and Obama. Instead of running somebody bland, they walk out those two clowns that cause visceral hatred amongst a large percentage of voters. obama is disgusting. He is a pot smokin crack using loser. I am my friends hate the guy. He is just so polarizing and so arrogant. At least with McCain, while he may be bland and sort of tired, he is not hated. That is the difference of the two. McCain is a liberal just like Obama. They both want mexicans to swarm in the country. But of the two, I really think another four years of polarization will result in serious damage to the country. The rhetoric of democrats such as barny frank is feeding on the polarization. This is a mental illness at its worst. Attacking our country and businesses is the worst thing that can happen in a recession. Taxing business will reduce jobs in a recession. Taxing oil will just raise the price. But Americans are not happy with Bush and that espeically includes conservative republicans but at least in our anger and disgust we have the brains not to try to bring in another polarizing entity into the white house. For conservatives it is bad enough having McCain who is a liberal but we will vote against obama because he is toxic to America and sometimes voters have to vote for somebody quite flawed just to do what is best for the country. Voting for obama is an exercise in spawning hatred and polarization that this country cannot take. Bush created an environment of frustration and anger, obama is even more polarizing than Bush; the country is already fatigued.

indypendant1
yea I hope other Independants rise up and make a statement this kind of subverstion of democracy cant be tolerated though under Donna braziles orders and interpretation and bribes she says its not against the constitution for the Democratic party to do what they want

Wait, did anyone bother to ask him what he ate for lunch that gave him that righteous wind at his back?

Lordrobot thank you for an excellent post.

righteous…gee…the man is going to take religion right out of the country…it will be government telling us what to do, what to think, what to say because of all the entitlements the public will be given by the gracious hand of the government…SOCIALIST government…it has been breeding in the liberal Democratic party for years and is coming to a head…sorry the righteous wind of God is the only righteous there is…God has a plan and if Obama is president well, those who know God know the rest of the story and will survive the test.

Terry
yea its their choice not riot when Obama is defeated or face impeachment and the first ever removal of a president from office for election fraud and other stuff … that is much more serious that Clintons lying about sex… some people who have kids that were growing up in the late 90s have vendettas against the Clintons because of that… that is way beyond silly!

AG
your outcome isnt certain yet the polls are closing… and Chucky T said himself today that its the newspeoples perogative to show the electoral map how they see it not necessarily how it will go so Obama certainly wont get 3000 and maybe just barely 270

Tony
fortunately… I as a democrat offset your vote and thats the way it will be… sure it will be tough for mccain to run the table to get past 270 but thats one thing that none…NONE of you obamabots are you have some utopian idea that isnt possible period and you will find that out

It amazes me that all these “Christians” on this blog have so much hate and anger inside them. It is so concerning and sad that you really have that little intelligence. If you think that our country isn’t socialist now then think again..McCain and Palin will keep the rich richer and all the young brave men and woman in the Middle East will continue to come back home in Body Bags(for no reason) but at least it aint abortion, right y’all….You people make me laugh, you are hypocrits. McCain and Palin will ruin what is left of this country..but we don’t ahve to worry about that because Obama/Biden will win.

The only “wind” I sense is the gas coming from his mouth. He is so arrogant! What happened to vanity?

McCain is currently ahead in Fl and Ohio according to The Battleground Polls. Obama is putting massive spin on this election. He has millions of unreported foreign money from Muslim countries who hate us. He is buying up many of the polling places and trying to dispirit the Republicans with fake polling.
The only way he feels he can win is by buying people off. He can’t win on his own accord, or by being honest about his core values, which are communistic.

Any conservative will divide the country some you simply can take a serious stand on any issue without it happening. Reagan was a good conservative but Bush even managed to divide & anger conservatives against him something Reagan never did. Bush has hurt his own party Reagan gave Bush Senior coattails but Bush II is giving McCain hell on earth!

“we got”? please use proper english when serving the US, senator…

First Obama tells people that “a light will come down and tell you to vote for Barack!” and then he tells us he feels “a righteous wind at our backs here”.
He sure talks like a preacher man. Not sure those religion hating liberals will keep going for Obama if he tries to rule like a preacher man.

Oh, Tony, that resume looks so very impressive. Now, where are the published academic articles? Where are the transcripts? What did he accomplish in his IL district? Did his district get better or worse under his leadership? (We both know the answer to that). Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska has a higher security clearance than junior Senator Obama. As a matter of fact, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska has a higher security clearance than Senator Biden.

In 1998, Obama was one of only three senators to vote against a proposal making it a criminal offense for convicts on probation or on bail to have contact with a street gang.

This just in, according the “the one”, lying, cheating, stealing, and fraud are now blessed by the righteous wind. Now go out there and make the world a better place.

Congratulation General Powell you are the new Benedict Arnold of America ! Powell has Jamaica voodoo values and nothing remotely similar to historic American values .
Obama is as good as a terrorist, he feels he comfortable in having terrorist and people who hate the USA as friends because he feels that way too and Powell is as good as someone who supports a terrorist, he’s a dirty traitor but I’m not surprised I never bought into Powell’s aurora of dignity and character . Condi Rice is also cut from the same cloth as Powell , she said Obama can keep country safe as President, how stupid can you get? Condi is an idiot.

Randy
Warren Buffett and Colin Powel;l cannot be standins for Obama he hast o make it on the merits himself … I dont care about Bush not beign qualified thats irrellevant and as far as stopping poltices like the war Obama voted with the President on fuing in every single final vote since running for president dont give me that you are not the only riteous people thats why people that dont support obama have license to think how they want this is the USA and the constitution will not be changed or subverted on Obamas behalf

Randy: Two words – useful idiots.
Look it up.

If Obama read his Bible he would do him well to remember that Jesus said, “There is only ONE righteous”…and I don’t think he was prophesying about Obama…

I would if I could Mara, but I don’t know who wrote it but I really don’t care. It’s Mr. Everyman, as far as I am concerned. The essay speaks for millions and does it with humor, showcasing the ludicrousness of the liberal mindset.

Well when Obama wins and Biden’s prediction comes true, I hope all the dem organizers are willing to give up their sons and daughters because Obama has said he is bringing back the draft for BOTH sexes. Go look it up. Our military is stretched too thin don’t ya know. This is what happens when you let the media run down your President and then picks you another one.

lol, obviously smile et al, doesn’t understand Satire. :)

Attention freedom loving Americans be sure to switch from Google to some other search engine Google now is fully supporting the terrorist Obama Presidency.
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt plans to endorse Obama

Now let’s see, which bothers me worse…20 years of Reverend Wright’s teaching instruction, supporting the socialist/genecidist Odinga’s cause in Kenya working to get him elected, Obama being ashamed of our flag, national anthem, arrogantly changing the presidential seal—possibly infringing on the copyrights…not falling far from the ACORN tree, being with Bill Ayers up until the 2000 years and saying he has disassociated himself from him…does anyone else sense that there is a lawyer involved in all of this?

waynesworld
yea the whole thing is the Obama camp and the obamabots dont have a sense of humor and the whole world isnt going to go off a cliff if Obama isnt elected they should stop acting like it would be and take some responsibility

mara -”Given that her husband was a member of a party which want to secede from the United States of America”
we can let anybody secede from the union at least not till their child become gay then maybe will think about letting them quit.

Mara: Thank you, sweetheart, I would love to prove Sarah Palin has a higher security clearance than Biden (it’s rather easy). But, first, Mara I ask you to prove to America that Obama graduated from Columbia and Harvard. Show us the transcripts.

Kaylee
I think Biden slipped up and talked about a future test for Obama because the Bush admin briefed Biden/Obama/Mccain on a future Military campaign possibly in the middle east and Palin as a governor doesnt have security clearance… to all you amateurs out there that means Biden is saying once Obama is president when he is not president yet the whole yr from the obamabots has been presumptous

So which wealthy democrat will begin the redistribution of wealth by giving up their money first? Which hollywood star goes first? Which news media personality at MSNBC, NBC, CBS, or ABC goes first? How will MSNBC survive having to provide other commentaries when the fairness doctrine is voted for? They won’t be able to afford the bill. They’ll go out of business…

Here’s the skinny. Many of the obama supporters in this thread have been saying things like, winds of change, and obama for a better world of peace..
I’m voting for Mcain. Not because I don’t like change or because I’m against peace.
Obama is a Marxist. His first act might very well be to replace the oval office picture of Lincoln with one of Karl Marx. I’m not voting for an executive of the world.. I don’t want to be in your commune. America, her states, are governed on the premises of Individual liberty and responsibility. It’s doubtful that it’s true but lets assume the government could do a better job at providing health care.. I still don’t want it to.
There are plenty of nations out there that are socialist and they accept applications for membership.. you can renounce your US citizenship. Obama wants to incorporate us into an international government structure, I on the other hand don’t trust the government 2000m away in washington let alone some group of idiot beuracrats in brussles or where ever.
I’m an atheist so I don’t pray, but I hope like hell that Obama doesn’t win. Maybe we’ll have a shot at getting back to our principles of individualism.
You see while there are plenty of places to go to live under socialism, totalianarism, dictatorial authoritarianism, communism..etc.. there ARE NO OTHER PLACES WE CAN GO to maintain our liberty of here.
The change that obama brings is the condition that we have lived under for most of our existence on earth.. government oppression, by economic means in this instance, the real change is what our founders did some 200 years ago. For the first time in history a land where individual liberty was prized over the will of the governing was in place. This wind Obama speaks of from his back, is his hope to extinquish that spark.

gpreiss
I agree the Democratic party is voting present but isnt there…and Donna Brazile who singlehandedly lost the election in 2000 for Gore used her Louisiana voodoo to screw things up

Give her some Russian Vodka…that’s what the socialist Russia uses to drown their sorrows…

JG:
You lost me.
Gov. Sarah Palin is the only Gov. in the U.S. to be routinely briefed on sensitive, international security matters as CIC of the 49th Missile Defense Battalion of the Alaska National Guard.
I, Kaylee, am a former USN officer. Any libs out there what to test that?

Kaylee
Im talking about what Biden said the other day about Obama being tested… Im trying to help the conservatives out here for once I agree with you so work with me

Hector
I couldve helped them out since I refused to do anything for Obama and I already voted for Mccain this election as the media has portrayed it cannot stand

Why do you people continue to demonize the candidates?
I can somewhat understand demonizing McCain because he voted with Bush over 90% of the time and bragged about it, and Bush basically lined the pockets of his oil, banking and military/industrial complex buddies while embarassing the country internationally – and he totally BANKRUPTED the country with abusive spending of the public’s money.

Kaylee: Nice try at a bluff. I am not in the military, but I do have a brother-in-law who used to brief the Joint Chiefs of Staff, so we’ve discussed what Sarah Palin’s responsibilities and powers would be as Governor of Alaska in detail. And he says you are full of baloney. She would certainly not have top security clearance, particularly at a time when there is no direct conflict between Russia and the US and it will be very interesting to see if she ever gets it – with a husband who wanted Alaska to secede from the United States – and friends who still belong to and are leader of that party.
He also said that ANYONE who claimed to have special military knowledge was almost certainly violating their position and their statements were almost certainly either a) subject to dismissal or b) baloney.

pefros, read oi810′s comment on where the economic woes came from…its a very enlightening introspective look and it makes great sense…I think he put it in at about 12:45

Obama feels a righteous wind, I see him blowing smoke up my ass.

I’m still waiting to see a signed and sealed authentic birth certificate

Hector
Amen! yea the Huffington Post singlehandedly brought the other squeamish media along besides Chris Matthews who felt a chill goign up his leg in February! there is a conspiracy here

The Democrats will not have to steal this election. Most of the American public is disgusted at the result of 8 years of Republicans in the White House and 6 of those years holding congress and the senate.
It will be a landslide for the Democrats.

JD – I appreciate your thinking. Frankly I would not care if socialist or marxist won the election, I just hate the fact that they have to lie about their goals. The lies make me want to arrest them for treason because they are trying to gain office via trickery. That is just plain wrong. Call it what it is, and if everyone wants it – well have at it. Like Diedre – I am not sure that post isn’t a joke – it is certainly idiocy – but at least her position is clear and straightforward.

I agree with you too Bob

The Democrats will not have to steal this election. Most of the American public is disgusted at the result of 8 years of Republicans in the White House and 6 of those years holding congress and the senate.
It will be a landslide for the Democrats.

Mara:
Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska never said she had a higher security clearance than Biden. The Commanding Officer of the 49th Missille Battalion of the Alaska National Guard said she did. Also, he said Sarah Palin met with McCain in February of this year. No one knew about this until after McCain announced his pick for VP. The Commander of the only National Guard Unit in the U.S. to be on permanent active duty status in the U.S. said, on the record, that Gov. Sarah Palin is a person who can keep a secret.
Now, Mara, don’t evade the issues. Show us the transcripts. Heck, I’ll even settle for his thesis. Keep in mind, however, that I read Michelle Obama’s Princeton thesis before it was taken off the internet (my 15 year-old daughter writes better). And by the way, I worked in the Pentagon (like a lot of other promising junior female officers before I graduated from the Naval War College in Newport, RI.)

JG: Your comment makes absolutely no sense.
Goodbye: Your comment is a testament to what I’ve stated. The McCain supporters who are left are the type of hate-filled “Kill Him” “N—–” lynch mob types who led the police dogs at Selma. And your incredible statement not only is proof of what I said, it’s also proof that this site allows any form of attack. You do not scare me. Not a bit. I do not believe that your type will prevail. That’s why this country is not still where it was when the hate-filled mobs attacked people fighting for freedom in Selma or in Birmingham. You don’t scare me – but you are the reason why the McCain/Palin ticket is losing. The more vile your comments are, the more vile your candidate becomes.

David
I tried to be objective and waited till before I voted and cast a ballot for Mcain because that is what my conscience tol me to do

Hey Waynesworld-
I took the liberty of adding a few more!(and I tweaked a couple – hope you don’t mind! LOL)I fwded it to 37 people – all you conservatives, it’s ccopy, paste, & email time!
I am voting Democrat because I believe our Founding Fathers, with all their talk about “being endowed by their Creator”, “Providence of Almighty God”, ” yada yada, were trying to force their religion on me, violating the separation of church and state!
I’m voting Democrat because I believe Reverend Wright when he said “GODD*MN AMERICA” and “OUR CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST”. The attacks on the U.S. on 9/11 were our own fault – as a matter of fact, I blame America first in just about everything, believe we are responsible for most of the ills in the world, and think we should grovel to the Europeans to get them to like us more. It’s important!
I’m voting Democrat because I believe we need to rid ourselves of dependency on foreign oil, BUT I AM AGAINST offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, drilling in Anwar, building nuclear power plants and clean coal technology because – well, just because!
I’m voting Democrat because I think that political TV shows and talk radio should be heavily regulated by the government, not by the free market. It’s only fair!
I’m voting Democrat because I don’t think people should try to better themselves by striving to build companies that make $250,000 a year. They are just greedy, and should be taxed 60%!!
I’m voting Democrat because I believe celebrating the winter solstice in schools, replacing Christmas songs with “winter songs” in Chorus, and not allowing Christmas decorations in the classroom shows compassion for the small minority of people that do not celebrate Christmas, and that their rights are more important than mine.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe San Francisco is a model American city.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe in a FREE government health care system. I believe doctors, nurses, hospitals, drug companies, etc. will gladly donate their time, products, services, facilities, etc. for FREE and that it will be a better system. I won’t mind a severe drop in quality, or waiting for months for an appointment.
I’m voting Democrat because I think Muslims should be given their own facilities to wash their feet in airports.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe having an unrepentent domestic terrorist like Bill Ayers as a friend & associate is a good thing. We need to understand things from the terrorists’ viewpoint!

And Mara, the key marks on cars with McCain Palin stickers, stealing McCain Palin signs…I guess that’s okay? Uh, calling McCain George Wallace when McCain has never in his life been cited for racist remarks…you’ve been under a rock…and by the way…Alabama will vote McCain…it’s already in the bag…is that because Alabama is a racist state…?

Why I am voting Democrat…
It gives me an excuse to quit working. I’m closing up my shop and movie to the San Antonio area for my retirement. I like to work but under the circumstances, I think I would rather find someting else to do with my time.
I’ve worked hard my whole life and have provided well for my family and in doing so have helped a couple dozen or so other guys provide for their families over the years.
Consider the 5 jobs that are being lost as by my decisions, as the beginning of the Obama carnage.

kudos Diedre

Kaylee: I never said Governor Palin said she had top level security clearence. That was your statement. And your subsequent statements, if they are in fact true, are not statements that any high-ranking military person would ever make. Period. They would consider them a violation.
The rest of the comment doesn’t seem to have much to do with the first part. What in the world does a report Michelle Obama made when she was 22 have to do with security clearances? As opposed to a woman who is married to a man who belonged to a party that wanted to secede from the Union, AS AN ADULT IN HIS FORTIES, a party whose founder stated that he hated the United States with a passion, and still has friends who belong to that party. If your background is anywhere close to what you are stating – you know that man could not pass a security clearance. His friends have an arsenal in the basement. That’s not your common friend or neighbor.

prefros
4 more years of the last 8 years is the dumbest campaign slogan on record… it only means something to you koolaid stained obamabots

One thing really bugs me about Obama and here it is.
We keep hearing that he has a brother in Kenya who lives on 12 dollars a year, and his shelter is a cardboard shack.
How can Obama, who is worth millions, allow his brother to be so destitute?
If he cannot properly take care of his own brother then how can he take care of a whole nation?
The Bible says if a man does not take care of his own family first then he is “worse than a pagan.”
Obama does nothing to help his brother. I think that is very telling about his character. Obama is very greedy. All this money has gone to his head and he seems very arrogant to me now, already planning a victory party and the like. Like those Greek columns he had dragged out of some Hollywood lot for his convention.
Obama has illusions of grandeur.
If he wins this thing he is going to be his own worst enemy and be a source of contempt for the whole nation within 6 months.
Then there will be no more blaming Bush. The Democrats will be totally responsible for the collapse of this country.

gpreiss
thanks.. I normally shy away from public posting but if we dont say something the country will go over a cliff like lemmings or sheep or something

Jpreiss
its like Of Mice and Men the movie but more ironic and tragic!

The parenthesis are my humble opinions the rest is verbatim—
> From Sunday’s Televised ‘Meet the Press’
> Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag.
> Obama Explains National Anthem Stance
> Sun, 07 Sept. 2008 11:48:04 EST,
> General Bill Ginn’
> USAF (ret.) asked Obama to explain why he doesn’t follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.
>
The General also stated to the Senator that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171… During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present
except those in uniform are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. At the very least,’Stand and Face It’
Senator Obama Live on Sunday states,
“As I’ve said about the flag pin, I don’t want to be perceived as taking sides”, Obama said. “There are a lot of people in the world (will succumb to European and Islamic pressure and ideologies) to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression (is still blaming people who are living today, for racism that occurred in the past—which I had nothing to do with) . And the anthem itself conveys
a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all. It should be swapped for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song ‘I’d Like To Teach the World To Sing.’ (belittles patriotism and is not proud of the victories of our servicemen who gave him the right by virtue of these battles so proudly won against people such as Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini–the Marxist with whom his policies reflect) the appearance of being If that were our anthem, then I might salute it. (Admits he doesn’t salute it as it is) We should consider to reinvent our National Anthem as well as to redesign our Flag to better offer our enemies hope and love”.
“It’s my intention, if elected, to disarm America (we arm in defense, Senator Obama has the belief that if we let down our strength, the enemy with whom he wishes to go to bed with—such as Iran and extremist Islam—the very people who call us ‘infidels’ and believe in their hearts they will be rewarded by God for killing and raping us, will drop theirs) to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren. If we as a Nation of warring people (I’m sorry Obama, we are not a nation of warring people, as a matter of fact, we sat around and waited until we were bombed by airplanes and terrorists before 911), should conduct ourselves as the nations of Islam, whereas peace prevails. Perhaps a state or period of mutual concord between our governments. When I become President, I will seek a pact or agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts. We as a Nation have placed upon the nations of Islam an unfair injustice”.
“My wife disrespects the Flag for many personal reasons. (Do we need this in our leadership?) Together she and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past, many years ago. She has her views and I have mine. Of course now, I
have found myself about to become the President of the United States and I have put aside my hatred. I will use my power to bring CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path of hope. My wife and I look forward to becoming our Country’s First Family. Indeed, CHANGE is about to overwhelm the United States of America”.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you heard it right. This could possibly be our next President.
I, for one, am speechless.
Dale Lindsborg,
Washington Post

Holy crapp!
Could someone look at this and tell me what they make of it…I’m not legal expert and don’t want to get my hopes up. It’s the court filings for the case against Obama in PA. The court records are online. Here is an excerpt but the link will take you to the Pennsylvania Eastern District Court site.
I have to paraphrase because it’s long and the PDF won’t let me copy but it goes essentially like this
…The court declares Barak Obama, aka… is not a natural born or naturalized citizen and is ineligle to run for and/or serve as President of the United States. The Democratic National Committee is hereby enjoined from naming Barak Hussein Obama as candidate…..
Please respond if you have a better understanding of this than I do.

gpreiss: i have no doubt that mccain will win in alabama.
there is a klu lux klan flag at the monument to confederate soldiers right by the capitol in alabama. i’d say that should answer your question.

I am waiting to see what ‘theme’ Obama is going to use at his ‘party’. I am thinking Mount Olympus. With a huge GOLD throne for the new GOD Obama. Maybe this time, the pillars will be real!!!
‘Righteous Wind At Our Backs’
No, SELF righteous maybe, self indulgent, self centered, meglamaniac, god complex…you get the drift.
I have one question for the NEW Messiah, when you are re-distributing the wealth, WHAT ABOUT YOUR WEALTH. Will you be doing the ‘PATRIOTIC DUTY’ as Biden says, and pay more taxes….somehow, I don’t think that such a greedy elitist like you will fall under this ‘NEW AMERICA’ tax.
If you becomes President of these United States, I believe you will destroy America…I also believe that is you INTENTION. We are still waiting for PROOF that you were born in Hawaii and Not KENYA.

“Nobody wants it anymore.”
Speak for yourself. I make $148,000 as an experienced optics engineer manager and my company just gave me another 7% raise.
Bush raised my standard of living and he’s kept this country safe from another 9/11 for seven years. You libs never thank him for that, all we get is lies like “inside job! inside job!” which is beyond stupid.

I can understand why you’d demonize Palin for her lies about the Troopergate Report (“They completely cleared my of any abuse of power” – a direct lie), and her lies about the “Bridge to Nowhere” where she pretended she led the charge to stop the bridge and return the people’s hard-earned money – when really Congress stopped it and she then tagged along, and she kept all the money.
Lying directly about things so recent seems a bit demonic and stupid.
Is this too complicated?

Jim:
That’s just what Berg is hoping the judge will rule yes on and sign into effect.
Berg is suing Obama, ruling is suppose to come tomorrow I think.

Randy wrote:
For all of you who doubt Obama. For all of you who do not think he has the experience or criticize his policies, I have two names for you: Colin Powell and Warren Buffet. No one in this country can criticize Powell’s patriotism and no one would even remotely think that Buffet was a Socialist. Both of these men have records that are beyond reproach and each have endorsed Obama. And yet the conservative right have such blinders on the are either unable or unwilling or both to recognize that two men way smarter than every one here have come out in support of Obama. Seriously, after the endorsement by these two, how can any of you radical conservatives continue to spout such gibberish. You may not want to vote for the man, but to continue with Ayers and ACORN and Socialism and experience. Cut the crap already. This guy has been vouched safe by two of he best that this great country of ours has to offer. Enough.
—————————————
Nice Try. Won’t work though. Colin Powell has never been a conservative republican. Nor has he ever had the opportunity to endorse a black candidate for president. Many blacks feel this way. I ain’t blaming them just stating what seems to be going on. Several former republican blacks are endorsing Obama. If he was white they would not be.
What does Warren Buffet care? He has $60B. Uncle Sam could take 59 and he still has more money than 99.99% of the country. I am very upset with him and Bill Gates. The system we have now was good enough for them to make a fortune but not good enough for anyone else? We need to have the folks making $250,000 chip in more so Warren does not feel cheated to give more? Forget you Warren just give more and leave me out of it.

jim..
you’ve proved the conspiracy….
every news and cable organization in the world buried that story ….. great detective work..!

Why do you people continue to demonize the candidates?
I can somewhat understand demonizing McCain because he voted with Bush over 90% of the time and bragged about it, and Bush basically lined the pockets of his oil, banking and military/industrial complex buddies while embarassing the country internationally – and he pushed the country radically further into BANKRUPTCY with abusive spending of the public’s money.

Righteous Wind ???
OBAMA ????
Are we really talking about Barack Obama ????
Maybe you should Ask yourself this: Would Obama abuse government power if elected???
Watch this brief local TV news cast and judge for yourself:

Two things that I find irreconcilable about Colin Powell are 1)He rose through the ranks of the military to get to where he is today and 2)
He doesn’t seem to think that unrepentant, communist, terrorist friends of Obama blowing up the Pentagon is so bad.

Thanks everyone. It was late last night when I had first seen this lawsuit stuff so I had just favorited it and went to bed. Then tonight there was this new document that we’re talking about and I guess I got a little excited…..Can’t blame me, can you?
Anyway, here is the link that goes to the full menu of documents for this case. The one I posted earlier just takes you to the one filing I was asking about.
Let’s hope tommorrow brings good news.

Reality Check:
I know Obama operatives are on this blog. I’ve had three posts censored.

These attempts of yours to make Obama seem “unAmerican” or “friends with terrorists” are pathetic. A few morons will buy it, but by and large all the polls show it just isn’t working. People understand the Swift Boat bull the Republicans perfected with Karl Rove and his crew now working for McCain.
And they’re tired of the lying, cheating and abuse of power they’ve seen from Republicans who have blown their money on HUGE budget deficits and run their country into a war with people who had nothing to do with 9/11. And they don’t like the fact we killed thousands and thousands of people doing it.

Why I am voting Democrat!
I’m voting Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending MY MONEY than I would. I think when you spread the wealth around it is good for everybody! It’s Patriotic!
I’m voting Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. All profits are evil and should be confiscated for Government Redistribution.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe that MORE Government regulations and higher taxes on Business will stop Business from exporting their jobs to Countries with LESS Government regulations and lower taxes.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe terrorists should be allowed to have trials in American courts. And be able to subpoena top secret documents, soldiers, government officials, etc. to cross examine for their defense. They should have ACLU lawyers who can help intimidate Americans who serve on the juries!
I’m voting Democrat because I believe Gay Marriage should be the law of the land and will probably produce better children.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe English should not be the official language of the United States. I don’t mind pushing one for English when I use the phone.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe partial birth abortion is okay but water boarding a terrorist is disgusting.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe having a domestic terrorist like Bill Ayers as a close friend is a good thing. It allows for great relations with foreign terrorists.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe in a FREE government health care system. I believe doctors, nurses, hospitals, drug companies, etc. will gladly donate their time, products, services, facilities, etc. for FREE and that will be a better system.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe in and support trial lawyers, frivolous lawsuits and outrageous jury verdicts.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe 9/11 was an inside job to con the American people to go to war for oil.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe social security is solvent and that there is a social security lock box and I don’t believe social security is a Ponzi scheme.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe MOST AMERICANS are bitter and cling to their guns and religion. Let’s rid our country of guns and religion!
I’m voting Democrat because I believe illegal aliens deserve all the rights of ordinary Americans plus some additional rights Americans do not have.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe corporations should pay higher taxes! I believe higher taxes on business will make the price of their products and services LESS EXPENSIVE.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe groups like ACORN who register felons, drug addicts, wino’s, homeless drifters, illegal aliens, dead people, children, fictional Disney characters, etc. makes my vote count more.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe celebrating the winter solstice shows compassion for the small minority of people that do not celebrate Christmas.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe hard core criminal murders and rapists deserve life and that the innocent unborn deserve death. It’s a choice I can live with.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe Bush caused Hurricane Katrina and he blew-up the levies in the ninth ward of New Orleans.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe that any one who is not partaking in one of the many wonderful government programs obviously has too much money and should pay higher taxes.
I’m voting Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq the terrorists will be happy and now think of us as good people.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe our soldiers are AIR RAIDING villages and killing innocent people.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe sex in the Oval Office with an intern is a private matter and that everybody lies under oath about sex.
I’m votin Demokrat becuse I wus edumkated at a publick sckrool. I lik da Natsionel Edukatshun Assoseeashun!
I’m voting Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long as it does not offend people. Can’t we all just get along?
I’m voting Democrat because I believe oil companies’ profits are wrong. I believe higher taxes on oil companies will produce lower prices at the pump.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe we need to rid ourselves of dependency on foreign oil, BUT I AM AGAINST offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, drilling in Anwar, building nuclear power plants and clean coal technology.
And finally, I’m voting Democrat because I believe Reverend Wright when he said “GODDAMN AMERICA” and “OUR CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST”. Hey let’s make a comfortable nest for those chickens!
Why are you voting Democrat?

It is important that the voters in the upcoming election understand what is the cause of the current economic problems in order for the election to have a positive effect on the economy. Conventional wisdom and urban legends can be used by those responsible for the economic problems to escape consequences of their policies and end up being the proverbial foxes guarding the henhouse. Luckily for our economic future, in this electronic age, the answers are readily available to the average citizen’s finesse and fingertips.
Some questions that should be asked are these: Which senators have taken the most money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and what is their party affiliation? Which politicians, and what are their party affiliations, encouraged sub-prime lending the most? Which politicians, and of which party affiliation, are closest to ACORN, which champions sub-prime lending by intimidating banks? Which politicians, and of what party, strove to regulate Fannie Mae several years ago when problems were apparent? What is the party affiliation of the politicians who, in a 2004 House hearing(on u-tube), attacked and denounced Federal Regulator Armando Falcone and those who tried to expose the sub prime problems with Fannie Mae? Which politicians, bureaucrats, and CEO’s and of what party, got very favorable personal loans through Countrywide Financial? What are the similarities between Enron’s Ken Lay and recent Fannie Mae CEOs? What is the party affiliation of politicians who broke the overpriced economy’s back by strangling our domestic oil supply? And finally, has the dominant news media been helpful or a hindrance to finding the facts? May I suggest you ask some of your own questions?

This may seem contrary to thought…but preros…I may seem stupid to you, but going in to remove a dictator who genicided 450,000 or more people in Iraq was something that no one had the kahunas to do…and we forget that although they did not have WDM’s completed, they did find material to make it with and documents showing a desire to…

The problem the Republicans have is they’ve been in power basically for the past 8 years. 8 years in the White House and 6 of those years holding both the senate and congress.
And it’s one pathetic record and one incredible mess the Republicans have left. The country is running astronomical deficits, the economy is in a dangerous state and the country is still trying to get out of a war started by the Republican White House that had nothing to do with 9/11. It was a neo-con wet dream built on dumb ambition and arrogance and a few fabricated ‘facts’ to confuse the public. And the public knows it.
So all that is left is to throw slime at the Democrats and try to demonize the candidate and the party.
It ain’t gonna work. The Democrats will rightfully win a solid majority, the Republicans will be out

Fredrick, I have already apologized and retracted my statement…

Kamikaze is Japanese for “divine wind,” not “righteous wind,” Carl

gp you’ve somewhat discredited yourself as any kind of authority.

Sorry, that was Burt Lancaster in “Elmer Gantry.” It’s a great movie, everyone should see it before they vote.
Aging Warrior/Wonder Woman ’08

His paper trail to Odinga in Kenya should be enough for anyone…his election in 1996 as a New Party candidate…these are not smears…they are in black and white…the quick rise to power should throw up a caution flag…he is one fine lawyer

Senator John McCain’s campaign manager was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations, current and former officials say.

I’m not a right-winger…I never have voted straight party…I vote issues and for people who believe in Capitalism…it is Socialism that has been breeding that caused the current crisis…programs…you must work in one of them since you are quick to defend

Reality check for Reality Check:
In Cincinnati, the Hamilton County prosecutor — who also is the local chairman of Republican Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign — launched a grand-jury investigation last week following complaints about some early voters. On Monday, he turned the case over to a court-appointed special prosecutor, after Democrats complained that the allegations were politically motivated. Now, the board of elections is fighting over whether to hire an attorney to keep tabs on the prosecutor.

One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month from the end of 2005 through last month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain’s campaign manager, according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement.
The disclosure undercuts a remark by Mr. McCain on Sunday night that the campaign manager, Rick Davis, had had no involvement with the company for the last several years.
Mr. Davis’s firm received the payments from the company, Freddie Mac, until it was taken over by the government this month along with Fannie Mae, the other big mortgage lender whose deteriorating finances helped precipitate the cascading problems on Wall Street, the two people said.
They said they did not recall Mr. Davis’s doing much substantive work for the company in return for the money, other than to speak to a political action committee of high-ranking employees in October 2006 on the approaching midterm Congressional elections. They said Mr. Davis’s firm, Davis Manafort, had been kept on the payroll because of his close ties to Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, who by 2006 was widely expected to run again for the White House.
Mr. Davis took a leave from Davis Manafort for the presidential campaign, but as an equity holder continues to benefit from its income. No one at Davis Manafort other than Mr. Davis was involved in efforts on Freddie Mac’s behalf, the people familiar with the arrangement said.

gp you were the one posting information that was inaccurate . . . you have forgotten so quickly.
oh wait . .. you said you were sorry

Ryan C -
Yes Ryan, that is fine and dandy but we’re not able to hold McCain’s campaign manager accountable, are we? We can however, take care of those leeches in Congress.
Is your partisonship so important to you that you will give these scumbags a pass?
And in case you didn’t read everything that was posted, let me repost a relevant sentence or two:
…Senator Russell D. Feingold, the Wisconsin Democrat who, with Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, has championed legislation to overhaul campaign finance, said today that he was ashamed of his party’s fund-raising efforts. Mr. Feingold called it ”a system of legalized bribery and legalized extortion.”

I can understand why you’d demonize Palin for her lies about the Troopergate Report (“They completely cleared me of any abuse of power” – a direct lie), and her lies about the “Bridge to Nowhere” where she pretended she led the charge to stop the bridge and return the people’s hard-earned money – when really Congress stopped it and she then tagged along, and she kept all the money.
Lying directly about things so recent seems a bit demonic and stupid.
Is this too complicated?

Obama Campaign propaganda tactics in action:
The individual using screen name Ryan C wrote:
“Corsi is a joke that got exposed as a fraud.”
Make personal, attacks on an individual who is not available to defend himself, without objective evidence that anything the Obama operative says is true.
Then attack another third party based on the assumption your first statement was actually true.
Standard propaganda tactics.

Jim the Democrats have only had 2 short years of influence . .. . whereas the Republican crooks have had their 8 years in the White House and 6 controlling senate and congress; I would definitely support all of the Republicans being turfed out.

gp don’t be disappointed in yourself or your fellow Americans. Be disappointed in the leadership that brought America to this disgraced state.

and don’t forget that Obama was one of those leaders as he has someone managed to elite himself above any association—be reasonable—he was there too

ummmm, if a Republican were to claim ‘righteousness,’ the liberals would pounce all over that as being messianic (i.e. nuts). Is Obama nuts too? Just wondering.

pefros -
I respect that but I don’t agree. No system of Government is going to work if our elected officials can’t understand that governing requires a little mutual respect and decency for fellow lawmakers and maybe just a tad of motivation to actaully do what they were hired to do.
Just look at our politics – we have never been so divided. It’s not your fault, it’s not mine. This is what these noble people have done for us…and we actually pay them for this?
We have politicians trashing voters that have the gall to ask a question. We have Congress with a sub 10% approval rating and we don’t fire them?
They are all clowns. Life used to be good here but what this is becoming is absolutely laughable. Trashing our fellow citizens, running their lives into the ground, media doing the same, Congress tanking the world’s economy.
They’re all morons..they don’t know how to create jobs, balance a budget or tell the truth..all they know is how to manipulate and divide and SPEND.
This is not a Right/Left issue. It’s OUR issue. The media and the parties want us divided, fighting each other so we don’t take a moment to look at them.
And look at the seeds they have sewn for us…on Nov 4th, if the country chooses McCain, do you think anyone is going to believe that he didn’t steal it? No matter what, that will be the accusation the left throws out there (this goes both ways…as the Right will believe Acorn stole it for Obama) and the party leaders and the media will rejoince in the insurrection that follows because it elevates them, gives them stature.
All we want is to get honest information so we can hire a decent guy to fill the role and we go through this?? They won’t be honest or avoid divisiveness and THEY ARE NOT WORTHY OF THE SEATS THEY HOLD.

Ferreting out these nefarious activities became a central focus of the Justice Department under John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales at the direction of the Bush White House. The department instructed all U.S. attorneys that the prosecution and conviction of voter-fraud perpetrators was, in Gonzales’s words, a “top priority.” Extensive investigations were undertaken across the nation. Yet, by 2005, as Art Levine reported in the American Prospect this April, only two people had been charged with falsifying or fabricating voter registration forms, and nobody had been charged with impersonating another voter.
But the current attacks on ACORN provide the pretext for attempts to turn black voters and college students away from their polling places. In Ohio, the Republican war on voting has already begun. Hamilton County (that’s Cincinnati) prosecutor Joseph Deters, who is also the Southwest Ohio regional chair of the McCain campaign, subpoenaed the records of 266 new voters who have cast absentee ballots because he suspected their addresses might not comport to other public records. A GOP fundraiser in the state is asking the Ohio Supreme Court to deny 200,000 recent registrants the right to vote because their addresses on their registration forms don’t match those on their driver’s licenses, a discrepancy that suggests that the voters have moved or that the addresses were entered incorrectly by the registrar’s offices.
If you can’t find the crime here, you’re not alone. A number of the U.S attorneys fired by Gonzales got the ax for failing to uncover such crimes, though they conducted far-reaching investigations. David Iglesias, the former U.S. attorney for New Mexico, told Levine that voter fraud “is like the boogeymen parents use to scare their children. It’s very frightening, and it doesn’t exist.”

By the way Jim, I’ve seen that full discussion between Obama and the plumber and Obama took a fair bit of time with that guy, and he took time to explain where he was coming from.
It was McCain who chose to thrust the plumber into the spotlight by mentioning him many times in the last debate – and then McCain had the gall to say that was Obama’s fault the guy came under scrutiny. What a lame and sleazy move.
And of course the truth is the plumber would do better under Obama’s tax plan, and McCain knows that.

If your gonna tax joe the plummer, tax hollywood!!

Sorry Jim, if you’re saying politicians are crooks whether Democrat or Republican, I would agree .. .
However, I’m simply appalled at what I’ve seen from the Republicans in power and I have little desire to coddle them. The Republicans will be rightfully voted out of Presidential office and have no more right to Congress than anybody else.

“You have a Monica problem,” Ms. Ashton was told, according to several Justice Department officials. Referring to Monica M. Goodling, a 31-year-old, relatively inexperienced lawyer who had only recently arrived in the office, the boss added, “She believes you’re a Democrat and doesn’t feel you can be trusted.”
Ms. Ashton’s ouster — she left the Executive Office for United States Attorneys for another Justice Department post two weeks later — was a critical early step in a plan that would later culminate in the ouster of nine United States attorneys last year.
Ms. Goodling would soon be quizzing applicants for civil service jobs at Justice Department headquarters with questions that several United States attorneys said were inappropriate, like who was their favorite president and Supreme Court justice. One department official said an applicant was even asked, “Have you ever cheated on your wife?”
Ms. Goodling also moved to block the hiring of prosecutors with résumés that suggested they might be Democrats, even though they were seeking posts that were supposed to be nonpartisan, two department officials said.
And she helped maintain lists of all the United States attorneys that graded their loyalty to the Bush administration, including work on past political campaigns, and noted if they were members of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group.

Sorry Jim, if you’re saying politicians are crooks whether Democrat or Republican, I would agree .. .
However, I’m simply appalled at what I’ve seen from the Republicans in power and I have little desire to coddle them. The Republicans will be rightfully voted out of Presidential office and have no more right to Congress than anybody else.

Joe was a liar and a LOSER”
Well Joe is a liar.
He said he was about to buy the business. Later he admitted that is many years away.
He stated the business made $250K to $280K. Later he had to admit the business made about $100K.
And we know Joe hates taxes since he doesn’t bother to actually pay them.

Sorry Jim, your reading of the situation with the plumber is way skewed.
The plumber asked a question, Obama answered it. That was it.
Then McCain chose to thrust this guy into the spotlight by mentioning him many times in the debate – using a private citizen to score political points. Clearly, McCain’s choice to ride this guy’s for political points, knowing it would put him under media scrutiny.
All Obama and McCain did was point out most plumbers are making under $250,000 a year, and would benefit under their tax plan.
They scoffed at McCain’s implication that normal old Joe the plumber would be earning more than $250,000 and taxed heavily under the Democratic tax plan. They did not scoff at Joe the Plumber.
McCain then accused them of scoffing at Joe the plumber.
Try to get these things right.

Jim,
You’re well intentioned but mistaken. 90% of the problems in this country are cause by the ignorant, irrational leftists. First they screw things up, then they demagogue the issue, lie about their involvement, and then blame someone else.

wordsmithy wrote: “Also, why does he want to create the Civilian Domestic Police Force that will be manditory sevice for anyone receiving Federal aid that will be equally armed, equally funded and equally strong as the military?”
To Word Smithy:
Are you able to share links to news media reports about this?
Especially the part about being equally armed with the military.
If it were true the Obama was talking about creating a Militia of his political supporters – that would be news.

I’m appalled that McCain would USE this private citizen knowing he would be thrust into the media – without even asking him.
And also appalled McCain would try to equate normal everyday plumbers with people being taxed for income over $250,000. Everyday plumbers earn way less that that . ..and would not be hurt by Obama’s tax plan.
McCain grabbed onto this guy and basically fabricated at the guy’s expense. And then blamed it on the Democrats and the media!

You have to remember, Biden scoffed at the idea that everyday joe-the-plumbers are falling into the $250,000 and above tax bracket.
He scoffed at McCain’s characterization of someone earning over $250,000 as ‘simple Joe the plumber’ . . ‘good old Joe the plumber’.
It was a cynical and manipulative ploy by McCain and he did it despite the damage it might cause the plumber.
And then to blame it on the Democrats … what a sleazy thing to do.

Obama promised tax breaks for 95% of WORKING americans.

Jim. Yes. McCain’s sleazy exploitation of the plumber is way more important to me. And further, the way he blamed the Democrats for ‘exposing’ the plumber to harsh media – McCain clearly did that by mentioning the plumber over and over in a nationally televised debate. And he warped the facts to try and make it look like ordinary joe the plumbers would be heavily taxed by Obama so he could ‘spread the wealth’ around.
Straight fabrications, lies and exploitation. I detest this kind of sleaze.

Sorry Jim, you might have missed my reply to your question in all the spamming from Reality Check. Here it is . ..
Jim. Yes. McCain’s sleazy exploitation of the plumber is way more important to me. And further, the way he blamed the Democrats for ‘exposing’ the plumber to harsh media – McCain clearly did that by mentioning the plumber over and over in a nationally televised debate. And he warped the facts to try and make it look like ordinary joe the plumbers would be heavily taxed by Obama so he could ‘spread the wealth’ around.
Straight fabrications, lies and exploitation. I detest this kind of sleaze.

I’m not a big John McCain fan, but I think he would be infinitely better than Obama in every respect other than lying during the State of the Union–clearly, Obama can lie as well as Clinton. Apart from that, though, I would love to see Obama lose just because he’s so annoyingly presumptuous. I’d love to see the gasbag deflated.

Thanks for posting my words again Reality Check.

Weezie in many people’s eyes George Bush and his administration have been an absolute disaster for the United States. Just his irresponsible fiscal approach (BILLIONS of dollars of deficit)is enough, and we shouldn’t forget he invaded a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and killed thousands and thousands of people .. . for their own good, cause we know best … my god. What arrogance! Good thing god is on his side.

BUSH = CIA = OIL = HALLIBURTON = THE ELITE = MCCAIN = CHENEY

I can understand why you’d demonize Palin for her lies about the Troopergate Report (“They completely cleared me of any abuse of power” – a direct lie), and her lies about the “Bridge to Nowhere” where she pretended she led the charge to stop the bridge and return the people’s hard-earned money – when really Congress stopped it and she then tagged along, and she kept all the money.
Lying directly about things so recent seems a bit demonic and stupid.
Is this too complicated?

Liberals in Virginia have a very short life span. Warner and Webb are not liberals. If they choose to align with Pelosi and Co., they will begin the end of their reigns. Virginians have been able to quarantine the liberals to No. Va.

Max wrote:
“Has Obama read the koran (No).”
How the Hell would you know what he has read. I am a life long Christian and I have read most of the Koran and some of the commentaries.
Obama is, by all accounts brilliant, so how would you know he has not read the Koran.

“I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here.”
All hail the democratic equivalent of the Bush administration!

Yeah So thought the Japanese and Nazis!!!

I’m appalled that McCain would USE this private citizen knowing he would be thrust into the media – without even asking him.

And also appalled McCain would try to equate normal everyday plumbers with people being taxed for income over $250,000.

Everyday plumbers earn way less that that . ..and would not be hurt by Obama’s tax plan.

McCain grabbed onto this guy and basically fabricated at the guy’s expense. And then blamed it on the Democrats and the media!

barry is also going to raise EVERYBODY’S taxes. You are an idiot if you do think so because YOU don’t understand the market and how taxes affect them. We will find out just how many STUPID voters we have on election night. Joe the plumber is an example, Joe has over 1000 dollars in overdue tax penalty. barry is typical for a Washington liberal politician, barry is going to take more of something from joe that he already knows doesn’t have and won’t stop until they take everything we make. He is a socialist.

Righteous? More like corrupt and foul. He’s taken in more money than anyone in history with few controls to prevent money from overseas, credit card fraud, and invalid or fictitious donors. He’s destroyed campaign financing that was a critical reform. He flooded caucuses and now voter registration with out of state votes and people of marginal ability to make rational, informed choices. He’s provided little or no information about his health, college transcripts, associations with Marxists, Maoists, black separatists, Hamas and crooks. Righteous, yes, if he sees the hand of Allah placing him as the President of the Great Satan. Christians, Jews, the disabled and the middle class are doomed.

TO JIM:
I think your looking at your biblical inference wrong.
Jesus did NOT have his disciples sell all they had so they could distribute thier wealth to the poor. He did this so they could then focus all thier attentions on HIM and his ministry.
Also it is a well known fact that Christians (who are more than 50% for McCain by most polls) give FREELY (read not forced to by the US Govnt) MORE $$ per person than any other faction in the world.
You may also want to ask yourself why it is that Joe Biden only gave $300 to charity last year (according to his last years tax filing available via the FEC) and Obama less than $3,000. But yet the Lord calls us to tithe (or give the top 10% of the first earnings) to charity.

“Consider This ….
George W. Bush and Bill Clinton established the Precedent that any newly elected President can ask for and accept the Resignation of all US Attorneys ( Prosecutors ).”
Would that be before or after the Clintons fired thier 95 Attorneys Reality Check?

“I feel like we got a”
Nice use of the english language, you bumbling idiot. THIS is what a high end education buys in America? He must have been too busy snorting coke and smoking pot to learn the use of the English language,
I am ready for Obama to be president. I am closing my business, laying off all employees, and retiring. My income will then be low enough that Obama will give me free money he has seized from other Americans.
I have done my part for many years. Now I plan to be on the Obama gravy train. The rest of you can support me, in turn for electing this socialist.
Jobs will tank, many of us will close down, or downsize, or retire. Damned if I am giving even more money away to deadbeats sitting home on the couch. It is now my turn to sit on the couch.

Orpheus wrote:
“ahhh…. my screw up Reality… you did mention Clinton. I stand corrected. However.. I also believe that many past presidents [couldn't name them though] have also done this as is their right as I understand it.”
Reality Check writes:
The point is not have other Presidents exercised this massive power to replace all US Prosecuters when they first become elected.
The point is what do the news reports of how he used Government Prosecuters in the pass tell us about what he will do if elected.
Please read it again and watch the clip from the local TV News cast.

What arrogance! He has already been promising the world to everyone “once” he is elected. He pretends to be just like everyone else but yet he is really the most elitist, arrogant politician out there. What a joke…

With all due respect, 9 out of 10 probably don’t undestand what the word “socialism” means. Bush just nationalized the banking system!!! Obama deserves a shot because the Republicans-who I voted for twice-have messed up like none before. The last straw for me was Palin. How could any conservative with a brain not be embarassed.Toss the bums out.

Enemies of our country can only strike us from within. Once Obama is elected, they will be able to strike us from the outside.
The messiah is nothing more than the tip of the spear of those that want to destroy our country, our Constitution and our way of life.
Thank God we still have millions that are not brainwashed or suffer from overwhelming unfounded guilt and low self esteem. These productive members of society and our military will not let Marxism in any form destroy our country. It’s time to turn back the clock of the left leaning downward slide in this country. No more political correctness. No more thought police. No more Congress buying votes with taxpayers’ money. No more politically biased media. Stop Obama, Soros, and our foreign enemies that are backing Obama will millions in illegal campaign contributions. And stop funding ACORN with ur tax dollars!

Obama is a QB with ONE PLAY and the other Team already knows the play. The wealthy that he targets to tax already have financial guru’s planning alternative strategies to lower taxable income – i.e. tax free’s. They will take gains or accelerated income before the tax law changes become affective. Then sit back for 4 years and ride it out.
In the meantime the stock sell offs will increase, investment capital will dry up and not only will no new jobs be created – alot of people will be let go.
So what’s Plan B – Mr. B?

Read a nice article saying local and state law enforcement agencies are gearing up for “civil unrest” during the election. I’m assuming that this will be if the elities messiah BHO doesnt win!! If he doesnt win, the folks who would of received the re-distribution of BHO’s tax program will try to take it themselves, so folks better be prepared. Remember, Los Angeles was almost burned to the ground for a drug addict high on PCP

“Marxism will destroy our country”? Listen to your self. Look at where we are after 8 years of truly, inept politics. We are weaker on all fronts than at virtually, any time in our history. Again, throw the bums out. Mcain may be dead and then what…President Palin? She can’t put a coherent sentence together. Makes my conservative blood boil.

Craig S…
You are no conservative…

craig s: Correction 9 out of 10 Democrats probably don’t know what the word socialism means.
And if you really want the truth about the financial crisis and banking failures, why not read this great article by a very accomplished Democrat author?
http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/081017light.html

A simple question for Obama fans: if GOP policies were so terrible, why is it the DOW average climbed from 8000 in March 2003, to 14,000 in October 2007?

I submit, that there will be riots if Obama wins or loses. Either in celebration, or anger at the loss. I point to NYC as the example when David Dinkins first became Mayor, crime skyrocketed and remained high until Guiliani succeeded him. This example also applies to Washington DC, Detroit, and others. The criminal element in the black community (as well as others) felt they had a free ride because one if their own as they saw it was in charge, and that they could do as they pleased without repercussions.
When the ‘Mob Rules’ mentality takes hold, the mob will rule.

I can’t believe any one would consider the following question intelligent:
“A simple question for Obama fans: if GOP policies were so terrible, why is it the DOW average climbed from 8000 in March 2003, to 14,000 in October 2007?”
What rock are you hiding under? Do you not have the fundamental economic grasp that the past 8 years have been a false economy? Jeeze louise on a biscuit…we’re truly doomed by our own stupidity.

Actually Craig S
If you really want to look at the last 8 years, lets…after 9/11 and the tech bubble burst, the economy moved into a growth stage that saw a decline in unemployment and an increase in economic growth by 2005. In 2006, the Democrats took over Congress and here we are today. Ask any economist, the economy and the stock market are a lagging indicator of policies that were put into place 18-24 months prior…funny because with this current mess and the great Bubble burst, Democrats seemed to be lingering around in high numbers

mayhemontheway
So I really didn’t want to put the doom and gloom that way, but I don’t think I could have put it better then you did. Win or lose, it will be a good excuse for the undisciplined and unruly to pillage the country. The 2nd amendment will never be more important, and for those that are planning the brewhaha, keep in mind, there still are real Americans out there that will die to defned their land and family!!

Sounds like he is saying God is on his side. Good to know he is such a stand up guy.

We’ve had ENOUGH Of you Cheating Liberals that think that since you can’t win an election on Ideas, So You will steal it by poring close to a million dollars into Left Wing Groups that are trying to register everyone from Edi Amine to Hugo Chavez. Then you have your Left Wing MEDIA friends showing polls that are out to lunch to try to throw of republican voters by making them think that McCain has no chance to win this election.
We here in FlyOver Country are going to blow some Righteous Votes For McCain Palin and I am going to be laughing My butt off all night long long watching your Media Blowhards’ squirm in their madness.

I can’t wait for the return of the Carter years… 18% inflation & 14%+ Prime!
Now THAT will create new jobs… IN CHINA AND MEXICO!!!
Get ready to go to work for BIG BUSINESS because we small companies are already cutting staff! Check the unemployment stats!
Buttttt…..
“I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here.
“Whatevvah!!! The messiah has spoken!
Like Chris… I get that tingle down my leg!!!
Warm and wet!

Craig S wrote:
“Bottom line: the Republicans have made an unmittigated mess around the world and at home. They deserve to be thrown out”
Reality Check writes:
Agreed they all, Republicans and Democrats alike, deserve to be thrown out.
The question is:
Do my children and grand children deserve what will happen, or worse yet, might happen,
If we reward the Democrats with Absolute Power and tell them we are so stupid that we think they are not as responsible for our being in this situation with the Economy as the Republicans.
Democratic Senators Dodd and Obama are the two biggest takers of bribes ( OH excuse me – campaign contributions ) from the WALL Street/Banking/Real Estate Sector over the past 10 years.
And Obama is he just an honest socialist who believes in free elections even after he gets elected.
Is he truly interested in improving the United States within the current democratic Republic and it’s constitution.
Or is Obama something else.

I’ll never understand why all the Obamabots are so enthralled with his speaking ability.
“We GOT a righteous wind at our back”???
That is not proper grammar. Good grief! He sure has you all duped. A charming snake oil salesman.
Vote for a tried and tested leader. Vote John McCain/Sarah Palin *08.

A “self righteous” wind. The straight faced lying express. What U.S. enemies are Obama/Bidens friends with to share their plans with Joe Biden for a created crisis that the US population won’t like?
Typical mainstream media bias. I think the fairness doctrine would hurt the mainstream media, especially PBS, if they truly had to follow the fairness doctrine. They would have to change 50% of their news coverage to be “50/50″.

I’m an immigrant from Russia. I grew up in Siberia in 1960-70-s, the prosperous period in USSR. Neither my parents nor I were Party elites and had no special privileges to get an apartment, a telephone, a car etc. To give it to us would be decided by a few Communist Party demagogues on their subjective opinion regarding how hard and productive we worked for USSR and therefore for the Communist party.
Based on the size of our family, two parents and child, the government gave us a one room apartment that consists of a single room, 18 sq. yards, used as a bedroom, living room, and storage. The only other rooms were a bathroom and a kitchen, where I had to sleep. Lucky we had an apartment, since many families had to wait sometimes for twenty years to get one.
Since government controlled food production and distribution each person had special ration cards to buy in the local store 2 lb of meat or 1 lb of processed meat products per month, and 8 oz of butter.
During Yeltsin reign, in the early 1990′s, taxes on business were significantly increased resulting in great decrease in production. Inflation hit 2000%. Sugar, eggs, salt, detergent, soap, vodka and even matches were also distributed through the ration cards. I was an engineer then. I remember having nothing to eat but bread and spaghetti. Shelves in the stores were completely empty. My mother, teacher, and her doctor friend were in the same situation. Nobody talked of poverty. We were all equal.
After I was fortunate to immigrate to US I was surprised how many people here whine about hardship of living and believed in a socialistic utopia. The question “Why?” is always on the back of my mind.
Looks like after Soviets were defeated by Reagan a lot of people fell asleep and let communists come to their back yard in the clothes of liberal media and education system, with promises of free healthcare and education — with ideas to make irreversible change “…from the lies, falsehood and hypocrisy of …democracy for the rich — and establish democracy for the poor…” (Quote Marx and Engels)
If we will follow this road everyone will be poor.
I guess I understand the liberal elite in D.C, they would revel in power. But local news paper reporters, or teachers? In socialist society they would be defeated and silenced first.
I want to scream that socialism was never about equality. To quote Lenin the socialism is “dictatorship of proletariat “, but in the end it is just a dictatorship.
Why so many people forget that freedom of individuality and enterprise all encompassed in the genius of capitalism makes this country great! Why so many do not realize that they live in the cleanest and most prosperous country in the world? Do you really want the government to decide how the necessities of life should be rationed or how big your home should be? Do you really believe that somebody in government can “spread the wealth around” fairly? I don’t. I’ve been there before! Also I don’t want that my children and grandchildren would live as I did with no way out. USA is only haven of freedom from government left in the world.

Righteous wind? More like a dry desert wind that shrivels everything in its path. Read what Zina has to say in her previous post. She knows what she’s talking about.

Craig S., no one is falling over themselves, drooling over Sarah Palin’s handle on the English language. How many times have I seen in the press “Barack Obama is such an eloquent speaker”?
Uh, um, uh, um…spare me!
John McCain/Sarah Palin *08 ~ real people, with real ideas!

The Democrats are like the Sith from Star Wars…closet tyrants hiding in the shadows and holding back their true agenda (although we see glimpses of it!) until they achieve ultimate power.
Obama is like Emperor Palpatine.
He…and THEY…must be stopped or we will lose our republic.

Yesterday, I saw a bumper sticker with the official Obama logo that had the “Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a govenor”.
Now we see this “rightous wind” comment from Obama…along with other religious reference type quotes from time to time…and of course, the various groups that “sing odes to Obama”…
I’m starting to wonder…does he really think he is some sort of “Powerful One”…
Is anyone else getting just a teeny bit creeped out by this?
Scary…

Read and listen to what Zina (immigrant from Russia) says below!
She recognizes Obama for what he is!
You’re absolutely right, Zina!!

What a beautiful post from Zina below. You really understand what Obama is all about, communism. That is why I can’t stand to hear him speak. To see people react to him like sheep to the slaughter is scary. Elect him and give the democrats a supermajority and this could be a communist contry in 4 years.

bender, your simple question was:
“A simple question for Obama fans: if GOP policies were so terrible, why is it the DOW average climbed from 8000 in March 2003, to 14,000 in October 2007?”
the answer is just as easy: false economy based upon the typical republican policies of “borrow and spend”, and deregulation. oh yeah, an unnecessary war thrown in for good measure also helps.
i agree w/everyone who says things will be terrible w/obama in power. thanks to the mess started w/reagan, aided by clinton, who was democrat in name only, but a republican in disguise, and w/the coupe-de-grace being these last 8 years of dubyah; no matter *WHO* gets elected this nov 4, things will be a terrible mess.
but, i would rather have someone in office that has a brain, has a clue, won’t just continue digging us deeper into this hole we’re in, and won’t continue with the fear-mongering, divisiveness and hate, that has been virtually 100% of the mccain/palin campaign. if mccain wins, joe the plumber deserves what he gets, dragging himself and those like him down the toilet, once again so stupid that he will vote against his own interests. and, one day the wealthy themselves may realize that if they continue this social welfare for the rich, there won’t be anyone left to be able to afford to support them in the manner to which they have grown so accustomed.
obama a socialist? lol!!! obama would be considered a right-wing candidate in any other free-world democracy on this planet.
doug s.

“Righteous wind at our backs”?
Sorry to drudge up Enlightenment age philosophy, but it sounds like Mr. Obama believes he’s the post-millenial American Zeitgeist.
Judging from the polls, he’s probably right.

Michelle,
YES! VERY creeped out by Obama. He’s a scary Marxist. I just encourage you all go get out and vote for McCain (even if you don’t agree with all his policies — I sure don’t!).
I did not want McCain, but he’s a MILLION times better than Obama! At least McCain is not a Marxist.
Demo-commies and their weapons of mass media destruction…must be stopped if this country is to survive not only for our generation but for future generations!
Extreme liberalism must be dealt it’s death blow.

When Barrack talks about a “righteous winds at our backs”, I can’t help but think that this is why they are little disturbed by either allegations of fraud to get them into office (see: ACORN, et al) or by measures to quell free speech (see: “Fairness Doctrine”).
They are so convinced of their own self-righteousness, that nothing done in the name to achieve their goals, nor maintain their power is wrong. Thus Barrack continues to lay the groundwork for building on his cult-of-personality.

Obama Tells Virginia Supporters of ‘Righteous Wind At Our Backs’.
Naw, It’s just that Obama and Biden are sanctimonious gasbags!

Obama is an out and out con man and a blatant liar. You libs who are already redecorating the White House, ignore the so-called non-partisan polls of a whopping 1200 people (mostly libs), such as Zogby, ABC, NBC, and CBS that show Obama by 10 points. They’ve been in the tank for Obama from the start. If you look at the AOL poll, which is a far from conservative site, McCain is up by 10-12 points in a straw poll of 170,000 people!!! Not 1200 out of a hand picked population, but 170,000 likely voters! The AP has them tied. I guess they think if you tell the people something enough times, it’s got to be true. Keep wishing. The MSM may as well hang it up as far as credibility goes. I think Obama and his liberal minions should brace themselves for a loss and any store owners in NY and LA better board up their windows…how sad.

Michelle, you said:
“Yesterday, I saw a bumper sticker with the official Obama logo that had the “Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a govenor”.
Now we see this “rightous wind” comment from Obama…along with other religious reference type quotes from time to time…and of course, the various groups that “sing odes to Obama”…
I’m starting to wonder…does he really think he is some sort of “Powerful One”…
Is anyone else getting just a teeny bit creeped out by this?”
no, i am not creeped out, i think it’s kinda funny, actually! what *REALLY* creeps me out is the religious beliefs of someone like sarah palin, who wears religion on her sleeve, who really believes the old testament and the new testament are factual historical accounts. just this past monday, in her interview w/that religious nut-case james dobson, sarah stated she is comfortable that mccain palin will win because of god’s will:
-God’s Will on Election Day: Dobson asks if she’s discouraged about the polls showing that McCain-Palin is behind:
“I am not discouraged at all, even hearing those poll numbers because, for some reason, I have found myself over and over again in my life being put in these underdog positions and yet still when victory needed to be reached in order to meet this greater good, it’s always worked out just perfectly fine despite the fact that over and over again I’ve been, and I know John McCain has been, in underdog positions. To me, it motivates us, makes us work that much harder and it also strengthens my faith because I’m going to know at the end of the day, putting this in God’s hands, that the right thing for America will be done, the end of the day on November 4th. ”
-Dobson says that he and other pastors have been praying to God for his intervention in the election: “We were just asking for, rather boldly asking, for a miracle with regard to the election this year..” Palin responded:
“We’ll be praying too for your ministry and for those pastors whom you have just mentioned also. Collectively, we can do all that we have within us to strengthen our country and to let Americans know that government has to be on their side, it’s their government and as we seek God’s wisdom and His will in this election, we have to have faith that it’s all going to be good at the end of the day there on November 4th as this country moves forward.”
this, to me is beyond creepy, it’s downright *FRIGHTENING*
doug s.,
oh lord, please save us from your followers…

If “The One” gets elected President, to
paraphrase Michelle Obama; for the first
time in my life, I will be ashamed to be
an American! God help us all!

If “The One” gets elected President, to
paraphrase Michelle Obama; for the first
time in my life, I will be ashamed to be
an American! God help us all!
Posted by: Gary | Oct 23, 2008 10:33:43 AM
Actually, I think W made most of us feel that way already.

Many words have been spoken, but a few weeks it won’t matter when it all hits the fan.

REGARDING THIS COMMENT from “Bob”
(see below comment)
Jesus told the rich man to “sell all you have and give to the poor.” He told his followers that it was harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.
Is Jesus a socialist? Did Jesus believe in redistributing the wealth. I don’t see any of McCain’s supporters doing this. It’s really ridiculous that McCain and Palin claim they are holy and Christian, and yet oppose tax policies that tax the rich to give to the poor. This is NOT what Jesus would do.
****
You are very naive to think McCain supporters aren’t “doing this.” Guess what? We don’t need the GOVERNMENT to tell us how to follow the BIBLE!!
I am a McCain supporter, and tithe to my church and other Christian organizations. (For those of you who don’t understand this, the Bible instructs to give 10% of our earnings to The Lord’s work). I do this joyfully and willingly.
The Bible does NOT instruct taxing bodies to take from people and redistribute at its will. “Free will” is a big part of the Bible.
If Obama supporters want to follow Jesus, there is no need for government bureaucracy to step in. Simply decide for yourself, and give money to your church or other good-will organizations.

“First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.”
~Mohandas Gandhi
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008

I think Zina has captured it all! Obama is a radical self serving politician who promotes marxism. This is not racist, he is very simply wrong for this country. Vote McCain Palin ’08!

Right you are Gary…More like self-righteousness with a double dose of arrogance. For all of you Children of Obama, you must not be old enough to remember Jim Jones and the People’s Temple. Google it. You sound just like those followers of their “Chosen One.”

Al Qaeda has endorsed John McCain, stating that McCain he would surly continue the Bush legacy of fighting the 2 wars until the U. S. has exausted all funds. Broke in other words. Basically say we’re idoiots for fighting war this long.
Barack is the change we so desperately need. Bush failed efforts and I can’t believe there are still willing to take chance of McCain doing the same.

I feel like “we got” a righteous wind at our backs?
This is an example of Obama’s eloquent speech?
Well, at least he didn’t say “we gots”.

“First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.”
~Mohandas Gandhi
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008

It may be a stretch but “rightous wind” translates into Japanese as Kamakazi. Perhaps a premonition of what OB’s election might bring? Also, I agree with a previous post that Obama’s use of the English language is very marginal from a grammatical and syntax standpoint and certainly not what I would expect of a Harvard grad (Example: “me wanting to be here, vs “my wanting to be here” Noun clauses require the possessive–he should have learned this in 8th grade. Could social promotion through school be at play here?

McCain would never have received a pass for stating he had ‘righteous winds at our backs’. Was this reported anywhere in the mainstream media?
Those of you talking about al qaeda should realize that they have an agenda for everything they say. If you remember, they didn’t want Bush to win in the last election and put out a statement just before the election. Their remarks caused undecided voters to vote for Bush. Have you ever heard of reverse psychology? Well, that’s al qaeda’s ploy right now! They want Barack Obama to win the election.

I believe Mr. Obama’s comment, “righteous
wind at our back” is strictly from scripture. I believe he is implying his campaign is having favor with the Lord.
The wind signifies the Holy Spirit leading the campaign and Obama has been
appointed by the Lord in this campaign.
I agree with Mr. Obama this change is channeled by God, the Holy Spirit.

Barry Soetoro AKA Barack Huseein Obama
is not a natural born citizen of the USA, he was born in Kenya. I will not vote for a Kenyan who masks himself as an American citizen, wants to CHANGE the words to the Star Spangled Banner, wants to CHANGE the Presidential logo to his own and claims he will CHANGE the world. The media is only inflating his already huge ego and allowing him to live his delusions of grandeur. Obama is only an illusion, it’s one big magic show and losing our freedoms will be what we see diappear.

Actually,
if any of you ObamaFanatics did your homework, you would realize that the country was in GREAT shape 3 years ago. The interest rate was low, consumer confidence was high, people actually had money to spend, President Bush’s approval rating was high, even CONGRESS had a good approval rating. Why? Because it was a REPUBLICAN Congress. You idiots that are blaming Bush and the Republicans are too stupid and uninformed to realize that everything went downhill when the DEMOCRATS took over the Congress. They are the ones who started the whole housing/economic crisis by insisting that EVERYONE should be “allowed” to buy a home, even if they can’t afford it. Hmm, sounds familiar – sort of like “spread the wealth, so EVERYONE benefits”. That is what got us into trouble, and Obama wants MORE of it, not less.
Please do your own research, don’t blindly listen to what the Media has to say, or what the Democrats lie about. The only people who can scream about Obama’s plans being the best for our country are the ones who will benefit – by being handed everything on a platter so they don’t have to actually work for it. Believe it or not, the best way to have a strong country and economy is to encourage people to be independent and make their own way. They might not all start out with the same privileges, but this is the Land of Opportunity. There is no excuse for not making it here if you really want to. Immigrants (legal) come here every day and end up owning their own business, and are self sufficient, because they CHOOSE to be.
The Democrats don’t want you to be self-sufficient, they know you will always “support” them, if they are the ones “supporting” you. No one will bite the hand that is feeding them.
Do your own research, and realize that if you are out there working hard for your family, donating to issues if you choose to, and taking care of yourself, you don’t want to give everything you make to some other idiot who would rather sit on his porch with his buddies because it is easier. There is a reason a lot of young people are Democrats – they think the world needs to be a “better” place. Then when they grow up, they realize that the world IS a great place, and there will always be inequality, because people make those choices themselves. Then all of a sudden, they realize they are really Republicans!

No they’re not interested in the history Scott M. And it’s not just the young college crowd. A lot of folks born roughly 1965 or later only know that Carter was just an old white guy that was president awile back.

Yes, yes, yes. The democrats encouraged early sub-prime lending. They threw some sand on the beach. But it’s the Republicans who built finanical castles on it. Learn the difference, please, so-called “informed” McCain voters.

For all of you Obama zombies, remember this: WE TOLD YOU SO!
I’m saying that now in the event this smug, arrogant, inexperienced, most leftist leaning Senator in history is elected. Those of us who love our country and will do anything to see our liberties, freedoms and beloved country not go down the road to Socialism and damnation are trying to warn you. And yet you do not understand what is at stake.
Here are some things to think about:
1. Obama has promised/pledged a $3,000.00 tax credit for companies that hire someone. How long do you think that employee will be employed once that magical $3,000.00 tax offset is met and both production and sales have not increased one iota?
2. Obama has promised to give a tax break to the middle class. But none of you Obama robots have been told by Obama or Biden or anyone else on his campaign what they consider to be the middle class. Further, it is impossible to give ONLY the middle class a tax break. There are folks who pay no taxes whatsoever simply because of their income. So how is a middle class tax cut going to benefit those people?
3. Obama has said he wants to “spread the wealth.” What does that mean? None of you Obama puppets have asked or heard him answer the question. Here’s what it means: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” Sounds nice. Seems innocent. But who said that? Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto. It means to take from the rich and give to anyone else determined not to be rich. Now, I’m not wealthy, but make decent money. I know some who have a lot more than I do and some who have a lot less. In Obama’s and Karl Marx’s minds, government should take whatever a man like Bill Gates has and give to street people. I’d love to have the money Mr. Gates has, but he is the one who took the initiative to form his company. He invested, built, hired, and worked tirelessly to arrive at his position. So why should anyone be “entitled” to his money? Neither should anyone be “entitled” to my money just because they make less than me or live in a smaller house than I do. That, my addle-pated friends is what Obama’s ultimate goal is.
4. Obama has promised Universal Health Care. Since we all should know that Universal Health Care will have a cost, who do you think is going to pay for it? That’s right: you and me.
5. Obama has promised he’ll create jobs. Here’s a news flash for you: the President has no power or ability to create jobs. Only corporations and small businesses can create jobs. Given that Obama has made it very clear he doesn’t give a hoot about corporations, how and where are the jobs going to come from?
6. Obama has promised change because a Democrat will be in the White House and with a Democratically controlled Congress great things can be accomplished. Here’s another news flash: the Democrats have been in control in both Houses and they’ve been able to do nothing except saddle us with huge tax burdens. Incidentally, Congress’ approval rating hovers in the 9% to 12% range right now. And that’s your Democratically controlled Congress for you. Change? What’s going to change? The amount of money you’re going to have left IF Obama is elected President because he’s already let it be known that he is going to lobby to push through an additional $1.2 trillion in spending – this is over and above the $700 billion bailout.
You have to or should ask yourself, where is all this money coming from?
If you can’t answer that or have deceived yourself into thinking that money grows on trees or that Obama will find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow or that all will be peace and joy and happiness and bliss IF he gets elected President, then you are blind and incapable of independent thought.
Obama has made tons of promises, but the reality is that the only thing that will happen is that we will goosestep into Socialism and there will be havoc such as we’ve not seen.
Step up and fight this man’s ambitions with every fiber of your being. He is a deceitful, lying, empty-headed, smooth-talking snake oil salesman.
VOTE FOR McCAIN – PALIN TO GIVE OUR COUNTRY A FIGHTING CHANCE.

This might get a bit ranty, and I’m sorry, but I’ve got to laugh at most of the Republican posters on here. See, I was a Republican until the bail-out. A seriously conservative, life-long Republican. That bail-out forced me to finally, ahem, bail out. I was probably already on my way for a lot of other reasons, but that massive transfer of wealth was the last straw.
Obama’s a Marxist? Obama’s a socialist? Where have you people been the past eight years?
The Republican party has become CORPORATIST. That is to say, it expressly favors a melding of the state with corporations–hence the bail-out. Corporatism is every bit as evil and un-American and big government as Marxism or socialism or communism. EVERY BIT. And let’s not forget the enormous transfers of taxpayer money to FOREIGN NATIONS, billions of dollars to ungrateful countries like Iraq and Georgia and Pakistan, dollars that balloon the debt while we can’t even afford to take care of roads at home or adequately defend our borders.
And you’re mad Obama’s going to give some money to poor folks in America? YOU SUPPORT GIVING MONEY TO PEOPLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES! Is your spending somehow better because you borrow from China instead of raising taxes? In what possible way is that better? In what possible way is that fiscally responsible?
You whine and moan about how extreme Obama is, but Obama is precisely what gets elected when you’ve been busy tearing down the country for eight years. The people who stood idly by and let Mr. Bush pervert Republican ideology are directly responsible for Obama’s coming election because Republicanism has been poisoned by the taint of Mr. Bush’s version of “conservatism.”
The irony, of course, is that you will ultimately come to “blame Bush” for this fiasco because, in the end, he’s the one who’s led us to this point. And you know it deep down. He’s the one who’s made sure Obama will be the next President. Mr. Bush is not running against Obama, but you guys sure as heck aren’t running away from Mr. Bush. I did a long time ago, and so did a lot of other reliably Republican voters who care more about the country than the party.
Had you stuck to principle instead of party loyalty–a concept completely alien to the people you worship on talk radio and Fox News–we might have been able to salvage the party and put it back on course. Now I fear it could be lost forever, destined for whatever political netherworld the Whigs call home. You seem not to care, though. You’d rather not admit you were wrong about Mr. Bush and the policies you stubbornly supported. You’d rather focus your energies on things like Obama’s birth certificate and rumors of his hidden Muslim background, and mix in a bit of thinly-veiled racism to rile the base. Frankly, with the amount of sheer ignorance displayed by Republicans this election, folks should be embarrassed to even identify as “Republican” today.
None of this means I’m voting for Obama or becoming a Democrat. Far from it. But I’m in no way voting for McCain. I’ve left the Republican party, and I’m not going to reward the idiocy of the current leadership and the rank-and-file members with control of the presidency for four more years. I’m done voting for the “lesser of two evils,” but the truly sad thing is this: At this point in time, the Democratic candidate has become the lesser of two evils–and I never thought I’d actually say that.
Rant over.

Weird

GB8898,
Believe me, I COMPLETELY understand how you feel about the party. I’m right there with you.
BUT: The situation this time, I believe, truly demands you come out and vote against Obama. This guy is a radical and must be kept out of the White House.
Besides, don’t you have some local people to vote for as well?
Again, I COMPLETELY feel your pain with regard to the Republican party…I just BEG you to come out and vote against Obama. He’s too dangerous to give the helm of the country to!

Please answer this question….If, as the media and all the Obama followers say, the election is wrapped up and in the bag, WHY, does he still keep running political ads? Also, WHY all of a sudden, she has been ill for some time, leave all behind to see the Grandmother, BUT, still campaign? Could this trip have anything to do with the so-called “birth certificate” issue for Obama, say to ENSURE it reads born in the USA?

Palin excites the base? If race baiting, red baiting and breaking ethics laws excite the base then that tell us all we need to know about McCain’s base followers…..

As I read these comments, I can feel the hate for the republicans for democrats. How can you not be willing to chenge after the last eight years? Just as we had democrats for Reagan, why can’t have republicans for Obama?
I f you can put Bush in office for iehg years, surely you can give the most intelligent candidate (Obama) for president a chance.

TxCatholic: I am a Catholic too, but I doubt that you are one, as apparently you’ve forgotten B.O. supports partial birth abortions. Talk about a MAJOR ethics problem there. If you think B.O. is a “good Christian”, I suggest you check out who he pals around with. BTW- Palin was cleared of the charges. Her brother-in-law was actually a turd.

Why do you people continue to demonize the candidates?
I can somewhat understand demonizing McCain because he voted with Bush over 90% of the time and bragged about it, and Bush basically lined the pockets of his oil, banking and military/industrial complex buddies while embarassing the country internationally – and he totally BANKRUPTED the country with abusive spending of the public’s money.

Righteous wind?
That was me just belching when I heard The Messiah spew his Socialist B.S. word for word, same freaking speech day in and day out! If I hear The One And The Prime say “The Middle Class” or “Bush’s failed policies” one more friggin’ time I’m gonna do more than belch. If your going to recite the same boring speech every time you open your mouth at least change the words some!

pefros : You seem confused. The only real lies were told by YOUR candidate B. Hussein Obama. Just check out his speeches; he’ll say anything to get elected. Here’s an important example, concerning Bill Ayres, unrepentant terrorist: “He’s just some guy down the street.” Comes out later that Obama started his campaign in his living room. And, if you doubt that, Ayres funneled money to Obama’s CAC group, which received an “F” for its attempt to improve education in Chicago. Probably because the money was funneled to ACORN instead. Now THAT’s SCANDAL!!!!

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Regarding “Jawbone” Biden’s comment about our enemies testing an inexperienced Obama: The average American may not have been tracking Obama’s vows: “to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren.”; but, our foreign adversaries certainly have. For an individual who aspires to be their Commander-In-Chief, how will Obama explain his Senate votes to force our military members into an ignominious defeat in Iraq; and, to deny funding for equipments essential to their survival for the young men and women whom they had “previously” voted to commit to lethal combat. A despicable breach of trust with those Military members laying their lives on the line in defense of our Nation. The neurosis of the liberal mindset defies rational explanation. Surely members of “The Greatest Generation” who demanded total victory over the Fascists of WW II, must hang their heads in shame when they witness the American Left of today cowering before the modern day threat of Islamofacism! Obama is our “home-grown” version of Hugo Chavez. His comments that he would cut tens-of-billions from Defense spending; and, halt the U.S. military’s development of advanced weapons systems demonstrates a profound ignorance of the geopolitical threat environment confronting America. His long-term subversive associations, and his immersion in seditious anti-American diatribe have indeed revealed Obama as the real-life Manchurian Candidate. Obama would most certainly follow the disastrous Foreign Policy examples of Jimmy Carter in pursuing relations with our avowed enemies, only much worse. Political charlatan, Obama, has convinced his robotic cult followers that he can meet with Ahmejinedad without precondition; and, that the Iranian Islamofacist will experience a now infamous Obama epiphany and conversion to righteousness; and, “There Will Be Peace In Our Time”. This is the very same Neville Obama who, because he frequently babbles incoherently when attempting to speak without a prepared text, is terrified of being exposed by meeting John McCain in a simple Town-Hall Forum. And now we learn from Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari that, while on his public relations excursion to Iraq, Obama attempted to convince the Iraqi leadership to delay ANY withdrawal agreement until an installation of an Obama Administration so he could take credit for the implementation of such an agreement. A clear act of treason that should be prosecuted. God help us if the majority of Americans are beguiled by this novice circus comic, who has never before performed under the “Big Tent”; and, the peddling of his “Magic Elixir ” that Obama has claimed will “Heal The Planet”. Greg Neubeck

Poor grammar. It’s ‘have a righteous wind’ , not ‘got a righteous wind’.

Thank you gb8898 for your post. Though I’d be lying to say that I’m not a liberal, it has been a hard election cycle listening to Republicans make little to no sense…with the economy collapsing and their blessed Bush going socialist, it’s maddening to hear Ayer’s name brought up and even moreso to hear questions about Obama’s birth certificate, Islamic persuasions, and the whole slew of other inane banter. There are very REAL issues to examine in this election, but they’re not being talked about. It’s sad….no, pathetic.
You and I likely wouldn’t agree on a lot of issues but that’s okay…that’s what makes America great. But it does lift me up to finally hear *someone* who disagrees with me actually state what is so obviously wrong with the Republican party.
Of course, if it weren’t for the throngs who are scared that Obama’s a Muslim or he wasn’t born stateside, or who just really like Palin’s glasses, McCain would be polling 3%.

why even bother with an election, B.O.has already crowned himself. and he has millions from his campaign to put in his own personal bank account, while real americans are hurting out their, does he feel their pain too. America wake up!

8 years of Republicans in the White House was certainly enough. They had their chance – and look at the mess!
Americans may be gullible but they’re not going to put up with that nonsense for another 8 years.
And your fear and smear tactics just aren’t working – you Republicans blew it when you had power.
America will vote for Democrats by a landslide.

Boy, he likes to talk about “wind” alot. A quote from his book is “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift”.
NEVER OBAMA…..let the wind blow him right outta here.
Why isn’t he on a plane to granny under the bus, anyway?

Obamba = Socialism, be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

Eight years of a Republican Presidency and the U.S.A. is in one hell of a mess.
Sorry McGrumpy. Ya should have challenged Bush from within the Party for the 2004 nomination. Furthermore, you should have selected Mitt Romney as your V.P. this time around. Ya blew it.

These are my thoughts Frank. You are the one who has been brainwashed not to see what is obvious.
8 years of Republicans in the White House was certainly enough. They had their chance – and look at the mess!
Americans may be gullible but they’re not going to put up with that nonsense for another 8 years.
And your fear and smear tactics just aren’t working – you Republicans blew it when you had power.
America will vote for Democrats by a landslide.

Democratic programs such as: Community Reinvestment Act, Affordable Housing for everyone brought us the Mortgage Meltdown. Socialism, be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

What if they threw an election and nobody came?

Toby: No matter who wins, I’ll be disappointed. McCain would suck; Obama would suck.
So really… why should I vote for either of them? Call me idealistic, but I’d prefer a clear conscience. There are other candidates out there, you know.
Libertarian, Constitution, Green, whatever.
Stop voting for Democrats and Republicans, folks. They’re two wings on the same vulture that’s taking us all on one big nose-dive.

The cheese is always free…in the mousetrap. Remeber that in the voting booth…

MOPE LIKE A DRAFT OF HOT AIR AT OUR BACKS!
If “Obama automatons” don’t stop and come to their senses, but continue to be hype-notized and blinded by the exaggerations, promises and slick talk coming from their near Messiah, than we all will have to kiss democracy and our pocket books goodbye. I see the writing on the wall, all of Obama’s utopian plans will be dropped if he is elected to office and he will look to place blame for his inabilities on the conservatives who he professes cause all the problems.
King Obama seeking Messiahship!
Farrakhan professes Obama to be the Messiah! What more can I say?
“Obamatons of the world unite”

To those who say what a mess the Republicans have us in… Democrat party took over Congress 2 years ago…. how was the economy prior to that? How were gas prices prior to that?

I WILL JUST USE SOME COMMON SCENSE WHEN I AM IN THE VOTING BOOTH!
Not prudent to resurrect Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenin when voting for a president of the United States.

I got news for you, Obama. A righteous wind would be blowing in your face, not your back, because of your stand and your votes on abortion.

Republicans controlled Congress under Mr. Clinton.

Republicans controlled the White House for the last 8 years, and the Congress and Senate for 6 of those years.
Look at the mess!
If that’s the best Republicans can do with that type of power, then they deserve to be turfed. They blew it. They had ample opportunity to fix things and failed.
Miserably.

“Remember the last 8 years of Republicans in the White House when you’re in the voting booth.”
–perfos
Also remember that the people that actually write and pass laws are in the House and the Senate, which have been Democrat controlled for the last 2 years.
2006 before the Democrat controlled Congress, “The Change that we needed”
* Unemployment stood at 4.4%.
* Real GDP growth over the previous four years (under a Republican President, House and Senate) averaged 3% per year.
* A gallon of regular gasoline cost $2.30
* The S&P 500 stock index stood at 1418, or 84% above its post-911 low and more than 7% higher than when Bush took office.
* Every year of Bush’s Presidency, real (inflation-adjusted) disposable income per person went up. By the end of 2006, the average person was making 9% more in real terms than before Bush became President .
As for Obama’s tax plan…
“I will not increase your taxes if you earn under $250,000, not one thin dime.”
However, I will repeal the Bush tax cuts…
Bottom line: if you’re single, making $30,000, McCain will tax you $4,500. Obama will extract $8,400 from your wallet — almost double the take! Single making $50,000: McCain’s tax is $12,500; Obama’s is $14,000. Single making $75,000: McCain’s tax is $18,750. Obama will bite you for $23,250.
And it’s no better if you’re married. Married making $60,000: McCain’s tax is only $9,000. Obama will hit you for $16,000. Married making $75,000: McCain’s tax is $18,750, Obama’s $21,000. Married making $125,000: McCain’s tax is $31,250. Obama’s hit — $38,750.
I will happily stay with the more Conservative McCain than the the most Liberal Senator(Ever).
Also, I still haven’t figured out how GOVERNOR Palin is not qualified for the position. The ONLY candidate with EXECUTIVE experience. The other 3 candidates are not held accountable for their decisions because they VOTE, they do not DECIDE. That is why there are 3 branches of our Government. It may do well for a bunch of you posters here to go back and look at your High School textbooks again.

Why are you sensoring this message?
I WILL REMEMBER THE FOLLOWING WHEN I AM IN THE VOTING BOOTH
King Obama seeking Messiahship!
Farrakhan professes Obama to be the Messiah! What more can I say? SEE
“Obamatons of the world unite”

Pefros
Please, take a breath and educate yourself…stop with the “repub. for 8 yrs…blah blah”
Read article in Meridian….this mess started with the well meaning jimmy Carter ramped up by bill clinton…raging out of control by 2003 when Sec of Treas Snow tried to stop the “VIRUS” of CRA-Acorn worthless mortgages. Thank Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, Jamie guelnick, chris dodd…and don’t forget BARACK!!
Facts are important…”Bush bashing” is the tedious mantra of those who do not have any FACTS!!

As McCain has said up until very recently “the economy is fundamentally sound” … yeah right . ..
The Republicans had complete power and because of their ignorance and arrogance put nothing in place to provide any measure of security against what has now happened.
To have that much power and be so ineffectual is sad. The Republicans will be turfed.

Seriously, it’s sad when the Republicans had complete control of the White House, the Senate and the Congress for 8 and 6 years respectively – and were unable to affect any change to the onslaught of disaster about to decimate the economy. And then to now blame it on previous Democratic governments, etc.
Such ineffectuality in power should not be rewarded.

Yes, Brian. Thankfully there are still some sensible, logical thinking people out here who don’t let others do their thinking for them. Facts are facts.

Little does “The One” know but that righteous wind is nothing more than Joe Diden passing gas.

The only benefit the country could receive from Obama is if he were to donate his $600 million in campaign proceeds back into the economy, instead if there is any leftover he will use that to remodel the White House by replacing the bowling alley with a basketball court and initiating midnight basketball.

Wow, Bryan, facts hurt don’t they? But that will not stop the Bush Bashing. The Bush bashing will extend way into a decade. If Obama runs 8 years, in the 9th year they will still be talking about how Bush messed everything up. This is inspite of the fact they will have a Democtratic Senate, House, and Presidency. That’s a filibuster proof Senate! 60 Dem Senators! But they will still be bashing Bush about how it is all his fault. The ignorance of America just astounds me! Which Dems out there knew what a filibuster was before they ran to Wikipedia to look it up? Man, Gov’t education at its best people!

Interesting coment about Obama’s lack of assistance to his poor dying mom with the insurance companies. What about his lack of help to his brothers all over the world.
The other interesting thing is he always talks about he and Michelle managed to do it all by themselves, college career etc. yet he wants the government to do it for the rest of us. If he and Michelle could do it without government help why not let all the rest of us do it by our selves or were they last smart people to come along and the rest of us a really stupid and can’t do it on our own.
Which is it -

It’s great the Republicans attempt to blame their massive failures in power on the Democrats.
But people are not buying this nonsense. The Republicans had their chances and really blew it. Badly
It will be a Democratic landslide regardless of your attempts at revisionist history.

Post Officerefusing to deliver mnail into one block area of guess where because it is too dangerous – Yes you win the prize – Chicgo. The city with a higher death rate than Iraq and a costlier government. Home to Barrack Obama the wonderful accomplished community organizer. Here is a snap shot view of what the entire country will look like after four years of his brand of community organizing. A vote for Obama is a vote for third world status folks.

It’s great the Republicans attempt to blame their massive failures in power on the Democrats.
But people are not buying this nonsense. The Republicans had their chances and really blew it. Badly
It will be a Democratic landslide regardless of your attempts at revisionist history.
And despite the fear and smear campaign from extemists . . . grow up.

35000 at the rally? I watched it on CNN live streaming. I bet there weren’t 500 people there. It was a very small crowd.

“Barack Obama is leading John McCain in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota, according to a new Big Ten Battleground Poll. “Obama is clearly winning the Big Ten battleground,” says Charles Franklin of Pollster”
Republicans time in power is over. Democratic landslide.

More spending means more taxes. Count on it. If you make money you will pay more in taxes.
Barrak Hussain Obama (f.k.a. Barry Soetoro) has no common background with most of us. Most of us went to schools, public schools at that in the US, we learned the Pledge of Allegence, the National Anthem and to love the US. He did not. He was schooled by people that have little regard for the USA. I think that has impaired his ability to represent and understand me and most other natural born and educated US citizens.
Money is an issue but a minor one if it all goes to hell. Principals, morals, rights and freedom will matter more. Your right to bear arms will be taken when you need it most to defend your property and family from roving hoards of looters when the government fails to bring a paradise to those that will not work.

“Barack Obama is leading John McCain in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota, according to a new Big Ten Battleground Poll. “Obama is clearly winning the Big Ten battleground,” says Charles Franklin of Pollster”
With those kind of numbers, it must be time for the Republican right to full-force start calling Obama a ‘terrorist’, ‘communist’, ‘white hater’, ‘anti-american’, ‘destroyer of America’, ‘anti-christ’, ‘baby killer’ . .. anything else you’d like to add?
Extremist mentality is scary.

Ben… are you serious? McCain saw the enemy EVERY DAY as he was being tortured!
He is the son of an Admiral and was offered release by the Viet Cong multiple times, but he would not leave his fellow prisoners behind just to gain comfort and safety. He is permanently crippled from his treatment in the POW camp. He bled for this country and you should at least give him respect for that.
You libs really need to grow up and gain some sensitivity.

“Barack Obama is leading John McCain in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota, according to a new Big Ten Battleground Poll. “Obama is clearly winning the Big Ten battleground,” says Charles Franklin of Pollster”
With those kind of numbers, it must be time for the Republican right to full-force start calling Obama a ‘terrorist’, ‘communist’, ‘white hater’, ‘anti-american’, ‘destroyer of America’, ‘anti-christ’, ‘baby killer’ . .. anything else you’d like to add?
Extremist mentality is scary . .. Larry.

To Pefros…evidently you have nothing better to do than to regurgitate democratic talking point responses to tax-paying working Americans all day. You are truly pathetic. I guess you reflect the change we need….the voice of unity…the vision of true tolerance…..Yup. Your hypocritical hatred is what we Americans can look forward to under your new socialist government.

“I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here.” Obama will create history by being our first illiterate preseident.

So? He probably just needs to stop eating beans.

Just like throwing pearls before swine… (directed at pefros and ben)
I hope you children enjoy your fantasy president. Unfortunately, the lesson that you learn from this will be something we all have to live through.

Just like throwing pearls before swine… (directed at pefros and ben)
I hope you children enjoy your fantasy president. Unfortunately, the lesson that you learn from this will be something we all have to live through.

Two words are the only ones that would have helped us.
Ron Paul

Just like throwing pearls before swine… (directed at pefros and ben)
I hope you children enjoy your fantasy president. Unfortunately, the lesson that you learn from this will be something we all have to live through.

When will people open their eyes? Obama is a dangerous person. Just research some of his friends past and current. This counrty is going to Hell and fast if this man is elected. I can see him fro what he is and it is not for any of us to benefit from. Check out some of these people and then tell me he is there for you. Jeremiah Wright-Muslum-Marxist Liberation Theology, Sandinista, Raila Odinga-Kenyan Oposition Leader-Obama’s Uncle-Muslim, William Ayers-terrorist, Bernadine Dohrn-terrorist, wife of terrorist, Saul Alinsky-Marxist “COMMUNITY ORAGNIZER”, Michael Pfleger-Social Activist, Frank Marshall Davis-Communist Party Member, Groomed Obama while living in Hawaii Pedophile, Rashid Khalidi-Arab American Action Network & POL, Louis Farrakhan-Nation of Islam leader, ACORN, Wade Rathke, Mike Klonsky, Dr. Khalid al Mansour- Jew Hater, Gregory Galluzzo-”COMMUNITY ORGANIZER” Alinsky study, John L. McKnight-Alinsky study & National People’s Action, Antonin Rezko
Felon, Obama Campaign supporter. Do you see a pattern. Tyle in these names + Obama and see what you get. You need to rethink befor you cast your vote!

Imagine the Obama-nation…
Liberal minded emotion bags running our executive branch, legislative branch, eventually judicial branch, media outlets, voter registration booths via ACORN, foriegn policy, healthcare, our pocketbooks and the economy.
I’ve got an idea…Lets spread the wealth around and try to eliminate the poor and boost the middle class by destroying “rich” leaders. Name a time in history when this has worked?

forsheez you think rich leaders are going to be destroyed? you live in a fantasy land …

In the words of Farakhan, the messiah is speaking. Wake up people. He isn’t a savior, he is going to destroy the economy by raising taxes on the people who provide jobs.

pefros,
I am not going to say that I am happy with the results of the Bush presidency. multiple members of my family went to war, he caved in to liberal policy makers, he lacked spine to do a lot of the right things that would have prevented this current energy and economic condition we are in right now.
but you have to take credit where credit is due. there is a lot of what is wrong right now that was prevented from being made right by the very people who are pointing fingers at Bush and the republicans because people are all to willing to accept that explanation now.
Obama is a fantasy president and will turn into a nightmare far worse than what you believe we currently have in the White House. With both houses of congress and the White House at the command of the far left wing of the Democrat party, you will realize just how good we have it now when they accomplish all that they intend to.
but you hold on tight to your dreams… I expect this is your first election?

The only good thing that will happen if Obama does become President, it will be the last time we will see a Democrat win an election for many years to come, and hopefully get back to Republicans running Congress. I can remember when Bush and Congress was in control, the first 6 years were great then what happened, we voted for change and got Pelosi, Reid, Franks…..to many.

pefros,
I am not going to say that I am happy with the results of the Bush presidency. multiple members of my family went to war, he caved in to liberal policy makers, he lacked spine to do a lot of the right things that would have prevented this current energy and economic condition we are in right now.
but you have to take credit where credit is due. there is a lot of what is wrong right now that was prevented from being made right by the very people who are pointing fingers at Bush and the republicans because people are all to willing to accept that explanation now.
Obama is a fantasy president and will turn into a nightmare far worse than what you believe we currently have in the White House. With both houses of congress and the White House at the command of the far left wing of the Democrat party, you will realize just how good we have it now when they accomplish all that they intend to.
but you hold on tight to your dreams… I expect this is your first election?

Virginia won’t matter if PA doesn’t go Obama. With the Joe the Plumber blunder, clinging to guns and religion, and a lull in campaigning there with his ailing grandma; he stands to lose a foothold in the state effectively the same as losing Virginia and another small state that Democrats have already assumed from the last election. Don’t take my word for it, ask Democratic PA governor Ed Rendell.

Extremist, alarmist nonsense is an obvious scare tactic of the extreme right, and deserves to be called what it is . . . and confronted each time it appears.
and forsheez, I have no problem with the fortunes Bush, McCain, Cheney and their pals have made off of the backs of American citizens with their oil and war profiteering. While the economy has crumbled, they’ve made off like bandits. Fair is fair.

So Obama feels like he has a rightous wind at his back. This Man is full of Pride and arrogance. He may feel a rightous wind at his back because the Lord dosen’t go before a lier to prepare the way,and that is for sure. Their is none rightous except the Lord God Jahova. Gods word tells us that we will know them by the fruit they bear. Abortion is murder. Lies are from the enemy. People are calling Obama the Messiah well Obama hasen’t denied the claim so he is a lying, decietful devil who has blaspheamed against the Holy Spirit. Anyone who exalts their selves above God is the Anti Christ with the spirit of Satan in them. God will not be mocked. The blind are leading the blind and they will all fall in a Pit. God help this Nation.

pefros,
The dow is at the same level it was when Bush entered office and gas is at the same price. We didn’t make huge gains, but no one that has sane judgement should be broke. When the entire world loses money then everyone is still as rich as they were before.
I don’t think the economy will change much in the next 4 years whoever gets to be president. Obama will socialize the economy negating any gains and McCain will be blocked by the Democrat congress.
The only reason why Clinton gets credit for the economy is cause he was lucky enough to have the personal computer golden age under his watch. Think about it, you couldn’t read this if that didn’t happen. I only give credit to him and any polition credit for NOT screwing things up.

If either McCain or Palin ever said, as did Obama, “I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here,” they would be lambasted for implying God was on their side. But, of course, the Messaiah said it and he is, after all, just talking about his Dad.

Beware of the righteous.

Joe Biden tells the truth. He knows Obama is not ready to be President. Stand behind us if Obama is elected because he will be tested. Biden said Obama did not have the experience to be President and then said he would run as VP with John McCain if asked before Obama asked him to be his running mate. Hilliary also said Obama does not have the experience.

Yes the righteous wind just mutilated a woman in Pittsburgh.

You got a wind alright, but it ain’t righteous. Check this out
‘B’ CARVED INTO 20-YEAR OLD WOMAN’S FACE… DEVELOPING…
SHOCK: MCCAIN CAMPAIGN VOLUNTEER ATTACKED AND MUTILATED IN PITTSBURGH

“The One and the Prime has stated our troops in Afghanistan are “Air raiding villages and killing civilians” this is a FACT. Do you believe this is proper for a possible future President to say publically?”
Frank I’ve seen this quote in context and it is much more complicated than you present it. What is not proper is pulling the quote out of context and using it in isolation in an attempt to discredit someone – while totally misrepresenting what they said.
Sorry Frank, this is just reprehensible nonsense.
Same with the ‘spreading the wealth’ quote . . . taken totally out of context. Readjusting the tax scheme to take a little weight off the middle class and placing a little weight on those earning over $250,000 is not a sin against god. Again, another issue misrepresented and demonized by Republicans for political gain.

Extremist, alarmist nonsense is an obvious scare tactic of the extreme right, and deserves to be called what it is . . . and confronted each time it appears.

Have to go pick up my family. Will check on you later perfos, Robert Benjamin. Study up, come up with something new, the old stuff just is not getting it done.

‘Righteous Wind At Our Backs’
This is Code word for “flatulence”

‘Righteous Wind At Our Backs’
This is code word for “flatulence”

That is not a righteous wind … if it were you would have a change of heart about killing the unborn children.
As for the middle class benefitting from Obama’s tax plan…. Every time someone promises to tax someone else to benefit you… hold on to your wallet. Politicians are great at using the divide and conquer ploy. They are also well known for making promises they can’t keep to get elected.

A “righteous wind”? Is that a phrase copped from one of the Rev. Wright’s sermons?

OK, now you’ve made me put on my teacher hat after reading all the disgusting comments here.
Righteous as defined by Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc.
–adjective
1. characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
2. morally right or justifiable: righteous indignation.
3. acting in an upright, moral way; virtuous: a righteous and godly person.
4. Slang. absolutely genuine or wonderful: some righteous playing by a jazz great.
Here’s what was really said in Leesburg, VA (a short 15 miles from my house):
“I know some folks may not think so, but this looks like the real Virginia to me. This looks like authentic Virginia. And y’all look like a bunch of Virginians…I haven’t seen a real Virginia and a fake Virginia, I’ve just seen Virginia…And in 13 days, if you’ll stand with me, then I know that we can win Virginia and we can win this election and we can finally bring the change we need to Washington. Now, that’s the good news. I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here, but we’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to struggle. We’re going to have to fight for every single one of those 13 days to move this country in a new direction.”
Does anyone here complaining about his speech lacking grammar (“we got”) or the use of the word righteous (as if claiming some divine support) think that he might have been using slang as a linguistic device? Please see definition 4 above or…what’s wrong with him (and us) feeling like his campaign is upright & justifiable?
Are we supposed to believe that somehow this is worse than this quote from Palin’s interview with James Dobson??? “…let Americans know that government has to be on their side, it’s their government and as we seek God’s wisdom and His will in this election, we have to have faith that it’s all going to be good at the end of the day there on November 4th as this country moves forward.”
This has been a tough, ugly campaign after 8 difficult years. I think we’re all more than a little afraid of the future whether a member of the Democratic or Republican party. Right now, I don’t really care who’s to blame. I just know that we’ve lost over 30% of our retirement savings that we’ve been putting away since 1973. Our kids are stuck in a 1 bdrm condo with a baby despite the fact that they’ve saved $65,000 for a downpayment by doing without in their 5 years of marriage because they can’t sell in this market. Our son can’t go to graduate school because he’s afraid to take a leave of absence in the current job climate & his specialty would require fulltime enrollment.
I’m just tired. Tired of the negativity, tired of the erosion of my civil liberties, tired of the so-called war, tired of excuses, tired of golden parachutes, tired of the scare tactics being used to instill continuing fear, tired of the lies, tired of the labels, tired… Do I believe that there are people in the world who want to do us harm? Of course I do – any sane person would recognize that. I just want change & hope.
Obama/Biden may not be perfect, but, at least, I share more beliefs with them than I do McCain/Palin. My husband & I are Independents who would have voted for McCain 4 years ago based on his strengths. He’s not the same man… and, at 57 & hoping to retire someday, we need the hope of a change. Yes, we can.

“Richard said the robber took $60 from the woman, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim’s car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter “B” into her face, Richard said.”
The word is out that they caught the guy but only found six $10 Obama donations on him and let him go.

The “Righteous Wind” at your back would be a totally adoring, worshipful media–who not only do your bidding, but who will gladly PAY to attend your election night party in Chicago.

arnisarn, I understand what you’re saying. I think we need to think what’s best for your grandbaby here. Sounds like life has intervened and your kids have to wait to reach some important goals. Keeping, instead of chucking, a job and staying in a condo, even if it’s tight quarters, may not be what they had planned, but it’s the right thing for now. Tough times forge character. They test us and who we really are — do we whine, do we step up to the plate, do we expect someone to rescue us, do we formulate a plan B, C, D? People are enormously resilient. It seems like crazy times (“crazy,” my grandpa who’s 92 would laugh at that remark, as he was born during the Influenza Epidemic that killed 50 million and a child during the Great Depression with a family during WWII). But for us, used to stability and comfort, it seems like crazy times. We need to reconnect with our ingenuity and decide to stop being so afraid. Or so reactive to others being afraid (which often comes out as anger).
I liked that full broadcast of Palin speaking to Dobson, though I’ve really cooled toward Dobson over the last 10 years. I found myself wishing I had a deeper spiritual life. I also found myself wishing that others could listen to the whole broadcast, as it revealed her heart.

perfos:
Same with the ‘spreading the wealth’ quote . . . taken totally out of context
Can you explain has this is taken out of context? This is word for word what your clown said HOW CAN THIS BE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT? I tried to be nice and even gave you props for at least being committed but if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck it’s a duck and you are a HACK plain and simple!

Quote from Noah Webster “If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.”

Winds can die down at the drop of a hat.

1. intimidation tactics with obama supporters all over the country (destroyed McCain signs, assaults, batteries) – silence anyone who has a different point of view
2. children used in propaganda videos for obama (children singing, spewing hate speech about Palin) – brainwashing
3. EXTREME media bias, to the point of propaganda – brainwashing
4. a PRIVATE CITIZEN asks a fair question of a presidential candidate who just happened to walk into his neighborhood. result: his tax history, his professional accredidations, etc. are exposed to the public in order to shame him into silence. HE’S A PRIVATE CITIZEN WHO SIMPLY ASKED A QUESTION! – intimidation tactics
5. the presidential candidate has open relationships with radical americans of questionnable character and obvious anti-american sentiments – unpatriotic
6. michelle obama (potential first lady and ambassador for our country) has just recently, for the first time in her adult life, found pride in her country – unpatriotic
America – if we elect Barack Obama, we condone this intolerant propoganda sentiment and we embolden half the country to continue bullying the other half of the country. NO THANKS.

perfos… you talk about alarmist rhetoric being a tool of the right. so far as I know, we only fight real enemies.
However… on the left, you have to scare us into thinking that the sky is falling (global warming, I mean cooling, I mean warming… er… climate change), a Republican president will make sure NOBODY has health care, ummm… the right lives for killing women and children (but somehow it is ok to abort babies), and what else? oh yeah, when a republican is ahead in the polls, they are going to use Diebold electronic voting machines to steal the election. the war in Afghanistan and Iraq are complete failures and the only thing to report is body count. there is absolutely nothing good happening at all.
Does that sound alarmist? No? I guess not, if you are used to getting that bilge all the time from news sources.
You are really fortunate that you have so many people on TV and in magazines (I expect Rolling Stone is a favorite around your dorm room) that influence… er… I mean agree with you.
where will you get your talking points from tomorrow? who are you going to mimic? John Stewart? Maybe Al Franken or one of the other failed hosts of Air America. How about Katie Couric or Chris Matthews or Keith Olbermann or even Bill Maher or Michael Moore. Am I getting close to your “influences”?
you really need to wake up and see what the world is really about. it would shock you just how wrong you are.
Thomas Jefferson said that any government that will promise you everything you want is powerful enough to take everything you have. Consider that before you buy into what Obama is selling. You want to talk buyer’s remorse? You will have it in about a year.
You aren’t old enough to remember the Carter years, I expect. I just hope there will be a Ronald Reagan at the end of this disaster.

Making celebratory plans is the kiss of death for any campaign… The all-knowing St. Barack of Obama should know this.

“Most of you are so sick minded. Grow up. Your man McCain has started these hate tactics, or maybe you only read between the lines. Or better still, only listen to Robocalls. I feel sorry for those of you that are so upset about your candidate being behind that you have lost all concept of reasoning. This should be about the American people getting back on their feet after a disappointing market that has impacted our future with our 401K saving going down the toilet. Is spreading hate the best you can do? If so, I feel sorry for all of you idiots.”
Are all of the undecided voters paying attention? This Obama supporter (quoted above) just made my case that Obama supporters are mean-spirited and bullies. This person’s response was hateful “sick minded”, insulting “idiots”, and lacked any substance or facts.
401Ks are going “down the toilet”, by the way, because of government interference in the free market.
Do we really want the government to have more of a stake in our financial viability??? Please America, less government – more free market enterprise and growth.
A vote for Obama is a vote for big Government, inefficient, bloated, big government. NO THANKS.

Bradley, thoughtful point, but I don’t want to pay, (via my increased taxes) for a higher standard of living for the lower and middle class. Get out there and earn it like I did.

Superpower,
you are absolutely correct. I am all for helping those who absolutely cannot help themselves. that is the sign of a compassionate nation.
but rewarding those who refuse to help themselves and who take advantage of the system is what will increase in an Obama administration.
and speaking of helping the middle class. do you really think that repealing the Bush tax cuts will help us in the ambiguously stated “middle class”? I know it won’t have an effect either way on the lower class because they don’t pay taxes and they still get rebates. but how does repealing tax CUTS (interpret RAISING TAXES ACROSS THE BOARD) help the middle class?
libs on this board…
I work hard for the money that I make, and it is not a whole lot, so that I can keep a roof over my wife’s and baby’s heads. I don’t buy the best things. My cars were bought used. My house is older and in constant need of work. We don’t go out a whole lot because we really can’t afford to with gas prices and such the way they are. How is Obama raising MY TAXES going to help me in the least? Please enlighten me to this. Just this one point, please.

“Does anyone else find it strange that most GOP supporters demand people vote for THEIR personal views (which are often religion-based, a true luxury considering the real problems we current face) while Democrats simply want a higher standard of living for the lower and middle class?”
????
Doesn’t everyone have a personal point of view???? Shouldn’t we weigh all the issues? What are you saying, that every voter should weigh certain issues the same? “Everyone, base your vote on 50% for the economy, 25% for the war, 25% for personal issues”???
How many women are voting against Sarah Palin because she is pro life? Are those personal views OK as long as they are in favor of your candidate?
It sounds like that you are being dismissive of the fact that Americans are free-thinkers and can vote based on whatever convictions they feel strongly about. THAT’S WHAT FREEDOM AND THE RIGHT TO VOTE IS ALL ABOUT. This is very much inline with the tone of America today. The media has told us what’s important and what’s not, what to think and what not to think, who to vote for and who to vote against. Obama supporters all over the country are bullying opposition because they have a different point of view.
Does anyone see a pattern emerging with the fanaticism of Obama mania?

“If you make less than a quarter-million dollars a year — which includes 98 percent of all small business owners — you won’t see your taxes increase one single dime. Not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital gains taxes. Nothing. That is my commitment to you.” – Barack Obama 23 Oct 08 (Indiana)

pefros… this perfectly illustrates how much you want to believe the lie. In the same breath that he says all of us under $250K will not see our taxes raised a dime, he states that he will repeal the Bush tax cuts.
I am a family of 3 making about $52K, if all of my bonuses are made. I got a tax cut with Bush. If Obama repeals those cuts, or allows congress to let them expire, MY TAXES WILL GO UP MORE THAN A DIME!!!! How can you not understand this?????

Wow so many negative comments. Some made up incidents, abusive langage, all the Republican way. I am praying for God’s will to be done too. I think he will bless us with someone who we need for this terrible time we face. God bless us all and I pray for Obama and his family as he flies to see his very gravely ill grandmother.

The Democrat (Obama) tax plan, as written, will not raise taxes rates on the middle class. However, the Dems are determined to to rescind the evil Bush temporary tax relief measures. Net effect is the middle class will pay more taxes. It’s a manipulation of facts and words. They (Dems) probably won’t continue to provide annual legislative relief for the alternative minimum tax requirement either. That’s a lot of additional tax revenue to spread around to those who really need the money. In short, if you are happy with what has been done, or not done, by the Democratically controlled Congress for the past several years, you will probably be very happy with Obama in the White House. The Dems in Congress sure will. They’ll control him every step of the way.

The only thing worse that a “tax-and-spend” Democrat is a “spend-and-don’t-tax” Republican. That’s how we got $10 trillion in debt and a cratering economy. Folks, we’ve been living beyond our means and must either cut services and entitlements way back or increase revenues. McPain can’t do either.

I do smell a righteous Messiah wind of
socialism.

Isn’t interesting that all these “former Bush” folks are endorsing Obama? That begs the question, who is that more of an indictment of? I thought Obama didn’t want 4 more years of Bush, yet he accepts these endorsements. More of the same=Obama.

The right wing commentary will just get more and more ideological and indeed hysterical. It will continue to try to paint Obama what he is not. It will continue to try to destroy his character. That is their only hope. It is not going to work.
To those who spouting Socialist. Well, if Obama is a socialist, then McCain and Bush are bush-wacking Pirates, dressed in business suits. In league with those running some of the the large businesses these days with “golden parachutes”, with special note of the oil companies, car companies and the investment banks. All of them crying “deregulation, deregulation”, “self regulation, self regulation”, “limits to liability”, “limits to liability”, etc….
The American people are starting to tune out the Republican Party. And rightly so. I think the reason is obvoius – America as a Nation trumps the Republican Party. Many are starting to see through the Republican facade. William Buckley Jr. gets it, Colin Powell really gets it, but the Party Leaders and demagogues do not – especially people like Rush, Bush, Bachmann and and de Rothschild. The Party is so imbued in its own Propaganda, in its own sense of Superiority and Self Righteousness, that it has indeed lost its way.
The Party has something of a Maoist sentiment of being the ruling Party and the Ruling Class. In spite of the dissent of most of the Nation. Real Republicans need to seize the levers of the Party, tear it down and rebuild from the grass roots up. Its ownership is too centered in selfish ideological hands and its philosophy has gone Piratical; way too right wing. I think it is way out of the mainstream. For so long it has been there, and held its ground by moving the mainstream and demonizing the left. No more.
I believe that Republicans do not have a lock on conservatism – indeed, Obama is a true pragmatist and he knows that you need to be fiscally conservative to be more socially liberal. Otherwise it does not add up. He is not really a liberal. Obama and the Democrats also understand you can’t let the Foxes run the Hen Houses, and certainly not under self policing policies. And certainly not with limits on liability if they eat all the Hens and can’t replace them when caught.
Republicans today do not understand the concept of collective. This is mostly because they are the ones that are benefiting from the Caveman’s survival of the fittest ideas and the “ownership” society. They have the money and the power and they view and work politics to maintain it. They feel entitled and they pay lip service to social policies while generally demonizing them as being something unAmerican. When, indeed America needs to shift away from the extreme right wing to a more common sense approach.
Republican Party leaders and their rich backers want to keep giving the mainstream masses a wind up toy. A Bush, a Palin, a McCain or any Barbie or Ken will do. Just dress ‘em up and get ‘em talkin’ just like ole “Joe Six Pack” and “Joe the Plumber” whoever that is. Its sure not you or me. Let them think their leaders are just like you. This has kept the masses happy, while Republicans and cronies eat the Hens.
Of course, when the Hens are noticed missing, it will be someone else’ fault. Probably the Democrats somehow, it does not matter how, or someone in Iraq. No wait, it might be Putin, or possibly its Castro, no wait he’s almost dead, okay then, Chavez …… Or maybe that Muslim Arab Socialist African Malaysian Hawaiian and UnAmerican Obama…… And so the tomfoolery goes……..
Liberals are not socialists. The latter is a word sullied by dictators and megalomaniacs. Theirs’ is a false concept of socialism, used for selfish gain and to keep the masses poor and in chains. As McCain has said – strong backs, or the backbone of America is that American laborer. A back strong enough to carry the malarkey called Republican Conservatism or, I think, Piratical Conservative is more fitting.
There is no stronger Nation than one with a well run economic engine. One that is fairly and sensibly regulated. One that shares the wealth equitably. One that is built on morally sound incentive systems for its operators. One with a collective advancement and support system for all its members.
Republicans as much or more than any others will tell you that you don’t send into battle men without protection and weapons. You don’t send men that are unskilled and untrained in the use of weapons. You don’t win battles by leaving your compatriots unprotected. And you don’t leave the weak and wounded behind. Their rescue is the mark of heroes. If its heroic in the battlefields of war, why not so in the battlefields of life?
America is indeed headed for a brighter future with Obama than with McCain.

Obama is going to loose! End of Story! All his communist friends at the Newsless Networks and Newsless Papers can not get We The People to vote for a Communist, and that is what Obama is! He is not a socialist, a black man being discriminated against, nor a Messiah being denied, HE IS A COMMUNIST!!

Yep Obama, you do. And it’s called – CBS, ABC, NBC.
What gets me is the free ride these guys are getting. Joe Biden declared a few weeks back, “When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and … said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”
Nice historical reference. Except when the market crashed in 1929, Hoover was president, and there was no television.
Can one imagine what the press would have done to Sarah Palin had she exhibited such ignorance of history. Or Dan Quayle?
Obama and Joe both get a pass because everybody likes them.
The problem is they are trained debaters who never had to make a tough decision in their lives. They have spent their entire lives coddled in the most exclusive boys clubs on the planet. Harvard and the US Congress.
I still can’t believe the media didn’t investigate and report on te cause of the financial meltdown. It’s your US congress who for the last 2 years has been under the guidance of the democrats. I guess when you say something long enough and loud enough, the dullards start to believe it.
So this is how America ends, with a whimper, not a bang

Just plain common sense as well as reading it in the wall street Journal that it is absolutely impossible for Barrack Obama to fund all these programs he says he will put into motion as well give us a tax credit again (democrats) and do all this by just raising taxes on people who make 250k or more. I know Obama supporters don’t like to hear that,not attacking Obama but it is documented that it cant be done just taxing the 250k and above, Like the article said the cap is going to drop after he gets into office and than he’ll explain why he lowered the salery range. To bad people are blinded by how somebody speaks or looks if they just pick up a paper and read. sad

“I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here.” THERE IS NOT ONE DAMN THING THAT EVEN COMES TO RIGHTEOUS ABOUT PEOPLE THAT WANT TO “SPREAD THE WEALTH”. UNLESS SOMEONE THINKS THAT KARL MARX WAS SOMEHOW RIGHTEOUS.

Pure capitalism and socialism/communism aren’t the only choices folks. Obama’s plans protect working people and would benefit them more than McCain’s plans. People are too dumb to understand that, though.

You do not have to go very far away, or even look back at all to see the results of a left wing socialist agenda.
You only have to look at Hugo Chavez and what he has done to Venezuela.

A “righteous wind” is one that blows away all in its path. Be careful what you wish for. Change for the sake of change is revolution. The one thing we don’t want to change is the Constitution. Obama will undo it.

THE PERFECT STORM FOR A DEPRESSION …
A far left Media …
A far left President …
A far left Congress …
A far left Senate …
A far left Supreme Court …
This would eliminate all the checks and
balances that our democracy is based upon.
Barack Obama formed his political and economic
ideology, and his radical associations, during the
TWENTY YEARS … yes, that’s TWENTY YEARS … when
he followed Marxist Black Liberation Theology, in
Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American, racist church.
And, now, with our country on the brink of depression,
Obama wants to impose new laws which would change
America into a third world country.
You may be upset with George Bush, but in spite
of Obama’s slogans, John McCain is NOT George Bush …
so don’t over react to Obama’s 600 million dollar
Propaganda campaign designed to highjack America !!!
A vote for Obama is a vote for changing America beyond
recognition … and, it would be a vote for voter fraud,
a corrupt media, socialism, and the end to America as we know it.
Keep America free, strong, safe, and American …
Elect McCain/Palin on November 4th.

Hey all you spread the Wealth people lets have a flat tax across the board. So everyone pays the same percent if it is 8% or even 20% that would be fair.

As they fall behind they are getting McDesperate. A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter “B” scratched on her face in a politically inspired attack, police said Friday. Ashley Todd, 20-year-old college student from College Station, Texas, admitted Friday that the story was false and was being charged with making a false report to police, said Maurita Bryant, the assistant chief of the police department’s investigations division. Police doubted her story from the start, Bryant said.

Translation:
A self-righteous, sanctimonious, smug, pompous, haughty wind at Obama’s back or, a great gust of distasteful hot air! :)

Righteous wind? Man, Obama isn’t even being subtle anymore.
Famous quote from Chairman Mao:
“The ill wind of opportunism is falling, the righteous wind of socialism is on the rise.
By the end of this year the victory of socialism will be greatly assured. Naturally there will be many struggles ahead and we must struggle hard.”