Obama to Attack McCain on Role in “Keating 5″ Scandal, Despite Previous Statement it isn’t “Germane”

The Keating 5 thing would be a total farce and typical of Barack’s sound bite, un-nuanced campaign…McCain was exonerated of any wrongdoing…Keating had everyone fooled…

McCain can’t complain – he’s the one who said he’s “taking the gloves off”.
I for one am tired of his “everyone knows how great I am, why are you questioning me” attitude. If you’re running for President (and yes, Governor Palin, even VP) then you need to understand you are working for us and it is not too much to ask that you answer some frickin’ questions that you might not like.

McCain’s campaign decided to go down the slippery slope of who has worse associates in their past. Charles Keating and the S&L crisis is a smaller version of the mortgage crisis of today. I think Palin opened Pandora’s box (“he pals around with terrorists”) and the Obama campaign is ready to fight fire with fire.

An eye for an eye. If this is what MsShame wants, this is exactly what he will get. Hold your ass Palin, you’re next!

Yeah Wade, kinda like Obama and Ayers. Ever heard the saying, “What’s good for the gander is good for the goose”?

“McCain was not exonerated, he was admonished for it.
Posted by: blakec | Oct 6, 2008 12:14:13 AM
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THE ONLY ONES WERE WEREN’T EXONERATED…. WERE DEMOCRATS!

If news broke tomorrow that a Senator had used his influence over regulators to give a major donor and and his wife’s business partner a break on regulation then that donor went belly up while stealing billions of dollars, that Senator would end up in jail. This is very relevant. If the corporate media wasn’t so right wing this would have been brought forth well before McCain was chosen. I wonder if they will continue to ignore it? Yesterday, after hearing about Ayers I googled “Keating” in the news and only got 1400 stories (compared to 6600 with “Ayers”). I really wonder how the corporate media is going to keep covering this up.

What P U M A has to say about our decision to vote for John Mccain:
“The true story of why such an incredible stateswoman was kicked to the curb to pave the way for Obama (unqualified at best, dangerous at worst) will be told one day, and it will be as shocking, dismaying, and egregious as this election.
I want my candidate back. I want my country back. I want honesty, and honor, and integrity back.
I will be voting for McCain/Palin. I hope when McCain wins, and Obama loses, both parties (which have been radicalized by extreme elements) will be pulled more toward the moderate center, and rid of corruption.”
P U M A
We still are democrats. You are are the ones who changed.

The Reps have a kitchen sink full of ugly LIES, ready to unload over the media and constituency in next few days.
The Dems are NOT without ammunitions.
We Dems do a have bath tub full of beautiful TRUTHS, that we are going to unload over the media and constituency in the next few days, and the Reps are NOT going to like it. The Roves, Palins, and other r.a.t.s are going to jump out of the ship as soon as they see it sinking at full speed !!!
Just wait and see !!!
Lets the fireworks start !!!!

This country needs to be blanketed with Keating Five for the next month. Write stories on your blogs. Write letters to the editors of your local papers. Send emails to all your friends. When McCain/Palin hit, we have to hit back 100 times harder.

Whatever McCain’s romantic entanglements with the lobbyist Vicki Iseman, he was clearly in bed with her clients, who donated nearly $85,000 to his campaigns. One of her clients, Bud Paxson, set up a meeting with McCain in 1999, frustrated by the FCC’s delay of his proposed takeover of a television station in Pittsburgh. Paxson had treated McCain well, offering the then-presidential candidate use of his corporate jet to fly to campaign events and ponying up $20,000 in campaign donations.
“You’re the head of the commerce committee,” Paxson told McCain, according to The Washington Post. “The FCC is not doing its job. I would love for you to write a letter.”
Iseman helped draft the text, and McCain sent the letter. Several weeks later — the day after McCain used Paxson’s jet to fly to Florida for a fundraiser — McCain wrote another letter. FCC chair William Kennard sent a sharp rebuke to McCain, calling the senator’s meddling “highly unusual.” Nonetheless, within a week of McCain’s second letter, the FCC ruled three-to-two in favor of Paxson’s deal.

Yeah baby!

How stupid is McCain! Palin is married to a radical! Todd Palin was member in the AIP Alaska Independence Party radical fringe succesionist movement as for 7 years! The AIP wants to steal our oil – now that is some energy policy!

Cindy McCain and her father were in business with Keating. John McCain received many trips from Keating without paying, along with money for his campaign. McCain admitted his wrongdoing. He now is desperate and trying to tie Obama to an anti- Viet Nam War radical, who decades later supported Obama (Obama did not support him). These Rovian tactics will be hit head on with the truth. The McCainiacts along with their lipsgtick smeared attack dog have just stepped in their own manure. Let the fun begin.

Now John McCain is going to get what’s coming to him for lying about running an honorable campaign.
McCain had Palin play Ayers, so we’ll go Keating.
You want to play Raines again? How about Rick Davis and your entire campaign staff?
You want to try Jeremiah Wright? I’ll see your Wright and raise you one Muthee and Palin’s ties to a secessionist organization.
Bring out another one, we’ve got Phil Gramm.
You decide to go down this road, Sen. McCain, you’ve got no one to blame but yourself when it blows up in your face.
Obama will come out at the debate and say that anytime you want to talk about the issues we’ll talk about the issues, but if you want to talk about character you should spend some time in a room with a mirror, Senator McCain.

Obama has answered the questions regarding Ayres and Rezko but apparently that isn’t the issue for McCain LOL Someone needs to tell the senile peanut that you don’t poke the beast and “associations”? are the beast because he and the failed beauty queen have some doozies too!
Palin should never have gone there yesterday. She did and now fair is fair.

McCain = Keating 5
McCain = Deregulation crisis 2008
McCain voted for deregulation 55 times.
I think MANY will find this “association” relevent.

I think MANY will find this “association” relevent.”
Posted by: Debbie | Oct 6, 2008 12:54:59 AM
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I think not!
McCain and Palin.
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY!

Palin has a close relationship with a radical anti-American: Todd Palin, Longtime Former AIP Member—Alaskan Independence Party
Palin’s husband Todd was a member of the AIP from Oct 95 through Jul 02, except for a few months in 2000. He is currently undeclared.
third-party, Alaska First—Alaska Always, that wants Alaskans to get a vote on whether or not the state can secede from the U.S. Her husband was a long-time member, and at least two AIP officials recall her attending the 1994 convention, though she says she did not attend
Todd Palin broke the law by ignoring the subpoena for trooper investigation

Ok, how about another person that McCain associated with…sat on a board with I believe…
Google this fellow:
John Singlaub
Seems like the type of American that McCain likes to call friend.
McCain has opened Pandora’s Box. Many have kept quiet about these things as it was not the type of campaign that we hoped to run, but we are not going to sit around and let this stuff that McCain and Palin throw out go unchallenged. If they want to disagree on policy or ideals that is one thing; however, when you attack someone as being “unfit to serve” and un-patriotic, it is necessary to respond and to do so forcefully.

You can raise this, see that, poker game all day. In the end, only one person is still in question. Obama. Still won’t come clean about anything. This will be his downfall.

how dare anyone question obama’s associates. we should’ve realized his connections are much much stronger. now we’re gonna pay. i hope you behaved yourself in pre-school mccain. the networks have reporters on the way to find out.

Sounds like Barack Obama is trying to quickly turn the page on his connection to William Ayers.
What we have here is a failure to disassociate.

It wasn’t germane months ago but is now because of the financial crisis.
McCain has tried to improve his image since the Keating 5 scandal by fighting for campaign finance reform. But, as we’ve seen in this election, when you write the rules, you know how to bypass them.

“G. Gordon Liddy. Now a conservative radio talk-show host, Liddy spent more than 4 years in prison for his role in the 1972 Watergate burglary.”
Liddy was a burglar… not a terrorist, and he paid for his crime!
Ayers KILLED people with his shenanigans and, as late as 9/11, said he hadn’t done enough!
MCCAIN AND PALIN!
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY!

“When it comes to questionable ethics regarding finances and the economy, who are you going to believe? The guy with 1 house and 1 car? Or the guy with 12 cars and “somewhere between 2 and 7″ houses?”
That’s the lamest description of choices I’ve heard yet.

lies about rev wright??? I’ve heard him speak myself…racist? now he’s a racist!

Hey Emmm,
Obama can surely afford 12 cars too. He pulled down a cool 4 mil last year. It’s Obama’s turn to get paid, right?
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What we have here is a failure to disassociate.

I hate to see it come to this but there are more Characters that can be pointed at McCain.
The Keating Five has everything to do with the current economic situation, same abuse, greed caused the collapse of the S&Ls. McCain and his policies were involved then and he has the same policies today.
McCain announced he was going negative and he put the pit bull with lipstick on it today.
Whine all you want Repubs, but Johnny’s dirt is going to come out.
The difference is that it isn’t innuendo

“When it comes to questionable ethics regarding finances and the economy, who are you going to believe?
I’m not going believe Obama, he and the truth don’t seem to get along.

Cynics, sing along with me!
Row row row your boats gently to DEEEFEEAT!
Merrily merrily merrily merrily, with all the crow you can EEEEEEEEAT!
Is this the best you guys have left? Looks equivalent to shooting a bb gun at a moving freight train. TICK!
On the other hand, Keating 5 is going to hit like a Mack Truck running over a Yugo.
Silly neanderthals, tricks are for kids.
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK

i wish that we could have a presidential campaign without this kind of nonsense…wouldn’t it be nice to have a campaign decided on actual issues, not attack politics?
i started to outline gov. palin and sen mccain’s dubious connections and choices, and realised that that is precisely what i don’t wish to be a part of.
obama has a vision of a future for our country that i can support. mccain has destroyed his good name in his pursuit of the white house. pity. 8 years ago, i might have voted for him, because at that time, he was the one with the vision.

Carl H. Lindner Jr. — Lindner co-hosted in 2008 a $25,000-per-person fundraiser for McCain in the wealthy Indian Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, raisign $2 million. Lindner also serves on McCain’s Ohio Victory Team. As CEO and board member of Chiquita Brands International, he oversaw the companies payment of $100,000s to the Columbia terror group AUC that is blamed for many of the country’s worst civilian massacres. After being indicted by the Justice Department, Chiquita admitted to illegally funding the terror group and agreed to pay a $25 million fine.

Lee
LETS HOPE LOTS!!

Bob Allen — Allen was appointed co-chair of McCain’s Florida campaign. Allen was arrested for offering to pay for sex from an undercover police officer in a Florida rest area.

Fortunately, when the Keating Five was “news” some twenty years ago, most of the MSM were actually doing their jobs and reporting about it, so the American public knew what was going on.
Unfortunately, ever since Obama became the flavor of the month, the MSM has been hiding their collective heads in the sand and not doing their job, so there’s a lot of unpleasantness surrounding their golden boy still to be uncovered that should have been dug up months ago.

Personally, I’m a whole lot more concerned about a Presidential candidate such as John McCain who was directly involved in one of the biggest financial scandals of the 20th century – “The Keating Five.” Along with four other U.S. senators, McCain was investigated for improper conduct and institutionalized bribery that fueled the Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early nineties. Significantly, the Senate Ethics Committee found in 1991 that McCain exercised “poor judgment” in this affair. Moreover, McCain sat on the board of the far-right U.S. Council for World Freedom – which has been condemned by the Anti-Defamation League as “a gathering place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-semites.”
I’m also very concerned about Palin’s unapologetic vocal support of the overtly anti-American secessionist group, the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP). As AIP founder Joe Vogler once said, “The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government.” He also is quoted on AIP’s website as saying, “I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.” Dexter Clark, AIP Vice Chairman, even seemed to endorse armed rebellion against the U.S. government when he stated at the AIP convention in 2007, “The longer this situation continues, the harder it’s going to become for a peaceful solution.”
The ideology of AIP is clearly terrorist-prone, based on the doctrine of “insurrectionism –the belief that the Second Amendment grants individual citizens the right to confront their government with force of arms when they feel it has become ‘tyrannical’ (the same view which Timothy McVeigh used to justify his attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City).”

Is this sad?? your candidate hung out with more thugs than my candidate!!

you all harp on mccains age. he’s had more time to run into unsavory characters. give obama time, he’s way ahead of mccain if you consider age.

And it doesn’t even end there! There seems to be no end of great information. Troopergate is stalled again – but gee, if there is no evidence and no wrongdoing, why in the world would the McCain campaign want to send hundreds of lawyers to Alaska to hold it up? WHat are they hiding? They already told us that the”last straw” was when Moneghan lobbyied for special prosecution teams for sexua assaults – in a state that has, by far, the highest per capita rape rate in the nation (2.5 times higher than average). This is the “last straw?” This is what we’ll get with a woman in office? Bill Clinton was loathesome, but this is ridiculous. Keep bringing it on, Charlie – your candidates are floatin gin so much sewage that I don’t think 30 days is enough to cover it all.

This past year, Gov. Palin sent an official videotaped message to the AIP’s annual convention, in which she endorsed their “party’s vision” and referred to AIP as “inspiring.” Palin doesn’t simply have associations with AIP; she blatantly supports the party. Her husband Todd was even a member for years, from 1995 to 2002.
So, the latest attempts at negative fear mongering by the McCain/Palin campaign are completely irrelevant to Obama’s candidacy. Unlike McCain’s involvement with the Keating Five and Palin’s gushing support of the terror-prone AIP, Obama’s “relationship” with Ayers was very minimal and inconsequential.
Hopefully, such neo-McCarthy tactics will not succeed, especially if the American public understands that this is simply another example of desperate tactics from the far right. It’s definitely time to return to the issues that truly matter to average Americans.

Palin is just a saleswoman, a very very good saleswoman. But when you’ve left the store having bought the goods. Think about it, would you want that person to be the president of the USA. There is little substance required to be a good salesman-saleswoman just a slick tongue.
Insist on the substance before you buy.

Hostile Knowledge
Obama’s grandma is not being kept in isolation. She can’t travel due to health reasons. And with all these nasty attacks, I wouldn’t want to be talking to the media if I were her. She has a right to enjoy her golden years.

But in the case of Todd Palin and even Sarah, there are direct long standing ties to a terror-prone anti-American group, the Alaskan Independence Party. Of course, McCain was a “member” of the Keating Five – which certainly contributed to the panic – even terror – that millions of Americans experienced during the Savings and Loan Crisis.

P U M A has a question for Obamabots
Obamabots do you know that many Hillary Supporters have lied to the pollsters and said we were going to vote Obama. We are not. You know that October surprise…well lets just say that Obama is getting lots of them.
What’s the Plan B, Obamabots? Certainly it’s not that old worn out ”Roe v. Wade” card that gets waved every election season and still stands after 5 Republican presidents and conservative SCOTUS’ later. Wait a minute, is it just me or did I just hear a big collective “uhhhh” sound?
Whether the Obamabots has a “Plan B” or not, the 2008 DNC is no longer the party that protects women’s rights, but oppresses them. 2008 DNC is no longer the party that upholds voter rights, but supresses them. 2008 DNC is no longer the party that ensures Democracy, but manipulates it to their candidate choice’s advantage. So what difference is there between the 2008 DNC and the 2008 Republican party? One mascot is a donkey and the other an elephant? One likes blue, the other red? Oh I got one! The Republicans actually nominated a candidate who won the majority of votes within their party and the VP candidate, a woman, is embraced by her party with loving arms and that party is fighting back against the hateful sexist onslaught which pervasively fuels the Obama campaign.”

No surprise. Obama run negative from day one, his problem is Obama hasn’t got that much to work with. McCain on the other hand….
What does it say about the Obama-campaign that their only weakness is their candidate!

>>>cincyr | Oct 6, 2008 1:12:00 AM<<<
"But, as we've seen in this election, when you write the rules, you know how to bypass them."
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Still another reason why an empty suit and and skinny resume have become so powerful for Obama. The rules are rewritten even as he speaks!
Children are taught to sing to him… just like in the olden days of the 1930s… for a different sweet talker, in Germany.
Late term partial-birth abortions are favored by him…. and whatever living being survives the expulsion from his mother's womb… is left unceremoniously to die in a trash tray with no succor….
In this terrible economic climate, money comes and money goes…. from whence it comes no one always knows…. but where it goes is always just for show… even thought people are starving and losing their homes and unable to pay their hospital bills…..
None of the enormous funds received by Obama are donated to food pantries or day care centers……. not that that would be required.
MCCAIN AND PALIN
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY

Are you cynics down to your last ouiji board prayers with ONE LAST GASP?
Hee Hee……..How pathetic you must feel to see your John Wayne aka Great White Hope reduced to Barney Fife by a strategic and tactical genious in B Rock.
POTUS OBAMA – Cynic Smasher

Cynics,
B Rock has proved you to be a farce for a year and a half. Over this time, you’ve huffed and puffed and blowed nothing down. You’ve predicted what Obama wouldn’t do and were wrong. AGAIN
That “blackened” crow marinated with Rev Wright sauce and Father Pfleiger vegees is quite tasty, huh?
Grey Poupon?
POTUS OBAMA – A Cynic’s worst nightmare

Sarah Palin said “Our opponent though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.”
John McCain in 1981 was palling around with extreme racists and anti-Semites according to the ADL, US Council for World Freedom – an ultra right wing group
Also Sarah Palin’s husband Todd was a member member of the secessionist Alaska Independence Party. Alaska for Alaskins
Country first? or Sarah and John

All Obama supporters knew that John McCain was getting desperate, and was about to throw the kitchen sink at Obama, which his campaign has thrown. Unfortunately for McCain, Obama’s camp has an even bigger kitchen sink to throw back – Keating, Libby, Quinn, Rev. Hagee, Todd Palin’s past membership to the Alaskan Independence Party, etc. John McCain’s camp has opened up Pandora’s Box, and will now get a taste of his own dirty politics medicine! Bad move, McCain, very bad move!

Oh…..Obama is this a smear or are you trying to get people to not see the real YOU! You are not the man for the US of America and those who vote for you will soon know this! Poor folks, don’t know truth! You make America feel doomed! This is what is on television now and you are all jacked up and trying to get McCain on The keating thing………..big fat deal……atleast he aint got all the corruption in his life as you do! It’s all documented and this is your last lifeline…….haha……go for it!
I pray to God….(the only God) that you never become our president!

SOME AMERICANS CAN’T SEE TRUTH!
THEY WANT A TERRORIST FRIENDLY GUY RUNNING OUR COUNTRY!
A GUY, NOT A MAN
OBAMA IS TROUBLE FOR AMERICA!
YOU VOTE OBAMA YOU DESERVE ALL THE DAMNED PUNCHES YOU GET!
BEWARE…..DON’T BE SHOCKED!
IT’S NOT ABOUT THE PARTY FOLKS, IT’S ABOUT FREEDOM, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE!
OBAMA IS NOT FOR FREEDOM, HE IS FOR CONTROL OF THE PEOPLE!

Obama did a land deal with rezko while he was under federal investigation for influence peddling and then Obama lied about what he knew to the american people.
Obama praised wright even after Wright said our chickens came home to roost on 9/11.

why do GOP supporters use all CAPS these days…..at whom and why are they screaming….must be the polls?

That’s old story and was part of the specials on Fox and CNN. McCain was exonerated and he partake in getting Keaton put in jail. 3 other democrats got in trouble though. The case with Ayers is more recent (1994 to 1998). So, Obama is tied with this domestic terrorist who should’ve been in prison for life. The case with Rezco is very recent, like within 2 years. Acorn is very recent, too.

Update. Obama has told us about his involvement with William Ayers and Tony Rezko. Can John McCain hear?
McCain’s fear of Keating Five is going to leave a major headache today.
WaPo has the divorce of John and Carol McCain.
WaPo has Phil Gramm’s relationship to the financial meltdown.
HuffPo has David Ifshin, John McCain’s 1960′s radical, the guy whose voice taunted John McCain as a prisoner of war over Radio Hanoi. They became friends because the found common ground. Oddly enough. Ifshin was also an owner of The New Republic, and is part of the reason McCain enjoyed such wonderful media connections until today.

.”What McCain didn’t mention is that he has his own Bill Ayers — in the form of G. Gordon Liddy. Now a conservative radio talk-show host, Liddy spent more than 4 years in prison for his role in the 1972 Watergate burglary. That was just one element of what Liddy did, and proposed to do, in a secret White House effort to subvert the Constitution. Far from repudiating him, McCain has embraced him.
How close are McCain and Liddy? At least as close as Obama and Ayers appear to be. In 1998, Liddy’s home was the site of a McCain fundraiser. Over the years, he has made at least four contributions totaling $5,000 to the senator’s campaigns — including $1,000 this year.

McCain/Palin:
COUNTRY (Israel) FIRST…not USA

The founder of the Alaska Independence Party — a group that has been courted over the years by Sarah Palin, and one her husband was a member of for roughly seven years — once professed his “hatred for the American government” and cursed the American flag as a “damn flag.”
The AIP founder, Joe Vogler, made the comments in 1991, in an interview that’s now housed at the Oral History Program in the Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
“The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government,” Vogler said in the interview, in which he talked extensively about his desire for Alaskan secession, the key goal of the AIP.
“And I won’t be buried under their damn flag,” Vogler continued in the interview, which also touched on his disappointment with the American judicial system. “I’ll be buried in Dawson. And when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home.”
At another point, Volger advocated renouncing allegiance to the United States. In the course of denouncing Federal regulation over land, he said:
“And then you get mad. And you say, the hell with them. And you renounce allegiance, and you pledge your efforts, your effects, your honor, your life to Alaska.”
You can listen to audio of the relevant section of the Volger interview here. Bill Schneider, curator of oral history at the library, verified the authenticity of the interview and the quote to me a few moments ago.
Palin has courted the group over the years.
Three years after the controversial interview, in 1994, Palin attended the group’s annual convention, according to witnesses who spoke to ABC News’ Jake Tapper. The McCain campaign is disputing her presence there, but Tapper found two people to attest to it.
The McCain campaign today produced Palin’s voting registration records, and said they proved she was never a member of the party.
But she has repeatedly reached out to the group. The McCain campaign has confirmed she visited the group’s 2000 convention, and she addressed its convention this year, as an incumbent governor whose oath of office includes upholding the Constitution of the United States.
Palin’s husband, Todd Palin, was a member of the party from 1995-2002 with a brief exception in 2000.
It’s worth noting that Vogler isn’t just some figure from ancient history. He is still being hailed on AIP’s site this year, the same year Palin addressed the group’s convention.
It’s worth pondering how big a deal it would be if Obama had ever courted the support of a group whose head had said this kind of thing about America and her flag. Oh, wait…

DLM
The rest of America will laugh there butts off when they hear Palins words today and then her addressing AIP and the words that they have spoke!
Palin also said in the Fox News interview she relies on Todds advise to make her judgements!
LOL

Rezko was under federal investigation by patrick fitzgerald’s office for influence peddling at the time Obama had Rezko build a fence and sell him part of the lot.
Obama at first lied to the washington post about what he knew.
Then on January 21 and January 23 Obama told CBS early show and Good Morning America there was no way anyone could have had any inkling Rezko was in trouble.
When in fact Obama did know about the federal investigation and knew about how he used his company as a minority front.
The coverup should be the difference.

When the savings and loan industry collapsed, Keating’s failed company put taxpayers on the hook for $3.4 billion and more than 20,000 Americans lost their savings. John McCain was reprimanded by the bipartisan Senate Ethics Committee, but the ultimate cost of the crisis to American taxpayers reached more than $120 billion.

John McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing organization, it was the U.S. Council for World Freedom, it was chaired by a guy named John Singlaub, who wound up involved in the Iran contra scandal. It was an ultra conservative, right-wing group. The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League – the parent organization – which ADL said “has increasingly become a gathering place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites.”
Now, that’s not John McCain, right? LOL? I don’t think he is that. But you know, the problem is that a lot of people know John McCain’s record better than Governor Palin. And he does not want to play guilt by association or this thing could blow up in his face. Ha…Ha…

MUD IS BEING FLUNG THIS MORNIN’ DAHLIN!!!
“The sum of the secrets McCain has sought to hide is not small. There exists a telling mass of official documents, radio intercepts, witness depositions, satellite photos of rescue symbols that pilots were trained to use, electronic messages from the ground containing the individual code numbers given to airmen, a rescue mission by a special forces unit that was aborted twice by Washington—and even sworn testimony by two Defense secretaries that “men were left behind.” This imposing body of evidence suggests that a large number—the documents indicate probably hundreds—of the US prisoners held by Vietnam were not returned when the peace treaty was signed in January 1973 and Hanoi released 591 men, among them Navy combat pilot John S. McCain.
The Pentagon had been withholding significant information from POW families for years. What’s more, the Pentagon’s POW/MIA operation had been publicly shamed by internal whistleblowers and POW families for holding back documents as part of a policy of “debunking” POW intelligence even when the information was obviously credible.”
And elsewhere today?
“Yes, they went there: the LA Times is featuring on its homepage a major story examining a portion of John McCain’s military record” Mishaps mark John McCain’s career as Naval Aviator!!
So much for that maverick.

McCain, hotdoggin and showing off, even crashed a plane into the carrier Intrepid…recently refurbished and back in Madhattan!!! Holy Mooseburgers!!!

At least McCann is not a communist like Obama……goggle Frank Marshall Davis who was Obama’s mentor and was a member of the communist party and who Obama in his book speaks of, saying he spent time with him in Hawaii, reading poetry and discussing policies and Frank was full of hard earned knowledge and advise. Obama also admitted attending socialist conferences, and Davis and he has a very close relationship “like father and son”. Obama will destroy this nation if elected. Are the American people stupid enough or just naive as the people in German were about Hitler????

Sean Hanity needs to be jailed!
He is a threat to democracy.
His lies and chilish and yet by some believed!

Obama is leading in almost every battleground poll. He will likely be the next President.
VOTE NO on proposition 8 in California. Rights should not be taken away. VOTE NO.

Mad as hell
ITS FROM A STORY IN TODAYS LA TIMES

uhhh, mad as hell, as you may not know, Czech Republic is a democracy and well functioning capitalist society – since 1992 – when i went over to help them set up their first private bank…how may “commies” do that eh? – you are a ….nevermind, waste of time. you made my point for me…

Hello Stupid Republicans,
I don’t believe Republicans are stupid, but it’s clear several of you are really damaging the party’s reputation!
You fools throw around words like “communist” and “socialist” in attempts to assassinate Democrats, yet your writings clearly demonstrate you do not understand what these words mean
John McCain — a man who runs a reprehensible campaign and who continually surprises us — what’s going to come out of the closet next? This cozy relationship he had with Keating is very disheartening especially considering the current economic crisis — John McCain cannot be trusted!

ringer ; )

I go there twice a year….I learned to speak Czech, (dobry den?) met my wife there…it is a lovely place … that is why I went to help set up their first bank, in 1992…
RINGER, I was in the Czech Republic two years ago, both sides of my grandparents came from there. I know that they are not under the communist NOW but from the end of WW2 until communist fell a few years ago, The Czech Republic was under Russian rule. I stayed in a hotel built by the Russians and visited the town Hitler destroyed which is ten miles from Prague; my distant relatives were killed by Hitler’s forces in that town. The town now has a hugh rose garden dedicated to the people who were killed and a woman spent her life making life sized statues of the 83 children killed by the Nazis in that town. She finished them but her husband and a friend had them bronzed and they now stand between the roses. So you don’t know a damn thing about that country. The Czech Republic is now doing wonderfully, people are working, the buildings are clean as are the roadsides, autos are everywhere and they are pro-America. Go there sometimes and learn something.

“hero”
OBAMA HAS ALWAYS MADE IT CLEAR HE WORKED FOR THE Chicago Annenberg Challenge that gave $50 million to prompt school reform effors throughout the city.
sO YOUR POST AND THE BLOG IS STUPID!

It was in Chicago that Obama became a “community organizer” and came into contact with more far-left political forces, including the Democratic Socialists of America, which maintains close ties to European socialist groups and parties through the Socialist International (SI), and two former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), William Ayers and Carl Davidson.
Is this the guy you want in the oval office?

It is germane for Obama to discuss this because Palin viciously slandered his character! Why should Obama not practice self-defense? And WHY do you not not practice equal treatment and ask about her close ties to witch-hunter pastor, her use of anti-Semitic sources for quotes she uses, her husband’s and her ties to secessionist party that printed its hatred of US gov’t, her abuse of power and funds in AK? She has no knowledge of history of USA or its foreign policy, US Constitution or Supreme Court, economics, yet she is treated as a credible voice just because she sounds “ordinary” (as though we need someone ordinary to lead this complex nation!) and folksy and winks at people? She is patronizing and would be better served on a reality show! Her ambition is for herself, not our country. I am sick of the hyper-partisan hatred and ignorance she spews. Her messages are disreputable, they do not serve our country well, nor does the MSM that gives them credibility.

Memo to McCain from Obama:
I am not John Kerry;Are you sure you want to go there?

(CNN) — Barack Obama’s campaign has quickly rejected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s claim that he associated “with terrorists who targeted our own country.”
Palin attacked Sen. Obama on Saturday for his brief political relationship with Bill Ayers, a founding member of the radical Weather Underground, which was involved in several bombings in the early 1970s, including attacks on the Pentagon and the Capitol. Obama was a child at the time of the bombings.
Obama and Ayers, now a university professor, have met several times since 1995, when both orked with a non-profit group trying to raise funds for a school improvement project and a haritable foundation. CNN’s review of project records found nothing to suggest anything unappropriate in the volunteer projects in which the two men were involved.
A CNN Fact Check found Palin’s charge to be false.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) — A Democratic state representative in Alaska asked state troopers Wednesday to investigate possible witness tampering in a legislative investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin’s decision to fire the state’s public safety commissioner.
Gara told CNN on Wednesday that he would like state troopers to determine whether anyone violated Alaska law by discouraging someone from cooperating with the legislative investigation.
“Until Gov. Palin was appointed to the McCain ticket, everybody was fine with proceeding with the investigation,” he said. “Then, the McCain campaign sent up 30 people to the state and, all of a sudden, people are not participating in the investigation.”
In his letter, Gara asked troopers to investigate possible “criminal witness tampering,” saying that it’s possible that “certain persons” induced witnesses not to cooperate with the legislative investigation, which was authorized by a bipartisan vote before Palin joined McCain’s ticket.
Gara “is not alleging that a particular person has engaged in witness tampering” but noted that “certain staff for the McCain campaign came to Alaska in an effort to block” the legislative investigation. He noted that two McCain staffers “have held multiple press conferences in Anchorage to block the investigation.”

Which candidate is CURRENTLY under investigation for abuse of power?
Which candidate is CURRENTLY ducking subpoenas? (It’s just the law right?)
Which candidate has demanded that the findings of the BI-LATERAL investigation be kept from the public?
Which candidate has used executice power to settle personal vendettas and agenedas?
Which candidate is currently HAMPERING an investigation?
Gosh darn it, I wonder who that could be. Is she guilty? You betcha!
INNOCENT PEOPLE DON’T NEED TO HIDE

McCain: Out of touch, out of ideas, and running out of time!
Palin: Never been in touch, never had an idea, and never has time to research truth.
Obama/Biden 08!

Dirty politics, no?
If this were such an issue, they could have brought it up earlier, I believe.
The McCain campaign is shameless-they themselves admitted they were trying to detract attention from the ailing economy- and the fact that they don’t know how to fix it, which is why their polls are plunging. Now they want to try to distract attention, but they do not even TELL US HOW they are going to FIX the economy or more about their policies.
They spend more time trying to tear down their opponent.

Bullseye?
Unless you mean she shot herself. Sarah Palin has given speeches for the Alaskan in Independence Party. It’s documented on You tube.
Obama has never supported Ayers’ radical views, all though he had worked with him, they were hardly close.

Personally, I’m a whole lot more concerned about a Presidential candidate such as John McCain who was directly involved in one of the biggest financial scandals of the 20th century – “The Keating Five.” Along with four other U.S. senators, McCain was investigated for improper conduct and institutionalized bribery that fueled the Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early nineties. Significantly, the Senate Ethics Committee found in 1991 that McCain exercised “poor judgment” in this affair. Moreover, McCain sat on the board of the far-right U.S. Council for World Freedom – which has been condemned by the Anti-Defamation League as “a gathering place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-semites.”
I’m also very concerned about Palin’s unapologetic vocal support of the overtly anti-American secessionist group, the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP). As AIP founder Joe Vogler once said, “The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government.” He also is quoted on AIP’s website as saying, “I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.” Dexter Clark, AIP Vice Chairman, even seemed to endorse armed rebellion against the U.S. government when he stated at the AIP convention in 2007, “The longer this situation continues, the harder it’s going to become for a peaceful solution.”
The ideology of AIP is clearly terrorist-prone, based on the doctrine of “insurrectionism –the belief that the Second Amendment grants individual citizens the right to confront their government with force of arms when they feel it has become ‘tyrannical’ (the same view which Timothy McVeigh used to justify his attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City).”

ABC do not delete my blog
When the media does not want to talk about Obama , McCain & Sarah will talk about his friends
Ayers
Wright
Rezko
Farahkhan
Fldger

Andrew
You can still lie about Obama was 8 when Ayers bombed.
Obama’s first political Campaign was launched in Ayers House. HIs fund raising was done in Ayers House.
Will you invite some unknown person to your house to launch a political campign?
They also worked together in 2 boards.

adam
You should really listen to other people rather then the sick bac##rd called Hannity.

adam
Its the truth Obama was eight years old when the Ayers was part of the weather underground!
Obama has said Ayers hosted a coffee for him.. Big deal.
Barack didnt know about Ayers past he knew Ayers as a man concered with education.. Ayers was never found guilty of a crime and Obama has condemed Ayers actons..
Now tell me what you think of sarah and todd palins involvment with AIP ???

You’ve seen the young ones singing for Obama, have you seen the teens pledging allegiance to Obama? This is seriously some freaky stuff, I feel like I am living in Germany 70 years ago.

Yeah I must agree Palin should have phrased it differently, but she wanted it to sound really bad so she slandered Obama by saying he was “palling around with him”. She can say he has associations if she wants, but when she lies and says hes pallin around him she better come up with photos of them going to the state fair together or something. Its one thing to be friendly, and quite another to be a friend of. Good people are friendly to most anyone they meet, but it doesnt mean they are friends with them.

BREAKING NEWS! Sunday, October 5
Millions in Illegal Contributions from Iran to Obama: Is Iran trying to influence the US elections? Well the records show yes. Iran would benefit with Obama in the White House.
According to both Washington Post and Reuters, Sen. Obama has raised millions of dollars in very questionable contributions including our enemy, Iran. The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) will not confirm whether they’re conducting an investigation, but FEC has asked the Obama campaign to explain or to return some of it. That includes over $17,000 given in $25 increments by someone named “Good Will” and listing his employer as “Loving” and his occupation as “You”. Someone using similar obviously false information donated even more, claiming to be from a different city.
It also includes millions of dollars from overseas donors. While past campaigns have placed stringent safeguards to ensure that all of that money was coming from U.S. citizens, the Obama campaign has not complied:
The FEC breakdown of the Obama campaign has identified a staggering $222.7 million as coming from contributions of $200 or less [note: more than half of the total]. Only $39.6 million of that amount comes from donors the Obama campaign has identified…
…The FEC has compiled a separate database of potentially questionable overseas donations that contains more than 11,500 contributions totaling $33.8 million. More than 520 listed their “state” as “IR,” often an abbreviation for Iran. Another 63 listed it as “UK,” the United Kingdom…
…[about $200,000 might be legit, but] others came from places as far as Saudi Arabia, Somalia, China, Iraq, Italy, and a wide selection of towns and cities in France.
Until recently, the Obama Web site allowed a contributor to select the country where he resided from the entire membership of the United Nations, including North Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran! Read Washington Post report … [Oct. 5, 2008].
What is Obama afraid of?

When Bill Ayers was in his bombing years, Obama was an 8 years old living in Indonesia I believe. The man hosted a coffee for Obama in his first campaign run and they serve on a few boards together. GET OVER IT!! McCain is much more guilty as a member of the Keating 5 and it is certainly more germaine than this idiot stuff on Ayers.

Wake up America
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71431
Obama is getting illegal contributions from Middle Eastern Arabs. John McCain has dropped out of Michigan because of money restraints…Obama is going to be elected by fraud….America for Sale!!!!

Sarah the Stepford VP candidate – its time to wind you up for today’s events and tell you what and how to say it.

Ticker..you are so right on! How do we get this information out to the low-informed electorate?

Did McCain’s camp dump money into Obama’s campaign just so they could launch these attacks against Obama? What did the republican administration do with all that money sent to Iraq???
It certainly isn’t beneath McCain since he pals around with John Singlaub, the founder of a hate group that supplied weapons in the Iran Contra Affair.
Shame on McCain. Shame on Palin!
Obama/Biden 08!

This is unfortunately going to get ugly but Obama has no choice but fight smears with facts about McCain and his impropriety in the Keating 5 scandal.

Simply knowing somebody does not make you guilty of their crimes. But if you want to read about the real John McCain, have a look at the latest Rolling Stone

Why did McCain apologize if he did nothhing wrong? Theres something more that doesn’t mesh ummmmm?

McCain was not exonerated, he was soundly criticized by the Committee for exercising “poor judgment” when he met with the federal regulators on Keating’s behalf. He simply wasn’t prosecuted. Similarly, Cindy McCain wasn’t prosecuted when she got her doctor to write prescriptions for pain killers under false names. The doctor lost hi medical license by Cindy wasn’t prosecuted.

For those of you who were too young, The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), John McCain (R-AZ), and Donald W. Riegle (D-MI), were accused of improperly aiding Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of an investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB).
The result of the collapse of Lincoln Savings and Loan was that 23,000 [1] mostly elderly investors lost their life savings. After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings. Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised “poor judgment”.
All five of the senators involved served out their terms. Only Glenn and McCain ran for re-election, and they were both re-elected.
Just think what he can do to our economy if elected! This was just the beginning.

“The Ayers guilt-by-association game has nothing to do with the issues of the day.”
Not so. It gets at the very make up of O’s mentality and philosophy of life that will affect every aspect of our culture. He’s got a wire loose, the machine’s programming is set to destroy mode, and he’ll take the US down as planned by his very anti American handlers, doing more damage to this great country than the Dems could ever dream.

If the McCain people want to rummage through presidential candidates’ associations, real or imagined, to turn up figures who threaten to pull down this proud republic, they should begin in-house.
Chief among those to whom responsibility attaches for the financial crisis that is plunging the nation into recession is former Texas senator Phil Gramm, McCain’s own economic guru.
Gramm was always Wall Street’s man in the Senate. As chairman of the Senate Banking Committee during the Clinton administration, he consistently underfunded the Securities and Exchange Commission and kept it from stopping accounting firms from auditing corporations with which they had conflicts of interest.
Gramm’s piece de resistance came on Dec. 15, 2000, when he slipped into an omnibus spending bill a provision called the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA), which prohibited any governmental regulation of credit default swaps, those insurance policies covering losses on securities in the event they went belly up. As the housing bubble ballooned, the face value of those swaps rose to a tidy $62 trillion. And as the housing bubble burst, those swaps became a massive pile of worthless paper, because no government agency had required the banks to set aside money to back them up.
The CFMA also prohibited government regulation of the energy-trading market, which enabled Enron to nearly bankrupt the state of California before bankrupting itself.
The problem with this exercise, of course, is that Gramm’s relationship to McCain is not comparable to the relationships that Ayers or Wright have with Obama. The idea that either Ayers or Wright would have any impact on the workings of an Obama administration is nonsensical. But Gramm and McCain do have an enduring political and economic alliance. McCain chaired Gramm’s short-lived presidential campaign in 1996; Gramm is co-chair of McCain’s current effort.
McCain has not repudiated reports that Gramm is on the shortlist to become Treasury secretary if McCain is elected, even after Gramm labeled America “a nation of whiners.”

McPoorjudgement was wrong in the 80′s and is wrong today.
McPalin wants to bring up Rev. Wright.
The McWrongs are going to lose.

EMM “he’ll take the US down as planned by his very anti American handlers, doing more damage to this great country than the Dems could ever dream.”
Kind of like McCain and the Keating Five have taken us down this road we are now on economically? Obama was not even living on the mainland of the United States when AYers was blowing things up. He was eight years old.

I heard this morning on the news as pundits talked and I have a question?
When and if(I am a little superstitious) Obama wins and Palin has to go back to Alaska, what happens???
She is McCain’s pit bull and pulling every slander string she can, how will her political career fair then?
Obama/Biden ‘08
One other thought I just heard as to how well/bad she did on the debate: If you have to ask the question “What do you take me for”…then you are asking the wrong question and also asking the same question to McCain as to his judgment.
Because, if you have to wiggle your hips, wink at me and use childish language to try to tell me you qualify for the greatest level job in the world, I wonder, is that how you got your other jobs.

Unfortunately, any lessons McCain learned from the Keating scandal didn’t affect his unbridled enthusiasm for deregulating the finance industry. “He continues to follow policies that create the same kind of environment we see today, with recurrent financial crises and epidemics of fraud led by CEOs,” says Black, the former S&L regulator. Indeed, if the current financial crisis has a villain, it is Phil Gramm, who remains close to McCain. As chair of the Senate Banking Committee in the late 1990s, Gramm ushered in — with McCain’s fervent support — a massive wave of deregulation for insurance companies and brokerage houses and banks, the aftershocks of which are just now being felt in Wall Street’s catastrophic collapse. McCain, who has admitted that “the issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should,” relies on Gramm to guide him.
McCain also did his part to loosen regulations on big corporations. In 1997, McCain became chairman of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees the insurance and telecommunications industries, as well as the CEO pay packages of those McCain now denounces as “fat cats.” The special interests with business before the committee were big and well-heeled. All told, executives and fundraisers associated with these firms donated $2.6 million to McCain when he served as the chairman or ranking member.
The money bought influence. In 1998, employees of BellSouth contributed more than $16,000 to McCain. The senator returned the favor, asking the Federal Communications Commission to give “serious consideration” to the company’s request to become a long-distance carrier. Days after legislation benefiting the satellite-TV carrier EchoStar cleared McCain’s committee, the company’s founder celebrated by hosting a major fundraiser for McCain’s presidential bid.

I find this whole tact unfortunate on both sides. This is a distraction from what most Americans want to hear about – such as what are Obama and McCains plans to resolve the economic crisis, create jobs and address the energy issues. THATS WHAT I WANT TO HEAR ABOUT!!! Stop the madness and grow-up.

Ayers is known in other communities like Columbia, SC. He is currently a distinguished scholar at the University of South Carolina where Republican Governor Mark Sanford, who supported Senator McCain’s campaign as far back as the 2000 primaries, serves as an ex officio member of the Board of Trustees. By Governor Palin’s standards, that means Governor Sanford shares Ayers’ views.

Smear Away ! It won’t change the fact that Obama is supported 100% by the fringe SOCIAL JUSTICE groups who have their plays in OBAMA’s game plan… If you like government forced programs, vote OH BAMA !

If John McCain had ever belonged to a church where black people or Jews were condemned on a regular basis, the MSM would have crucified him. If John McCain had hung out with radicals who bombed government buildings, the MSM would have crucified him. The MSM – there is racism in this campaign. It’s the racism of white-guilt liberals against their own people.

Keating is not a distraction
Keating was Mccain’s best friend who he was reprimanded for his actions of taking money and trips
and his introduction…contracts offered from Cindy etc…
all the while his involvement with deregulating banks…and too close for comfort relationship with the guy who cost us the same “type” of trillion dollar loss that time…
and now he has Gramm …who arguably is at the center of this trillion dollar mess…
writing our economic future.
same team
same tactics
throw these bums out!

Emm,
Okay, but on this one, it’s not true. When Ayers was a radical, Obama was only 8.
Obama knew Ayers, served on the same board as him, but they weren’t really close. Even then, Obama has always condemned Ayer’s acts of violence.
How has he brainwashed Obama?
To be honest, McCain’s foreign policy would be more violent then Obama’s.
Be fair, like I said, the rape kits thing about Palin wasn’t completely true after looked it up- in this case it isn’t true Obama is buddy-buddy with Ayers, nor does he share his radical views.

The former FBI head this morning on the news said and I quote, that Obama still and as recently as 2005 had connections and board affilications to the radical organizations’ that Obama is trying to keep under wraps. See there is no law saying you can belong to a subversive group until you have done something and been caught red handed. A vote for Obama is a vote for MARXISM.

Let’s face it. The only actual scandal that is part of this race is Troopergate.
One of the candidates is obstructing justice. One of the two campaigns is fighting, with an army of expensive lawyers, an investigation into possible wrongdoings.
That’s all VERY relevant stuff at this stage. The rest is fishing in the dirtiest ponds we’re able to find in the past.

Grey Matter,
1. Ayers committed his atrocious acts decades ago, but he is unrepentant and stated so after 9/11
2. Ayers and Obama weren’t close?? Obama kicked off his political career at Ayers’ house
Get real
Barack Obama = Kimbo Slice
Media hype

IT IS ABOUT TIME,instead of just rolling over or being a foot mat for McCain-Karl Rove attacks! WHICH COUNTRY IS PALIN TALKING ABOUT–THE ONE SHE WANTS TO SECEDE FROM?
WHY IS THE MEDIA IGNORING MCCAIN’S AND PALIN’S ASSOCIATIONS?
MCCAIN is going negative.You know he will use Ayers, Rev. Wright, Rezko and more—old narrative. Why is the media not calling attention to McCain”s own past; Palin has her own dirty lundary lists. WHY is the media not actively questioning Karl Rove-type campaign?Why should this campaign not be focused on issues and current economic woes of the country?Why are you not talking about McCain”s involvement in S&L bank scandal as a member of the notorious “Keaten Five”? That scandal earned McCain the honor of being the only member of Senate ever reprimanded for “bad judgment.” Talking about keeping company, The Nation’s website in mid-September published a photo “of McCain celebrating his seventieth birthday in Montenegro in August 2006 at a yacht party hosted by CONVICTED Italian FELON Raffaello Follieri” (See also The Nation, Oct.1/08). McCain wants to talk Jeremiah Wright; time for the media to remind him about Palin’s witch doctor pastor blessings in her church at Wasilla. Should McCain-Palin ticket win, are they going to be having siances in the White House? Palin talks about “Obama and terrorists” attacking “our country.” Which country is she talking about—the one she wanted to secede from as a member of secessionist organization in Alaska? And do you know that McCain’s brother is a communist sympathizer?
AND According to Paul Begala who has written a book about McCCain, McCain was a member of an extremist organization that was a “gathering place” for “racists” and “anti-Semites.” He states: “I think Governor Palin here is making a strategic mistake. This guilt by association path is going to be trouble ultimately for the McCain campaign. You know, you can go back, I have written a book about McCain, I had a dozen researchers go through him, I didn’t even put this in the book. But John McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing organization, it was the U.S. Council for World Freedom, it was chaired by a guy named John Singlaub, who wound up involved in the Iran contra scandal. It was an ultra conservative, right-wing group. The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981 when McCain was on the board, said this about this organization. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League – the parent organization – which ADL said “has increasingly become a gathering place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites.” (See Meet The Press, October 5, 2008, reported by Huffington Post). No wonder McCain’s anger that a Black man is challenging him! His anger also shows in the racial overtone of his campaign.

we are crashing as a country
Mccain wants to point to a person Obama met a few times… and lie about it (like wmd and mission accomplished and the rest)
Obama points to the fact that Mccain …his entire life has surrounded himself with the people who have cost us trillions on our backs
the people who have slowly destroyed this country…almost to the brink
throw these lying…distracting bums to the curb.
all americans should be disgusted and angry that
the same team for the last 8 years
is showing clearly with these posts alone
they will continue those same tactics
and throw the country under the bus for their own millionaire wealth.
9th year.
throw these lying bums out!

Why do Obama and his supporters constantly avoid talking about these issues?
It’s very simple. Barack Obama has had 1 year to come out and answer all questions about his associations to Wright, Rezko, Ayers, etc. Instead he gives out partial falsehoods and says little.
Barack Obama just needs to sit down to an open media event and field questions, just like McCain did for the Keating scandal. An honest person has nothing to hide.
Barack Obama = Kimbo Slice
Media hype.

I mean, even without all this Keating 5 thing, I was not comfortable with McCain because of other things that are definitely true.
His temperament, for one. It’s good for any politician to have some fire, but McCain can really lose his temper some times. Or he acts impulsively, and uses gut feelings to make some decisions too important to be made that way. Okay, if you’re a soldier, this whole gut feeling thing can be an asset, but if you’re the POTUS, you can’t do that anymore. You’re responsible for a heck lot more people then a commanding officer in the field.
You may use a bit of your gut, but it’s also got to be an informed decision. I knew the economy wasn’t McCain’s strong suit, but his erratic behaviour was really surprising. He flipped-flopped over the bail out within the space of a few hours, then said he would fire the SEC chairman if he were President- although the President doesn’t have the power to do that.
And then he admitted that he actually hadn’t even read the bail out plan yet!!!

again
MccainKeating s&l a trillion dollars gone
McCainBush Iraq a trillion dollars gone
McCain Gramm deregulation (AGAIN! ugh)
a trillion dollars gone…
Meanwhile we as a country go down the tubes as they destroy us.
Get angry.
Throw these bums out!!!!

Swiftboating will be met and dealt by or own brand of swiftboating. Obama said today in a radio interview, If McCain wants to play dirty then let it be known that I will not throw the first blow but I will throw the last blow. My Man!

Translation: Obama is scared!!
You Obamabots should ask Jake Tapper about the audio of conversations between Obama and Ayers.
What, you say you haven’t heard any yet? Well, that will be taken care of VERY soon.
The gloves are off and Obama’s own words will take Obama down!

Why won’t the swiftboat tactics work this year?
Its easy to lose sight of it in the day to day coverage, but the collapse of Wall Street in the last weeks was a seminal event in the history of our nation and our politics. To put the crisis in perspective, Americans have lost a combined 1 trillion dollars in net worth in just the last four weeks alone. Just as President Bush’s failures in Iraq undermined his party’s historic advantage on national security issues, the financial calamity has shown the ruinous implications of the Republican mania for deregulation and slavish devotion to totally unfettered markets.
Republicans and Democrats have been arguing over the proper role of government for a century. In 1980 voters sided with Ronald Reagan and Republicans that government had become too big and intrusive. Then the economy worked in the Republicans’ favor. Today the pendulum has swung in our direction. Republican philosophies have been discredited by events. Voters understand this. This is a big election about big issues. McCain’s smallball will not work. This race will not be decided by lipsticked pigs. And John McCain can not escape that reality. The only unknowns are the size of the margin and the breadth of the Democratic advantage in the next Congress.

Go after whomever you like! The country is sick the wingbats and their negativity. obama is gaining ground because he brings hope. WHile I’m glad Obama is hitting back HARD, after all OBAMA has done NOTHING WRONG. seems all the desperate wingbats can do is try to blame other people’s problems on him. Where as Mccain and Palin BOTH have been dishonest sleezes THEMSELVES in what THEY did. Hey, McCAin, you asked for it. So many folks forgot you were one ofthe Keating Five. Oh well. Shoot a hole in your own boat much?!

Frank The only thing about Ayers and this is after the affiliation with Obama his he said “I didn’t do enough” He bombed the pentagon and other places “I didn’t do enough”. This is just one of the people Obama has ties with. Now lets talk about his Rev. Rev. Wright gives Hater America Speeches and you Messiah went to his church for 20 years, was married by him and his children were baptised by him…..Do you need more people he hangs with. I have a bunch but these are the two that stick out the most.

Look – if McCain can go back to the Ayers and Rev. Wright stuff on Obama, Obama needs to fight back and expose McCain on the Keating 5 scandal. I believe McCain/Palin will go down on Nov 4th because of the financial bailout and Wall Street’s disgrace. It is totally a Republican/Conservative idea to lord it over the middle class by cheating and committing fraud. This is how the rich get richer. On the backs of the middle and lower classes they trample us into the dirt. Capitalism gone wild with no controls – “Get out of my way govt and don’t try to regulate me”. Less taxes so that we can invest in corporations who send jobs overseas. The Chinese will laugh all the way to the bank. Those people don’t buy anything – they just save their money. Well – let’s see how the world runs when China can no longer get tapped out Americans to buy any of their products anymore

And obama just happened to have a 30 minute documentary ready about the Keating five. He should stop whining about negative campaigning , because Wright, Ayers, Rezko and Farakhan are a reflection of his radical roots and lack of judgement. And I suppose saying McCain can’t use a computer because his hands were smashed and trying to Smear Palin over her daughter’s baby are not “negative campaigning” to the liberal media and brainless Obama followers!

Frank,
Think before writing. John McCain was cleared of all wrongdoing in the Keating scandal, and it was judged that dragging him into it was politically motivated.
In the meantime, we are STILL waiting for Obama to explain his association with terrorists and terrorists sympathizers, a convicted slumlord, a racist conspiracy theory ranting “Reverend” and so on.
Why can’t Obama just field questions like everyone else?
Barack Obama = Kimbo Slice
Media Hype

John McCain is an example of what is wrong with this country today and one of the leading causes of it. If you want more of the same vote McCain. If you really want a change vote Obama.

We all forgot about the Keating 5. Oh yeah. he he he. Stupid man. His little act of desperation in getting missy muffet to try to smear Obama is sure gonna backfire. Once a crook,always a crook, right? If it’s good for the goose…..except McCAIN wasteh crook, not some guy who lived in his town. he he he he. Talk about a backfire. stupid old man.

Actually, I don’t think Obama was ever in bed with the various radicals he’s associated with. He reminds me of those studious Black college types in the 60′s: short hair, normal glasses, good grades – came back after summer vacation with granny glasses, afros, clenched fists, etc. Still weighed in at about 110 lbs., but clenched fist. In short, they succumbed to the peer pressure and started talking the talk. And so he became, instead of a man who happened to be Black, a Black who happened to be a man. To talk the talk means pimping the Social Justice theme as an art form. This all started in the U.S. in the 60′s when the geeks realized the musicians were getting laid and they wanted some too.

Change? How about this for change……I just don’t understand why people seem to forget this….
George Bush has been in office for almost 8 years. The first six the economy was fine, and then in 2006 the American public voted in a Democratic Congress.
A little over one year ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) the unemployment rate was 4.5%.
Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006:
1) Consumer confidence plummeted;
2) Gasoline soared to over $4 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $12 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
America voted for change in 2006, and we got it! I am not sure we can afford any more “Democratic Change”!!!!!

On Lou Dobbs Tonight, Michael Goodwin and Lou Dobbs falsely claimed that Sen. Joe Biden was wrong when he said during the vice-presidential debate that Sen. John McCain “voted against funding the troops” in a 2007 bill making supplemental appropriations for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, McCain voted against a supplemental appropriations bill on March 29, 2007, saying at the time that he was opposing it, in part, because it “would establish a timeline” for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.

BLAH is BHO
because it is the same lies that we have been told for 8 years
it is the same throw out lies and distract for 8 years
while you and the rest of the BUsh Cheney McCain team
destroy our country.
McCain Keating a trillion dollars gone
Mccain Bush a trillion dollars gone.
Mccain Gramm Davis a trillion dollars gone.
Mccain Palin …you know how it goes.
Get angry.
throw these bums out.

I hope Obama wins! Mccain will just continue the Bush-era corruption on capitol hill. We’ll all keep getting poorer and poorer while the oil company execs keep getting richer and richer.

Media figures have recently accused Democrats of attempting to direct millions of dollars in government money to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in the financial bailout bill. The accusation is false. Neither the draft proposal nor the version of the bill that was voted down in the House contained any language mentioning ACORN. Those making the false claim were misrepresenting a provision — since removed — that would have directed 20 percent of any profits realized on troubled assets purchased under the plan into the Housing Trust Fund and the Capital Magnet Fund

(To clarify, the Norwegian woman was at the airport)

The keating 5 is a legitimate issue it cost tax payers billions of dollars.

To be fair, we can’t blame Obama for thinking that America is a bad society. He grew up in Indonesia. He was educated by left-wing professors at Columbia and Harward. When he came to Chicago, he joined the radical church of Rev. Wright preaching hatred and damnation of America. He married a woman who has never been proud of her country, as she said at the Democratic convention. He associated with terrorists like Ayers who bombed the Capitol and the Pentagon and who passionately hate America. What can you expect from Obama? Of course, he doesn’t like this country and this society. That’ why he wants to CHANGE it to something that fits him better. This is the change that our enemies need. We don’t. Vote for McCain to save our freedom and prosperity from being hijacked by Obama!

Oonogil – Please tell us in the last 3 years how McCain is different from Bush on the substantive issues? His voting record states they are in lock-step with each other, but clearly you must have some inside information. Do tell.

I am voting Democrat …
… because English has no place being the official language in America.
… because it’s better to turn corn into fuel than it is to eat it despite its inefficiency.
… because I’d rather pay $4 for a gallon of gas than allow drilling for oil off the coasts of America.
I’m voting Democrat …
… because I think the government will do a better job of spending my money than I can.
… because when we pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq, I know the Islamic terrorists will stop trying to kill us because they’ll think we’re a good and decent country.
… because I believe people who can’t tell us if it will rain in two or three days, can now tell us the polar ice caps will disappear in ten years if I don’t start riding a bicycle, build a windmill or inflate my tires to proper levels.
I’m voting Democrat …
… because it’s alright to kill millions of babies as long as we keep violent, convicted murderers on death row alive.
… because I believe businesses in America should not be allowed to make profits. Businesses should just break even and give the rest to the government so politicians and bureaucrats can redistribute the money the way they think it should be redistributed.
… because I believe guns, and not the people misusing them, are the cause of crimes and killings.
I’m voting Democrat …
… because when someone with a weapon threatens me or my family, I know the government can respond faster through a call to 911 than I can with a gun in my hand.
… because oil companies’ 5% profit on a gallon of gas are obscene, but government taxes of 18% on the same gallon of gas are just fine.
… because I believe three or four elitist liberals should rewrite the Constitution every few months to suit some fringe element that could never get their agenda past voters.
I’m voting Democrat …
… because illegal aliens are not criminals, are not sucking up resources through government aid, hospital services, education, or social services, but are just people trying to make a better life by coming to America illegally. We can’t blame them for that, can we?
… because our health care is too expensive. Just because it’s the best in the world doesn’t mean we should have to pay for it.
… because now I can marry whoever I want, so I’ve decided to marry my horse.
I’m voting Democrat …
… because I enjoy the process of trying to decipher Obama’s messages … it stimulates my brain.
… because McCain has too much experience. I want CHANGE … someone with NO experience.
… because Bush will probably go down as one of the top 10 presidents in 30 years, and I enjoy looking stupid.
Now, give me ONE good reason to vote Republican?!?!?

One other thing. McCain Bush has now started a campaignof “guilt by association” just like the dishonored Senator Joe McCarthy did. He even got his name in history – the “McCarthy Era” known for its dishonesty and especially guyilt by association. Now McCain wants to try to outdo even McCarthy. It is time to hit back at the laying, dishonorable John Bush McCain!! GO OBAMA

McCain/Palin are an absolute joke. These jokers couldn’t give a rat’s a** about the common man or woman. People are losing their collective shirts & Cindy McCain parades around wearing $300,000 outfits. Get real! Joe six-pack my a**!!! Is it possible for America to be that dumb & elect the clown party again??? Don’t get fooled again.

Michelle Did It
I believe BO will not release his undergraduate transcripts for good reason. So how did he get through Harvard Lawschool? Michelle. She graduated from Lawschool in 1988 and BO graduated in 1991. He was a summer associate at the lawfirm where she was employed. She was assigned as his mentor. They married in 1992.
Michelle has the smarts and BO is dumb as a Bush box of rocks.

Investigate Raines, Schumer, Frank, Dodd, Pelosi and Obama for their roles in the FM/FM collapse NOW! Republicans should be screaming for this! Obama is getting nationwide support from people who mistakently believe the Democrats will save us from financial ruin, when in fact they are the ones with their foot on the accelerator as the economy teeters on the edge of a financial precipice! An Obama/Pelosi administration will bankrupt us!

Hey Jake,
Perhaps McCain’s role in the S&L scandal is germane since it is a prologue to our current financial crisis. Hmmmm?
I mean, I can’t see anything more germane to discuss than McCain’s role in deregulating markets precisely since deregulation and lack of oversight have contributed to the mess we’re in.
It WOULDN’T be germane if our economy was hunky dory, but alas…
Cheers,
Chris

HP Boston,
Obama did not pursue his higher degree right out of Columbia. He worked for $10,000 a year as a community organizer- talking to people and bringing their concerns up before officials. No, he was not involved in that ACORN fraud.
THEN he decided to pursue a higher degree, and enrolled in Harvard, unlike Michelle who pursued a higher degree right out of Princeton.
He got into Harvard on his own merit.

FACT: Barrack Hussein Obama is three Muslim names (I am not saying all Muslims are terrorist, but we are at war with the radical ones)
FACT: Barrack Hussein Obama went 20 years to Hate America Rev. Wright
FACT: Barrack Hussein Obama had his political career started from the corrupt political machine in Illinois
FACT: Barrack Hussein Obama has ties with Ayers a known terrorist
FACT: Barrack Hussein Obama will not put his hand over is heart during the National Anthem
FACT: Barrack Hussein Obama will not were the American Flag on his lapel
FACT: Barrack Hussein Obama took the American Flag off his jet
FACT: Barrack Hussein Obama is senator of Ill.
FACT: Ill. has the highest crime rate
FACT: Ill. has the highest unemployment
FACT: Ill. has the highest taxes
FACT: Barrack Hussein Obama 2nd highest money taken from Fannie and Freddie
FACT: He voted present over 160 times because he could not make a decision
FACT: Obama was voted as the most liberal senator
FACT: The times he actually voted it was 96% of the time with the Democrats. There is no way he will reach across the aisle on anything.
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ALL FACTS! YOU TOO CAN FIND ALL THIS INFO!
DO NOT GO TO BO SITE OR FACT CHECK! ALL BS! DO YOUR HOME WORK, OH THAT MAY BE TO MUCH FOR BOTS!

Sarah Palin is currently under investigation, Obama isn’t.
Obama has never been under investigation.
In the Rezko trial, the conclusion on Obama’s behalf was: “no wrongdoings”.
No wrongdoings, that’s Barack Obama.
McCain was convicted of “poor judgment” in the Keating Five scandal, and the general perception is that that would have cost him his job as an US Senator if it hadn’t been for his status as “American Hero”; the only thing he’s floating on in this campaign as well.
But again, let’s not forget: of all the candidates it is Sarah Palin who is under investigation for the abuse of power. And she’s obstructing justice being done.

Who, in good conscience, can vote for McCain? The man is clearly out of touch with the direction this country, and the world as a whole, is taking. He does’t know how to use a computer. My 70 year old grandmother could at least send and receive emails! His apparent “maverickyness” in selecting an unknown, unqualified VP running mate, all the while slamming Obama’s perceived “inexperience” is total hypocricy. There’s no way McCain/Palin can win this time around. He should hold on for four more years and try again.

Mr. McCain and Mrs Plain,
Those who lives in glass houses should not cast stones!

as we can see from the McCain team comments below
same team
same tactics
9th year of destroying America.
Get angry
throw these bums out.

BLAHisBHO, I stopped reading your post after the first “fact” you posted, as you lost all of your credibility. Not to mention that I found your first error on your first word you posted (it’s Barack, not Barrack …. learn your next president’s name). Next, in that same “fact,” his parents named him Barack Hussein Obama in 1961, with the knowledge that he’d be a terrorist in 2008??? Well done, racist.

Finally the ONLY legitimate choice for president is going on the attack against McLame and Pa[l]in. To all of those who will claim “unfair” I would say paybacks are hell. McLame has become more and more desparate as the days go by and that is why he started this attack style campaigning. Too bad it won’t work for him this time. He and Prom Queen Sarah started it and they will NOT like how it ends.

McCain and Palin, there you go:
Monday, October 06, 2008
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows Barack Obama attracting 52% of the vote while John McCain earns 44%.
This is the highest level of support ever recorded for Obama and is his largest lead of the year. It also continues a remarkable twenty-five days in a row where the Democrat’s support has never declined by even a single point.
Wooohoooo!

Bogey again thank you I might vote for the Democrats now.
I am voting Democrat …
… because English has no place being the official language in America.
… because it’s better to turn corn into fuel than it is to eat it despite its inefficiency.
… because I’d rather pay $4 for a gallon of gas than allow drilling for oil off the coasts of America.
I’m voting Democrat …
… because I think the government will do a better job of spending my money than I can.
… because when we pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq, I know the Islamic terrorists will stop trying to kill us because they’ll think we’re a good and decent country.
… because I believe people who can’t tell us if it will rain in two or three days, can now tell us the polar ice caps will disappear in ten years if I don’t start riding a bicycle, build a windmill or inflate my tires to proper levels.
I’m voting Democrat …
… because it’s alright to kill millions of babies as long as we keep violent, convicted murderers on death row alive.
… because I believe businesses in America should not be allowed to make profits. Businesses should just break even and give the rest to the government so politicians and bureaucrats can redistribute the money the way they think it should be redistributed.
… because I believe guns, and not the people misusing them, are the cause of crimes and killings.
I’m voting Democrat …
… because when someone with a weapon threatens me or my family, I know the government can respond faster through a call to 911 than I can with a gun in my hand.
… because oil companies’ 5% profit on a gallon of gas are obscene, but government taxes of 18% on the same gallon of gas are just fine.
… because I believe three or four elitist liberals should rewrite the Constitution every few months to suit some fringe element that could never get their agenda past voters.
I’m voting Democrat …
… because illegal aliens are not criminals, are not sucking up resources through government aid, hospital services, education, or social services, but are just people trying to make a better life by coming to America illegally. We can’t blame them for that, can we?
… because our health care is too expensive. Just because it’s the best in the world doesn’t mean we should have to pay for it.
… because now I can marry whoever I want, so I’ve decided to marry my horse.
I’m voting Democrat …
… because I enjoy the process of trying to decipher Obama’s messages … it stimulates my brain.
… because McCain has too much experience. I want CHANGE … someone with NO experience.
… because Bush will probably go down as one of the top 10 presidents in 30 years, and I enjoy looking stupid.
Now, give me ONE good reason to vote Republican?!?!?

Are they doing all the polls in the inner cities? Because when I drive down a country road or in my sub-division, I see 25 McCain signs to 1 Obama signs. Are the Obama people waiting for the hand outs for their signs like they want everything else handed to them from the Government?

Why don’t everyone just look at the numbers in the polls and trust in the fact that the people believe in Barack instead of a grumpy old man and his wanna be homecoming queen running that needs to judging apple pies at the county fair or making a how-to field dress a moose instrction tape. Let them lie all they want listen to what the nation is saying. McKeating and PaLIE don’t have a clue. She needs to prepare for her statements in front of that Alaska legal system in TROOPERGATE.

BLAHisBHO
that’s funny
I live in a swing state… and it is all Obama now
people are sick of the liars who screwed us
and clearly by your posts want to continue.

Oh, Oduma’s shiny halo and his brilliant white angel wings put him above anything scandalous; like for instance, Ayers, Rezko, Wright, his Fannie/Freddie associations, Michelle’s ‘so-called’ loan for college, etc. etc. etc.
It must be wonderful for Oduma — I mean to be sitting at the right hand of God.

I’m voting Democrat because I’m naive enough to believe that the President of the United States should “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” not subvert it for his own political agenda.
I’m voting Democrat because I don’t believe we should destroy our land and seascapes so that the oil company execs can buy another condo in Boca. I hear alot about drilling but nothing about refining the output. Drilling won’t do much if we don’t have the refineries to convert it. How about we build them in YOUR backyard.
I’m voting Democrat because I just saw my 401k go into the toilet last week and came to the sad realization that I will probably NEVER be able to retire. I’ll be working until I die and they’ll find me in my cubicle with my hands perched over my keyboard.
So reimnd me again why I should vote Republican??

Gotta love how the Emperor Without Clothes, Obama keeps his promise.
You know to look to the “future” and to be a differenc type of politician.
Are’nt you glad Obama is that different politician too?
Can’t wait for the Axis of Incompetence to be in place in January 2009.
That would be Obama, Harry, and Nancy……….
A Chicago Gangster…..a Las Vegas Mobster and a San Francicso Snobster.
Between our 110th Do Nothing Democrat Congress and Obama who hasn’t accomplished anything in his life this should be interesting.
For all those who remember the last time we had Dem POTUS with a Dem Congress it was Jimmy Carters term.
Welcome to Jimmy Carter’s second term.
Brought to you by America’s “free left-wing press”……sad but TRUE.

HP Boston,
Obama still managed to graduate at the top of his class and was President of the Harvard Law Review. Don’t give us that affirmative action bull, even with affirmative action, to get into Harvard, you’ve got to score VERY VERY well, definitely very near 4.0. They do not let idiots into Harvard.
Bush, I believe, got Cs, and McCain was 5th from last. Bush and McCain came from considerably better-off financial backgrounds unlike Obama who made the best of scholarships and opportunities given to him.

Grey Matter,Obama went to Harvard after people with very Radical stands bought his way in.Next he was very much involved with ACORN and other radicals.Obama won’t let anyone know about his past and I for one do not want a person in this Nations highest office who wants to hide his past.His past shapes his future and policies.Obama has shown that he does not know this Nations past or the very thing he went to Harvard for(The Constitution).If you take His answer to a marriage amendment toit’s logical conclusion he will only uphold the parts of the 11th and later amendments that he agrees with.I for one don’t think having a leader who picks and chooses only the parts of the law that favor him is one to lead this Nation.Obama is all for exposing the past of others but not himself WHY?WHAT IS HE HIDING?I know the so called MEDIA won’t expose his twofaced stand but someone must so I will do so here and now.You might want to use your grey matter and ponder thess things before you write again and before you vote on Nov 4.

You and your guilty-by-association crap again.
Yes, those four democrats were wrong. But was the WHOLE party involved? If you are a democrat, are you automatically corrupt? Fellow Republicans have been charged with corruption in other cases. This sort of simplistic logic is the same logic that says: Any Muslim = Possibly Terrorist.

I live in a traditionally red state, that is one of the “swing states” in this election. All around town, I see Obama signs. The only places I see McCain/Palin signs are the upper class neighborhoods (of course, the recipients of McCain’s proposed tax breaks). It will be an historic election… Indiana will go BLUE!

First, the 4 democrats in the Keating five weren’t Obama, they just share his party. The one republican in the keating 5 wasn’t a friend of McCain’s, or a McCain ‘pal’ or a fellow republican, IT WAS MCCAIN himself!!
Next, anyone listening to Hannity for their opinions is listening to a guy with all the qualifications of a career disk jockey whose only college degree is an honorary one. Talk radio is entertainment without the burden of fact checking or proof. “A lie can make it around the world before the truth can get its boots on…”
–Mark Twain

Time to get off of that sinking ship. Obama/Biden 2008!!

Sweet, sweet irony: Palin’s big mouth is going to sink mcsame’s campaign. She only proves that these two are “more of the same”.

Doug …
There’s a good reason the McCain/Palin signs are only posted in your upscale neighborhoods. Why do you think they live in those neighborhoods? It’s because they are SMART, HARD WORKING AMERICANS that are the reason you and many others are in the workforce. And they know how to vote in order to keep you there! You should follow their lead. VOTE McCAIN/PALIN!!!

If I am not mistaken about the Polls they had Gore “I discovered the internet” and Kerry “I was for Vietam before I was against it” ahead in polls until we voted.

again to those who are trying to spin Keating as a democrat guy …lol
do you know any of the history of McCain and Keating…
jets and vacations
contracts given from family members…large amounts of cash
Just because Mccain didn’t go to jail…
he was reprimanded for the ethics of it…
kind of like his relationship now with Mr. Enron Loophole and dereagulation foer wall street himself…Phil gramm
you know the guy mccain had literally write the economic plan for our future…
yeah I am sure that bodes well for the country
same team
same tactics
9th year Get Angry adn throw these bums OUT!

Are you kidding with the “Obama won’t let anyone know about his past”? Since when has a puplic figure been able to keep secrets? That Obama is able to hold off the entire media machine including O’reilly, Limbaugh and Fox News???

BLAHisBS- Mistaken:
October 9, 2000
Web posted at: 5:05 p.m. EDT (2105 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Republican presidential hopeful George W. Bush maintains his 8 point lead over his Democratic rival, Vice President Al Gore, in Monday’s CNN/USA Today/Gallup tracking poll.

HP Boston, Obama graduated at the top of his class was president of the Harvard Law Review and received over 600 job offers upon graduating. Instead he chose to work as a community organizer and that is a fact! Please stop the slander, Obama had to fight back McCain has been using lies and propaganda from the very begining if you can dish it out you sure better be able to take it….
Posted by: Sandy | Oct 6, 2008 9:53:19 AM
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OH my I read that same BS on the bots campaign site…every thing there is such BULL!

To all Obama supporters. A person’s past is what shapes a persons future. If you really think Obama has a past that you would have agreed with, then vote for him. I will support McCain because his past is transparent for all to see (served his country, twenty plus years in the senate, ect.) Remember one thing though, if you get Obama elected he will end up bankrupting this country with all of his entitlement programs. This is one election that you had better do your homework and really understand what you are voting for. Change can sometimes make things a lot worse.

Bogey–Nice try. Most of the people with McCain/Palin signs and stickers are blue hairs who’ve voted Republican since their father’s fathers did it. Following a party blindly is the only reason Republicans will win this year.

If he has to lie about his past, if his supporters have to resort to name calling and mudslinging, if he has to change the subject every time his role in the financial crisis is mentioned, if he has to make starring claims to bills he did not sponsor, if accepts truth squads and camps that indoctrinate children to his status as the ‘alpha and omega’ if if he has to cheat to win, what are these ideals he talks about?
If Obama has to cheat to win, Obama is about Obama and nothing else.

HP Boston–Palin claimed to be all for women’s rights. How can that be, when she doesn’t support the right to choose (the government does NOT belong in my uterus), while mayor of Wasilla, she charged rape victims $1200 for collection and processing of rape kits. Yet she’s all about women’s rights? Her running mate thinks that disparity in pay between men and woman will be cured by giving women more education and training. Yeah… she’s all about women’s rights.

We have never had a first lady who stole drugs and was investigated and eventually had to do community service. Cindy admitted all this. Said it was caused by the strain of the Keating 5 trails. Oh please. Both of these people are not worthy of the White House. No even close.

Country first, eh? Did McCain put country first when he “suspended” his campaign, threatened to abandon the debate, and rushed back to D.C. for his photo op on the first failed bailout bill? No.. he put HIMSELF first.

Doug During the bailout crisis, Obama said call me if you need me that is putting himself first like he does with everything. He is self first and McCain/Palin is COUNTRY FIRST.

Why is the media keeping a lid on this.
Why is FEC Keeping Lid on OBAMA SCANDAL?
It looks as if Senator Obama may have received MORE THAN $200 MILLION in illegal donations including millions overseas campaign donations. Four times during the last three months an FEC Auditor has asked his bosses to start an investigation into Senator Obama’s illegal campaign donations such as this one
Similarly, a donor identified as “Pro, Doodad,” from “Nando, NY,” gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations, most of them for $25. For most of these donations, Mr. Doodad Pro listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You,” etc.
Posted by: BLAHisBHO | Oct 6, 2008 10:08:42 AM
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WOW good info, I believe you are right.
I saw that on the net and now it is in the news.
Thanks for your great post!

It really does disturb me that we have come down to this. However, after watching two elections that were won by Rovian tactics what choice do the Dems honestly have? I would like to personally thank Bush/Cheney/Rove for bringing Presidential politics down to the sewer.

Donna nice lies
same team
same tactics 9th year
go look at what the Senate said about Mccain’s “ethics” on the Keating scandal…
and his “judgement”
as he vacationed, took moneys, gave contracts….etc etc…etc…
while Keating raped our country for a trillion dollar mess.
sound familiar…
only this time Mccain does not have Keating writing his economic plans and policies
he has Gramm…
mr deregulation of everything and let the wall street protect the people.
disgusting people trying to twist that as anything but a giant elephant in this trillion dollar room..
again
MccainKeating s&l a trillion dollars gone
McCainBush Iraq a trillion dollars gone
McCain Gramm deregulation (AGAIN! ugh)
a trillion dollars gone…
Mccain Palin…well you know the drill…
Meanwhile we as a country go down the tubes as they destroy us.
Get angry.
Throw these bums out!!!!

McCain’s Keating connection has been INVESTIGATED – unlike Obama’s terrorist ties.
The other 4 senators involved all DEMOCRATS – said that McCain was not involved in any attempt to use his position to cover up or aid Keating, and went so far as to say that he spoke out and said he wouldn’t do anything unethical when they were at the meetings.
NO ONE has investigated Obama – not the DNC or the MSM. And, you know, if I’ve got to choose between someone that DID aid and abet a crook vs. someone who has numerous intense associations with terrorists – I’ll pick the regular kind of crook, not the terrorist kind.
You get Obama in there with his terrorists friends and his democrat friends who have turned spineless in control – and now they have control of our banks, we are just a vote away from a socialist government takeover.
Open your eyes Unity Bots!!!
Posted by: Donna | Oct 6, 2008 10:13:07 AM
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Donna, I know he has not even shown proof with a birth Certificate. Can you image he gave a bogus BC!! The law suite to get one is on going. Gee if he can not even have a legitimate BC we can be sure he is hiding TONS of crap!

all america has to do is read the same “lie, distract and hope we can get to decision time before we get called on it”
strategy that mccain supporters on here are trying to realize
same team
same tactics
9th year
Get angry throw these lying bums out as the country is going down the tubes
they continue their slime.
throw these bums out.

It’s strange how Obama is alleged to have these close and intense relationships, but Fox News could only show his closeness to these “people” by showing them in SPLIT screen. Hmmmm… John McCain on the other hand…. Obama should not just go toe to toe with McCain/Palin. It’s time to end their careers. Destroy both of them.

Palin is behaving like such a phony doing all the folksiness thing. Okay, maybe that wasn’t all that bad, but what’s up with all the winks?
And I hated it how she said “Never Again” referring to the mortgage crisis and everything. It just trivialised what “Never Again” stood for.
“Never Again” is a much abused phrase. Never Again will we allow another genocide to take place on our watch, that’s what Never Again means. “Never Again” was what we said after the Holocaust. After the Khmer Rouge massacres. After Bosnia. After Rwanda.
And now, Sudan? McCain has not said a peep about the genocide in Sudan, Obama has written several reports and wrote the foreword for a book looking to raise awareness about the Sudanese genocide. McCain thinks that our soldiers would be put to better use in Iraq where they want us to get out instead of maybe in Sudan where people are crying for our help.

The connection between Obama and Ayers is sketchy at best. Meanwhile, McCain was a good pal of Charles Keating who joined an effort to get regulators to back off on his buddy, the biggest crook of the Savings and Loan Scandal who ended up costing taxpayers billions. If McCain hadn’t sold his soul to Rove and the Bush strategists he could have run a real campaign.

McCain has turned into such a jerk and liar – I used to love the guy, thought he was such a great American – now I know the truth. His campaign manager was a lobbyist for Fannie and Freddie taking thousands per month for 5-1/2 years, while McCain railed against them AND lobbyists. What a liar, what a hypocrit. He sat there grinning when asked about his advisor Carly Fiorina, who took a 42 million golden parachute after being fired by HP while 20,000 people lost their jobs. He praised her. His economic advisor Phil Gramm, who called us a nation of whiners wrote the damaging legislation that did away with keeping commercial banks and investment banks separate – including deregulation – McCain voted for both. The ultimate joke in “putting country first” is picking that nitwit Palin, who goes out and recites what they’ve been drumming into her head. Talk about dangerous – he’s put himself first. She is against everything he used to stand for. He has lost his honor. He certainly lost my vote.

Your just getting to this NOW, where have you BEEN?

Sarah….it’s over! It’s like a bad divorce…I Know. You just have to pick up yourself and travel to a land of nowhere!

Charles Keating was involved in a Savings and Loan scandal many years ago. Charles Keating never was anti-American. Charles Keating did not bomb the Pentagon or US capitol, like Obama’s friend William Ayers did. In addition, Keating never made anti-American, Anti-white comments like Obama’s friend and pastor Rev. Wright did. Moreover, without Obama’s friend convicted felon Tony Rezko, Obama would not have been able to acquire his $2 million mansion in Chicago. Moreover Wm. Ayers helped Obama win his Senate seat in Illinois and the US Senate, and is also helping with Obama’s Presidential bid. Obama’s chief strategist even said that Ayers and Obama were “friendly.” In addition, Wm. Ayers is unrepentent about his terrorist activities in the 1960′s and 1970′s. I would rather be friends with Keating any day, than with Ayers, Rev. Wright and Tony Rezko.

McCain, please stop wearing the “US NAVY” hat on the campaign trail.
You’ve tarnished your honor…don’t drag the Navy along with you.

Geevil
who cares
are you watching the news?
as mccain supporters try to distract just like the last 8 years
their policies are destroying our nation.
Get Angry America
throw these bums out!!!!!!

I hope they ask McCain what was on the document he signed for the enemy.

Trailer park Palin:
“I’d like to give a ‘shout out’…”
That sounded very Presidential Sarah!
Please go back to Alaska, to your $10,000 a year, business owner 1st dude!

Navy man There is no way you can say McCain tarnished anything. He is true hero and people that served with him will tell you this. Ohio will be for McCain/Palin and we will be country first!!!

Why didn’t Obama give the league of women voters like McCAin a list of the fundraising? They asked both candidates to give them this information due Edwards claim that Obama had been bundling his fundraising.
If Obama is so honest why doesn’t he show like McCain did who all the people are that have donated under $200 dollars.
It was McCain not OBama that did get campaign reform! He really hasn’t done
much except run for president.
Be honest Obama show the money!

Obama talks about transparency in government – how about transparency in his past?
Open up your Columbia and Harvard records for public scrutiny, Mr. Obama.
Lift the rule of silence imposed by the schools on your professors. Lift the rule of silence imposed on your friends, roommates and classmates.
And yea, just who did pay for your trip in 1981? Who did pay for your education? Who is going to be the power behind your socialist throne when you and your terrorist cohorts strongarm congress into allowing a takeover?
It’s not enough to defeat Obama in November. We need a complete overhaul in congress. Vote against all incumbents who are running opposed in November!!

If McCain and palin won on Nov4, Guess who would celebrate the most? Bin Laden, Iran, China, N.Kora and Huzbolahha..Because the enjoyed the way Gorge Bush was running USA, they don’t want Smart presiden to come..USA is falling down..making lots of enemy fewr friend…Democrat will be pain on ass for USA enemy by making lots of friends instead of making enemy, by restoring USA power…as for me McCaine and Paline are going a Proxi war against USA people knowning Nothing about polotics…DEMS for USA and DEMS for WORld..Dems For smart peopl…Dems for peace Loving..Dems For Once again for powerfull USA….Don’t let scare you those ignorant like Bush did last election..not tjis time ..not this time…Ignorance Got to stop now.
Go Obama Go BIden
GO Democrat.

Obama is as dirty as the filthy roads of South Chicago
Each and every bone of this individual is corrupted

War heroes do not sign documents or aid and abet the enemy. War heroes do not block resources to continue to look for POWS/MIAs. And war heroes do not have the dismal voting record denying aid to veterans. McCain is a ZERO not a HERO. I’m a Navy vet and I know a hero when I see one.

Well, Obama has demonstrated that he is NOT a man of his word, so this is not surprising in the least.

Donna
Who cares?

Melissa
You need to stop watching fox
FEC Rules state you dont have to provide information on people that donate under $200..
Thats the law not Obama being shady!
Please check facts

Ok lets talk about economics. You all say that Obama is looking out for the middle class. Lets say you retire and want to sell your house and move into something smaller, OOOOOps Obama just raised the taxes on profits, let say you want to sell some of your stocks, oooooops Obama wants to raise taxes, lets say your mom and/or dad passes away and leave you with some money, stocks, business or anything oooooooops Obama wants to raise the taxes. He is not looking out for middle class. He is going to drive jobs away buy taxing the small businesses. Both my brothers have small businesses and they both said they would have to lay off if Obama becomes President so they would be able to afford the taxes. Obama is going to kill the job market and the economy with his tax proposal. Wake up people the rich drive the economy with jobs and their spending. This is the truth and nothing but the truth.

Sarah Palin and her husband were once members of a separatist party that wanted nothing to do with America. They wanted to keep all the resources for themselves. Just last year she showed up at one of their rallies and Todd has been involved for many, many years as well! Separatist movements are straight-up treason in my opinion. THEY WANTED TO BE NO PART OF AMERICA! If the Palins had it their way… Alaska would be its own country charging us twice us much in oil! This, to me, is far bigger than Obama meeting with a guy that was a political radical over 10 years ago that killed some people when Obama was 8.

Donna – how dare I? This vet just did! If you want to embrace a traitor and call him a hero then go right ahead!

so help me
nice but more lies
Obama’s promise is not taxing anyone who makes less than 250k
even with capital gains.
so stop.
same team same tactics
destroying our country with lies , policies and distractions
for a 9th year.
throw these bums out!

Pro-terrorist?
Excuse me? I think he’s a pro-peace person unlike McCain who believes we must “intimidate” all our enemies into submission even if it means placing a toll on our own soldiers.
Obama did not subvert the negotiations. The Republican Senators with him supported his story and said that McCain was stretching the truth- Obama said that they should not rush into an agreement that could tie the next administration’s hands, not that they should slow down the withdrawal.

No consumers…no business.

all anyone has to do is read the McCain supporters on here
to see Mccain wants us on the same distractions road that lead us to today.
same team
same tactics
9th year.
throw the liars and distracters to the curb
Get Angry
tak the country back from the team that has destroyed
and obviouly from these posts alone…clearly want that road to continue.

so help me
yes
and clearly over and over
how many times does Biden and Obama and the rest have to clarify
their tax burden if for people over 200k a year
or couples that make 250 k a year.
as you argue for the same policies and tax platform that got us HERE.

McCain’s son and their families’ role in the recent bank takovers in AZ and NV should be fair game as well.

The first six years were NOT good. Sorry.

Nope – the economy and the war are fair game. Stay focused folks!

Kimberly – Good for you, you’re one in a million.
Obama 08

The only way you can say the first 6 years were not great under President Bush is if you are a liberal wanting the free ride Obama wants to give you from the rich. I am a conservative who works for his money and deserves what I have. I don’t want the government to take anything from me and I don’t want the government to tell me how to live. I don’t want to become a socialist government under Barack Hussien Obama. His ties with extremist are far from a lie. He has been with Hate America Rev. Wright for over 20 years. Change is right with McCain/Palin 08/12

so help me
let us clarify
your lies
here is what almost every reputable site has said about the lies you spread about home sales..
“ad claims Obama would increase taxes “on the sale of your home.” In fact, home-sale profits of up to $500,000 per couple would continue to be exempt from capital gains taxes. Very few sales would see an increase under Obama’s proposal to raise the capital gains rate. ”
PROFITS!!!!!!!!
we are sick of the lies
do you know how small of a percentage of small business would be effected?
people who make under 250k are almost literally never going to see a 500k profit on their homes…
and if they in the very rare case they did… they would be in a category similar to anyone making over 250k a year so stop…in this horrific situation they should see a slight raise in their tax…on that large profit
that is the point…ugh.
same team
same tactics
same results
throw these lying distracting manipulating bums out.

BLAH…no I am looking at the ENTIRE picture and you want to look at some moment in time. BUSH is a failure! PERIOD.

BLAHISBHO
6 years of smashing everything that kept our country strong…
and as the “crate and Barrel” analogy works well
paying off dishes that you broke…may take a lot more time to pay off than it did to break them,
this country was slowly destroyed for 8 years…
and the same team that broke us during those years…
fought to keep that status quo against those trying to fix it for the next 2.
throw these policy smashers
…these distracters…these liars…these bums OUT!

If BUSH was SOOOOOOOOOO great, then why isn’t he out campaigning for his twin McCain? Because he can’t defend the reality.

65% of businesses pay no taxes. They cry about the 35% tax rate, but use every loophole to dodge paying them and then send jobs overseas. Some CEOs pay LESS taxes than you and I . Go figure!

BlahishBHO, How much money do you make in a year? If it is less then 200 grand a year then your taxes will not increase. If you do make 200 grand a year, who cares if you get taxed more.
What will that mean. Regular unleaded instead of premium. If you make less then 200 grand the democratic party will be good for you. I know you don’t want the gov telling you what to do, but I would rather have elected officials telling me what to do then some rich tycoon that runs major corporations and makes up rediculas rules that take advantage of hard working honest American People.
You have had it your way for the last 8 years and look where we are now. Checks and balances are there for a reason, because the greedy rich man will only take more not give back like the Republican party wants us to believe. By the way Republicans are no way no how more patriotic then Democrats.
No way, no how, No McSame.

All you liberals on here probably think Pelosi and Reid are great for the economy and have great ideas also. The Democrats have had congress for 2 years and have done nothing and that is the same we would get out of Obama. He will ruin the economy with his taxes and drive jobs overseas. His taxes do not make since because where is he going to get the money to make our government even bigger then it is. Where is this money going to come from, the abortion clinics?

BRB… McCain is no hero. He is just playing one. If he knew that those sealed documents he signed would be released, then he would change his tune. He’s a fraud.

texas outlaw I make well under $200k a year but I know his taxes don’t make sense. I want to keep my job and him taxing small businesses I will not have a job because my job relies on these small businesses. It only makes sense if he taxes the $250 or more people he would not be able to run the government and he will lose jobs overseas and the unemployment will go up because of these small businesses will have to close. The $250k and up people are the ones who spend in our economy and are the ones that hire for their business.
I want to keep my job Voting for McCain/Palin.

Donna, I am not suprised at you 28% stat, but those people where never going to vote for Obama. I would bet they will never vote for a black man in their life time. A fact is a fact. There are many older white folks that will never vote for a black man. He will not need their old prejudice vote. He will have twice as many new voters make up for those votes.
McSame slipping in every swing state.
Obama may make a run on all the swing states and all he really needs to do is take one of them. Same old politics days are numbered. 28 days left.

Fear-Mongers are out in force again this political cycle. However, Americans now know your LITTLE TRICK,
Obama ’08!

ComOB – Get over it. I know…Obama is winning.
Obama 08

I am a Republican and this is a big mistake by Sarah Palin.
In this time of economic crisis and serious issues, they look like they are grasping for straws.
This is the same woman whose husband belong to the Alaska independence party as of very recently.
I don’t think they want to to go there with McCain’s Keating scandal and ties to communist and racist organizations. No wonder McCain is slipping in polls. Palin is fallling and real sign of McCains judgement, sure she is feisty but comes off as being an airhead . She did not fool many people with her non answers and winking during the debates.
McCain is complaning now that Obama is hitting back. He is truly erratic and out of touch.

BLAHisBHO – If you don’t make 250K as you stated…then you’re on the wrong side. Hurry up! before the train leaves! Don’t get left behind….
OBAMA 08

BlakeC, they haven’t gone over the difference between admonished and exonerated on Fraud & Friends. Let’s not expect too much early on a Monday morning.

The Obama campaign will not roll over as the Kerry and Gore camps did. Obama is going to win this election. Every day he gets a bit closer. McCain/Palin supporters, YOU SHOULD REALIZE THIS. MCCAIN IS GOING TO LOSE. PERIOD.
Now with the Dow dipping below 10k, ouch, more bad economic news.
More bad economic news = McCain loss.
The wheels are starting to come off.

Obama and the DNC will try anything to get the focus off of Obama’s own shortcomings. Long ago, McCain was cleared of any wrongdoing related to the Keating 5. Obama has NOT been cleared of wrongdoing in the Rezko scandal and the apparent kickbacks in campaign contributions he received from those who he supported to get government funding for projects, which were substandard work.

Chuck, you worry about crap like that and we’ll move you and your kind out of the way, much like FDR did to Hoover, and fix this country.
How does it feel to be on the wrong side of history?
Sure feels good to be on the right side!

SgtPepper – Chuck must be on the wrong train to nowhere – get it!
Obama 08

Oh brother! Not the so called Conservative Right again playing desperate election politics. You people and the McCain fail and failed to note that Rev. Wright and Ayers were brought up throughout the entire Democratic primary and what happen Obama is still standing. We have 29 days left and now you all wish to bring Ayers and Wright back up again. Why? Desperate………… Desperate!!!!!!!!.
It shows….. the GOP has no agenda to run on…… It the GOP…..has failed the American people for the 8th year and if the GOP happens to think that Ayers and Wright scandals or lack their of will work….. Keep wishing.
McCain is arizona, while Obama is driving up I-95 to 1600 PA Avenue,SW….. You see GOP……. the American people granted you all 8 years ……… * 8 YEARS and look what you have done………. Nothing…… No Bin laden, 700 Billion bailout, 2 trillion debt, 2 wars with no end…….and the worse economic and sociological crisis in history…… I would attempt to go into the increase in abortions, same sex marriages, and so forth which are issues you GOP losers live for……
Obama 08……..
Obama 12 if no Obama then there will be another chance he is only 46, he can sit out 2 terms while you losers destroy the country further.
If hillary thinks, African Americans gonna vote for her in 2012, she best keep on dreaming. We dont forget nothing.

Remember the last time we were promised a middle class tax cut? It was by impeached, disbarred Bill Clinton. One month after he was elected guess what? No tax cut. Instead he increased taxes on the middle class. If Obama is elected, history will repeat itself. All of you who voted your pocketbooks before will be SUCKERS AGAIN.

Tanya, therein lies the real racism, as in the past elections around 10% of African Americans (I guess the conservative ones) voted republican. Now 97% of AA’s are voting for Obama. Why the increase?
They are voting based on his skin color.

proudofamerica – Who took your money….
Obama 08

Obama is not a perfect person by no means and all the McCain camp is doing is bringing up stuff that has been pushed back and hid. Never dealt with and is forcing the Press to finally stop kissing Obama’s butt and report news with no Bias. so we the voters have ALL the information to make our decision next month at the Polls.

Donna – I think people want change. It has nothing to do with Obama’s skin color. I think the real issue with the majority of people is that McCain has been mentally affected from the war that he participated in. It’s obvious when you see him on tv. I know mental disease, he’s not normal, I belive its from the war…check out his blinking. We need someone who is mentally stable to run this country.

What are conservative African Americans?

So Obama says he was in Rev. Wright’s church for 20 years but never heard him say all those anti-American, hateful things we’ve all seen on TV?!! Yeah right!! This is more about his credibility than an association with someone who is a racist and who thinks America is the cause of all the bad things that happen in the world. According to Rev. Wright (and his disciples Michele & Barack)we deserved 911-shameful!!

Shalom – Thanks. Obama’s tunout will be massive and I mean massive!!! The biggest in history.

So you defended yourself from accusations that you are racist by posting stats to infer that AA were voting based on race. Effectively you are calling AA racists with no leg to stand on. Two wrongs do not make a right.

Yea, his turnout will be massive, but the precincts will have to turn away the teenagers under 18 and all those dead folks.
I heard today that out of 1500 new democrat registrations somewhere, only 4 of them were actual people who were alive and over 18.
LOL!!

Donna – Everyone is entitled to their own choice of candidate. If your choice is McCain then so it be. You have your own self-determinism. Of cours, no candidate is perfect, but I just feel we need someone with mental stability. But then again, that’s just my opinion. Therefore, I have chosen Obama. I would respect any decision you make.

McSame lovers,just remember Obama did not have to testifiy under oath in the Tony Resko trial or the William Ayers
Trial,considering he was 8yrs. when it happened,also Ayers was never covicted of Terrorism. McSame had go before Congress under oath and beg for his political future.

I don’t care about who was friends with whom way back when … there are far more important issues at hand to worry about. The Dow is crashing this morning even after the $700B bailout that McCain takes credit for bringing about. I want someone who understands the economy and can lead us out of this mess with a steady hand. I don’t want a candidate who jumps from one news cycle to the next just to create divertions. McCain has admitted that the economy is not his thing and he doesn’t know what to do about it. Then step out of the way, and let the people who know do the job. Vote Obama if you want to have some money left in your pocket after this fiasco, and don’t let all the white noise and winking distract you.

Does Obama have any friends who aren’t. Radicals, felons, anti-American or his wife?
It was disgusting watching Obama’s church laughing, clapping and jumping for joy the Sunday right after 9/11.
My church was praying. Not Obama’s.

In response to “CANDOR | posted Oct 6, 2008 12:45:53 AM” — the important issue is POOR JUDGEMENT. Senator McCain has on countless occasions shown poor judgment. He showed poor judgment in:
1) voting to go into Iraq war and expecting to win easily and be greeted with flowers.
2) to selecting Palen for the second most important position in America – and especially considering his own health issue.
3) in now wishing to deregulate health industry in the same way the banking industry was deregulated!
4) in thinking the fundamentals of America is strong.
4) in multiple flip-flopping while the American crisis of economy failure was taking place.
5) in having an adulterous relationship – and as his wife was laying sick!
6) in selecting Gramm as his primary financial advisor.
7) in selecting a whole group of lobbyist as his campaign advisors – then claiming that he will fight lobbying in Washington if elected.
8) advocating excessive financial deregulation – and still believe in it.
9) Keating5 participation.
Really, we can go on and on and on — bad judgment! We can’t have someone with such damning record of bad judgments as our leader — God knows where he’ll judge to lead America!! Senator McCain said he makes impulsive decisions (we saw evidence in that in the last few weeks) and whether they’re good or bad, accepts them and moves on. Problem is, bad judgment may be fine for an individual when the result is personal, but when that individual will make bad judgment for the country – that is a problem for all of us. If we know someone has made such drastic bad judgments, why would we vote for him?

BlahishBho, I am 40, and I have seen the right wing conservitive idology “FAIL”. Government and liberal are dirty words to only the Right Wing Extremist. Remember life “Liberty” and the pursuit of happyness. Give me “Liberty” or give me death. Liberty is a good word except to Faciist that would rather have Corporations run the country. Yes huge corporations with no regulation = facist. Look what the corporations have done. They have held this country hostage like terroists. They control the government. I would rather pay taxes and have regulation then to let the rich get richer and break the working mans back.

Keating 5??? is that the case where Mccain was acquitted?? hmm…since when did acquittal makes you still guilty. Let’s hear more about Obama’s associations and what he plans to do with these people when he’s in the white house.

McCain was ADMONISHED…not ACQUITTED.

You can not change the color of my skin.
McCain/Palin 08/12

In response to “Posted by: BLAHisBHO | Oct 6, 2008 8:40:14 AM”
Well I don’t know which worlds you’re living in but anyone with TV can see that Obama does put his hand over is heart during the National Anthem, does wear the American Flag on his lapel, did disassociate with the church, is of CHRISTIAN FAITH, and voted 96% with democrats as he was voting against the follies of the republican leader, President Bush: note McCain voted 90% WITH president Bush!!

It amazes me how much white people will go through from keeping minorities from succeeding in this nation. Please read your Bibles please!!!!

Darkhorse… like I said. Most can not put themselves in another’s shoes. And when they do they don’t like the fit.

Forget for a moment why we went to war and forget when we decide to get out. Before Iraq, the government is secular and keeps Iran at bay. When we leave the country it will be Shiite dominated just like Iran. And we wonder why it’s difficult to get out. This is what happens when fools rush in. When the leadership is emotional versus practical.

I think accusations of advocating teaching sex to children before reading and “pallin around with terrorists” do a lot to redifine one’s attitude toward what is germane.

omg, I was all for Barack Obama until this desperate nasty smear job! He insists that my Ohioan hero and our national hero Ohio Sen. John Glenn (the astronaut, first American to orbit the Earth in space) was a corrupt embezzler in the Keating Five scandal, when all the trials and investigations have all completely and totally exonnerated him and John McCain! what hideousness… how disappointing that Barack Obama would give us such hope that he would change politics as we know it, and resort to the same old tired Rovian tactics of smear and tar and throw anything and anyone under the bus for cheap political gain.

Hannah is so right. McCain was acquitted. Just like O.J. The first time.
Ha, ha. I can now post just like a right wing nut job.

Hannah, McCain was not acquitted of misusuing his Senate position to help bail out a crook, He was never charged.
He is just like Bill Ayers. Never charged. See how easy this is.

what is so important with Keating 5 is how similiar it is to the current financial crisis…it is painful that nothing was learned from the s&l scandal. as a true independt…mccain may not have been found guilty, but was very much invloved. it will be interesting to if the Obama camp got the facts straight

McSame/Fallin you both are no going to take us down the same path in the next four years. Its only the foolish that will agree to what your champaign is doing now. Forgetting about the ISSUES to attact characters. If Palin is perfect let her be investageted in Alaska. Maybe she will wink and get away, but McCain can not he has agree with the Bush’s administration 90% or more times on everthing. Obama is the man of change for my generation mCSame and Falling are not. Palin prophetic man forgot to bewitch her to be VP of this nation.

JR:
Obama sat on a board with Ayers and worked closely with him and he launched his political career at Ayers’s house. He got a sweet position on this foundation board (that by the way accomplished nothing after 50 mil) despite having no experience…through Ayers. It’s relevant. He hasn’t apologized and beaten himself up for Ayers as McCain has for Keating, who was largely exonerated, not admonished. Obama just lies and says that he barely knows the guy, which is ridiculous. Also the “I was only eight years old” argument is absurd.
What if someone spent time with say, a former member of the KKK who had murdered someone 40 years ago…”I wasn’t even born when he was blowing up churches, how would I even know about that?”
BTW the other Keating “4″ were democrats, right?
Becky–your comment does not make sense, please read facts for a change instead of learning sound bite chants.
Mike–is that a question? I have manipulated nothing if you actually study what happened with Keating, instead of just repeating what others tell you.

It’s about time that someone ANYONE has the “Guts” to bring Obama’s relationships to the American People!!! Why have we waited so long? Obama’s character and judgement have EVERYTHING to do with this Presidential race and election. I can’t believe that we would actually consider putting someone in the White House who has ties to these types of “Radicals” including Reverand Wright!
WAKE UP PEOPLE! This man IS NOT who he claims to be and I pray that someone makes him address the facts and this issue in particular in front of a huge American audience soon!

HOW SWEET IT IS!!!
Go get ‘em Barack, two can play at this game McNasty!!!
How sweet is it going to be when they release the findings of Palins TROOPERGATE SCANDAL on this Friday the 10th!!!
McCain has had an ARMY of dirty trick lawyers in Alaska for a month trying to stop the investigation, but too bad for Republicans it isn’t working!!!
Why is the McCain campaign trying so hard to stop Palin’s investigation, if there is NOTHING to hide???

“He said… she said” charges and counter charges. The issue is character and one’s own record. Let any of the clowns calling him “McShame” have a week in the Hanoi Hilton of the sixties, and we’ll see what they have to say about character. McCain was cleared in Keating and turned to campaign finance reform to make something of value result from it. No repentance from Obama for Ayers, Wright, Rezco or his other misdeeds or poor associations. Typical of his Messianitic elitism. By the way, wsn’t it Clinton’s OMB director, Raines, who took over Fannie Mae and drove it into the ground while pocketing $90M? And BHO’s clan has the gall to talk about Keating’s similarity to the current financial mess.

Jeffrey…well, you do have the subprime housing Mess with Obama’s fingerprints all over it….Which has cost us taxpayers what around a $1 billion now. Thanks Obama..

MCCAIN RUNS HIS CAMPAIGN LIKE HE’LL RUN THIS COUNTRY, INTO THE GROUND! WHAT A FREAKIN’ LOSER!
OBAMA/BIDEN FOR SURE!

tom beebe | Oct 6, 2008 2:05:25 PM And wasn’t Raines briefly on Obama’s VP selection committee?

dvine..hun, there has never been a candidate as the same party as the president be elected when the economy is down———but hey, McCain is still within a few points which is amazing. People are scarred, but they still need to use their heads and see Obama for what he is an corrupt marxist who is very capable of making this much worse.

Danny:
You are dead wrong that Obama denounced wright or ayers. He followed Wright’s teachings for 20 years. He only had a problem with it when everyone else heard how racially biased it was and he knew he better distance himself.

Darkhorse, so you want to talk religion?
I don’t remember Obama saying God spoke to him like Bush claims. I don’t remember seeing any video with him standing on stage with Witch Doctors countering any Witches Spells. I don’t remember Obama saying anything political is “GODS WILL”. We don’t a God in the White House. It is hard enough to choose between a republican and democrat, we would have a heck of a time determining Who’s GOD should be there. Church and State should be seperated and should stay that way.

Posted by: texas outlaw | Oct 6, 2008 2:31:43 PM How do you define what “separation of church and state” is?

Chattaway, McCain may have warned about Fannie Mae, but did not get anything done about it. He still voted the wrong way on all the policies that allowed them to do what they did. McSame talks one thing and walks another. Republicans had 8yrs to identify and solve any problems the Dems may have created, but they did nothing but fuel the fire and filled their pockets. Remember these economic problems won’t hurt Bush or Cheney, they will be I quote GW on this ” Filling their Coffers”, while the rest of us are wondering how we are going to fill the fridge.
Bush, Cheney, and McSame all supported and regurgitated the lies over and over and you just ate it up. Now look at the mess we are in, and you want 8yrs of the same failures.

Does anyone else find it ironic that Obama is using the same old trick that GW Bush used against McCain in 2000. I guess there are some similarities between Bush and Obama after all. Keating 5 is a decades-old incident. McCain was cleared of wrongdoing in 1991 and returned more than $100,000 he received from Keating.

Palin’s recent comments atempting to connect Obama with this so called terroist Ayers sounds like an attempt to dig up a dead horse that has been ridden to death and buried a long time ago. Ther was nothing to it when it was used against Obama by Senator Clinton and there is nothing to it now. Obama was an 8 year old child when this so called sixties radical did what ever it was that he did. If Ayers is a terrorist, why is he allowed to run free and is currently teaching our kids at a university in Chicago? Why is it that the American Government is not interested in prosecuting this so called terrorist for the alledged crimes that he commited. Sounds to me like Palin should be worrying about her troopergate problems in Alaska where it seems like her little empire is crumbling.

texas outlaw – McCain “didn’t get anything done about” Fannie and Freddie because Democrats like Biden opposed McCain’s bill. Check out the bill online at the Senate’s Website. Also, Bush warned Congress about Fannie and Freddie 17 times between 2001 and 2008 – his warnings were ignored. Look it up. You can blame GW Bush for a lot of things, but Fannie/Freddie and the foreclosure mess isn’t one of them.

johnnylee – No one is suggesting that Obama had anything to do with the bombing or did anything illegal. The questions are about Obama’s relationship with Ayers while serving as chairman of CAC, which Ayers was president of … they also served on another board together and Obama spoke at an Ayers event and launched his senate campaign from Ayers’ house. Obama has never addressed any of this – just brushed it off. Just like he doesn’t address the work he did for ACORN. McCain has been open about Keatin g5 – why can’t Obama be just as open.

and then you far left liberals want to put someone in office that has ties with Hate America and terrorist.

texas outlaw – Separation of church and state does not mean that the president and congress can’t believe in religion and it doesn’t mean they can’t be guided by faith. It means that they can believe anything they want as long as they don’t try to make theirs the religion of the state (such as Church of England in Great Britain). Each of the candidates in this election has strong faith – all of them have been very outspoken about their religion.

Justanothervoter. Obama and anyone else who come into contact with Ayers shoul not have a reason to believe that he is anything other than the college professor that he is. Is Obama supposed to go and check everyone’s background that he has contact with. On the other hand, McCain’s has made so many decisions that has turned out to be poor decisions that it is amazing that people dont see that the man is not fit to govern.

texas outlaw – Can you tell me the flaws that you found in the bill that would lead you to say it isn’t well written? Because I found it to be very straight-forward. Seems to have been some political posturing to protect Fannie/Freddie that caused it to fail, not the writing, so I’m curious what led you to say it wasn’t well written.

johnnylee Obama didn’t have to do a background check on Rev. Wright he listened to his sermons for over 20 years.

Darkhorse, you sure we have not been attacked because of George Bushs policies? That’s like saying it hasn’t rained because of GW’s policies. You don’t know either way. I do know that Iraq and 911 had nothing to do with one another. I do know that Bush and all his cronnies lied to get us in Iraq. I know they ousted a CIA agents name in the field to discredit someone that was telling the truth. I know he had people tortured, I know they lied about stopping other attempts to attack us.
All of the claims they have made about attempts have been debunked, yet they still make the claims.
As for Bush and God. I don’t have the exact quote, but it was something to the effect that God let him know that we would not loose many if any troops and that removing Sadam was the right thing to do. It was 8yrs ago.

McCain has been messing up for over half a century. Maverick is just the prelude to another mess up. The Keating 5 situation has some substance. Allegations against Obama have all been smokescreens to misdirect the public so no actual issues rear their head. Now they renew their vigor after McSames embarrassing tap dance with the bailout issue.

Rodger Lemonde Can you point me to where I can read about the Keating 5 -McCain substance?

Just another voter- Clinging on one bill that McSame pushed for. Why are you not talking about all the budgets and bills that Mr. Deregulator did vote for and is still behind that have brought this country to it’s knees?
Let’s not forget how much money this occupation in Iraq is costing. Remember they flat out lied about everything leading up to the occupation.
We should have been in Afganistan and Pakistan. McSame supported the lies and still does. It’s perfectly safe to walk along Bagdad streets with you have 100 soldiers and Black Hawk Helicopter flying above.

Glenn Is is not the responsibility of a governor to look out for that state? When a coach on the Redskins goes to the Giants, is that coach going to keep doing things for the Redskins? Of course not! Its a new position with new responsibilities. Yup?

So McCain loves to bring up the past. You know if Michelle Obama was a former drug addict like Cindy McCain we would never hear the end of it?

I think you liberals just don’t think Palin looks like anyone else on the currency that is why you don’t like her.

texas outlaw…I am just stating what Biden said before he was selected as VP. He said Obama does not have the experience and McCain he would love to run with him as his VP. That is not much of an endorsement to Obama no is it.

Another day, I don’t think their personal faith should sway their decisions. Thier decisions are not for only them they are for ME. They should be considering what I the citizen they are supposed to be representing. They should not be making decesions based on what their religous beliefs are. Like I said before. Believe in the god and relegion you want, but don’t let that effect decisions that affect everyone. Leave Gods out of political decisions and leave politicians out of the churches or other areas of worship. If Bush believes Amedemajad is the antichrist and wants to attack them based on this belief it is a very bad thing. He does have the power as a politician to do this and then make false claims for his reasons for attack like he did in Iraq.

BLAHisBHO And Obama had such a positive influence on Chicago: Body count. In the last six months 292 killed (murdered)
> in Chicago, 221
> killed in Iraq.

Palin does not have an 80% approval rating now. Also Alaska doesn’t have as many people in it as Austin TX. Executive experiance. GW had executive experianc of the whole state of Texas. He had a dad that was President and another brother that is Gov. What good did that do? She has signed a contract to start the process of starting to apply for the permits to build a pipeline they may or may not be built.
She had all kinds of money coming in from that bridge to nowhere that she was for before she was against it.
She had a another boat load of money coming in from earmarks. The oil and Gas industry has helped Alaska as well. She should have high approval ratings. Texas and Alaska have been doing well since Oil crisis has started. They are the only two states that have. Imagin that. Also don’t men out number women 3 to 1 in Alaska. If I had a choice between an ugly old man and a good looking smooth talker I would pick her to.

texas outlaw What is Barack Hussein Obama’s approval rating in Ill. Probably high because no one is working and they know Obama will give them free hand outs from the working class.

texas outlaw Montana & Wyoming are also doing well because of drilling. More states should trying it, especially California before putting their hand out for some money.

Darkhorse, Ohio,
Palin is currently under investagation! She was for before she was against it. She is for transparency except when it comes to her. Her husband did not cooperate either trying to hide under her political wing. Palin and McSame are both liers and continue to repeat the lies after they have been proven false. You two just seem to have a hard time coping with the fact that the American people have seen through the lies of the old man and his conservitive groupie and they are sliding downward real fast. Obama will sweep the swing states and you will have to live with Democratic president for at least 8 more years.

Parrothead can we please find out where Obama is getting his donations. The liberal press don’t investigate anything on Obama.
Why is the media keeping a lid on this.
Why is FEC Keeping Lid on OBAMA SCANDAL?
It looks as if Senator Obama may have received MORE THAN $200 MILLION in illegal donations including millions overseas campaign donations. Four times during the last three months an FEC Auditor has asked his bosses to start an investigation into Senator Obama’s illegal campaign donations such as this one
Similarly, a donor identified as “Pro, Doodad,” from “Nando, NY,” gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations, most of them for $25. For most of these donations, Mr. Doodad Pro listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You,” etc.

The only white flag that I have seen is the white flag McSame camp has waved in MI. Now the McSame camp says they never really expected to win MI, they just wanted Obama to spend money there. I wonder how that makes the folks in MI feel? So what other states is McSame just faking in? Like I said earlier, when I whip someone and walk away with them bleeding on the ground, I don’t call that surrender. I am not going to stick around and wait to see if they learned a lesson or not. If they don’t learn from the mistake that is their problem. Iraq has a surplus of money and they have not given us a cent. I feel we have done our part and put the whoop’n on the bad guys there, now it is time for them to take responsiblity for themselves.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone!
Instead of being a “new kind of candidate” Obama has been even more
dishonest than most politicians!
He’s flipped on everything from campaign
financing to universal healthcare!
His new ad claims that he will not
force anyone to drop their current plan
and support his plan!
He’s claiming to be the voice of moderation between Hillary Clinton’s
force everyone to participate plan and
John McCain’s free market approach!
Nice try, but I’m not buying it!
I wouldn’t buy a used car from this
Charlatan!

McCain should be ashamed of himself and so should Palin. Stop lying to the American people and calling it “serving”.
Go Obama Go!!

If McCain/Palin have just one proposal for what they will do for the mess that this country is in, i would sure like to hear it. You get nothing on how they will solve the problems of Americans from McCain/Palin. You only get negative attacks on Obama from them. Will negative attacks on Obama solve America’s problems. The country is disintergrating and all McCain/Palin can do is talk about Obama’s past associations. McCain/Palin please stop the negative attack campaign and tell the American people what you intend to do to help poor Americans feed their familys.

Darkhorse , Obama was 8 years old when Ayers was involved in the Vietnam controversay, so he was on the same charity committee so if I was on the same charity committee with someone who was involved in something 40 years ago I’m a terriost your an idiot. Who’s the North American hater Palin was involved with the AIP and wants to succeed from the USA talk about her being unpatriotic.

How much energy can we produce from other means in 3 to 10yrs and be on our way out of the dependancy? Just because there is a pipline in Alaska does not mean we are going to get the oil. We will sell it on the market just like everyone else. Yes I am sure you will have all kinds of Oil Tycoons making promises about how fast we can produce oil. Also why do we need to open more fields. We already have plenty of places they have been approved to do it it in. It’s all about how to make more money, not what is best for our country.
Exon still has not stood by it’s commitment for cleaning up the Valdeze spill, yet you’re more then willing to believe what ever they say about drilling.
These guys don’t care about our planet or us. They care about profit.
Exon/Mobil made the most money in 1 quater that was ever made in the history of the free enterpise system mulitiple times in the last few years while the American worker is suffering because of it’s policies and the Bush policies. Don’t ask me to believe anything the oil men say.

Although its not as good as the infamous suppose it will have to do…for now. McCain and his entourage opened that door. He deserves everything he gets from this point on. Send his maverick butt back to Arizona on a three-legged Rocky Mountain canary.

Mr. McCain is probably one of the “cleanest” candidates we have had.
Obama is enternally questionable and deceitful. Doesn’t even offer any proof of citizenship.
Obominable Obama. SO clear for any thinking person isn’t it? But that is where the problem comes in–real Koolaid drinkers do not read, do not think for themselves, are bone lazy and want to give everything over to the “leader” who always promises the MOON — Jim Jones, Castro, etc. Sadly, we have too many of these people in this country today. What is really troubling is the black shirted youth for Obama…….too close for comfort to the brown shirts of a bygone dictatorship era. Why worry though–nobody is going to do anything, or say anything about it….these far liberals are blind and deaf to it when it involves their chosen one.

Reganfan, you could not by a used car from anyone right now because the republican party has screwed everything up with this awesome capitolisic idology that has been set loose the last 8 yrs. Have you not heard that lending has all but stopped. Except for the huge loan we gave all the banks so our country would not go under. Then they complain about that. They would rather we go back to the ages of survival of the fitest and let all the poor and week die off and the rich and strong live on. It is a rediculas antisocial selfish idology. Forcing the rich to help others is not a bad thing. We should not have to do it in the first place, but the fact is they will not do it on their own. They would rather buy a plane or a boat or a 9th house before helping the poor underprivledged.

Mc Cain practically begged Obama to do this. While Obama tried to stay on the economy and the middle class. When Mc Cain saw he couldnt hold his own he decided the economy and the middleclass arent as important as Obama is. He decided his campaign was more important than the bailout bill that he helped kill and cost us all dearly within those days it was in question. He had that same type of outlook when he tried to protect Mr Keating from investigation while his actions cost all back then. He became the Maverick after this incident to cover it up. Now the chickens have come home to roost!

johnnylee The associations show repeated poor jugement in people he calls friends. And the denial of knowing their deeds exacerbates the demonstration of poor judgement.

RAY : The Senate Ethics Committee lawyer who investigated McCain already had explained that scandal away — repeatedly. First, I should tell your listeners I’m a registered Democrat, so I’m not on (McCain’s) side of a lot of issues. But I investigated John McCain for a year and a half, at least, when I was special counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee in the Keating Five. … And if there is one thing I am absolutely confident of, it is John McCain is an honest man. I recommended to the Senate Ethics Committee that he be cut out of the case, that there was no evidence against him.”

Here is a website that only covers the Keating Five Scandal – it has old newspaper coverage of McCain’s role in the savings and loan disaster:

dotheresearch Since Ayers father was CEO of ConEdison, he had mucho money and power!

I predicted all of this mess 8 years ago,when Bush and Company stole the 2000 Election.Since 2004 I’ve been holding my breath.
It will be soooooooo good to breathe
again on November 4th.
I’d say by 11pm, AT BEST!

Deanbob, McSame is a lier. Palin did not sell a plane on ebay at a profit.
He repeated it several times after it was proven false. Obama will not raise the common mans taxes, but McSame has repeated it over and over. I guess when he speaks of raising taxes on the middle class he means those making 5 million a year. That is what McSame said was a middle class income. You know that McSame is trying to make the average American believe that Obama is going to raise their taxes.
He does say that the employers will let people go because the taxes will eat into their profit. Well that is a moral issue with the business owner to deal with. If they want to let people go because they aren’t making “enough” money that says something about their character. Selfish. Americans should be helping one another, not taking advantage of one another. The pure capitolistic society that the Republicans want will leave the poor out. The poor are Americans too. They are just not rich capitolists. Some don’t have money because they share what they get. Many have a lot of money because they don’t share. I root more for the ones that share.
Funny how we forget the simple rules are parents taught us once the money starts coming in.

I don’t get it, if McCain did nothing wrong, why then did he apologize? Doesn’t sound very Maverick to me. Maybe he should go back and watch reruns of Bart and Brett Maverick and see how a real Maverick would have handled it.

johnnylee If it was 1 friend, maybe ok. 2 friends, ???. 3 nah,… nah, …., nah. ACORN (convicted in several states). For me, there are too many ‘coincidences’ of too many of his friends. I slam bi-partisanly! As for McCain’s judgment, he seriously misjudged (aka took for granted) the effect on conservatives of his signing the PORK in the BAILOUT bill. NOPORK McCain – yup!

IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!
WANT FOUR MORE YEARS OF THE SAME ECONOMY?
IF SO, VOTE McCAIN!

Vote for John McCain!!
John McCain is the one who can come up with solutions to our economic problems.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden are mathematically challenged.
Joe Biden with his history and political science double major in college and Barack Obama’s major in political science give them absoloutely no economic, scientific, quantitative or analytical background to handle the pressing economic and military problems facing our country.
These two mathematically challenged Democrats are supposed to be able to crunch numbers and understand how to cope with our economic and budget crisis. Two people who probably can’t add four numbers together are suppose help solve our economic crisis. Do you know that they offer basic accounting continuing education classes to lawyers because most lawyers do not understand simple accounting. We have had enough mathematically challenged lawyers screw up our country. You at least know that John McCain has the computational and analytic skills to compute fuel loads, cargo weights, wind speeds, and trip distances to keep from running out of gas on missions.
How would you like it, if Joe Biden or Barack Obama would fly your Boeing 777 on your next commercial flight here in the US. Most independent and undecided voters would not rest easy knowing that Biden or Obama can rely on what they learned in their civil procedure class to help you land safely and not run out of jet fuel during the trip. Pilots have proven analytical skills. There is a saying that there are old and bold pilots but no old bold pilots. John McCain has that good judgment and he has the proven analytical skills to be able to tackle our budget problems. Barack Obama and Joe Biden can spend the next four years and take some accounting and economics continuing legal education classes. After four years of academic coursework, then they might be able to throw their hat in the ring.
Given their academic training, a trillion dollars may look the same as a million dollars on a budget spreadsheet.

If you are a McCain supporter, everything piece of propaganda his camp puts out, you will support. If you are an Obama supporter, you will do likewise.
When will some say something that has not already been said?
The most provocative thing I have heard in the last 2 days was said by someone with “rightt” in their ‘call sign’, and it was: “If Obama is a terrorist, then why is Homeland Security not involved.”
Everyone who has left a message on this board has already made up their mind who they will vote for on November 4th!
Do you agree?

bhcg89
You said: “You at least know that John McCain has the computational and analytic skills to compute fuel loads, cargo weights, wind speeds, and trip distances to keep from running out of gas on missions.”
———————
Yep, all thats going to come in pretty handy in the oval office (particularly the wind speeds aspect). I find it interesting in your discussion of book smarts versus military experience that you mention Obama and Biden, but when you state the case of McCain, you fail to make any mention of Palin. Hmmm, could it be that she may run out of gas on one of her missions? I find it hard to believe she can read the gas guage in her car. She’s not going to be very useful for the next president if the two of them are going to have to demonstrate their flying skills as evidence that they know how to manage our economy.

Kenneth W. of Minneapolis I am leaning strongly. But, the BAILOUT pushed me to the edge – of not voting. I don’t believe in Socialism, but I am SOOOOOOOOO disappointed in McCain. I would rather protest with NO VOTE than give it to a 3rd party. Does it sound like MY MIND is made up?

*****DeanBob***** It appears that you have indeed made up your mind to “Not Vote.” That is fine, because, if you feel that no-one has earned your vote, then I totally respect you. If anyone’s vote can be woo’ed by fear or slick talk, then they indeed is a prostitute. THESE CANDIDATES SHOULD EARN YOUR VOTE!
Senator Obama has earned mine, and he shall receive it!

I’m very sorry for saying “prostitute.” I apologize to all who I offended.
I’m truly sorry.

Extremely Scary!!!! Extremely Unsettling!!!! And you McCain/Palin supporters may think she is cute when she winks and memorizes lines and you sell her dolls like you are in a ballpark watching a game, but there are Real Enemies of Ours who would not negotiate with an Airhead who knows nothing and would regard her as a JOKE and you voting her in would make you the JOKE also. You would be asking for Danger. Make “Say It Ain’t So Joe” go home. If that does not scare you, nothing will !!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008 – Country and Security First !!!!!

JOHN SIDNEY MCCAIN – NOT COUNTRY FIRST, NOT AMERICANS FIRST.
DESPERATE, PITIFUL, ANGRY OLD MCCAIN
ABANDONED AMERICA FOR EIGHT YEARS
MCCAIN IS NOW ABANDONING AMERICAN WHEN THEY NEED HIM THE MOST FOR LIES AND SWINGBOAT SMEAR GAMES.
MCCAIN IS HANGING AMERICA OUT TO DRY AND FOCUSING ON LIES
AND SMEARS
MCCAIN IS NOT HELPING AMERICA WITH STRATEGIES AND IDEAS TO HELP BECAUSE HE HAS NONE !!!!
AMERICA’S FINANCIAL ECONOMY IS IN RUIN FROM THE 26 YEARS OF DEREGULATION AND 8 YEARS OF BUSH, 159,000 JOBS LOST FOR THE 9TH STRAIGHT MONTH OF JOB LOSSES, HEALTHCARE COVERAGE IS DOWN,
10,000 FORECLOSURES A DAY, 401K’S ARE DOWN, AND MCCAIN AND
PALIN WANT TO ATTACK OBAMA WITH LIES AND NEGATIVE ADS AND
PERSONAL ATTACKS WHILE AMERICA SUFFERS !!!!!!
AS YOU HOLLAR FOR HELP, MCCAIN IGNORES YOU AND INSTEAD GO FULL FORCE ON SMEARS. MCCAIN DOES NOT CARE ANYTHING ABOUT COUNTRY OR ABOUT ANY OF US.
EIGHT YEARS OF IGNORING AMERICA. ON NOVEMBER 4TH WE WILL IGNORE YOU AND PALIN.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008 – WHEN AMERICA FIGHTS BACK.

Todd Palin was apart of this. I did not know.
TODD PALIN, THE FIRST DUDE IS A TERRORIST. SARAH PALIN THE DENSE LIAR AND IDIOT.
Todd Palin was apart of this Alaskan Independence Party up until 2002. Sarah Palin recorded a video showing Todd being apart of this group this year. During the 1970s, Vogler founded the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP) and Alaskans For Independence. He also claimed to have organized the meeting which led to the formation of the Libertarian Party in Alaska. The AIP and AFI, as Vogler explained, were intended to function as strictly separate entities — AIP primarily to explore whether the 1956 vote by Alaskans authorizing statehood was legal, and AFI primarily to actively pursue secession for Alaska from the United States.
The Alaskan Independence Party quotes Vogler as stating “I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.”[1] [2]
Todd Palin first registered to vote in 1989. From 1995 to 2002 he was registered to vote as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party.[11] In late August 2008, The Politico reported that Palin was registered to vote as an independent (“undeclared”), and had never registered as a Republican.[12]

I’d say it’s about time to bring out Sarah Palin’s favorite witch hunter. After all, according to her, he was responsible for her being elected governor, so she should share him with the world. If you haven’t seen him, just google: Palin’s witch hunter.

Obama supporters seem to like insults without substance. Stick to issues people. Insults may lead people to question your facts, if any.
Obama holds the Keating 5 as McCain’s most disgraceful hour? Sorry dude, McCain was exonerated and found to be without wrongdoing in that case. At very worst he could be accused of crossing party lines and being involved with 4 Democrats in the investigation.
Obama is the leftist extremist who is simply dangerous. He is associated with several radicals including Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Wright and others and he has ties to criminals in Chicago. Obama’s political views are off the scale to the left.
McCain has a proven record of working with Democrats in a bipartisan manner. (Not always to my liking) What little record Obama has shows that he is hard core leftist and unwilling to compromise with anyone more conservative than Ted Kennedy.

After watching McCain’s rally on TV, I have compiled a new McCain’s New World Dictionary for someone who may not understand some of the new words. Here are some entries:
Country = Me
Homes (Uncountable noun) : Places that sometime we may forget.
Pork barrel: Something we promise to veto but never do.
Economy (abstract noun): Abstract concept that we should never discuss.
Change: the difference between talk and action.
Deregulation: Something that was in ours favor, but we should not mention.
Personal attack: a tool to use when we are losing.

McCain is dying of cancer. He will die in the first year. Palin would be president. She has no knowledge, nor ability nor education. We’ve had 8 years of an ignorant president. It destroyed the country. Why do Republicans want 8 more years of corruption, ignorance and failed policies?
McCAIN IS PATHETIC!

More entries for New McCain’s New World Dictionary:
Vice President: Someone who is not allowed to talk.
Iraq: A place to burn 10 billions a month.
Maverick: Someone who loves to blame.
Middle class: A class that has no privilege and should be blamed for the economic crisis.
Terrorist: Someone who is dark.
Tax cut: Special privilege for the rich.
Health care: You care for yourself.

John, John, John! When you are as old as you are you best not try to dig up stuff from the past. We all have stuff in our closets as the saying goes; but McCain is so old that he doesn’t have a closet to hide it all. HE HAS 12 HOMES!!!

RIDICULOUS. McCain was totally exonerated.
People better take the spin off of Obama’s campaign and think carefully what this country will turn into if he’s elected. The truth is finally being brought out about him. It has nothing to do with desperation. TWO FBI AGENTS came out – one yesterday and one today – to voice their concerns about Obama and Ayres. BE CAREFUL PEOPLE…….and Ayres isn’t the only concern. —
PROSECUTORS SEEK TO DELAY SENTENCING OF TONY REZKO
CHICAGO: Prosecutors seek to delay sentencing for Chicago money man, suggesting felon linked to Barack Obama has secrets to share.

Yes, Obama, hang in there. McCain’s character is not the issue. Yours is. You can see ALL of us.

People don’t be ignorant. Those of you that voted Bush in office twice want more of the same. I’m starting to think that the McCain supporters are just as uneducated and un-informed as McCain and Sorry Sarah. McCain’s a veteran, so what!! I’m a veteran of the Navy, officer as well, and it doesn’t qualify me by any means. Better yet I’m probably more qualified than the two of them together.
Race is the issue here. Many of you would rather have someone who looks like you that has the educational background of trailer trash than a man that’s a Harvard grad with vision. Grow up and educate yourself.
Barack Hussein Obama “08 & 12″

Anyone voting for Obama is a fool! He is the slickest con-man to come along in years. Granted he’s smooth as silk, but an empty suit! There’s no way you can read available books that are “for” him, neutral or against him and come away feeling comfortable that Obama is a loyal American with solid American ideals. The problem with the electorate in this country is they love to hear bull-crap! Bill Clinton said it best: “it’s better to lie big than tell the truth small”
I would have been thrilled to vote for a qualified black man. This guy is nothing more than a siding salesman with a silver tongue. Before you call me a racist, check out books and articles about Axelrod, Obamas image maker and manager. You might learn what you need to know before you vote.

Those who would refuse to remember the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat the mistakes. It is not a time for an amateur at the helm. We have been there before.WILL you make the same mistake?For those too young to know or remember. Change for the sake of change is seldom for the better. 1975-76 the U.S. was in turmoil, and people were demanding change. An obscure young man with good credentials(exceptional credentials compared to the aspirants today). 1977, President Carter inherited an economy that was slowly emerging from a recession. After four years of the Carter presidency, both inflation and unemployment were worse than at the time of his inauguration. The annual inflation rate rose from 4.8% in 1976 to 6.8% in 1977, 9% in 1978, 11% in 1979, and hovered around 12% at the time of the 1980 election. Carter had pledged to eliminate federal deficits, the deficit 1979 $27.7 billion, 1980 was nearly $59 billion. Inflation(11-12 percent), and skyrocketing interest rates(21.5 percent). July 1980, Carter received a favorable rating of only 21% in the Gallup Poll. That was the lowest rating any president, including Richard Nixon at the time of his resignation, had received since polling began in 1936.This not to mention the devastated military preparedness and income tax rates. Do we need to re-live this in 2008-2012

Okay let me see If I understand you correctly John S McCain who was cleared of wrong doing in the Keating five scandal is a reason not to vote for him? He was cleared of wrong doing! But was told he showed poor judgment in this scandal, McCain has never tried to hide from this he learned from it and moved on. So lets take a look at just a small sampling of the Poor Decisions of Mr. Barak H. Obama. Rezko lied about the actual amount of campaign money he received from him took 3 tries to get it right and give back the donations, Rev. Wright a Racist Radical who preached about the evils of America and White America for the 20 years Obama said he was a member. First said he never heard any of these sermons, but later changed his tune and said he had and voiced concern about them? Voiced concern but still attended and lists Rev, Wright as a spiritual advisor and sounding board for new Ideas? It has been reported that Obama attended a sermon during Christmas where the Rev. was preaching another Anti-White sermon and Obama sat nodding his head in agreement? This church published a pro-hamas manifesto and named Louis Farrakhan man of the year. Farrakhan is of the belief as is Rev. Wright that white created the Aids virus to commit genocide against African Americans? Farrakhan is also Anti-Jew. He is friends with Bill Ayres an unrepentant terrorist who was a key member in a group that bombed federal buildings and certain members were linked and convicted to murdering police officers? He say he is not a close friend but he was close enough to launch his State Senate campaign and hold fundraisers at his home. Bill Ayers also hand picked him as chairman of a group he started. Then the recent economic crisis he is connected to Franklin Raines, Johnson who both were CEO’s accused of falsifying records to meet certain bonus levels. He Pushed for years for high Risk sub-prime Loans while a member of “Acorn” a Socialist/Marxist group that also has lawsuits against them in 9 states pertaining to voter fraud. He also took 150,000 from Lehman brothers! He also has links to the Pritzker family of Chicago, the 2001 collapse of sub prime-mortgage lender Superior Bank was an embarrassing failure in a corner of their giant business empire.Billionaire Penny Pritzker helped run Hinsdale, Ill.-based Superior, overseeing her family’s 50% ownership stake. She now serves as Barack Obama’s national campaign-finance chairwoman, which means her banking past could prove to be an embarrassment to her — and perhaps to the campaign. Superior was seized in 2001 and later closed by federal regulators. Government investigators and consumer advocates have contended that Superior engaged in unsound financial activities and predatory lending practices. Ms. Pritzker, a longtime friend and supporter of Sen. Obama, served for a time as Superior’s chairman, and later sat on the board of its holding company. Superior’s failure could still cost the federal deposit insurance fund tens of millions of dollars or more. And hundreds of people whose deposits exceeded federal insurance limits, such as Ms. Sweet, are still out millions of dollars, which will be reduced some by future Pritzker settlement payments. I have not even brought up the fact that Obama made the wrong statement 2 times on the Russia/Georgia crisis before agreeing with McCain and Finally getting it right. And Iran he said Iran is not a serious threat? This is his quote ” “Iran, Cuba, Venezuela? These countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose any serious threat to us,” he later changes his stance only after Americans said hold on a minute this country is close to creating a nuclear Weapon and you don’t consider them a threat? This man is a Danger to our Economy and our Safety. All of his economic advisors are tied to major collapses and his real opinions on foreign policy just are to put it simply naive and dangerous! Will you really sleep better with a Nuclear Iran because Obama says they pose no threat to us? They only need to fire one to cause the largest death toll this country has ever seen.

“Those who would refuse to remember the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat the mistakes. It is not a time for an amateur at the helm. We have been there before.WILL you make the same mistake?For those too young to know or remember. Change for the sake of change is seldom for the better.”
We discovered that with Bush. Unfortunately we learned that staying the course sucked, too. So what’s one to do except spout rhetoric? Take each candidate point by point and quit comparing someone today with someone 30 years ago who inherited a post-oil embargo economy before being hit by another. But if you insist on comparing apples and oranges…
Taxation didn’t cause the economic screw up (though the tax hike WAS most unappreciated). Inflation from rising energy costs did (score one for Bush on that, too).
Unemployment came from large plants shutting down and manufacturing cratered. Threw people out of work
in the areas most densely involved in manufacturing. It’s the financial institutions this time. Score one for Bush.
Inflation from rising cost of commodities like sugar took Coca Cola from 25 cents to 50 cents. Food doesn’t count in inflation numbers these days, so no comparison to Bush…but hey, who dropped food from inflation calculations anyway?
If you were alive in that time instead of selectively misreading history, you’d have a better grip on the external factors instead of generically blaming the man who just precided over the mess.
And what that has to do with Obama is beyond me but it’s that kind of muddled thinking that got two terms of George bush.
Carter DID gut HUMINT (Human Intelligence)in the CIA in favor of technology. Bad move. Bush wrecked the armed forces by forcing them to do 4 and 5 tours. Worst move.
Carter DID preside over a botched rescue attmept in Iran. Unfortunate event but the president doesn’t exactly have control over a massive sand storm. Bush got us involved in two wars RIGHT after Rumsfeld said we were abandoning the “two-front war doctrine’. Bush did that and no natural disaster caused it.
so when you campare Carter to Obama, maybe you ought to be looking a little more locally. Change for change sake is seldom good? Dig up Reagan and say that to his face because that’s EXACTLY what he ran on. He beat Carter, your whipping boy…the circle of life!

Dude, I’m with you about concern over a candidates associations. But I also realize that if you had that much scruntiy on ANY of the former three presidents, you’d never sleep at night.
I’m not saying your concern is misplaced, I’m jsut saying this is a tempest in a teapot compared to what we’ve seen i nthe past 25 years.
But to paint a person’s personal convictions with those of others is just illogical. Afterall, being a Bush supporter, does that make you a draft dodger, AWOL, useless spoiled brat, too? Well does it? Clueless, stubborn, inept, arrogant? Are you jealous of your younger brother? Is oyur younger brother smarter and better lookign than you? Are you a reoovering alcoholic who sniffed Peru up your nose YET…managed to keep that off limits as a campaign issue?
Then get off of the Ayers and Wright bandwagon….but keep a wary eye out for similar behavior.

This is the Obama’s normal statement: “I had NO idea that my staff or cabinet members were doing this illegal action. I didn’t know they would do such a thing or what they believed.” No, Obama you seem to NOT know your friends very well. For such a smart man, he doesn’t try to get to know anything on his friends’ values or what they believe in…which is the destruction of our nation. (Example: Wright, Pflager and Ayers.) Obama, “Look, I didn’t know Kim Jong Ill(sp?) wanted to blow us up! I just wanted to be concerend about fairness and take away your money!”

It’s about time. Put in adulterer too!

Want the Draft and the total collapse of the United States? Then vote for McCain and Palin: THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE.

“I urge all voters to GOOGLE Khlaid Al-Mansour’s connection to Obama and then decide whether you can vote for Obama!!”
I urge you to Google the Saudi Royal family and their connection to the Bush’s, as well as the radical schools that CREATED Osama Bin Laden that they still refuse to shut down in Saudi Arabia…and decide HOW you put this clown in. Twice.

Spot on, Lawrence.

AmerVtrn…
You are right! I voted for Bush..twice and he kept our rear ends safe for almost 8 years! I’m not thrilled with Bush. He made plenty mistakes, but Bush is not the point & if you think so you are swallowing Obama camp spin!
For the record! Military re-enlists are higher now than they have ever been in years. (WSJ) If our military is so unhappy why re-enlist? Still this is not the point.
Obama has been “manufactured!” He is a slick product like Coca-Cola, nothing more! You and other good Americans need to read up on David Axelrod, Obamas “image” maker to see how he molded Obama. He is mere smoke & mirrors, my friend!
You may not be thrilled with the McCain/Palin ticket, I’m not either… but they are the best we have in this election & they are certainly better than voting for a closet socialist & a guy who has several known communist and terrorist alliances. I pray to God the truth about Obama is exposed as it “may” open eyes of all who are looking for Camelot.

I’ve watched all the televised debates so far. As a Midwesterner and first time homeowner, my vote is for Obama. He looks out for the middle class and will help me keep the “American” dream alive and not wonder if foreclosure is on the horizon or where my next “homeless” address will be. Shame on the country if Gov. Palin had to step in and run the country (not Alaska).

“Race is the issue here. Many of you would rather have someone who looks like you that has the educational background of trailer trash than a man that’s a Harvard grad with vision. Grow up and educate yourself.”
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Bunch of bull!
Bush had a terrific college education!
and it got us no where. He was swarmed on by the masses for his charm and chants of change…. just like the curreent bozo!
Frankly, I am tired t i r e d
T I R E D of being classified as a racist because I’m not turned on by
Obama!
I saw and heard snippets of little children sweetly singing about him… and movie scenes of other little children singing about Hitler came to mind.
I hear his voice and immediately position the words “LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR..” in front of whatever follows,
I envision the oval office entrenched in Obama’s questionable compadres….none of whom are black…. and I am alarmed!
I see little in his past that shouts “accomplished”… except, perhaps the pro-vote on partial birth abortions and the decision to let those living babies expelled from a mother’s womb during a botched up surgery…. die without succor….
In Chicago, I see low cost housing development begun under his first senatorship eight or nine years ago…
still unfinished and uninhabitable.
(Acorn?).
I think Obama would not have come as far as he has had he NOT been black.
I know that whoever wins this election will be faced with economic chaos….
I think Obama is a wuss.
Hillary would have been the strongest canadidate…. but
Next best is
McCain!
Not much in the way of glitz…
but much more substance
in the way of GRITZ!

Months ago the Bush Administration was not asking of $700 billion to bail us out of financial crisis caused by deregulation.
Months ago was McCain had not signed his soul over to rightwing smear machine. The same people that said McCain had an illegitimate BLACK child when he ran againt George Bush

Looking back I really think that its so sad that there is all of this hate and fighting between the parties. I am not a big political person myself, but I still think that it is sad to see how mad we get at one another and make it personal, when it really shouldn’t be at all.