By Lee Speigel

Oct 22, 2008 9:53pm

McCain: Obama Will ‘Say Anything to Get Elected’

ABC News’ Bret Hovell reports: John McCain told a crowd in Cincinnati Wednesday night that his rival Barack Obama will “say anything to get elected.”

“This week we learned Senator Obama is concerned that his tax plan is seen as welfare,” McCain said, talking about Obama’s plan to provide tax credits that are refundable to people who may not have any income tax liability. “So he added a work requirement. Thirteen days to go to the election and he changed his tax plan because the American people had learned the truth about it, and they didn’t like it.

“That’s another example, my friends, he’ll say anything to get elected,” McCain told the crowd.

McCain’s criticism of Obama’s tax plan has become a crucial component of his closing argument on the stump. He dedicates a lot of his stump speech now to criticizing Obama for comments he made last week when he said he was in favor of “spreading” wealth around.

But he had not, until Wednesday, said that Obama would do anything to get elected.

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Please Sen. McCain, explain to us how you are going to ‘fix’ social security.. and be concise. Your web page does not give any indication as to what you will do. In fact, there is very little detail at all.

Posted by: KLA4Mac | October 22, 2008, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm

Come on John.. you blasted the tax plan calling it welfare. Guess that argument is gone now, so you shift the argument to.. what exactly? No more complaints, simply ‘saying anything’? At least he says what he will do unlike you and your generalized vague statements.. yes we know you think you are a ‘maverick’, and yes you keep claiming you will bring ‘change’, but fail to say exactly how.. looks like the only one saying anything to get elected is you sir, and it does appear the people have noticed, and in record numbers!

Posted by: cindy | October 22, 2008, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm

McCain said “after the election I’m going to take the $150.000 dollar clothes from the Clampets and send dhem bak to Alaska” ……..hahahahahahahah
THINK OF THEIR CLOTHES GOING TO SALVATION ARMY EVERY TIME YOU SEE THEM…….hahahahahhaah
spread the wealth around…..hahahhaahh

Posted by: watching | October 22, 2008, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm

John, John, John.. you forced his hand, and he called your bluff.. who looks foolish now?

Posted by: benji | October 22, 2008, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm

Commenting on a new joint interview with John McCain and Sarah Palin, NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd described the Republican ticket as lacking cohesion, chemistry, and (he hinted) trust.
“There was a tenseness,” Todd told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. “I couldn’t see chemistry between John McCain and Sarah Palin. I felt as if we grabbed two people and said ‘here, sit next to each other, we are going to conduct an interview.’ They are not comfortable with each other, yet.”
“When you see the two of them together, the chemistry is just not there. You do wonder, is John McCain starting to blame her for things? Blaming himself? Is she blaming him?” asked the widely regarded NBC newsman. “And maybe they don’t feel they can win right now, so they are missing that intensity. That was the thing that struck me more than anything. You almost wonder why they wanted the two of them sitting next to each other.”
The interview, Williams said, would air over the course of three days. And some actual news – beyond the body language – was drawn from the proceedings: Palin, apparently to her own staff’s surprise, promised to release her medical records.
“Both of these candidates are on the verge of pulling a Bullworth,” said Todd, referencing the late ’90s political classic about a pol who stopped spinning. “We are at a critical juncture inside this campaign for the McCain folks and that is who is trusting who? You have got people worrying about their reputations. Now you are wondering do the candidates trust the staff? Does the staff trust the candidates? This is a dangerous time in a campaign that is behind. They desperately need some good news because you do wonder if cohesion is disappearing on the inside.”

Posted by: titan | October 22, 2008, 10:12 pm 10:12 pm

John McCains stand on Taxes – Feb. 2, 2000
JIM LEHRER: There was a suggestion today from some of Governor Bush’s supporters that maybe you’re not really a true blue Republican, that some of the things you support like campaign finance reform and your opposition to tax cuts are more like Gore and Bradley and Clinton and Democrats than Republican.
SEN. JOHN McCAIN: Well, I’m much more like Ronald Reagan, actually, than the present hierarchy of our party. I’m for tax cuts, but I’m for working Americans. Governor Bush wants to give 38 percent of his tax cuts to the wealthiest 1 percent. I want to give it to working families.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/election/jan-june00/mccain_2-2.html
I’m John McCain, and I’m not sure if I approve this message.

Posted by: JohnM | October 22, 2008, 10:12 pm 10:12 pm

Laughable…talk about delusional. After all the crap his campaign has thrown out there this is all he can come up with. Obama has a better plan,better VP choice, better demeanor and he’s smarter. Sorry John.The gig is up.

Posted by: Miki | October 22, 2008, 10:13 pm 10:13 pm

LOL Think John is projecting much? That has been the grist of John McCains whole campaign! LOL Another day, another shot in the dark from the McSame/Falin campaign.

Posted by: Grissom | October 22, 2008, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm

Who will and has said aything even tho it is not the truth.HUH MC Cain and your two so called ladies .Palin and Cindy.You guys lie….Palin is a crook even when proven she stands there and says it isn’t true.Honest to God….On SS you want to put itin the stock market????????????????What the hell are youthinking.Tax us on health??????? These thingsare bad enought now…You could care less for you have mega monies us people who are on SS we care and don’t think NH is pulling you out of the gutter again.Not going to happen.

Posted by: NH voter | October 22, 2008, 10:15 pm 10:15 pm

ABC REPORTING IS TRASH. LIPSTICK ON PITBULL PALIN? SHOPPING SPREE FOR FAMILY?
DO YOU THINK THAT OBAMA GETS HIS SUITS, SHOES, TIES AND CRISP WHITE SHIRTS AT WALMART????
YOU ARE DISGUSTING IN YOUR REPORTING.
SHAME ON YOU.

Posted by: ml | October 22, 2008, 10:17 pm 10:17 pm

McCain only says this to get elected.

Posted by: El_Pajaro | October 22, 2008, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm

ABC is turning into a trashy gossip magazine that is PRO OBAMA. Please for the love of God, stop your hideous attempt to sway the voters of this country into thinking McCain/Palin are doing something wrong. Obama I AM SURE does not get his clothing and accessories(nor his wife) at Walmart.

Posted by: ml | October 22, 2008, 10:21 pm 10:21 pm

He’s gotta try everything at this point… Heck, he may even let Palin speak for herself again at some point without chaperoning her. I think it’s sad that he can’t even see why people don’t think she’s qualified – let alone the ‘most qualified VP candidate in recent history’.
His statements today are just another introspective observation that is wrongly misdirected at Obama.

Posted by: MIguy | October 22, 2008, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm

McCain will say anything and do anything to get elected…. and he proves it every day.
Most obvious was his choice of VP, who still does not know what a VP does and has no clue on what preconditions are… as per her interview with Brian Williams of NBC.
McCain put campaign first.
Then spent 150k on his Barbie/Soulmate, so she could have new clothes.
Hmmmm…and people still want him as POTUS….
Corruption lives and breaths through McCain/Palin

Posted by: lmg | October 22, 2008, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm

“Please Sen. McCain, explain to us how you are going to ‘fix’ social security”
I believe that his plan is to get rid of it (or at least gut it), then it won’t be a problem. We’ll have a problem with elderly Americans eating cat food to feed themselves, but at least Social Security won’t be a problem any more.

Posted by: McCain is a liar | October 22, 2008, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm

I’ll take a president any day who will listen to the American people and adjust his plans according to what we think,
vs.
a pres’dint who says “I don’t listen to no one”, “My decision was bold and decisive”, “I’ stayin’ the course”, and “I don’t blink, cause you can’t blink if you’re gonna be pres’dint”.
Thanks, McCain, for highlighting one of Obama’s strongest points – he LISTENS!

Posted by: clifton | October 22, 2008, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm

Who is stupid enough to vote for this bastard

Posted by: jen | October 22, 2008, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm

Talk about saying anything to get elected!
How about “The democrats are sayin’ some mighty mean stuff about Western Pennslyania. I couldn’t agree with them more! I mean, I couldn’t disagree with you more! I mean, I agree that I disagree with you! With them! Y’all are god loving god fearing people!”

Posted by: clifton | October 22, 2008, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm

THAT’S EXACTLY RIGHT … OBAMA HAS SAID ANYTHING TO GET ELECTED.
He has an ad running that says he will spend every day that he is in the White House thinking about us, thinking about you, thinking about me???
WHAT A JOKE !! WHAT A LAUGH!!! THERE IS ONLY ONE PERSON OBAMA CARES ABOUT … AND THAT IS BARACK OBAMA !!!!
VOTE MCCAIN/PALIN TO SEND A MESSAGE TO ACORN, CNN/MSNBC, DNC – THAT VOTER FRAUD IS NOT OK, THAT MEDIA LYING, TWISTING OF FACTS AND MEDIA BIASENESS IS NOT OK AND THAT A GOVERNMENT RUN BY OBAMA, PELOSI AND REID IS NOT OK …

Posted by: NoOBAMAReidPelosi_Combo | October 22, 2008, 10:27 pm 10:27 pm

****
DO YOU THINK THAT OBAMA GETS HIS SUITS, SHOES, TIES AND CRISP WHITE SHIRTS AT WALMART????
****
“Michelle has asked me to clean up because when she met me I had one suit. Michelle always finds this funny, because I basically buy five of the same suit and then I patch them up and wear them repeatedly. I have four pairs of shoes. Recently I’ve taken to getting a hair cut more frequently than I used to, because my mother-in-law makes fun of me. I don’t think people are too worried about what I’m wearing.”
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/04/25/obamas_five_suit_strategy.html

Posted by: TruthHurts | October 22, 2008, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm

You call this an objective headline? I thought you were a news organization, not an arm of the McCain Communications Office.

Posted by: Alan | October 22, 2008, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm

This is funny!!! I think is the other way around. As a republican I must admit that McCain is desparate at this point and saying anything to get elected. Letss think a little about this!! The reason he choose Sarah Palin was to try to get those Hillary female supporters..Well It did not work. Now McCain is trying to say anything to get elected. Shame.

Posted by: Mike-Pa | October 22, 2008, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm

Shame on OBAMA and other who are supporting him just blindly.. this shows the real nature and cunningness of OBAMA Hussain.

Posted by: rosie jordan | October 22, 2008, 10:29 pm 10:29 pm

The subject hits home. Obama cannot be trusted.

Posted by: Danny | October 22, 2008, 10:29 pm 10:29 pm

This coming from the guy who said he knows how to find Osama Bin Laden and will do it when he’s elected. Damn he’s got nerve.

Posted by: Brent | October 22, 2008, 10:29 pm 10:29 pm

All of the mainstream media only focus on one thing and that’s Obama, but they only focus on what they want to see, none of you air the things the people want to know… how about demanding an explanation of his background or his affiliations… how about some tough questions for once, like what exactly does he mean when he says spread the wealth, or how come you never questioned Bill Ayers on his actions… every one of you let this man walk around like he walks on water, but no one dares question him and when someone does, Joe the Plumber, they become vilified for it… no one has dared question Obama they way they did poor Joe over in Ohio, and even when the media is called out for it, they just ignore the question too… its pitiful and disgusting…

Posted by: Rachel | October 22, 2008, 10:30 pm 10:30 pm

I am ready for some patriotic bipartisanship from folks who post comments on web sites. It is now clear who the better candidate is this year and that’s just fine. I’m sure everything will work out at least as well as it did over the past eight years and it will likely be a much better eight years for each of us, for our country, and for the wold. Let’s do it.

Posted by: Thoren | October 22, 2008, 10:30 pm 10:30 pm

Not to worry! Change is coming!
At the end of American President Palin’s 1st term in 2012,
Christian American traditional values will no longer be whispered in secret at the White House and in Washington, D.C. (They will be shouted “Loud & Proud” from rooftops all across our Christian American Nation!)
There will no longer be any room for any forms of democracy, pluralism, or tolerance, of people who differ from us, in our country.
The religious and political liberty of the enemies of God in this country will finally be denied.
Restoration of our Christian nation and traditional American values will be complete. (Just 4 more years!)
America, along with the rest of the world, will be governed by conservative Christians and a conservative Christian interpretation of biblical law.
Convicted criminals will be outsourced to foreign countries for incarceration. (Just like American jobs!)
And that’s not all!
The American portion of The Protocols of the Elders will finally be completed in ourcountry, by our American Evangelical Church/Republican National Party alliance and…..
Then The Prince will arrive, and he will make all political / religious parties, and elections both unnecessary and irrelevant!
And I can’t wait!
(this) “Country First!” (the rest later!)
“Support our troops, keep America free, VOTE McCAIN-PALIN!”
“Drill, Baby Drill!”
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
- Beloved American Founding Father, Freemason, Nephilim – Illuminati, & 3rd President Thomas Jefferson
“In politics, nothing happens ‘by accident.’ If it happened, you can bet it was ‘planned’ that way.”
-American President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Posted by: american_patriot | October 22, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm

ACORN = Distraction for those too ignorant to realize it.. looks like there are quite a few of them out there, just proving PT Barnum was correct well ahead of his time.

Posted by: willy | October 22, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm

well you have had 8 years of so called “small” government to give the USA the most massive public debt in its history – I suspect its time not just vote for a deomcrat president, but almost beg for one.Its a myth that republican governments tax and spend less. The public finances were run in surplus in the 90′s.

Posted by: Mimp | October 22, 2008, 10:32 pm 10:32 pm

CNN and MSNBC is a disgrace to the profession of journalizm … They twist the truth and lie to support their liberalism
They have turned off so many of their viewers. I am one of them. I used to watch CNN EVERY EVENING FOR 3 HOURS …
NO MORE … I AM WATCHING FOX NEWS INSTEAD every night. Thank God for Fox News. I even thank God now for the outrageous RushLimbaugh .. Imagine that
AND I WONDER WHO CNN THINK THEY ARE TALKING TO … CAUSE AS FAR AS WE ARE CONCERNED, WE HAVE NOT HEARD A WORD OF WHAT THEIR PUNDITS HAVE SAID FOR MONTHS NOW …
MUST BE TERRIBLE TO BE RUNNING YOUR NONSENSICAL MOUTH FOR HOURS ON THE AIR AND NOONE IS LISTENING …

Posted by: PatheticCNN_MSNBC | October 22, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm

ABC: Obama Alters Tax Plan to Rebut McCain
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/obama-alters-ta.html?cid=135954375
———————————-
Ahahaha! Another flip-flop by Barack Obama. This can certainly be classified as the “mother of all flip-flops”!!
Barack Obama is a closet Marxist!
America wake up.

Posted by: Natasha | October 22, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm

A REPUBLICAN HALLOWEEN TRADITION
THE OCTOBER SURPRISE
Race innuendos, terrorist stew
More Reverend Wright evil brew
No money left, do the sums
But something wicked this way comes
Palin opens her crooked mouth
To fan the hatred in the south
‘Kill him’ blurts from drunken gums
When something wicked this way comes
October surprise will tell the tale
Will Evil win or will it fail?
Karl Rove schemes with his vile chums
And something wicked this way comes
McCain has shown that there is nothing that he will not do,
nothing he will not say to get elected.
A man of Honor?
Corporations First, Country Last.

Posted by: seemstome | October 22, 2008, 10:34 pm 10:34 pm

NH voter,
Screaming in all caps reveals too much.
Look, I’d be upset of Mr. Obama was going to lose too, but every newswire in
the country is reporting the same thing on this one, the fact that $150,000 of your party’s money was spent on clothing for the Palins, including baby clothes for their precious son, all the while they claim to be “pro American” and just average Joes. They are not. It’s all right to own that fact and still support your candidate. There is no need to try to throw it back in the face of Mr. Obama. Oddly, you even mention the ridiculous lipstick on a pitbull issue your paty raised. That’s the problem. Palin was the lipstick in that expression, and she’s revealed that perhaps she’s the…oh, I won’t even say it. She got caught red-handed, and she will either have answers for your party on this one or she won’t. It never works to throw it back at your opponent, but I’m sure you feel better doing so.
Obama/Biden ’08/’12

Posted by: NH hysteric | October 22, 2008, 10:34 pm 10:34 pm

HA hA —- McCain (the pot) criticizes Obama ( the kettle) Too funny – lol!

Posted by: Rev. Ike | October 22, 2008, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm

I can’t wait until Obama loses and the media will have to spend the next six month “investigating” how the polls were so wrong.

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Posted by: wengdongqin | October 22, 2008, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm

I agree who in the hell is voting for McCain…No smart ones. Sarah Palin..What a joke…..My gosh I am a republican voting for the best team and that is not MCCAIN/PALIN. Folks McCain looks ill, angry and this women is just waiting to see if he dies to become the president., Can you imagine, Sarah Palin your president. Thats scary. I aske all of you republicans is Sarah Palin the best we can do???

Posted by: Harry Miller | October 22, 2008, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm

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

Posted by: PaulStewart9 | October 22, 2008, 10:37 pm 10:37 pm

Obama will say anything to get elected or doo anything to show he is a leader. Today for example he was on tv with a lineup of old dudes and flags to counter Biden’s comments LOL
Also funny tonight to watch Campbell Brown on CNN tonight trying to get from the Gov. of California to answer if Obama was ready to be President. His answer? NOTHING!! lol

Posted by: Mary | October 22, 2008, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm

McCain wasn’t the first person to say “Obama will say anything to get elected.”
Remember REV. WRIGHT at a news luncheon! Rev. Wright said: Obama will do or say whatever he needs to win this nomination! Rev. Wright went even further saying: Obama will be the first black to have sex with the first black woman at 1600 Penn (The White House). Rev. Wright also said in response to a question about Obama not allowing him to be on the podium when announcing his intentions to run for President–while Obama was at the podium announcing his run for the Presidency–I was in the basement praying with Michelle. Rev. Wright said I am Obama’s pastor–I will still be Obama’s pastor when he becomes the President!
The next day–Obama denounced his friend and mentor for his actions at this luncheon!
People forget–but McCain is actually the second individual to say Obama will say anything to get elected!

Posted by: Sharon | October 22, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm

AS A SMART WHITE WOMEN, I SAY:
NO WAY!!!! NO HOW!!!!NO MCCAIN!!!! AND HELL NO SARAH PALIN!!!!

Posted by: JESS ANN | October 22, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm

You know what, even if Obama’s plan is a redistribution of wealth from the top down or “welfare” for the middle and lower class, that beats the crap out of McCain’s plan to redistribute the wealth upward to corporations, their CEOs and the upper class, the vast majority of which spend their days working oh so hard opening their dividend checks.

Posted by: Ralph | October 22, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm

Talk about saying anything to get elected!
How about “The democrats are sayin’ some mighty mean stuff about Western Pennslyania. I couldn’t agree with them more! I mean, I couldn’t disagree with you more! I mean, I agree that I disagree with you! With them! Y’all are god loving god fearing people!”
Clifton, dude, is your last name Palin ?
that was too funny

Posted by: Steve | October 22, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm

OK Republicans. The chickens have come home to roost. Shut your mouths and deal with it.
A scandelous Bush administration is about to be over and a new one is about to begin.
Rev. Wright was right!!! Tee hee

Posted by: Rev. Ike | October 22, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm

Mavericks don’t trust anyone and they disagree to be disagreeable. They don’t want to be part of the team. Two mavericks is a recipe for a disaster.

Posted by: PaulStewart9 | October 22, 2008, 10:40 pm 10:40 pm

“John has made a pact with the devil,” says Lincoln Chafee, the former GOP senator, who has been appalled at his one-time colleague’s readiness to sacrifice principle for power. Chafee and McCain were the only Republicans to vote against the Bush tax cuts. They locked arms in opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And they worked together in the “Gang of 14,” which blocked some of Bush’s worst judges from the federal bench.
“On all three — sadly, sadly, sadly — McCain has flip-flopped,” Chafee says. And forget all the “Country First” sloganeering, he adds. “McCain is putting himself first. He’s putting himself first in blinking neon lights.”

Posted by: willy | October 22, 2008, 10:42 pm 10:42 pm

The issue with McCain is that he simply is not about straight talk. It is about lies and twists. The real deal is that if he truly wanted to win he would have stuck with the issues, held to firm Republican values and showed that he truly was an honorable man.
C’mon folks…trying to hint that Obama “palled around” with Ayers, was a proponent of Rezko and that he might be less than honorable about being a patriotic American is pathetic.
Obama has not brought up the U.S.S. Forestal, the three planes he crashed in Vietnam, that the head of his prison camp said he was never tortured, that his wife STILL has dealings with Keating because you would yell out that is wrong; it is hearsay.
Sorry folks, Obama has been vetted. He is not a terrorist, is not a Muslim, he does have enough experience. So let’s stick to the issues shall we?

Posted by: Thomas Dark | October 22, 2008, 10:42 pm 10:42 pm

Their is alot of BLACK OBAMA TROLLS

Posted by: slim | October 22, 2008, 10:42 pm 10:42 pm

McCain is just saying what anyone with eyes and ears already knew. Obama WILL say and do anything to get elected, including playing the race card. Oh No, someone actually had the nerve to call him on it. LOL

Posted by: mom | October 22, 2008, 10:43 pm 10:43 pm

and the first few things to fix are…
1. the most expensive ineffecient health care system in the western world with some of the worst perinatal survival statistics – save trillions that way – should be at 8% of GDP, not 15%
2. stop the false-premise war and cut military spending – save trillions that way ( its easy folks)
3. Regulate financial sector for civilised credit and lending practices ( try Canadian or Australian system) and have banks and borrowers you can trust
4. Ban on personal gun ownership – other countries live quite happily and safely without guns – Americans kill each other far more efficiently than terrorists do.
If you get the ” responsibility ” part right, the rights and freedoms follow naturally.

Posted by: mimp | October 22, 2008, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm

GOD D____ AMERICA!
If you do good, you will be blessed. If you do evil, you will be d—-. That’s a Christian prinicple. Its in the Bible..
America has done so much evil in the world against other countries and minorities in the US.
Now the country is going to hellll.

Posted by: Rev. Ike | October 22, 2008, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm

This is a rather misleading headline, it seems to me, and the body of the article itself also seems at first to be somehow supporting M.C. Cain the Curmudgeonly Rap Fartist rather than the next US prez, Senator Barry Obama (unless PNAC/BFEE pulls a fast one with Blackwater in the streets under martial law).
“He dedicates a lot of his stump speech now to criticizing Obama for comments”? That’s news? ABC, what’s up with you? My understanding is that the core at ABC favors the next US prez, Senator Obama, instead of M.C. Cain the Curmudgeonly Rap Fartist, but the journalistic quality here does not reflect that of an intelligent, unselfish, open-minded, progressive-thinking, non-repressive, fear-deflating, practical and unbiased voter so much as it does a lazy writer. But that’s just my worthless opinion.

Posted by: Iago | October 22, 2008, 10:46 pm 10:46 pm

I have been reading about Obama’s tax plan for ages and the new tax cuts he has recently introduced have always had a work requirement as things like payroll taxes paid by employees will be cut. Where does McCain get each new lie or distortion to mislead the public? How can anyone trust someone who lies at every opportunity to try to win? It is about like his,”Ayres said in 2001 that he wished he had bombed more.” This is an outright lie. If it is true show the actual quote from the book. Ayres wished he had done more about trying to stop the Vietnam war not more bombs.

Posted by: plainview | October 22, 2008, 10:46 pm 10:46 pm

Sharon Wrote:
McCain wasn’t the first person to say “Obama will say anything to get elected.”
Remember REV. WRIGHT at a news luncheon! Rev. Wright said: Obama will do or say whatever he needs to win this nomination! Rev. Wright went even further saying: Obama will be the first black to have sex with the first black woman at 1600 Penn (The White House). Rev. Wright also said in response to a question about Obama not allowing him to be on the podium when announcing his intentions to run for President–while Obama was at the podium announcing his run for the Presidency–I was in the basement praying with Michelle. Rev. Wright said I am Obama’s pastor–I will still be Obama’s pastor when he becomes the President!
The next day–Obama denounced his friend and mentor for his actions at this luncheon!
People forget–but McCain is actually the second individual to say Obama will say anything to get elected!
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yuo are a sick lady. I will pray for you . You are making this up because you like McCain are desparate. The issue here is the people are smart enough not to belive anything you post here. Go back to your hole and be happy!!! When the elections are over I will send you a memo to tell you that a decent man by the name of Barack Obama has won. Again you are a SICKO!! Take that from a white female, republican voter proudly casting my vote for Obama.

Posted by: Jess Ann | October 22, 2008, 10:46 pm 10:46 pm

Oh Slim…do you need a pair of scissors to cut eye holes in your white sheet or a band aid for the swastika on your forhead?

Posted by: Thomas Dark | October 22, 2008, 10:47 pm 10:47 pm

Divide and conquer!
Don’t any of you see how we Americans have been divided.
It doesn’t matter who divided us. All that matters is that we’ve been divided.
And now we are powerless to ban together and force the government to do OUR bidding.
We are more divided now than we were during the Civil War bacause now we are dispersed and can not organize.
So realize it matters not who gets elected. Half of wins and half of us loses. Divided again.
And who is the only winner? The government. They succeed in remaining whole and powerful.
Meanwhile we are left divided to continue fighting against each other.
This country was founded on the premise of a government of the people, by the people, for the people.
But the people have been left as debris in the fight for a governement of the parties, by the parties for the parties.
I’m just glad my Farther didn’t die in World War II for those who did have died in vane.

Posted by: Jim | October 22, 2008, 10:48 pm 10:48 pm

The tide has turned,
the dam has broke..
and everyone realized
McCain is a joke
The future is clear,
the time is now.
Change is coming,
and Obama is how.
Say what you will,
scream and squirm all night,
but with president Obama,
our future is bright.
:)

Posted by: Future | October 22, 2008, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm

The Economy Stupid…
McCain spent too much time talking about Ayers!!

Posted by: Rev. Ike | October 22, 2008, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm

Slim said:
Their is alot of BLACK OBAMA TROLLS
___________________________
Well, No Slim I am a White republican Mama for Obama. Sorry the latest poll white females are supporting Obama not McCain, simply stating a fact. Slim your name sounds shaddy!!!! go get a real job.

Posted by: Jess Ann | October 22, 2008, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm

The distinction between how much Palin spends on her clothing and the Obama’s is that the campaign wasn’t footing the bill..
Obama/Biden ’08

Posted by: ekutlus | October 22, 2008, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm

This is all that’s left when you are running a platform American’s don’t want anymore.
It would have worked in previous elections.
But now we have the internet to verify & read information. (Much to Bill O’Reilly’s dismay, btw)

Posted by: Lori | October 22, 2008, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm

McCain say Obama will say anything to get elected? Wow! McCain and Palin should look closely in the mirror and revisited all the horrible and inflammatory things they’ve said or allowed to be said about Obama to get elected! If this guy, McInsane, wasn’t serious we could all have a good laugh! What’s disturbing is he IS serious!

Posted by: Wow_McCain | October 22, 2008, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm

AII THE OBAMAMANIACS THAT HAVE BEEN ANNOYING US FOR DAYS, I GUESS THE MESSIAH IS STTING DUCK AFTER $700 MILLION AND BAD ECONOMY
I GUESS THE US PRESIDENCY IS NOT FOR SALE AFTER ALL..
I GUESS WE DONT HAVE TO EAT OBAMA’S “PIE IN THE SKY” SFTER ALL
HERE READ. JUST OUT.
New AP Poll Shows Roughly Even Race
By LIZ SIDOTI, AP
posted: 4 HOURS 4 MINUTES AGOcomments: 1639filed under: Election News, Barack Obama, John McCainPrintShareText SizeAAAWASHINGTON (Oct. 22) – The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch.
The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain’s “Joe the plumber” analogy struck a chord.
BYE BYE MESSAIH

Posted by: TJ, THE CLINTONITE | October 22, 2008, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm

Compliments of John McCain & Sarah Palin: Racists
” A cardboard likeness of Barack Obama was found strung from fishing wire at a University, the Democratic Presidential nominee’s face was depicted on mock food stamps, the body of a Black Bear was left at another University with Obama posters attached to it. “

Posted by: Other Way | October 22, 2008, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm

Steve
Isn’t it sad (translation hysterical) that McCain actually did say all of that??
Must be getting a little punchy. Seeing your political life flashing before your eyes does tend to cause insomnia. Waking up and wondering what went wrong every night.

Posted by: This is SO Old | October 22, 2008, 10:53 pm 10:53 pm

McCAIN said Country First—- which country??? IRAQ

Posted by: Rev. Ike | October 22, 2008, 10:53 pm 10:53 pm

I really like John McCain’s steady course. “How about a freeze on government spending?”, followed by “We need to spend $300 billion to buy out bad mortgages.”, followed by, “I’ll balance the Federal budget within four years.” Huh? Does he even listen to himself?
In recent days, McCain’s description of Obama has gone from a pal of terrorists to a socialist, and now – Ta-Da: Obama’s the Big Money candidate! That because Obama’s supporters really support him.
In both his proposals and his attacks, McCain is just hoping that something he says will stick. I really think he can’t believe that people aren’t just gobbling it up, and it frustrates him. Prepare for worse in the days to come!

Posted by: Peter | October 22, 2008, 10:54 pm 10:54 pm

Spoken like a true “drowning man”, John McCain! Desperate times call for desperate measures, don’t they? If you spent more time getting your running mate ready for office (really…the Vice-President is in “charge” of the Senate?), and having some concrete ideas about how to get us out of the quagmire that is our economy, you wouldn’t have to resort to the smarmy remarks about Obama/Biden. I mean, how TERRIBLE that Obama gave love to BOTH the Phillies and the Rays? How AWFUL that he added some important clarifying information to his tax plan? Give me a break! It’s over for the Republican ticket – and if, by some miracle of miracles, you and Palin DO pull it off (say, because of Republican voter suppression efforts or something wild like that), God help us all.

Posted by: DLH | October 22, 2008, 10:54 pm 10:54 pm

Keep clinging TJ, THE CLINTONITE.. whatever it takes to get you through the night

Posted by: willy | October 22, 2008, 10:54 pm 10:54 pm

America is only 13% African American.
Obama’s getting his votes from elsewhere, Slim(e)

Posted by: Ann | October 22, 2008, 10:54 pm 10:54 pm

CNN and MSNBC is a disgrace to the profession of journalizm … They twist the truth and lie to support their liberalism
Posted by PatheticCNN_MSNBC
———————————–
Miss Obnoxious – Campbell Brown – sooner or later will have the same luck as MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, who was demoted just a few weeks ago for being Mr. Obnoxious!!!
Campbell Brown DEFINES the word “Shrill” and Soledad O’Brien defines the word “mean.” They’re both rude AND mean. Cafferty is disgusting.
We want the idiots of the “24 hour-news for-dummies-networks” to give us just the facts – not creating the news, according to their personal political agendas.

Posted by: Natasha | October 22, 2008, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm

John McCain told a crowd that “Obama will say anything to get elected?”
Is this news? No.
Ever since the first politician saw the light of day, saying what the people want to hear is the first rule of winning.
John should be ashamed for pointing the finger when he is just as guilty of the very same thing.
As are all politicians ever born.
John is clearly grasping at straws. He’s in his dotage and should just retire. Or something.

Posted by: Majus | October 22, 2008, 10:56 pm 10:56 pm

CAN I ASK THIS BLOG? WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND SUPPORT MCCAIN.
NOT I, NOT MY FAMILY, NOT MY NEIGHBORS, NOT MY DOCTOR, NOT MY MAIL MAN, NOT ONE PERSON I KNOW. ALL MY FAMILY ARE REPUBLICANS AND ONLY ONE IS SUPPORTING MCCAIN AND THAT IS BECOUSE HES A BIGGOT. SAD TO SAY BUT TRUE. HES 92 AND WILL NOT VOTE FOR ANYONE WHO DOES NOT LOOK LIKE HIM…PASTY WHITE AND OLD, JUST LIEK MCCAIN.

Posted by: MARIE ANN | October 22, 2008, 10:56 pm 10:56 pm

Actually, I’ve been watching the Obama campaign for about 19 months now, and I think it’s been a very consistent campaign. I don’t think McCain is right on this one.

Posted by: Southern Girl | October 22, 2008, 10:57 pm 10:57 pm

lets see…McCain pulls a new rabbit out of the hat every day. Nothing on his campaign has been the same except his half truths and negative attacks. Obama is real and that is why I voted for him. His message has been the same, he is focused and he is not reacationary.
OBAMA/BIDEN 0

Posted by: Sophia Beck | October 22, 2008, 10:57 pm 10:57 pm

TJ… check out Fox news web page. They have Obama ahead by 9 points. LOL LOL
Good try though.

Posted by: Oooobaaammmaa | October 22, 2008, 10:57 pm 10:57 pm

McCain’s big mistake was to never address the real issues facing this country. He never had a plan until his back was against the wall – and for the most part, he still doesn’t have a plan. He picked a weak VP candidate that is unable to garner the respect of most of the voting population … the list of his blunders is endless – and that doesn’t even take into account the fact that he’s voted against programs that help the people of this country: veterans, Native Americans, the poor, and those affected by illegal immigration. If McCain wants to criticize someone, he only has to face the man in the mirror.

Posted by: Former Republican | October 22, 2008, 10:58 pm 10:58 pm

A vote for Obama is a vote for socialism and a change back to a welfare state. Under his plan, I have no desire to make more money than I already do because the gov’t will just take it and give it to someone else. Obama’s plan is a move backwards, not forward.

Posted by: bluebird | October 22, 2008, 10:58 pm 10:58 pm

The Wall Street Journal
Obama’s Tax Plan Is Really a Welfare Plan
Barack Obama’s tax plan is the opposite of supply-side economics. He proposes to raise marginal rates for just about every federal tax. He also proposes a raft of tax credits that taxpayers can receive if they engage in various government-specified activities.
Moreover, the tax credits would mostly go to those who pay little or nothing in federal income taxes. His trick is to make the tax credits “refundable.” Thus, if the tax credit is for $1,000, but the taxpayer would otherwise only pay $200 in taxes, the government would write a check to the taxpayer for $800. If the taxpayer pays nothing in federal income taxes, the government would pay him the whole $1,000.
Such credits are not tax cuts. Indeed, they should be called The New Tax Welfare. In effect, Mr. Obama is proposing to create or expand a slew of government spending programs that are disguised as tax credits. The spending on these programs is then subtracted from the total tax burden, in order to make the claim that his tax plan is a net tax cut overall.
On the tax side of the ledger, the details released by his campaign last week confirm what a President Obama has in mind for our most productive citizens. The top individual income tax rate, for example, would be increased by 13%, to 39.6%; the next-highest rate would be raised to 36%. The top rates on capital gains and dividends would rise by a third, to 20%
The Social Security payroll tax would be raised between 16% to 32% for families making over $250,000 a year. This means that the real returns these people get from their lifetime payments into the retirement program will be driven below 0%, according to my own previous research, which was published by the Cato Institute and elsewhere.
Mr. Obama also wants a permanent federal estate tax, with a top rate of 45%; his health-insurance plan includes a new payroll tax on employers; and he also contemplates several increases in the corporate income tax, including a new so-called windfall profits tax on oil companies.
Then there is the spending side of the ledger. Mr. Obama proposes a fully refundable Making Work Pay Tax Credit, which would have the government pay out $500 to each worker and $1,000 to couples — reminiscent of George McGovern’s 1972 election proposal for the government to send a $1,000 check to everyone.
His American Opportunity Tax Credit would provide a $4,000, fully refundable tax credit for college tuition expenses. His Mortgage Interest Tax Credit would provide a 10% credit — refundable — to offset mortgage interest payments for lower- and middle-income families. His Health Care Tax Credits, which the campaign says “will ensure that health insurance is available and affordable for all families,” include “a new refundable 50 percent health tax credit on employee premiums paid by employers.”
Currently existing tax credits would also become spending programs in the Obama tax program. The Savers Credit would be made fully refundable, and would be expanded, according to the campaign, “to match 50% of the first $1,000 of savings for families that earn under $75,000.” The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit would be made refundable and expanded to allow “low-income families to receive up to a 50 percent credit on the first $6,000 of child care expenses.”
The Earned Income Tax Credit is already refundable. Mr. Obama would expand it to “increase the number of working parents eligible for EITC benefits, increase the benefits available to noncustodial parents who fulfill their child support obligations, increase benefits for families with three or more children, and reduce the EITC marriage penalty, which hurts low-income families.” In short, welfare spending is to be increased by paying more money out to low-income income tax filers.
The latest Congressional Budget Office data shows the bottom 40% of income earners already pays no income taxes. Indeed, they receive a net payment from the federal income tax system — meaning from the taxpayers — equal to 3.8% of all federal income taxes, because of the refundable tax credits under current law. The middle 20% of income earners, the true middle class, pays 4.4% of federal income taxes.
Overall, the bottom 60% of income earners pay less than 1% of federal income taxes on net. When “tax credits” primarily go to this group in the form of checks from the government (rather than a reduction in their tax burden) it is simply an abuse of the language to call the spending a tax cut.
Consequently, to say, as the campaign does say, that the candidate’s tax plan is a tax cut on net — and that it would limit taxes to 18.2% of GDP — is grossly misleading. The Obama tax plan would sharply increase real taxes. It also would come nowhere near to paying for the massive increases in federal spending he has proposed, including the spending that is disguised in the form of refundable tax credits.
The Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121910303529751345.html?mod=most_emailed_day

Posted by: Natasha | October 22, 2008, 10:59 pm 10:59 pm

McCain is just to old. Poor Man. Sarah abuse her powers as a Governor. Period.

Posted by: Mike | October 22, 2008, 10:59 pm 10:59 pm

Keep clinging bluebird.. oh, that ‘socialist’ thing was last week.. this week is ‘big money’.. I guess you missed the memo.

Posted by: willy | October 22, 2008, 10:59 pm 10:59 pm

Obama admits he supports Marxism during an interview with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News…
***The Obama [KGB] Squad has blocked the video but the text of the interview is still posted.
By Scott Miller
Karl Marx, author of The Communist Manifesto, penned the recap of his basic economic philosophy below:
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”
Barack Obama, in an interview with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News, admits that he shares the above Marxist economic theory. Watch this (5:47 into the clip, but watch the whole clip):
“If am sittin’ pretty, and you’ve got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can’t, what’s the big deal for me to say I’m going to pay a little bit more… that is neighborliness”
No Senator, that is Marxism. What kind of dementia makes these liberal Marxists think they have the right to tell someone else, another free human being, how much money they should or should not have? It’s none of your damn business Barack… but the hell out!
And some of you thought I was exaggerating when I said this clown was a Marxist…
Obama Admits He Supports Marxism
http://theconservativepost.com/WordPress/?p=550

Posted by: Natasha | October 22, 2008, 11:00 pm 11:00 pm

Come on America….Think for yourself.., BOTH THESE GUYS ARE LYING! THEY’LL TELL YOU ANYTHING TO GET ELECTED AND AFTER THEY DO THEY WILL NOT KNOW YOU! THEY BOTH HAVE THEY’RE LITTLE AGENDAS AND IT’S GOING TO COST US MILLIONS AND BILLIONS! NONE OF THESE CAREER POLITICIANS HAVE NEVER HAD A REAL JOB 8 TO 5 LIKE YOU AND I, NONE OF THEM EVER WORRY ABOUT PAYING THE MORTGAGE OR THE MONTHLY BILLS…WHAT DO THESE MEN HAVE IN COMMON WITH YOU…DO YOU REALLY THINK THEY LOVE AMERICA LIKE YOU AND I? THEY LOVE THEIR SELF AND BIG BUSINESS…LETS PASS TERM LIMITS…FOUR YEAR OF SERVICE THAN GO HOME TO STAY – FOR EVERY ELECTED OFFICIAL!, NO RETIREMENT BENEFITS, NO MEDICAL, NO BULL, LEAD OR GO HOME!

Posted by: dave | October 22, 2008, 11:00 pm 11:00 pm

ANY politician will say ANYTHING to get elected … they are all the same, the catch is to figure out which one is just ‘a little’ more honest.

Posted by: Dr. Wayne | October 22, 2008, 11:00 pm 11:00 pm

Right, and Obama’s campaign is not using anything but personal money for his stylists. I donated tons to the McCain campaing, and I think it was money well spent.

Posted by: bluebird | October 22, 2008, 11:01 pm 11:01 pm

The nay sayers on this site are same 26% that approve of GWBush.
So much for them giving a convincing argument.

Posted by: Kath | October 22, 2008, 11:01 pm 11:01 pm

McCain = DISHONORABLE; Palin = SCARY!!!

Posted by: Howard Gallas | October 22, 2008, 11:01 pm 11:01 pm

Barack Obama Is Our Only HOPE! Sick Of The Cartoon Characters Parading around Like Waxlike Characters! Elmer Fudd and Two Stepford Wives! Yippie! Betcha!

Posted by: TRUTH | October 22, 2008, 11:01 pm 11:01 pm

Hey bluebird, maybe you can get the dress after the campaign.. how much money did you waste on McCains campaign?

Posted by: willy | October 22, 2008, 11:01 pm 11:01 pm

If Obama wanted to emulate McCain’s attack ads, we would hear robocalls in the Heartland informing America’s patriots that McCain:
a) was in the pocket of former Lincoln Savings & Loan president and criminal Charles Keating;
b) was buddies with fellow criminal Republicans Ted Stevens, Tom Delay, Scooter Libby, Trent Lott, Jack Abrahamoff, Don Young, Larry Craig, Mark Foley…etc;
c) accepted political donations from the Watergate criminal G. Gordon Liddy;
d) picked a runningmate mired in scandal (Troopergate) and has acted “unethical” according to her own people;
e) gave up information to his communist captors in North Vietnam, whereas other American prisoners did NOT;
McCain has a lot to answer for, but Obama hasn’t stooped to that level. You can’t call yourself a patriot while voting for criminals.

Posted by: Rev. Ike | October 22, 2008, 11:02 pm 11:02 pm

McCain is saying anything to get elected, because at this point, he’s losing. Isn’t McCain prostituting his integrity with lies about Obama? Don’t McCain’s lies make him an anti-Christ?

Posted by: Sallie | October 22, 2008, 11:03 pm 11:03 pm

Bluebird wrote:
A vote for Obama is a vote for socialism and a change back to a welfare state. Under his plan, I have no desire to make more money than I already do because the gov’t will just take it and give it to someone else. Obama’s plan is a move backwards, not forward.
_________________________________________
Anothe LIE. Dont belive anything bluebird is blogging here today. He knows better. He needs to get ready for school tomarrow. Its past you bed time bluebird. Stop speading those nasty un-true rumors. McCain is too old!!! Palin abused her powers and thats why Americans of all ages are rejecting her.

Posted by: Mike | October 22, 2008, 11:03 pm 11:03 pm

Natasha:—–that’s not a flip-flop—-it’s a clarification / adjustment—-he didn’t change his mind about it so it can’t be flip-flop.

Posted by: George | October 22, 2008, 11:03 pm 11:03 pm

W has already turned this country into a socialist state. One with a record debt.
I’m willing to try something new.

Posted by: FreeLevi | October 22, 2008, 11:04 pm 11:04 pm

McCain’s comments are spot on
despite the mindless babble of the
Obama lemmings!
Obama has done more flips than a
cook at IHOP! He has No Core Values!
No Thanks. McCain/Palin 08

Posted by: reaganfan | October 22, 2008, 11:04 pm 11:04 pm

Listen, MY FRIENDS.. I will my friends lead my friends into a meaningless desperate last ditch effort my friends to disparage Obama my friends.. Shut Up Already!!! Can’t wait till Obama is the POTUS and I don’t have to see or hear this jackhole spout off his hate inciting fearmongering rhetoric anymore.. make it stop already.

Posted by: Wookiee | October 22, 2008, 11:05 pm 11:05 pm

And to think McCain said he would run an honorable campaign. More lies

Posted by: CindyTheOtherWoman | October 22, 2008, 11:05 pm 11:05 pm

I think everyone by now knows that McCain will do anything to get elected. Attacks after attacks to see what will stick. Too bad for him and his supporters it’s just too late. It’s time for change.

Posted by: Kathy | October 22, 2008, 11:06 pm 11:06 pm

The Chicago Tribune
Editorial
Problems with endorsing Obama
October 21, 2008
My, my. In their dumbfounding endorsement of Barack Obama, it seems to me that members of the Tribune’s editorial board must not have first read some pages in their own paper. Obama’s negatives have been cited ad nauseam, so I won’t repeat all of them. But there are some downsides in his candidacy that were not addressed in the unpersuasive endorsement statement, and they are a big deal to me. They include:
• The senator is a radical socialist with stated preferences for the Marxist notion of redistributing the wealth. Does the editorial board want the U.S. to morph into the socialist model of a dying Europe? Does it want our culture destroyed?
• With the likely veto-proof Democrat majority in Congress, a President Obama will have the opportunity to name justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Is it the desire of the editorial board to have a leftist majority on that bench to creatively rewrite the Constitution and restructure society without regard to what citizens may think?
• Much closer to home, the editorial board has observed the wonderful things that happen in Illinois when one party controls Chicago, Cook County and the state. Does the editorial board want the entire nation governed as miserably as is Illinois with Democrats controlling the White House, Congress and the judiciary?
I don’t advocate any of these destructive directions for our country.
—Charles F. Falk, Schaumburg
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-1021vplettersbriefs0oct21,0,3600252.story

Posted by: Natasha | October 22, 2008, 11:07 pm 11:07 pm

Obama will say anything to get elected, so-sayeth McCain, hm? All I have to say to that is, pot meet kettle.

Posted by: Shanna | October 22, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

McCain is picking up another unrelevant issue to attack Obama. The only stragety he can use is painting Obama as a bad guy, either a terrorist or a jerk with a pair of lying lips. His strategy is always so low class. Why not set his mind on important issues, give some outstanding solutions to show his experiences and judgments. He cannot do this, he truly has no good ideas about “important issues.” So he can only use such an unintelligent strategy of personal attack, attacking someone’s integrity, not related to political issues at all.

Posted by: OpenEyes | October 22, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

Marxists/Socialists/Communists for Obama
America wake up! The American Marxists/Socialists/Communists have posted this proclamation right on Barack Obama’s official website (see link below)
Marxists/Socialists/Communists for Obama
“This group is for self-proclaimed Marxists/Communists/Socialists for the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency. By no means is he a true Marxist, but under Karl Marx’s writings we are to support the party with the best interests of the mobilization of the proletariat. Though the Democratic Socialists of America or the Communist Patty of America may have more Socialististic values, it is pointless to vote for these candidates due to the fact that there is virutally no chance they will be elected on a National level. The members of this group are not Leninists, Stalinists, etc. and do not support or condone the actions of North Korea, China, Cuba or any other self-procalimed “Marxist States.” They do not in anyway represent the Marxist philosophy nor do they represent Socialism/ Communsim. We support Barack Obama because he knows what is best for the people!”
Source:
BarackObama.com
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/group/MarxistsSocialistsCommunistsforObama

Posted by: Natasha | October 22, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

Obama to Joe the Plumber said, “It’s not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you–that they’ve got the chance at success, too. I think that when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”—–wealth = success—–shouldn’t everyone have a chance—-that’s what Obama said.

Posted by: George | October 22, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

And the media will say anything to get Obama elected also. Even censoring opinions that support McCain/Palin positions or point out flawed Obama policy positions. This is the poorest media coverage of a presidential election I’ve ever experienced in my lifetime. Journalism has taken a back seat to personal ideology.

Posted by: LongT | October 22, 2008, 11:09 pm 11:09 pm

I donated to the RNC and am quite unpleased with the way they have delegated the money. McCain is running an ineffective campaign. So many republican writers, commentators, etc jumped ship once he took Palin as his running mate. Sadly, he sold out to the far, religious right, leaving the fiscally conservative in the dust. Waste of my money. I won’t vote.

Posted by: Stella | October 22, 2008, 11:09 pm 11:09 pm

They said he was a muslim and a terrorist—- lies

Posted by: Rev. Ike | October 22, 2008, 11:09 pm 11:09 pm

One Word — PROJECTION
Joe

Posted by: Joe | October 22, 2008, 11:09 pm 11:09 pm

I see you all have not lost your fight :
GOOD! Because we have a lot to do. You! (the American people) are going to have to take back control of your elected government at every level, and set your government back on the right path of service to you, and the greater good of the World.
Barack Obama and the democrats are your best hope of doing that now. Tell your family, friends, and everyone you know to support them as best they can. Because the Bush McCain vote fraud, vote cheating, vote buying, vote manipulation machine is already hard at work to cheat you again. And we all know what a disaster that has been the past 8 years of Bush McCain.
Barack Obama and the democrats will need all the power you can give them at every level of government (Federal, State, County, and local City elected governments). Obama and the democrats will have an enormous mess to fix for the American people, and the rest of the World. A mess caused by the corrupt Bush McCain administration.
You see, starting back in 2000, and before 911, it was mostly the Republican governors, Republican legislatures, and county elected Republican officials that conspired with the corrupt Bush McCain administration to raise college, and university tuitions by the fastest, and highest rate increases in American history. Some state tuitions went up by as much as a WHOPPING! 30% in one year.
The reason the Bush McCain administration did this was to force struggling working class kids into the military to pay for the sudden jump in tuition. Which was forced on them by the corrupt Bush McCain administration, and their corrupt Republican Governors, and republican controlled state legislatures.
See, Bush McCain had plans to get us into all these immoral, foolish, criminal, and unnecessary wars from the start. So they could use these wars to seize power, and later to get reelected. But, for their evil plan to work they needed more volunteer soldiers struggling to pay for an education whose blood they could spill to help them seize more power. Remember Bush McCain’s “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!” theatrics.
The exploitation, and lost lives of these finest Americans is despicable, disgusting, immoral, corrupt and criminal. And it makes me SICK, and ANGRY!
You will have to vote for Obama, and the democrats in overwhelming numbers to overcome the Bush McCain vote fraud machine. Vote early if you can. Then help your fellow Americans cast their votes now, and on through election day. Vote for Obama, and the democrats like your life, and the lives of your loved ones depends on it. Because it does. You will not survive 4 more years of “Let Them Eat Cake” Bush McCain, and their republican allies.
Just look at the mess we have now.
You can fix this mess with your votes for Obama, and the democrats. And REMEMBER, no matter which of us may stumble or fall, the rest of you must continue to surge forward for Barack Obama, and the democrats, and for your-selves most of all. The children, and the World are counting on us.
It’s in your hands now. And I know you will get it done.
God bless all of you.
JACK SMITH – WORKING CLASS… :-)

Posted by: jacksmith | October 22, 2008, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm

We can provide some assurance. We have known Obama since he entered politics a dozen years ago. We have watched him, worked with him, argued with him as he rose from an effective state senator to an inspiring U.S. senator to the Democratic Party’s nominee for president.
We have tremendous confidence in his intellectual rigor, his moral compass and his ability to make sound, thoughtful, careful decisions. He is ready.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-chicago-tribune-endorsement,0,1371034.story?track=email-alert-breakingnews
History in the making!

Posted by: willy | October 22, 2008, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm

John and Sara,,,They both cried wolf so many times, the American people DON’T BELIEVE THEM ANYMORE.

Posted by: Joe | October 22, 2008, 11:11 pm 11:11 pm

Not to mention that unless you are a religious nut, or make over $250K, McCain will do NOTHING for you!! Got it idiots????
No tax breaks
taxes on health benefits
billions more in Iraq
Freezes on all govt. programs
God you McCain lovers make me sick!
HE VOTED OVER 90% OF THE TIME WITH BUSH!!
How friggin dumb are you inbred bible thumping red-staters?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Posted by: Independent Obama Supporter | October 22, 2008, 11:11 pm 11:11 pm

Future:
The Joke will be on you come Nov 4th!
But you can have a pity party with
Obama at Bill Ayers house.
Other invited guests will be Rev
Jeremiah Wright, Father Plegar,
Tony Rezko, James Johnson,
Franklin Raines, George Soros,
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
Gee I almost forgot to mention that
Barney Frank and Chris Dodd will be
the Court Jesters!

Posted by: reaganfan | October 22, 2008, 11:11 pm 11:11 pm

Man, McCain will say anything to get elected.

Posted by: SonicAD | October 22, 2008, 11:11 pm 11:11 pm

One think I know for certain: I’ve never seen so many democratic signs in the conservative Cincinnati area before. Esp. in the wealthy neighborhoods. It’s not looking good ‘my friend.’

Posted by: Cincinnati Republican | October 22, 2008, 11:12 pm 11:12 pm

Natasha, Obama isnt marxist. His agenda is truly America first.
Posted by Bobba
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/palin-invokes-s.html?cid=135660873
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Reply to Bobba:
Obama’s political ideology is shaped by the “Carl Marx Doctrine” – do you even know what that is?
You are deeply confused my friend. McCain’s agenda is truly America first.
Obama’s agenda is truly his “Big Ego” first. (common characteristic among Marxist leaders).

Posted by: Natasha | October 22, 2008, 11:12 pm 11:12 pm

Since the economy is going BUST, I want some of my money BACK!!!!!
2nd Stimulus Package!!!
OBAMA\BIDEN08

Posted by: sisterdearest09 | October 22, 2008, 11:12 pm 11:12 pm

I am so sick of John McCain and his desperate attempts to sway undecided voters. Two weeks can’t come soon enough to silence all these negative attacks.
Obama/Biden ’08. Go out and vote on Nov. 4th. May the best team win. :)

Posted by: fai | October 22, 2008, 11:13 pm 11:13 pm

ANYONE CARE TO GUESS WHO IS LOSING THE ELECTION ???
ANYONE ???

Posted by: Other Way | October 22, 2008, 11:14 pm 11:14 pm

I want to know how all of you are going to “get behind” the next president of the US. We are a great nation and don’t need any more stupid lies or distortions about either candidate. I can’t vote for Mccain because I don’t think he is competent, but I can’t criticize those who feel obligated to vote for him because this is what their church, party or community are telling them to do. I say think for yourself and leave everyone else alone. We will all have to adjust to the choice that our system makes. We will all have to face the consequences of that decision together. Let’s all get together and show the world that we are that shining light in this dark time.
Just a note; No American soldier has ever died in vain and nothing we can do will change that. We are Americans deciding an election and that is what our ancestors died for. They paid for our freedom; use it! live it!

Posted by: thomas | October 22, 2008, 11:14 pm 11:14 pm

I am one who loves comedy and is looking forward to some good comedy mixed with hard times..biggest deficit..100 more years in Iraq and Cheney in a dress. I am voting McCain/Palin

Posted by: Stanley | October 22, 2008, 11:15 pm 11:15 pm

It amazes me how stupid the McCain voters are. McCain’s record, bottom line, is almost par with Bush’s policies. I have YET to be answered by any pro-McCain person HOW he will be DIFFERENT THAN BUSH.

Posted by: Independent Obama Supporter | October 22, 2008, 11:16 pm 11:16 pm

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?
By Orson Scott Card
Editor’s note: Orson Scott Card is a Democrat and a newspaper columnist, and in this opinion piece he takes on both while lamenting the current state of journalism.
An open letter to the local daily paper — almost every local daily paper in America:
I remember reading All the President’s Men and thinking: That’s journalism. You do what it takes to get the truth and you lay it before the public, because the public has a right to know.
This housing crisis didn’t come out of nowhere. It was not a vague emanation of the evil Bush administration.
It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late 1990s, to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans.
What is a risky loan? It’s a loan that the recipient is likely not to be able to repay.
The goal of this rule change was to help the poor — which especially would help members of minority groups. But how does it help these people to give them a loan that they can’t repay? They get into a house, yes, but when they can’t make the payments, they lose the house — along with their credit rating.
They end up worse off than before.
This was completely foreseeable and in fact many people did foresee it. One political party, in Congress and in the executive branch, tried repeatedly to tighten up the rules. The other party blocked every such attempt and tried to loosen them.
Furthermore, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were making political contributions to the very members of Congress who were allowing them to make irresponsible loans. (Though why quasi-federal agencies were allowed to do so baffles me. It’s as if the Pentagon were allowed to contribute to the political campaigns of Congressmen who support increasing their budget.)
Isn’t there a story here? Doesn’t journalism require that you who produce our daily paper tell the truth about who brought us to a position where the only way to keep confidence in our economy was a $700 billion bailout? Aren’t you supposed to follow the money and see which politicians were benefiting personally from the deregulation of mortgage lending?
I have no doubt that if these facts had pointed to the Republican Party or to John McCain as the guilty parties, you would be treating it as a vast scandal. “Housing-gate,” no doubt. Or “Fannie-gate.”
Instead, it was Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed.
As Thomas Sowell points out in a TownHall.com essay entitled “Do Facts Matter?” ( http://snipurl.com/457townhall_com ): “Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush’s Secretary of the Treasury.”
These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was … the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was … the Republican Party.
Yet when Nancy Pelosi accused the Bush administration and Republican deregulation of causing the crisis, you in the press did not hold her to account for her lie. Instead, you criticized Republicans who took offense at this lie and refused to vote for the bailout!
What? It’s not the liar, but the victims of the lie who are to blame?
Now let’s follow the money … right to the presidential candidate who is the number-two recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae.
And after Freddie Raines, the CEO of Fannie Mae who made $90 million while running it into the ground, was fired for his incompetence, one presidential candidate’s campaign actually consulted him for advice on housing.
If that presidential candidate had been John McCain, you would have called it a major scandal and we would be getting stories in your paper every day about how incompetent and corrupt he was.
But instead, that candidate was Barack Obama, and so you have buried this story, and when the McCain campaign dared to call Raines an “adviser” to the Obama campaign — because that campaign had sought his advice — you actually let Obama’s people get away with accusing McCain of lying, merely because Raines wasn’t listed as an official adviser to the Obama campaign.
You would never tolerate such weasely nit-picking from a Republican.
If you who produce our local daily paper actually had any principles, you would be pounding this story, because the prosperity of all Americans was put at risk by the foolish, short-sighted, politically selfish, and possibly corrupt actions of leading Democrats, including Obama.
If you who produce our local daily paper had any personal honor, you would find it unbearable to let the American people believe that somehow Republicans were to blame for this crisis.
There are precedents. Even though President Bush and his administration never said that Iraq sponsored or was linked to 9/11, you could not stand the fact that Americans had that misapprehension — so you pounded us with the fact that there was no such link. (Along the way, you created the false impression that Bush had lied to them and said that there was a connection.)
If you had any principles, then surely right now, when the American people are set to blame President Bush and John McCain for a crisis they tried to prevent, and are actually shifting to approve of Barack Obama because of a crisis he helped cause, you would be laboring at least as hard to correct that false impression.
Your job, as journalists, is to tell the truth. That’s what you claim you do, when you accept people’s money to buy or subscribe to your paper.
But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie — that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain, and the Republicans. You have trained the American people to blame everything bad — even bad weather — on Bush, and they are responding as you have taught them to.
If you had any personal honor, each reporter and editor would be insisting on telling the truth — even if it hurts the election chances of your favorite candidate.
Because that’s what honorable people do. Honest people tell the truth even when they don’t like the probable consequences. That’s what honesty means . That’s how trust is earned.
Barack Obama is just another politician, and not a very wise one. He has revealed his ignorance and naivete time after time — and you have swept it under the rug, treated it as nothing.
Meanwhile, you have participated in the borking of Sarah Palin, reporting savage attacks on her for the pregnancy of her unmarried daughter — while you ignored the story of John Edwards’s own adultery for many months.
So I ask you now: Do you have any standards at all? Do you even know what honesty means?
Is getting people to vote for Barack Obama so important that you will throw away everything that journalism is supposed to stand for?
You might want to remember the way the National Organization of Women threw away their integrity by supporting Bill Clinton despite his well-known pattern of sexual exploitation of powerless women. Who listens to NOW anymore? We know they stand for nothing; they have no principles.
That’s where you are right now.
It’s not too late. You know that if the situation were reversed, and the truth would damage McCain and help Obama, you would be moving heaven and earth to get the true story out there.
If you want to redeem your honor, you will swallow hard and make a list of all the stories you would print if it were McCain who had been getting money from Fannie Mae, McCain whose campaign had consulted with its discredited former CEO, McCain who had voted against tightening its lending practices.
Then you will print them, even though every one of those true stories will point the finger of blame at the reckless Democratic Party, which put our nation’s prosperity at risk so they could feel good about helping the poor, and lay a fair share of the blame at Obama’s door.
You will also tell the truth about John McCain: that he tried, as a Senator, to do what it took to prevent this crisis. You will tell the truth about President Bush: that his administration tried more than once to get Congress to regulate lending in a responsible way.
This was a Congress-caused crisis, beginning during the Clinton administration, with Democrats leading the way into the crisis and blocking every effort to get out of it in a timely fashion.
If you at our local daily newspaper continue to let Americans believe — and vote as if — President Bush and the Republicans caused the crisis, then you are joining in that lie.
If you do not tell the truth about the Democrats — including Barack Obama — and do so with the same energy you would use if the miscreants were Republicans — then you are not journalists by any standard.
You’re just the public relations machine of the Democratic Party, and it’s time you were all fired and real journalists brought in, so that we can actually have a news paper in our city.

Posted by: Mark Garnett | October 22, 2008, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm

There was a time, long ago and far away, when I- as a pretty left-leaning democrat- thought “you know, if John McCain was a candidate I might support him. He called the Swift-Boaters on their bull____; he seemed to appreciate that the evangelical Christian element of the conservative party were divisive and judgemental, he seemed like a straight-shooter. I didn’t agree with all his positions- maybe even on “most” of them- but he seemed like an honest guy. He would focus on what was important as far as what the
FEDERAL government should do, and you could count on him to be pragmatic and respectful. I am so disappointed in what he has become: a cynical shadow of his former self. I don’t think that Obama is blameless, or that he hasn’t succumbed to some of the same temptations that drive modern-day campaigns. Namely: attack and blame. But McCain’s assertions that Obama’s “relationship” with Bill Ayers or the fact that teaching elementary school children to know the difference between “bad” and “good” touches represent, respectively “palling around with terrorists” or “teaching sex education to pre-schoolers” is disingenious at BEST and categorically dishonest in reality. Where have you gone, John?

Posted by: lauri | October 22, 2008, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm

I love hearing these comments. I guess people don’t know who really run the country. President do not make law. Congress does. So if Obama win this election it not going to make any real different because we are going down that same old street again with the same old men and women who been running this country for years. I just feel sorry for Obama he getting ready to be blame for everything here soon and he will have no real choice in the furture but to raise taxes. We are going to have to either cut programs or raise taxes to get out of debt. Something both McCain and Obama are not ready to admit to yet. Read your history book and look at the events that led up to 1929. It can happen again and the party in charge at the time was booted out in 4 year and never recover for 30 year. Well we are not yet at that stage yet but the next president just might inherited itthat same situation. Just as Hoover did.

Posted by: jj | October 22, 2008, 11:18 pm 11:18 pm

People accuse others of what they themselves are guilty…

Posted by: E | October 22, 2008, 11:18 pm 11:18 pm

This just goes to show that John McCain will say anything to get elected.

Posted by: con me not | October 22, 2008, 11:19 pm 11:19 pm

VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t get cocky

Posted by: This is SO Old | October 22, 2008, 11:19 pm 11:19 pm

Vote McCain for more of the same, feel the pain, and don’t complain. Palin is Cheney in a dress, Cheney in a dress, Cheney in a dress and I think she is a mess!

Posted by: Stanley | October 22, 2008, 11:19 pm 11:19 pm

In the words of Ronald Reagan, “Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?”
ahhhh NO.
That’s why Obama is winning. His message is of hope. Not of desperation.

Posted by: 1-20-09 | October 22, 2008, 11:19 pm 11:19 pm

Seriously, after McCain and Palin win the election, the amount of money they can auction off Palins campaign clothing for will be amazing…. sorry bout your luck obamabots! lololol
McCain-Palin 2008
Palin-????? 2012 woooo-hooooo!!!!!!!

Posted by: PicabosMom | October 22, 2008, 11:20 pm 11:20 pm

Posted by: Shelley | October 22, 2008, 11:20 pm 11:20 pm

We can provide some assurance. We have known Obama since he entered politics a dozen years ago. We have watched him, worked with him, argued with him as he rose from an effective state senator to an inspiring U.S. senator to the Democratic Party’s nominee for president.
We have tremendous confidence in his intellectual rigor, his moral compass and his ability to make sound, thoughtful, careful decisions. He is ready.
History in the making!
Posted by: willy
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This is Willy Ayers talking….
he is endorsing his “protogee” for President!

Posted by: Natasha | October 22, 2008, 11:21 pm 11:21 pm

McSame, now you dropped the Ayers subject to be replaced with, what now? I cannot keep track with you – Honorable? not in my book. Shame on you! You dropped to the lowest level when you picked Sarah Palin, no way out of that whole, you digged it. . .

Posted by: Irma | October 22, 2008, 11:21 pm 11:21 pm

jj.. you need to do some research on Bush and see what he and his administration has controlled, and destroyed.

Posted by: steve | October 22, 2008, 11:21 pm 11:21 pm

Thomas
************************
I just want the war in Iraq and Afghanastain to end, NOW!!!!!
Just seeing them on the news today under fire just make me MAD!!!!!
I WANT THEM ALL HOME, NOW!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN08

Posted by: sisterdearest09 | October 22, 2008, 11:22 pm 11:22 pm

Natasha said”You are deeply confused my friend. McCain’s agenda is truly America first.
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I don’t think so!!! HOW WILL MCCAIN BE DIFFERENT THAN BUSH?????????NONE OF YOU NEOCON MORONS CAN ANNSWER THIS!

Posted by: Independent Obama Supporter | October 22, 2008, 11:22 pm 11:22 pm

It is John McCain that is saying anything to get elected!!! John likes to lie, lie, lie.
As for their tax plans. Check it all out – Tax Policy Center. Obama’s Plan has never been for people that don’t work. How stupid does John McCain think we are? Does he think I won’t go check tax plans out from the top reference site. Then figure how it works and the amount of tax break.
People John is referring to are people who have taxes deducted from their their checks.
John McCain is calling Average American Workers – The Welfare Citizens!!! Sad!!
Tax Policy Center Explanation – copied
The Obama plan would reduce taxes for low- and moderate-income families, but raise them significantly for high-bracket taxpayers (see Figure 2). By 2012, middle-income taxpayers would see their after-tax income rise by about 5 percent, or nearly $2,200 annually. Those in the top 1 percent would face a $19,000 average tax increase—a 1.5 percent reduction in after-tax income.
McCain would lift after-tax incomes an average of about 3 percent, or $1,400 annually, for middle-income taxpayers by 2012. But, in sharp contrast to Obama, he would cut taxes for those in the top 1% by more than $125,000, raising their after-tax income an average 9.5 percent.

Posted by: Sharonklim | October 22, 2008, 11:25 pm 11:25 pm

Yes—he’s moral alright. In his speech on abortion, he actually said “If my daughter became pregnant, I would not ‘punish’ her with a baby” A baby is a blessing, not a punishment! Watch for yourself…
http://www.americaschoicenow.com/

Posted by: Shelley | October 22, 2008, 11:25 pm 11:25 pm

Umm.. WHO will say anything to get elected? (raises hand vigerously) I know!!! OLD MAN MCCAIN.. He has run such a dirty campaign. From day one he has been a mud slinger and a hypocrate and it gets worse and worse every day. he sits there in his wheelchair and runs his mouth about how Obama has been running a dirty campaing, why doesent he take a good look in the mirror. He just needs to keep his swollen mouth shut. I feel sorry for his wife, she has to live with that a-hole and listen to him call her the C word… McCain is a Natzi, mudslinging, hypocrate!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Stephanie Costa | October 22, 2008, 11:26 pm 11:26 pm

Okay now they are even, he was against the Bush tax cuts before he was against it. We need to move back to Health Care!
In response to the claim that Obama will say anything to get elected….
MCCain meets Overwhelmingly Educated Electorate= He becomes so transparent= PRICELESS!!!

Posted by: Donna | October 22, 2008, 11:26 pm 11:26 pm

I have watched this campaign more closely than any in my nearly 59 years on this earth. As a lifelong independent voter, I bring a sense of objectivity that one does not see very often on web postings.
I can say, with great confidence, the choice is a “no-brainer.” It seems every time Senator McCain makes an accusation against Senator Obama, it is in reference to the very thing of which Senator McCain is guilty.
Most recently, it is the “he’ll say anything to get elected.” How odd, for that has been a huge piece of Senator McCain’s campaign. Fabrications upon fabrications spew forth from his mouth, and that of his running mate.
I am saddened, to be sure, but – mostly – I feel very sorry for this desperate elder statesman. He sees his hopes for the White House slipping away, for his handlers and the RNC have severely failed him.
Senator McCain offers little to which U.S. voters can cling, and certainly U.S. voters need a lifeline. On the other hand, Senator Obama offers the only path to recovery from the desecration of the Constitution, and the war waged on womens’ rights, overall human rights, workers’ rights, the environment, ad nauseum.
Those choosing to support Senator McCain do so, I believe, out of 1) hatred, 2) racial bias, 3) blind allegiance to the RNC, 4) ignorance, 5) bull-headedness, or 6) a combination thereof.

Posted by: saftgek | October 22, 2008, 11:26 pm 11:26 pm

I think I have seen enough stupidity for the last eight years to last a life time, I voted early for Mr. Obama….

Posted by: Paul P. | October 22, 2008, 11:29 pm 11:29 pm

PaulStewart9…Thank YOU! Beautiful!!! Why in the heck do Republicans think they are the only ones who can run this country??? I know…they are the only runs who ‘run’ it into the ground and then blame everyone else but themselves….

Posted by: Zellie | October 22, 2008, 11:30 pm 11:30 pm

$150,000 for wardrobe, makeup and accesories.
$16,951 for staying at home
$43,490 for kids/husband travel expenses
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$210,441
$208,100 – Salary for US Vice President
Looks like she has already spent $2,341 more than her first years salary, and the election isn’t even over yet.

Posted by: Work4free | October 22, 2008, 11:30 pm 11:30 pm

Mr. McCain, end your campaign, and maybe your political career, with a little dignity.

Posted by: ramaci | October 22, 2008, 11:31 pm 11:31 pm

That’s why Obama is winning. His message is of hope. Not of desperation.
Posted by: 1-20-09
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Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Castro and Co. – their messages were messages of hope, too! The desperate sheep followed them…
We saw what happened next…
Thisis the United States of America…the year is 2008 and the desperate sheep are ready to follow THAT ONE a new MARXIST SAVIOR OF THE POOR.
The desperate sheep will be responsible for the destruction of our country….

Posted by: America | October 22, 2008, 11:32 pm 11:32 pm

McCain talking to fans in Pa.: Barak Obama and his party has been saying some really ugly things about Pa., and I couldn’t agree with him more. He tried so hard to correct it, but it just kept getting worse. He is so lost right about now, and he is running out of things to say. He is getting tired, angry, and older day by day. If he could just say the N word out loud one good time, I believe he would spark a new joist of energy. He really is a decent man, as he said of Obama, but when you are being beaten like an old rug, you have to go down fighting.

Posted by: decided08 | October 22, 2008, 11:34 pm 11:34 pm

you friggin obamabots can’t see past the food stamp line, all you see is someone promising you a handout, so you’ll give him your vote. get off you goverment provided sofas and earn a living, then come back and tell us working folks how happy you’ll be to have your money taken from younand spread around to other 4th and 5th generation welfare recipiants…. idiots, idiots, idiots!

Posted by: PicabosMom | October 22, 2008, 11:34 pm 11:34 pm

The following was out before the 150k shopping spree was out. Looks like JM will say (and spend) anything to get elected. Palin as president? What was he thinking? Please read on.
Tending to the Elite
Yesterday McCain said he’s pleased Palin doesn’t appeal to the “Georgetown cocktail party person who calls themselves conservative,” that her not going to Harvard “is a plus.” George W. Bush proved this can be a winning tactic.
Bush quietly made the elite more so by tending to their economic interests while playing up his love for Nascar Dads and barbecue. As long as you drop your g’s, you can be way wealthier than Wal-Mart patrons (the Palins earn more than $200,000 a year) as long as you aspire to the same cultural class.
Obama’s problem isn’t only that he’s black, it’s that he speaks like the detached, analytic law professor he was.
With people’s jobs, houses and retirement at stake, the elitist strategy might not work this time. After eight years of Bush, we may want to vote for the smart one this time, no matter where he shops.
link:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/achenblog/2008/10/sarah_palin_serial_winker.html

Posted by: RB | October 22, 2008, 11:35 pm 11:35 pm

obama = kool-aid

Posted by: QUEEN | October 22, 2008, 11:37 pm 11:37 pm

Thanks for your concern PicabosMom, but the intelligent working class is speaking this year in droves. I have never been on welfare, even when I was picking weeds in a soy bean field just to get enough to eat as I made my way through college.

Posted by: Work4free | October 22, 2008, 11:39 pm 11:39 pm

That’s why Obama is winning. His message is of hope. Not of desperation.
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Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Castro and Co. – their messages were messages of hope, too! The desperate sheep followed them…
We saw what happened next…
Thisis the United States of America…the year is 2008 and the desperate sheep are ready to follow THAT ONE a new MARXIST SAVIOR OF THE POOR.
The desperate sheep will be responsible for the destruction of our country….
Posted by Natasha

Posted by: Natasha | October 22, 2008, 11:41 pm 11:41 pm

saftgek: Well put! You nailed it! I have yet to hear how McCain will be different than Bush from ANY McCain fans. I’m waiting!!!!

Posted by: Independent Obama Supporter | October 22, 2008, 11:42 pm 11:42 pm

“You Republicans have run this country’s economy into the ground blah blah blah…”
Posted by Stanley
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The Last Two Years
By Randall Hoven
The Obama/Biden ticket’s entire campaign theme is based on “the last eight years.” Maybe we should really look at “the last two years,” or the time period when both the House and the Senate were run by Democrats.
In December 2006, after six years of Bush and the last month before the Democrats took over both houses of the national legislature, a snapshot of our economy looked like this.
Unemployment stood at 4.4%.
Real GDP growth over the previous four years (under a Republican President, House and Senate) averaged 3% per year.
A gallon of regular gasoline cost $2.30.
The S&P 500 stock index stood at 1418, or 84% above its post-911 low and more than 7% higher than when Bush took office.
Every year of Bush’s Presidency, real (inflation-adjusted) disposable income per person went up. By the end of 2006, the average person was making 9% more in real terms than before Bush became President .
If you recall, that 2006 election was considered a referendum on Iraq. The people wanted change, so they threw out the Republicans and replaced them with Democrats. Welcome Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
Here is how they handled Iraq once in office: Harry Reid told us that the Iraq war was “lost” and the surge was not “accomplishing anything.” Senator Obama introduced legislation that would have prevented the surge and would have taken all US troops out of Iraq by March 2008 (that would be seven months ago, as you read this) .
Were they right?
Barack Obama now admits that “the surge succeeded.” So much for that change. And as the surge succeeded, Congress’s approval ratings plummeted. The latest CBS/New York Times poll has it at 12%, well less than half of the already low level it stood at when the Republican Congress was being tossed out in 2006.
The Democratic Congress did a great job, if what you’re looking for in a Congress is continual investigation of Republicans. Did the White House out CIA agent Valerie Plame? No, it was the anti-White House Richard Armitage at State, but Congress investigated anyway. Did Alberto Gonzalez, with White House urging, fire nine prosecutors for political reasons? Probably not, and it wouldn’t be a crime anyway, but Congress investigated, and is still investigating. Did the CIA, under orders from the White House, “torture” prisoners? No evidence of that yet, but Congress is on the case.
What Congress would not investigate was anything about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In fact, they fought against such investigations and cast aspersions against anyone who would even doubt the soundness of those institutions. Here is what Barney Frank said:
These two entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.
You can also see on video (see video URL below) how Democrats treated the regulators trying to reign in Fannie and Freddie.
But now we know what happened. Fannie and Freddie were run corruptly and ineptly and went bankrupt. Their $1.5 trillion portfolios had to be rescued by the government this year. Franklin Raines, the Clinton-appointed CEO of Fannie Mae who was vigorously defended by Congressional Democrats, was sued by government regulators for cooking the books to the tune of $10 billion to increase his own bonuses to the tune of tens of millions. He settled his suit for an estimated $25 million.
On the other hand, here is what the New York Times had to say in 2003 .
The Bush administration is rightly pushing for the Treasury Department to regulate the two giants, along with the network of federal home loan banks. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae provide financing to lenders by creating a secondary market for mortgages. All told, these two institutions’ debt portfolio exceeds more than $1.5 trillion. Their current regulator is ill equipped to keep tabs on Freddie’s and Fannie’s sophisticated hedging strategies and the other financial moves they use to manage their huge investments.
And here is what John McCain said on the Senate floor:
For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac… I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.
So on the big things, the surge in Iraq and the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that led to our recent financial mess, the Democrats were wrong. Dead wrong. One hundred eighty degrees out wrong.
On the other hand, who supported the surge? George W. Bush and John McCain.
Who tried to strengthen the oversight and regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? George W. Bush and John McCain.
In the case of the surge, Bush and McCain got their way. The result? Apparent victory in Iraq, a country that is now a democracy, at peace with its neighbors, no longer a WMD threat, no longer a terrorist sanctuary, and no longer filling hundreds of mass graves with hundreds of thousands of its own citizens.
In the case of Fannie and Freddie, Bush and McCain did not get their way – Barney Frank did. The result? The failure of Fannie and Freddie, law suits against their executives and the spark that sent banks failing and stocks falling across the globe to the point of threatening a Great Depression.
Let’s vote for change. Let’s undo what we did in 2006.
The Democrats’ Coverup Of The Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Crisis (Video)
http://vodpod.com/watch/1038839-dems-refuse-to-reform-freddie-fannie-in-2004-video
American Thinker
http://www.americanthinker.com

Posted by: Natasha | October 22, 2008, 11:43 pm 11:43 pm

Here’s a man who was married by Pastor Jeremiah Wright. Obama didn’t see fit to remove himself from his teachings until after the presidential run. That is what I call hypocrisy. His alliances are more than questionable. So if you want to follow a man who has the glitz and slick talk, I guess Osama is your choice. If you want to follow a man who is capable of keeping us safe from domestic and foreign enemies, there’s no question which person is most suited for the job.

Posted by: vince | October 22, 2008, 11:44 pm 11:44 pm

Let’s vote for change. Let’s undo what we did in 2000.

Posted by: willy | October 22, 2008, 11:44 pm 11:44 pm

sure ya did Work4free, wasted time in college then didn’t ya, ya didn’t learn squat. hahaha

Posted by: PicabosMom | October 22, 2008, 11:44 pm 11:44 pm

Mark Garnett…your post is filled with so many lies and holes, it’s like a fish net stocking … we are SICK of lies!!! And Bush lied over and over and over and over and over and over and over again about 911 being tied to IRAQ and Al Quaeda…we were here and we heard him!!!

Posted by: Zellie | October 22, 2008, 11:45 pm 11:45 pm

Picabosmom: Unless you make over $250K, EVERYONE below that will benefit from Obama’s plan. Not to mention health care. McCain will tax health care benefits.
Why do you assume “liberals” don’t work? Studies show that Democrats are more educated and make more money than most Republicans.

Posted by: Independent Obama Supporter | October 22, 2008, 11:45 pm 11:45 pm

Let’s vote for change. Let’s undo what we did in 2006.
Exposed! The Democrats’ Coverup Of The Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Crisis (Video)
http://vodpod.com/watch/1038839-dems-refuse-to-reform-freddie-fannie-in-2004-video

Posted by: Natasha | October 22, 2008, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm

Sorry to repeat someone else’s post but the following is one I saved for moments like this. Please read on.
A lifelong conservative Republican friend decided she couldn’t vote for McCain after he picked Palin as his running mate. She has no love for Obama, but from her perspective at least Biden could hold down the fort if something happened to Obama. Palin can’t, my friend concluded, and further concluded that McCain’s picking Palin revealed a deep flaw in McCain.
I’m not a big Obama fan either. But I understand why Palin did so much better in this debate than she did in the lengthy interviews: the GOP demanded a debate structure that limited answers to 2 minutes–to sound bites she could memorize. Same Palin–just different rules.
This goes beyond all the partisan blather in this forum on both sides. And it goes beyond the lies and exaggerations both Biden and Palin deployed (you can see a comprehensive list on FactCheck.org).
Palin is not up to the job, and it should be obvious to anyone who watched both the interviews and this debate. As one commentator pointed out, she often didn’t understand the question in the first place.
I’m not saying she’s stupid. But at this point she’s not prepared to run the United States of America. I’d say this if she were a Democrat. By age 46 she would have some grasp of world affairs and how the economy works if she had the slightest interest in these things. She just doesn’t. I admire how she took on her own party’s establishment in Alaska, but that’s not enough.
And all the talk about how she’s more prepared than Obama is just whistling past the graveyard. Go back and watch the first debate between Obama and McCain. I don’t agree with him about a lot of things, but he obviously has what it takes to be president, as does Biden.
I was once a liberal Republican–yes, such people existed in large numbers back in the 50s. Now only a handful are left in the GOP, drowned out by chanting loons who are conservatives in name only. I miss the party of responsible conservative people like Eisenhower, who established the national highway system. Today’s Republicans would brand him a So-shul-ist for having done so.
And now my former party gives me a VP nominee who falls short of the mark–breathtakingly so.
What has the GOP come to?
Communism is ownership of business by government. What do you call ownership of government by business? Whatever it is, that’s what the GOP now stands for.
This economic fiasco isn’t completely the GOP’s fault–but it is mostly. I only hope the GOP will be able to reform itself so it actually represents actually conservative Americans again.
Posted by: Ehkzu | October 4, 2008 5:30 AM
end quote.

Posted by: RB | October 22, 2008, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm

Americans of Albanian heritage collected a million dollars in one evening for the presidential campaign of Republican Senator John McCain, said the Albanian American Civic League yesterday, the lobby group headed by former Congressman Joe DioGuardi. A reception for McCain was held January 22 at the Saint Regis Hotel in Manhatten, and the senator, who is now leading in the runoff for the Republican party candidacy in the November elections, cut his campaign in Florida by one day to attend this gathering.
“Even in 1998 when we had problems with Milosevic, McCain did everything that we asked of him to the benefit of the Albanian people, including arming the KLA”, announced DioGuardi. “We are American Albanians and we need a leader who will strengthen this country… We must support John McCain because he did everything we asked of him for Kosovo, from supporting the Kosovo Liberation Army to supporting the independence of Kosovo. Two years ago he spoke in Brussels and said that independence is the only solution”, concluded this former congressman who has been fighting for the independence of Kosovo and Metohija for more than twenty years.
And just who are the KLA that McCain is so fond of-
“The KLA – The Kosovo Liberation Army – is an Islamic terrorist group responsible for beheadings, torture, rape, burning down churches filled with Christians, and other atrocities. To this day, the KLA insurgency continues the systematic persecution and genocidal cleansing of Serbian civilians residing in Albania. The former leaders, enjoying life as high paid politicians in the Albania Government, are unapologetic for the crimes committed.”
McCain continues to support the KLA to this very day.
http://www.kosovoliberationarmy.com/

Posted by: JohnM | October 22, 2008, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm

Obama did say he wanted to spread the wealth. That IS socialism. Barack Hussein Obama, wrong on socialism, wrong for this nation.
Posted by: Liberals will follow him over cliff
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“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
Carl Marx
Hmmm, it sounds faniliar…
just like That One!

Posted by: Natasha | October 22, 2008, 11:47 pm 11:47 pm

Basically a plumber from Ohio was able to put Obama on the defensive over his tax plans.
A ordinary Joe did what the fawning media failed to do – which is ask Obama a serious question.

Posted by: Greg h | October 22, 2008, 11:47 pm 11:47 pm

President Bill Clinton got the economy back on track. People were working,even got off welfare. People had paychecks, pride and dreams, crime was down. Obama wants to take away dreams, hope and paychecks. He wants people on welfare,with no hope to improve their lot in life, no incentive to get ahead.
McCain will get America back on Track, jobs, paychecks, opportunities.

Posted by: NoObama | October 22, 2008, 11:47 pm 11:47 pm

Just off of Reuters:
“Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,” said a commentary posted Monday on the extremist Web site al-Hesbah, which is closely linked to the terrorist group. It said the Arizona Republican would continue the “failing march of his predecessor,”
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Wow look who just gave mccain the big endorsement. Forget about republican hacks like Powell, mccain now has the endorsement of Al Qeada.

Posted by: SeeingABetterWorld | October 22, 2008, 11:47 pm 11:47 pm

They were calling Obama a Marxist on the McGlauflin Report last night, even close associates of Obama say he is a Marxist..He will be defeated, he will not get the chance to destroy America
Posted by: common sense
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Yes, indeed! Marxist Obama will destroy America…
We will never allow America to become the land of Obama’s “USA: The New Communist Experiment”.
“American Union” (as in Soviet Union) our land shall never be.
Obama can take his “Ayers & Co” community organizing experience and go to Russia… to organize some Siberian Gulags!
This presentation is a must watch for the left-wing-liberal media clowns and all “morally sound” American fellows.
A VIDEO PORTRAIT OF BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?RsrcID=2036
AMERICA THINK BEFORE YOU VOTE!

Posted by: Natasha | October 22, 2008, 11:48 pm 11:48 pm

Obama Will ‘Say Anything to Get Elected’
This coming from the lowdown campainging of McCain/Palin. What a laugh !!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 08′

Posted by: lawwal | October 22, 2008, 11:51 pm 11:51 pm

Natasha: Your posts are way to long. It’s rude for the rest of us. Please show some dignity and respect.
By the way, since you did it, here’s my way too long cut and paste about Mccain and cronies:
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is Enemy Action.” — Auric Goldfinger James Bond’s wealthy nemesis may have had an obsession with gold, but he judged, quite correctly, that if people keep putting your plans awry, that was likely their intent. In 1982, the same year John McCain entered the Senate, a bill was put forward that would substantially deregulate the Savings and Loan industry. The Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act was an initiative of the Reagan administration, and was largely authored by lobbyists for the S&L industry — including John McCain’s warm-up speaker at the convention, Fred Thompson. The official description of the bill was “An act to revitalize the housing industry by strengthening the financial stability of home mortgage lending institutions and ensuring the availability of home mortgage loans.” Considering where things stand in 2008, that may sound dubious. It should. Seven years later, the S&L industry was collapsing. What was the cause? Garn-St. Germain handed the S&Ls a greatly expanded range of capabilities, allowing them to go head to head with full service banks, but it didn’t give them the bank’s regulations. Left to operate in an anarchistic gray area, S&Ls chased profits, indulged in amazing extravagances, and cranked out enough cheap mortgages to fuel a real estate boom. They also experimented with lots of complex, creative — and risky — investments, even though they didn’t have the economic models to really determine the worth of the things they were buying. The result was a mountain of bad debts and worthless “assets.” Does any of that sound eerily (or nauseatingly) familiar? It wasn’t a foregone conclusion. In 1985, three years after the deregulation of the S&Ls, the chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board saw that the situation was already looking shaky, with the potential to become much worse. He instituted a rule to limit the amounts and types of investments S&Ls could carry on their books in an effort to head off disaster. However, many savings and loans — among them Lincoln Savings & Loan Association of Irvine, CA, which was headed by a fellow named Charles Keating — promptly ignored these rules. Now enters a familiar cast of characters. First to pop up was the universally beloved Fed-chief-to-be, Alan Greenspan. Greenspan argued against the loan board’s new rules, and persuaded Reagan to appoint one of Keating’s pals to the board to blunt the requirements. A quintet of senators, among them John McCain, began having meetings with both the management at Lincoln and the regulators at the loan board. ] Alan Greenspan also helped out with a letter to the regulators, asking that Lincoln be exempt from the new rules. With their help of Greenspan and their pet senators, Lincoln was able to stay in business an additional two years, at the end of which they failed — taking the life savings of 21,000, mostly elderly, investors with them. How involved was John McCain? McCain and Keating had known each other since 1981 and had become fast friends. Of all the “Keating Five,” it was McCain who moved into the life of the Lincoln S&L chief. The two men vacationed together multiple times, with the whole McCain clan (babysitter included) heading out for Keating’s private Caribbean property on Keating’s private jet. McCain didn’t think to actually report these trips, or pay for them, until the investigators were breathing down his neck. And McCain took his payment in the form of more than just vacations. Keating and other members of Lincoln’s parent company padded McCain’s pockets with $112,000 in campaign contributions. In John McCain’s biography, he called his meetings with Keating and regulators “the worst mistake of my life,” though from the text you’d think this was a spur of the moment decision, not something that McCain did repeatedly over a space of years. Still, you might think that a “worst mistake” would stay fresh in his memory. It certainly didn’t fade quickly for the country. Following the S&L crisis, the Resolution Trust Company was formed to swallow up the debt of Lincoln and 746 other S&Ls gone wild, and taxpayers were left with the $125 billion bill. The resulting budget deficit forced cutbacks in other programs. The artificial real estate boom collapsed and housing starts fell to their lowest levels in decades. Finally, the whole nation settled in for a period nasty enough that three years later someone could still campaign around the idea “It’s the economy, stupid.” Even so, by 1999 Phil Gramm — who had entered the Senate two years after McCain and quickly become the economic guru of the Keating Five maverick — put forward the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. This Act passed out of the Senate on a party line vote with 100% Republican support, including that of John McCain. (To be fair, the bill eventually passed again with a wide margin following revisions in the House.) This act repealed part of the Glass-Steagall Act. This may sound like a bunch of Congressperson soup, but the gist of it is that Glass-Steagall was put in place in 1933 to control the rampant speculation that had helped cause the collapse of banking at the outset of the depression, and to prevent such consolidation of the banks that the nation had all its eggs in one fiscal basket. Gramm-Leach-Bliley reversed those rules, allowing not only more bank mergers, but for banks to become directly involved in the stock market, bonds, and insurance. Remember the bit about how S&Ls failed because they didn’t have the regulations that protected banks? After Gramm-Leach-Bliley, banks didn’t have that protection either. Gramm wasn’t done. The next year he was back with the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which was slipped into a “must pass” spending bill on the last day of the 106th Congress. This Act greatly expanded the scope of futures trading, created new vehicles for speculation, and sheltered several investments from regulation. As with both Gramm-Leach-Bliley and Garn-St. Germain, large parts of this bill were written by industry lobbyists. This famously included the “Enron Loophole” that exempted energy trading from regulation and was written by (big suprise) Enron Lobbyists working with Gramm. Not coincidentally, Senator Gramm, the second largest recipient of campaign contributions from Enron, was also key to legislating the deregulation of California’s energy commodity trading. Thanks to this fortunate trifecta of Gramm-crafted legislation, Enron was able to create “EnronOnline” and trade electricity in California with absolutely no oversight or transparency. They quickly worked out how to game the system. Previously, there had been only one Stage 3 rolling blackout in the history of California. Within months, the system had been manipulated by traders to generate 38 such blackouts and wholesale electrical prices had gone up more than 3000%. Despite production capacity equal to four times the demand during winter, energy traders even engineered a blackout in mid-January. During the confusion of these deliberate “shortages” and “price spikes,” the California administration of Gray Davis — blind to speculator manipulations because of the walls erected by Gramm’s

Posted by: Independent Obama Supporter | October 22, 2008, 11:51 pm 11:51 pm

I hate to go too far with this, but if Al-Qeada supports mccain, doesn’t that make him and all his supporters terrorist. I have had my suspicions, but now here is the proof.

Posted by: SeeingABetterWorld | October 22, 2008, 11:51 pm 11:51 pm

Man, ever ytime you Libs have your toilet back up are you going to blame Bush? How about blaming Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, weak Socialist European ‘allies’ that were ticked off that the U.S. took out one of their best customers in Saddam Hussein?
How about the friggin terrorists on 9-11 and the inept Dems like Barney Frank, Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, Dodd, etc. that have totally screwed this country up in two years?
Sure, there’s morons like Sen. Stevens and his home makeover freebies, but your hatred of President Bush is a cry for a healthy dose of meds.
But, maybe you guys are right. Abandon Israel, suck up to Islam and Europe, keep feeding money into ruinous socialist, government-sponsored banking and housing schemes. We don’t need national security or any extra money to invest. Prosperity is overrated anyway. Besides what right do we Americans have to live high on the hog with so many other peoples around the world doing with less? I’m sure if the roles were reversed, they’d be sending a few billion our way to help out.

Posted by: Grand Old Party | October 22, 2008, 11:52 pm 11:52 pm

McCain is sick and old, look at him! He trembles when he speaks, do we want that as our leader? Half our US Military laughs at his buffoonery and lies. That face of fear-mongering and hate? No way! I bet he’s bipolar. Who else could make the “mistake” of calling his wife a cu-t in front of company? He is crazy! I’m also bipolar, and ladies&gentlemen, I would NOT govern this country effectively with the mouth I got on me!
Republicans voting for McCain in Texas fall into four categories: lied-to small biz owners&family, ignorant &/or educated white suburban women who fear people of color and believe 1st trimester abortions should be illegal, white-trash racial extremists, and wealthy white families.
My father is a Republican small business owner. He turned to Mom recently and said: “J—-a, I think we’ve been lied to for the last 20 years.” She agreed, and for the first time in their lives, they are voting Democrat.
- white female, educated, with a good job, and married to an Army Scout in Iraq who is serving our country, who would rather see him in more danger fighting the right war in Afghanistan, under a leader supported by our Allies.
Obama/Biden 08

Posted by: Cara | October 22, 2008, 11:53 pm 11:53 pm

Why would America REWARD complete Republican failure ?
We wont.

Posted by: PulSamsara | October 22, 2008, 11:55 pm 11:55 pm

PLEASE!!! CAN’T ONE OF YOU EXPLAIN TO ME HOW MCCAIN WILL BE DIFFERENT THAN BUSH?????????????

Posted by: Independent Obama Supporter | October 22, 2008, 11:56 pm 11:56 pm

Sorry I do not live down to your expectations PicabosMom. Amazing your presumption about my educational background or my current socio-economic status. You might just be surprised at how inaccurate your depiction of others falls well short of the mark.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste, and if nothing else, they do make good fertilizer for vegetable crops.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/108043/Candidate-Support-Education.aspx

Posted by: Work4free | October 22, 2008, 11:56 pm 11:56 pm

McCain continues to support the KLA to this very day.
http://www.kosovoliberationarmy.com/
Posted by: JohnM
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Are you a Serb???!!!
McCain supported the Independence of Kossovo, which has been also supported by all our major allies.
McCain and patriotic Americans do not support genocide in the Balkans and that is why we and the free world tought the Serbians the lesson they deserved! Period.

Posted by: Natasha | October 22, 2008, 11:57 pm 11:57 pm

Obama said in his last debate that “people are living over their means and that has to change.”

Posted by: Dee | October 22, 2008, 11:59 pm 11:59 pm

Grand old party said “How about the friggin terrorists on 9-11 and the inept Dems like Barney Frank, Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, Dodd, etc. that have totally screwed this country up in two years?”
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Excuse me? Who was in charge for the 12 years of Congress leading up to this debacle? The GOP, the promoters of degregulation!!! By late 06, in case you forgot old man, the ARM’s had already been written, and the damage had been done.

Posted by: Independent Obama Supporter | October 23, 2008, 12:01 am 12:01 am

FLORIDA IS OBAMA COUNTRY !!! +27 !!!

Posted by: Other Way | October 23, 2008, 12:01 am 12:01 am

That’s assuming that you want McCain to be that much different than Bush…why do you Libs want Obama to be like Clinton or Carter?
What, another situation where our enemies are emboldened by Dem presidents who care more for their personal ideologies and feel good-ism than they do for the future of the American people, and then the Republicans have to get voted back in to straighten out the mess?

Posted by: Grand Old Party | October 23, 2008, 12:02 am 12:02 am

Grand old party: Who is the real anti-semite running? Here’s a clue:
Additionally, just last month, Palin was at her church, the Wasilla Bible Church, to attend a speech by David Brickner, the Executive Director of Jews for Jesus. During the speech, Brickner described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God’s “judgment of unbelief” of Jews who haven’t embraced Christianity.
If she is such a supporter of Israel, why didn’t she condemn Brickner’s speech?

Posted by: Independent Obama Supporter | October 23, 2008, 12:03 am 12:03 am

PLEASE!!! CAN’T ONE OF YOU EXPLAIN TO ME HOW MCCAIN WILL BE DIFFERENT THAN BUSH?????????????
Posted by: Independent Obama Supporter
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We do not waste our time with DUMB Obamabots!
Here, take this test – it may tell you finally how dumb you are. (that is exactly the kind of supporters we want big O to have).
THE DUMB TEST
http://www.quizrocket.com/dumb-test/1?tr=Take%20the%20DUMB%20TEST!&tr=Hey%20Dummy!!!!!&trt=9&gatherer_id=100522&utm_source=ValueClick&utm_medium=Pop&utm_campaign=DumbTestR1

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 12:04 am 12:04 am

Wow, Natasha admits that McCain doesn’t just pal around with terrorists, but supports and arms them (and even subverts the law to do so). Way cool! Welcome to our side Natasha.. we accept all denominations, even you.

Posted by: willy | October 23, 2008, 12:04 am 12:04 am

Seriously folks I didn’t make this up, Al-Qeada is firmly in mccains camp. I don’t want to go too far, but with similar “Ayers” like logic, if mccain is supported by Al-Qeada, doesn’t that mean mccain and all of his faithful followers are terriorist?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/21/AR2008102102477.html?nav=hcmodule

Posted by: SeeingABetterWorld | October 23, 2008, 12:05 am 12:05 am

LEHRER: .. when should the United States deploy its armed forces abroad, and what criteria should be used? Are you comfortable with the decision-making that would – that a Bush-Cheney- Powell triumvirate would make?
McCAIN: Yes. I’m extremely comfortable and basically it’s when American interests and values are threatened. And sometimes when our values are threatened, over time our interests can be threatened. I can’t make an argument to you that Kosovo posed an immediate threat to our national interest. But I can argue that it offended our values to a degree that if allowed to go unchecked, then unrestrained, once Milosevic started to do his ethnic cleansing, then sooner or later our interest would be threaten because that same kind of scenario would transpire in other places in Europe.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/election/july-dec00/mccain_8-1.html
I’m John McCain and I don’t know if I support this message or not.

Posted by: JohnM | October 23, 2008, 12:06 am 12:06 am

General Powell, I once respected you as
a leader. Have you lost your mind? If anyone knows the value of a tested man, it would be you. Your lack of judgment is an
enigma. There is a word for people who aided our foes in the Revolutionary war.
Out of respect for you, I’ll refrain from posting that here.

Posted by: Vince | October 23, 2008, 12:06 am 12:06 am

Yeah, the GOP are promoters of deregulation…too bad that these GSEs are like Socialist rocks tied around our nation’s neck with tons of government interference. You can’t blame the free market system for being hit by the mess created by government-sponsored housing and investment programs with just enough regulation to kill controlling market forces, and just enough lack of oversight by inept politicians like Barney Frank.

Posted by: Grand Old Party | October 23, 2008, 12:07 am 12:07 am

Natasha can’t answer my question as to how McCain will be different than Bush, so she tries to pretend that Republicans aren’t dumb

Posted by: Independent Obama Supporter | October 23, 2008, 12:10 am 12:10 am

At a time that Europe is awakening up – turning to the “right” after years of “failed socialism” it would be a crime to elect Marxist Obama as the next President of the United States of America.
Even France learned the lessons of its “failed socialism” and elected conservative Nicholas Sarkozy – a staunch friend of the United States. And here we are…Americans are about to let our country be destroyed by MARXIST BARACK OBAMA!
The following video is for the geopolitically savvy and morally sound American patriots – not for the “Obama Communist Youth”!
Sarkozy speaks to America: A most remarkable speech:
Video: Sarkozy’s Speech Before the US Congress
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/video_sarkozys_speech_before_congress/
“France’s new leader Nicolas Sarkozy gave a speech before Congress that was, dare I say, almost…Reaganesque. He called America “the greatest nation,” among other platitudes.
You can view the whole thing here, and I really think you should all watch it.
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/video_sarkozys_speech_before_congress/
He speaks of America in such glowing terms that you almost wonder if he isn’t, in some ways, more American than certain Democrats I could think of.
What’s particularly interesting is that, years ago when the Bush presidency was new and Iraq was a fresh issue, the left told us constantly that George Bush was making America less popular in the world. Yet during the President’s term in office three of our traditional allies (Canada, Germany and now France) elected leaders that displaced virulently anti-Bush and anti-American leaders with people more of Sarkozy’s temperament (Stephen Harper in Canada and Angela Merkel in Germany).
Sort of almost seems like…that whole “less popular America” thing just isn’t true.”
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/video_sarkozys_speech_before_congress/

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 12:13 am 12:13 am

Thank you GOP for the enron loophole deregulation, and how after 15 years of flat prices, we got a 320% jump in natural gas prices the year it was enacted, despite only a 5% growth in consumption between 1987 to 2000.
http://www.energy.gov/about/nationalenergypolicy.htm

Posted by: sam | October 23, 2008, 12:14 am 12:14 am

There’s something wrong with the headline of this article. Someone, please remove the word “Obama” and the quotation marks. It’s “McCain Will Say Anything to Get Elected”

Posted by: Herunar | October 23, 2008, 12:14 am 12:14 am

Obama raised over $150 million in September…
“Wow. Do you know what could be done with that 150million. Why not spread the wealth around? I could use a little of that!”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/stephanopoul-13.html?cid=135508891#comment-135508891
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In the mean-time he gives us “pretty speeches” about how much pain he feels for us – poor Americans! That’s is the same kind of “pain” that Lenin, Marx, Stalin, and many other “Saviors” felt for their “Comrades”.
Yeah, let’s distribute the wealth! Let’s start with Obama’s wealth first.
What the heck is wrong with half of the country? Since when the DemocRATS got so much wealth – enough to spread it to Obama’s campaign so that “Messiah Obama” can promote his “Big Ego” ???!!!

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 12:14 am 12:14 am

Grand Old Party said: “Yeah, the GOP are promoters of deregulation…too bad that these GSEs are like Socialist rocks tied around our nation’s neck with tons of government interference. You can’t blame the free market system for being hit by the mess created by government-sponsored housing and investment programs with just enough regulation to kill controlling market forces, and just enough lack of oversight by inept politicians like Barney Frank”
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Bush promoted the ownership society and 0% down policy that created this mess, along with a long line of GOP deregulators. No such thing as a “free market”–GOP thought that financial institutions would police themselves. What market forces are you referring to? Speculation? The fact that the rest of the economy was going down the tubes, so the last thought stronghold in the middle 2000′s was the housing market?

Posted by: Independent Obama Supporter | October 23, 2008, 12:15 am 12:15 am

has obama done a joint interview with biden? who is holding who’s hand in this Quaylin/McBush campaign?

Posted by: bitterindependent | October 23, 2008, 12:15 am 12:15 am

Spread the wealth around…..pardon me…but isn’t that what they are doing in Alaska. Where do you think the Alaskans getting the money from? From the government/taxpayers. yup SPREAD THE WEALTH AROUND. Thanks to Gov. Palin the people of Alaska got a bigger boost in handout. What a bunch of hypocrites.

Posted by: Ven | October 23, 2008, 12:16 am 12:16 am

This is probably the most important election of our lives. As the Republican party tends more and more towards honest-to-goodness facism, this could be our last chance to save our democracy.
The people who are saying Obama will bring socialism don’t even understand what they are talking about – or that they are contributing to what has become an anti-intellectual, neo-fascist organization, the current Republican party.
Their propaganda includes: liberals don’t have jobs (for God’s sake, people); Obama is a socialist (like supporting the VA and the post office is socialist?); and Obama is an Arab (oh, please!) If enough Americans buy this propaganda, it will sink us all. Is this really the way we want to go?
Bill Buckley, where are you when we need you?

Posted by: Mom | October 23, 2008, 12:19 am 12:19 am

Obama spents millions to cover the lies that he has been talling the American people. We should bring charges against him for “false advertising”…
That’s OK – if he is elected and the
s–t hits the fan (results of current invstigations etc) there is always something called “impeachment”!
He was btter off telling us the truth now before he makes himself a bigger fool if he is elected and his lies arew uncovered!

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 12:19 am 12:19 am

“But anti-Americanism is not limited to the Muslim world. The same poll suggests that most British, French, and Germans think the United States is motivated by its own interests and ignores the concerns of its European allies.”
“Some experts argue that because anti-American sentiment is motivated principally by unpopular U.S. policies and perceptions of American unilateralism, brochures and radio broadcasts aren’t enough. Instead, they argue, public diplomacy considerations should be woven into the policymaking process. Otherwise, as Peterson points out, the United States risks losing “the battle for hearts and minds.”
http://www.cfr.org/publication/8934/perceptions_of_us_public_diplomacy.html
Obama ’08

Posted by: NPR | October 23, 2008, 12:21 am 12:21 am

Natasha, so because France’s new president likes the US, that automatically justifies saying that world opinion of the US has not changed. Maybe in your mind, but not in mine.
Posred by Raymond
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Ahaha! I look at the big picture. Whether you like to admit or not the facy is that our major allies (Canada, France, Germany) have replaced their SOCIALIST governments with right-wing-conservatives – oh yes CAPITALISTS, who like US very much.
I travel to Europe very often and am in a better position than many that never left the US to tell you what the current climate in our allied countries is – especially after the Russian invasion of Georgia.
Perhaps you should watch BBC World News (ask your cable/satellite company to carry it in addition to BBC America) or Deutsche Welle to get some serious news about what is happening in the world insatead of watching “mickey mouse news” on our 24-hour-news-for-dummies-networks.
How much our European allies trust and respect America is evidenced even more recently right in the midst of the global economic crisis. If you paid any attention, to which country did England, Germany France, Italy turned for leadership in the last few weeks? But of course to the United States of America! Have you noticed how much the dollar has surged against the euro in the last few weeks? Why do you think that it did? Because our allies know that after all is said and done in a global crisis situation it is the dollar and America that they trust.
Our allies are not stupid to know that America will ne the first one to recover from the economic crisis. And that is because America has CAPITALISM not SOCIALISM – that Barack Obama wants to introduse to our land.
Left wing liberals – get a grip on reality. You have been listening to demagogue Barack Obama and his “pretty speeches” too long! WAKE UP!

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 12:23 am 12:23 am

I cut and pasted earlier. Sorry about that. Here is a personal comment.
As an engineer overseas in the oil business, my taxes went up under the Republican watch. (Yeah, ok, I make a lot of money and work hard for it.) I expect they will go up again under the next presidency. Probably not enough to make me look for other work so I’ll pay those too. As an American it is my responsibility to pay those taxes (so Joe plumber, if JM or the networks haven’t helped you out yet, please ante up that 1200 bucks).
What swings my vote to the Democrats (negative campaigning aside) was the choice of Palin as VP. I just cannot figure it out and I certainly can’t vote for it.

Posted by: RB | October 23, 2008, 12:23 am 12:23 am

Get a grip. Maybe, get a job. As usual we have illiterates calling the candidates stupid.
Let’s suppose for a second that both of these guys are just saying whatever they need to say to get elected. Still, one of them will. What then?
McCain is way too “liberal” for my preferences, partly because he thinks that something will get done if we all just work together, kumbaya, rather than sticking to some principles that yes, some people will find objectionable. If he wins he will learn, just as both George Bushes did before him, that a Republican cannot work in the public interest effectively across the aisle with the Pelosi-Reid wing of the Democratic party because they are interested only in their personal power, not in what is good for the USA. There IS a reason why the Congress elected in 2006 to “fix the problem in Washington” has a rating in the SINGLE DIGITS. Even W is 4 times more popular than Congress.
Say Obama wins. Whatever he is saying now, his entire life has been devoted to (a) following party leaders around so they will give him another cookie and (b) hanging around with openly Marxist professors, politicians and pastors [not to mention Bill Ayers]. So he will either continue to do the bidding of the party’s Marxist wing which controls the Congress, or he will do his own thing which is – more Marxist than that.
Let’s make America more like Europe, shall we? The history of Europe shows exactly what happens when you go down the socialist road, which is why most countries in the world have rejected it after a miserable experience. Those naifs among you who just think it would be cool to get the government handouts, where do you think that money is coming from? And no, not the rich – they can afford to buy CPAs and Congressmen and set up trusts to make sure that they don’t pay ANY taxes (see Teddy Kennedy for a case in point].
McCain isn’t my choice – unless the alternative is a mysterious character who has accomplished nobody can say what, has no straight answers to questions from anybody, coming from nobody knows where, intending to do nobody knows what. As far as I can tell he is largely a creation of the national media, an experiment to see whether 100 million morons will actually vote into office a person who for all intents and purposes does not really exist.
Does it occur to you that the same majority would allow the 9% approval-rating Congress could also ignore the moderation forced by the possibility of a Presidential veto? The Germans wanted change when they voted in a sketchy unknown by the name of Schickelgruber, and millions of them did not live to regret it.
Be careful what you ask for – you may just get it.

Posted by: Gottabesomeonebetter | October 23, 2008, 12:24 am 12:24 am

Can you ask the Senator to provide:
1. His transcripts at Occidental.
2. His transcripts at Columbia and at least show some of his friends.
3. His thesis at Harvard. Any writing?
4. Any student loans records?
You know these colleges aren’t CHEAP!
Obama did not attend these colleges on scholarships.
Why doesn’t Obama provide the public with this info?
Something to hide? health record?
Posted by: Voter In America
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/stephanopoul-13.html?cid=135508891#comment-135508891
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Reply to Voter in America:
He is the “Chosen One” – the “Messiah” we have all been waiting for – “God’s Gift to America” per Bela Pelosi….
You are asking too many questions my friend… Barack Obama is above any suspision. How many questions do you think Carl Marx ever answered?
CNN reported last week that McCain has released ALL his medical records. Obama has refused to do so. He has only released an one page “Doctor’s note” that says that he is in good health. (like those notes kids bring to school when they are out sick ..)
The pathetic left-wing-liberal media has talked again and again about Senator McCain and his wife’s medical health issues. Why media Morons are not digging to Barack Obama’s refusal to release ALL his medical records?
What? Is he mentally ill and trying to hide it???!!!
The media and the Obama campaign operatives were bitching about Cindy McCain and Sarah Palin to release their tax returns…. But the same Morons have not once questioned why Obama is not releasing the information you have asked in your comment, especially his medical records.
Have we seen his original birth certificate yet?

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 12:27 am 12:27 am

Natasha, I think you need to look out and see what is the color of the sky in your world. We Liberals really do have a handle on facts, it is our stock-in-trade. You must not think you know any of us, because you have to stop thinking that we don’t watch the BBC or read 5 newspapers a day -and, please, yes, we have jobs.
Is the planet you live on called earth?
Obama ’08

Posted by: Mom | October 23, 2008, 12:28 am 12:28 am

Obama’s campaign has not paid for clothes for either him, hisfamily, or the Bidens. 150,000 is not simply normal for people noe should it be. It cuts against her “hockey mom” image she has been playing up. Oh by the way, MK, who suggest Obama does the same, the much applauded dress Michelle Obama wore on The View… $148 at an off the rack store. You can’t down play 150,000 for clothes. I doubt giving tailored pre-worn clothes to charity makes it all right. Who is that going to help?

Posted by: shawn | October 23, 2008, 12:30 am 12:30 am

Independent Obama supporter I am an Independent McCain supporter . The dems,Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Barack Obama were the ones in the pockets of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Wake up and smell the coffee. These people are so in with this mortgage mess which has ruined our economy and you people will not see it. I am disguusted with what they let ride to benefit themselves and now that it has back fired on them they and you cry Bush. Not a huge Bush fan, but a Mass. resident and I can tell you Barney Frank is deep into this and you people will give him a pass. Why I don’t know except I do know as a Realtor the biggest mortgage meltdown has happened in the past two years since the dems have had control of Congress. This is a fact you and so many will not face. And quite frankly I am sick of it. And this is due to the dems pressuring for lower mortgage qualifications and standards because they felt everyone deserved to buy a Home. And if you think this is beacause they believe this was for the better good of the people guess again they did it for votes and you are still falling for it and going to vote them all in again. Too bad they didn’t listen to John McCain two years ago. You want reasons to vote for John McCain well this is one of mine. He had the hindsight to point this out and the dems were too ignorant and stubborn and ignored it.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 23, 2008, 12:31 am 12:31 am

In Europe, as well as predominantly Muslim countries, the U.S. is generally less popular than Germany, France, Japan, and China.
Pew Global Attitudes Project
http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?PageID=825

Posted by: TruthHurts | October 23, 2008, 12:32 am 12:32 am

I can not believe that the United States of America is ready to elect Senator Barack Obama as their next President.
That is like going to sleep with a stranger.
What do the American People know about him and his past?
Why is he suppose to be the one that is going to save us from this great economic mess we are in?
What has he done in the 3 years that he has been in the Senate that benefits the Middle Class?
What has he done, what has he run?

Posted by: Gabriel | October 23, 2008, 12:34 am 12:34 am

$150,000 – wardrobe/makeup/accessories
$16,951 – staying at home
$43,490 – travel expenses kids/husband
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$210,441 – Total taxpayer expense
$208,100 – U.S. VP Annual Salary
($2,341) above VP salary before taxes
Looks like the moose hunter has already spent more than the first years salary before taxes, and the election isn’t even over yet!

Posted by: Sarah | October 23, 2008, 12:36 am 12:36 am

We can provide some assurance. We have known Obama since he entered politics a dozen years ago. We have watched him, worked with him, argued with him as he rose from an effective state senator to an inspiring U.S. senator to the Democratic Party’s nominee for president.
We have tremendous confidence in his intellectual rigor, his moral compass and his ability to make sound, thoughtful, careful decisions. He is ready.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-chicago-tribune-endorsement,0,1371034.story?track=email-alert-breakingnews
History in the making folks..

Posted by: TruthHurts | October 23, 2008, 12:37 am 12:37 am

shawn who cares what anybody wears? I think this country and the media have alot more issues to debate then what someones wardrobe cost. People give me a break. Do you really think this is important? Why are you even letting the media getting you to stoop to this level? Don’t even go there with what money has been spent on this campaign because Barack Obama has spent gross amounts and $150,000. on Palins wardrobe is like pocket change compared to Obamas egotistical spending.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 23, 2008, 12:39 am 12:39 am

Founder Of Group Palin Courted Professed “Hatred For The American Government”; Cursed “Damn Flag”
By Greg Sargent – September 2, 2008, 6:10PM
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.”

Posted by: AIP | October 23, 2008, 12:40 am 12:40 am

I HATE George Bush!!! I think he is the worst President in history; but I will not vote for Barack Obama, I will vote for John McCain.
If all of the sudden I find out, that the women that I love and I have been married to for the last 27 years, has been cheating on me with my best friend. I would be hurt, angry and feel betrayed.
But I would not go out and marry the first Stripper that comes my way just because she represents CHANGE!!!
You better think long and hard who you are going to vote for America. Do you really want another President, without any Experience in the White House again?

Posted by: Carlos | October 23, 2008, 12:40 am 12:40 am

John McCains stand on Taxes – Feb. 2, 2000
JIM LEHRER: There was a suggestion today from some of Governor Bush’s supporters that maybe you’re not really a true blue Republican, that some of the things you support like campaign finance reform and your opposition to tax cuts are more like Gore and Bradley and Clinton and Democrats than Republican.
SEN. JOHN McCAIN: Well, I’m much more like Ronald Reagan, actually, than the present hierarchy of our party. I’m for tax cuts, but I’m for working Americans. Governor Bush wants to give 38 percent of his tax cuts to the wealthiest 1 percent. I want to give it to working families.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/election/jan-june00/mccain_2-2.html
I’m John McCain, and I don’t know if I approve this message or not.

Posted by: JohnM | October 23, 2008, 12:41 am 12:41 am

Mortgage meltdown? Caused by the removal of regulations that were in place since the 20′s allowing banks to package and sell mortgages as investments:
The bill that ultimately repealed the [Glass Steagall] Act was introduced in the Senate by Phil Gramm (R-TX) and in the House of Representatives by James Leach (R-IA) in 1999. The bills were passed by a 54-44 vote along party lines with Republican support in the Senate and by a 343-86 vote in the House of Representatives. Nov 4, 1999: After passing both the Senate and House the bill was moved to a conference committee to work out the differences between the Senate and House versions. The final bipartisan bill resolving the differences was passed in the Senate 90-8-1 and in the House: 362-57-15. Without forcing a veto vote, this bipartisan, VETO PROOF legislation was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s109-190

Posted by: Phil Gramm | October 23, 2008, 12:45 am 12:45 am

Unless you make over $250K, EVERYONE below that will benefit from Obama’s plan.
Posted by: Independent Obama Supporter
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You are really really DUMB. Everybody abobe 250,000 thousand – small business and large companies will stick it to YOU by raising the prices of the products you buy (FOOD, CLOTHING, ELECTRONICS, CARS, ETC).
If he starts taxing more the “Big Oil” companies, “BIG OIL” would stick it to YOU by passing the cost of higher taxes to the “pump price” (YOU BOZO).
AND then big companied will stick it to Obama by laying masses of people off.
Of course DUMMIES like you and THAT ONE, think that all of these things are good for the economy.
Suddenly all the democRATS became experts in the “economy”.
Oh, how many of you want the big companies to pay more taxes so they can have marginal profits? How many of you would like the companies that your 401(K) is invested to make 5% profit so you can make may be a 2% year after year?
Oh, how many of you will keep your jobs if Obama keeps taxing more your employers? How many companies do you think they will stay in business just so thet can have you getting a paycheck and pay check? Yeah, keep dreaming. You will be all sitting home collecting some checks until there is no more money for Obama to spend or until America is bought by the Chinese!

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 12:45 am 12:45 am

I voted.
I voted for Obama.
Wow it sure feels good to get that off my chest.
Isn’t amazing how you just know it in your heart that you did the right thing.
or in this case, I did the politacally correct thing lol

Posted by: Jackie | October 23, 2008, 12:47 am 12:47 am

Apparently McCain thinks we are not strong enough to be called names or can’t take it when our ‘values’ are threatened.. sending troops to be killed over ‘values’ is not protection of our freedom, and is against our long tradition regarding sending the military into harms way only when absolutely necessary. He is a disgrace to all Americans:
LEHRER: .. when should the United States deploy its armed forces abroad, and what criteria should be used? Are you comfortable with the decision-making that would – that a Bush-Cheney- Powell triumvirate would make?
McCAIN: Yes. I’m extremely comfortable and basically it’s when American interests and values are threatened. And sometimes when our values are threatened, over time our interests can be threatened. I can’t make an argument to you that Kosovo posed an immediate threat to our national interest. But I can argue that it offended our values to a degree that if allowed to go unchecked, then unrestrained, once Milosevic started to do his ethnic cleansing, then sooner or later our interest would be threaten because that same kind of scenario would transpire in other places in Europe.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/election/july-dec00/mccain_8-1.html
I’m John McCain, and I’m not sure if I don’t approve this message.

Posted by: JohnM | October 23, 2008, 12:50 am 12:50 am

Sarah Who cares? Sarah Palins wardrobe allowance is pocket change compared to what Obama has egotistically spent on himself for this campaign,gross amounts of money. And the medias coverage of this election is beyond GROSS. Please don’t fall into their trap of swaying us from the important issues at hand.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 23, 2008, 12:50 am 12:50 am

Eight years ago we were faced with a choice in the Presidential Election between to men.
One of them was a Washington Insider, with a lot of Experience and who had served in Vietnam. He gave really bad speeches, lost the three presidential debates, and was really boring. The media continually told us, do you really want this boring, stiff guy in your living room for the next four years.
The other one, was a Washington outsider. He said he was a Uniter, not a divider. He won the three debates, and the media hailed him as a normal guy, a guy that you could enjoy a beer with. The guy was just a nice guy with no experience whatsoever.
A lot of Americans, including myself, said to ourselves, Oh What the Heck, what can possibly go wrong. We voted for the Inexperienced Nice Guy, LOOK HOW THAT TURNED OUT!! GEORGE W BUSH.
I will never vote for the candidate with no experience ever again. I am voting for John McCain!!!

Posted by: Fernando | October 23, 2008, 12:52 am 12:52 am

Jackie I hope you’re right and not regretting your haste and early vote come Novemeber 5th.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 23, 2008, 12:53 am 12:53 am

But I would not go out and marry the first Stripper that comes my way just because she represents CHANGE!!!
Posted by: Carlos
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This says it all, Carlos!
I think that you should contact the McCain campaign and have them start using it as a stupm speech point!…
:-)

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 12:54 am 12:54 am

High Gas Prices? Thank you Phil Gramm and the Enron Loophole. Natural gas prices remained flat for over 15 years, and suddenly rose by 320% the year the enron loophole was enacted (2000), despite only a 5% rise in consumption between 1987 and 2000.
http://www.energy.gov/about/nationalenergypolicy.htm
I’m John McCain and I’m not sure if I support this message or not since Phil is my economic advisor.

Posted by: JohnM | October 23, 2008, 12:54 am 12:54 am

Claim: Obama wants to Socialize Health Care
Fact: False
Reality:
The two candidates health care plans differ significantly. McCains plan primarily focuses on deregulation to stimulate competition between the insurance providers, reforming tax codes, and providing a fixed credit to all families. Obama wants to create a national health plan that would make insurance available to all Americans, particularly those who are currently unable to obtain insurance, and with guaranteed eligibility. It is not a mandatory system, as many have mistaken, and is completely voluntary, so individuals who already have existing health insurance do not need to participate unless they want to. Obama also calls for health care tax credits, favoring the low and middle class, as well as incentives to increase efficiency and quality in the health care industry. The two plans, while comparable in cost, differ in year to year patterns, however based on analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, Obamas plan outperforms McCains plan in coverage and efficiency.
http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/pm126
In a detailed analysis between the two plans, the Wall Street Journal comes to the same conclusion as the EPI, and has additionally said:
“Given the current inefficiencies in our system, the impact of the Obama plan will be profound. Besides the $2,500 savings in medical costs for the typical family, according to our research annual business-sector costs will fall by about $140 billion. Our figures suggest that decreasing employer costs by this amount will result in the expansion of employer-provided health insurance to 10 million previously uninsured people”.
When looking at the McCain plan, they state:
“In contrast, Sen. McCain, who constantly repeats his no-new-taxes promise on the campaign trail, proposes a big tax hike as the solution to our health-care crisis. His plan would raise taxes on workers who receive health benefits, with the idea of encouraging their employers to drop coverage. A study conducted by University of Michigan economist Tom Buchmueller and colleagues published in the journal Health Affairs suggests that the McCain tax hike will lead employers to drop coverage for over 20 million Americans”.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122152292213639569.html
For a side-by-side list of both plans, please see the following:
http://www.health08.org/FINAL%202%20CANDIDATES%20Side-By-Side%20July%2022.pdf
Ask Natasha.. She supports Obamas health care plan also!!

Posted by: Health08 | October 23, 2008, 12:58 am 12:58 am

Claim: Obama will raise your taxes, McCain will lower them
Fact: False/Misleading
Reality:
Under Obamas proposed tax plan, only top earning American families
will see an increase in taxes (those earning $250,000 or more, which
according to the most current US Census data, accounts for just under
2% of the total households in the US). In fact, over 95% of American
households will see a tax cut under Obamas plan, with lower and middle
class Americans receiving LARGER tax cuts than would be realized under
McCains tax plan. Even McCains own economic advisor has admitted that
the Obama plan would result in a net decrease in taxes for the majority
of American households.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/dinctabs.html
To see how much your taxes would be changed under the proposed plans, the
revenue and distribution tables for the tax plans put forth by Senator
John McCain and Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election
by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center can be found at:
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/numbers/displayatab.cfm?template=simulation&SimID=266
I’m John McCain, and I don’t think I approve of this message because I don’t want you to know the truth.

Posted by: McTax | October 23, 2008, 1:02 am 1:02 am

Obama and all those on his animal farm are mindless emotional wrecks. Your keeper has you, and will keep you, right where he wants you. Pathetic

Posted by: Hippie Smasher | October 23, 2008, 1:07 am 1:07 am

Natasha:———if these large companies are making “marginal profits” how is it that they can give million dollar bonuses to their CEOs and other top officers——–EXXON / MOBIL has been systematically cutting the hours of clerks in their gasoline stations and yet have been declaring record profits——-why is that happening?—–they have even been laying off workers in said stores to save money, yet can provide multi-million dollar bonuses for their top officers—–that doesn’t seem to be creating jobs or job security for all the Joe (Josephine) the clerks. So much for “trickle down.”

Posted by: George | October 23, 2008, 1:10 am 1:10 am

Al-Queda throws its support behind John McCain!
“Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,” said a commentary posted Monday on the extremist Web site al-Hesbah, which is closely linked to the terrorist group. It said the Arizona Republican would continue the “failing march of his predecessor,” President Bush.
What an endorsement!

Posted by: Wow! | October 23, 2008, 1:11 am 1:11 am

What did Obama really say to Joe the Plumber? He said, “It’s not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you—that they’ve got the chance at success, too. I think that when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

Posted by: George | October 23, 2008, 1:13 am 1:13 am

Al Qaeda-Linked Web Site Backs McCain for President!
Terror group supporters seek ‘big operation’ against U.S. to ‘push Americans deliberately to vote for McCain’
“This requires presence of an impetuous American leader such as McCain, who pledged to continue the war till the last American soldier,” the message said. “Then, Al Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming elections so that he continues the failing march of his predecessor, Bush.”
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/22/al-qaeda-linked-web-site-backs-mccain-president/
Seems this ringing endorsement is spreading all over the MSM! Apparently, Al-Qaeda is afraid of Obama!

Posted by: Wow! | October 23, 2008, 1:31 am 1:31 am

The saddest part about all of the Obama supporters who cheer when he rails against Reaganonmics is they don’t realize that they are the ones who get hurt by tax & spend redistributionist policies. If you wonder, check the 1970s vs. 1980s on how the middle class fared. “Inequality” does definitionally increase when everybody benefits from low taxes & low wasteful spending, but the entire curve shifts upward and everyone is better off.
Someone making $20,000 gets to make $40,000 with the rising tide of Reaganomics, while someone else making $200,000 increases to $500,000 under the same rising tide which of course increases faster at the higher end of the scale. So is the $40,000 person “worse off” because now their “equality gap” has widened vs. the rich person? No — they have twice what they had before, and yes they have to endure more envy of the even richer person, but they are twice as well off as they were before that is how it works in the real world. And of course the reverse is also true — under the ultimate “equality and fairness” plan (Cuba, USSR, etc), the $20,000 person goes to $5,000, while the $200,000 person also goes to $5,000. So now the $5,000 per year person has “won” under the fairness and equality doctrine. Congratulations! Fairness has finally been achieved as we have spread the wealth around and the poor are now truly equal to the rich (both poorer….a hollow victory)
Amazing that an entire generation thinks soak the rich class warfare tax & spend can actually increase the incomes of the middle class.
Wonder why the majority of Cuban Americans aren’t voting Democratic?
Happy January 20, it won’t work out like in the speeches.

Posted by: Reagan Democrat | October 23, 2008, 1:34 am 1:34 am

***
Wonder why the majority of Cuban Americans aren’t voting Democratic?
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Hispanics: 61% Obama 29% McCain
http://www.gallup.com/poll/108040/Candidate-Support-Race.aspx

Posted by: willy | October 23, 2008, 1:39 am 1:39 am

Cubans in Florida? Former GOP leader and McCain advisor in South Florida where the largest Cuban-American population is in that state says:
“We’re not going to win in Dade,” Cardenas said. “The question is whether we lose it by 25,000 or 75,000. That’s the key to winning the state.”
http://havanajournal.com/cuban_americans/entry/will-cuban-americans-vote-for-obama-miami-dade-is-needed-to-win-florida/
I’d hardly say the majority of Cubans aren’t voting Democratic!

Posted by: sam | October 23, 2008, 1:51 am 1:51 am

It doesn’t matter what Joe the plumber thinks. He is a loser.

Posted by: thomas | October 23, 2008, 1:56 am 1:56 am

Sorry Regan dude.. I’m old enough to know better. Every time we ruin the economy with a ‘fiscal conservative’ president, a ‘tax and spend’ liberal has to come in and clean up the mess. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
Don’t buy the party line, vote for what is best for America. Lots of people are doing it this year, it’s the right thing to do!
Like Lynn Forrester de Rothschild said:
“It’s going to be, What is in the best interest of all Americans? And I think if history is our guide, we’ve had stronger economies, more wealth creation, under Democratic presidents than we have under Republican presidents. So I don’t understand why all my capitalist friends aren’t Democrats.”

Posted by: Truth! | October 23, 2008, 1:57 am 1:57 am

Hmmm, it looks like “Joe the Plumber” knows that Socialism/Marxism do not have a place in our land….
MSNBC – Associated Press
AP poll: Candidates running nearly even
Neck-and-neck results are a departure from many recent national polls
The Associated Press
updated 2:08 p.m. ET, Wed., Oct. 22, 2008
WASHINGTON – The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch.
The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as Republican-leaning voters drifted home to their party.
Three weeks ago, an AP-GfK survey found that Obama had surged to a seven-point lead over McCain, lifted by voters who thought the Democrat was better suited to lead the United States through its sudden economic crisis.
The contest is still volatile, and the split among voters is apparent less than two weeks before the Nov. 4 election.
The new AP-GfK head-to-head result is a departure from some, but not all, recent national polls.
Differing survey results
Obama and McCain were essentially tied among likely voters in the latest George Washington University Battleground Poll, conducted by Republican strategist Ed Goeas and Democratic pollster Celinda Lake. In other surveys focusing on likely voters, a Washington Post-ABC News poll showed Obama up by 9 percentage points, while a poll by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center had Obama leading by 14. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, among the broader category of people registered to vote, found Obama ahead by 10 points.
Polls are snapshots of highly fluid campaigns. In this case, there is a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points; that means Obama could be ahead by as many as 8 points or down by as many as 6. There are many reasons why polls differ, including methods of estimating likely voters and the wording of questions.
Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political science professor and polling authority, said variation between polls occurs, in part, because pollsters interview random samples of people.
“If they all agree, somebody would be doing something terribly wrong,” he said of polls. But he also said that surveys generally fall within a few points of each other, adding, “When you get much beyond that, there’s something to explain.”
The AP-GfK survey included interviews with a large sample of adults including 800 deemed likely to vote. Among all 1,101 adults interviewed, the survey showed Obama ahead 47 percent to 37 percent. He was up by five points among registered voters.
A significant number of the interviews were conducted by dialing a randomly selected sample of cell phone numbers, and thus this poll had a chance to reach voters who were excluded from some other polls.
It was taken over five days from Thursday through Monday, starting the night after the candidates’ final debate and ending the day after former Secretary of State Colin Powell broke with the Republican Party to endorse Obama.
A post-debates bump for McCain?
McCain’s strong showing is partly attributable to his strong debate performance; Thursday was his best night of the survey. Obama’s best night was Sunday, hours after the Powell announcement, and the full impact of that endorsement may not have been captured in any surveys yet. Future polling could show whether either of those was merely a support “bounce” or something more lasting.
During their final debate, a feisty McCain repeatedly forced Obama to defend his record, comments and associations. He also used the story of a voter whom the Democrat had met in Ohio, “Joe the plumber,” to argue that Obama’s tax plan would be bad for working class voters.
“I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody,” Obama told the man with the last name of Wurzelbacher, who had asked Obama whether his plan to increase taxes on those earning more than $250,000 a year would impede his ability to buy the plumbing company where he works.
On Wednesday, McCain’s campaign unveiled a new TV ad that features that Obama quote, and shows different people saying: “I’m Joe the plumber.” A man asks: “Obama wants my sweat to pay for his trillion dollars in new spending?”
Since McCain has seized on that line of argument, he has picked up support among white married people and non-college educated whites, the poll shows, while widening his advantage among white men. Black voters still overwhelmingly support Obama.
The Republican also has improved his rating for handling the economy and the financial crisis. Nearly half of likely voters think their taxes will rise under an Obama administration compared with a third who say McCain would raise their taxes.
Since the last AP-GfK survey in late September, McCain also has:
Posted big gains among likely voters earning under $50,000 a year; he now trails Obama by just 4 percentage points compared with 26 earlier.
Surged among rural voters; he has an 18-point advantage, up from 4.
Doubled his advantage among whites who haven’t finished college and now leads by 20 points. McCain and Obama are running about even among white college graduates, no change from earlier.
Made modest gains among whites of both genders, now leading by 22 points among white men and by 7 among white women.
Improved slightly among whites who are married, now with a 24-point lead.
Narrowed a gap among unmarried whites, though he still trails by 8 points.
McCain has cut into Obama’s advantage on the questions of whom voters trust to handle the economy and the financial crisis. On both, the Democrat now leads by just 6 points, compared with 15 in the previous survey.
Obama still has a larger advantage on other economic measures, with 44 percent saying they think the economy will have improved a year from now if he is elected compared with 34 percent for McCain.
Intensity has increased among McCain’s supporters.
A month ago, Obama had more strong supporters than McCain did. Now, the number of excited supporters is about even.
Eight of 10 Democrats are supporting Obama, while nine in 10 Republicans are backing McCain. Independents are about evenly split.
Some 24 percent of likely voters were deemed still persuadable, meaning they were either undecided or said they might switch candidates. Those up-for-grabs voters came about equally from the three categories: undecideds, McCain supporters and Obama backers.
Said John Ormesher, 67, of Dandridge, Tennessee: “I’ve got respect for them but that’s the extent of it. I don’t have a whole lot of affinity toward either one of them. They’re both part of the same political mess.”
The Associated Press.
© 2008 MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27324419/?GT1=43001

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 2:27 am 2:27 am

2000
Barack loses bid for U.S. House of Representative.
Barack, Michelle and Bernadine Dohrn are listed together as mentors with the University of Chicago Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies.
2001
Bill Ayers donates $200 to Barack’s re-election fund for the Illinois State Senate.
Bill Ayers publishes “Fugitive Says: A Memoir,” detailing his time as a terrorist.
In an article with the Chicago Tribune, Ayers said, “We weren’t terrorists. The reason we weren’t terrorists is because we did not commit random acts of terror against people. Terrorism was what was being practiced in the countryside of Vietnam by the United States.”
Bill Ayers gives interview to New York Times. Published on September 11, Ayers said he did not regret his militant tactics and believed they had not done enough.
2002
Barack reelected to Illinois Senate.
Barack loses his license to practice law for reasons unknown at the time of this writing.
Barack no longer serves on board of Woods Fund of Chicago.
Barack no longer serves on board of Joyce Foundation.
Barack no longer serves on board of Chicago Annenberg Challenge.
Barack hires political strategist David Axlerod.
Barack and Ayers are scheduled to appear together on a panel at the University of Illinois Chicago titled “Intellectuals in Times of Crisis.”
Michelle goes to work for the University of Chicago Hospitals as executive director for community affairs.
2003
Barack announces his bid for U.S. Senate.
2004
Barack wins primary.
Barack gives Keynote address at Democrat National Convention.
Barack elected to U.S. Senate.
Barack resigns his seat in Illinois Senate.
Bills Ayers gives interview: “How do you feel about what you did? Would you do it again under similar circumstances?” He replied:[24] “I’ve thought about this a lot. Being almost 60, it’s impossible to not have lots and lots of regrets about lots and lots of things, but the question of did we do something that was horrendous, awful? … I don’t think so. I think what we did was to respond to a situation that was unconscionable.”
2005
Barack sworn in as U.S. Senator
Michelle Obama is promoted to Vice President of Community and External Affairs where she still works part-time.
2006
Barack traveled to Kenya and openly campaigned for violent radical muslim Raila Odinga, Barack’s alleged cousin.
Bill Ayers travels to Venzeula and gives a speech to Hugo Chavez, stating “We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution” or “La educacion es revolucion!”.
2007
February Barack announces he will run for President.

Posted by: Fox news Fan | October 23, 2008, 2:39 am 2:39 am

Obama = Hope
(envision gleaming rays of sunshine through fields of gold and green, people holding hands, happiness, a long awaited collective sigh of relief/release…)
McCain = Despair
(envision Edvard Munch’s The Scream…)
Ω

Posted by: OHM | October 23, 2008, 2:42 am 2:42 am

Nastyasha,
Here’s the part you need to read about that poll, then read it again, again and again;
“The AP-GfK survey included interviews with a large sample of adults including 800 deemed likely to vote. Among all 1,101 adults interviewed, the survey showed Obama ahead 47 percent to 37 percent. He was up by five points among registered voters.”
PS – YOU LOSE!!!LOL!!!

Posted by: LOL | October 23, 2008, 2:46 am 2:46 am

UPDATE:
more anti-semitic vitriol found on Barack Obama’s official campaign website…full story HERE
Below are some of the quotes that were found on Obama’s site:
“Jews should be burned and thrown in the oven.”
“Israel murdered 6 million Arabs.”
“Jews control American politics and dictate decisions of war and peace.”
“The Jewish state is leading a “Holocaust” against the Palestinian people and was responsible for 9/11.”

Posted by: Fox news Fan | October 23, 2008, 2:47 am 2:47 am

Sarah Who cares? Sarah Palins wardrobe allowance is pocket change compared to what Obama has egotistically spent on himself for this campaign,gross amounts of money. And the medias coverage of this election is beyond GROSS. Please don’t fall into their trap of swaying us from the important issues at hand.
Posted by: conf1689
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Last week the leftweek media morons were screaming about McCain-Palin questioning Obama’s association with Ayers. Now the media idiots are talking about $150,000 dollars that our campaign spent on Palin. They are so pathetic – it is unreal. Suddenly the $150,000 has become more serious issue than Obama’s association with Ayers – what as—les (pardon my French!)
Personally I feel that if they had to go dress the Governor at Neiman Marcus os Sacks (great American retail companies) it shows that the Governor of Alaska did NOT previously spent money on some fancy wardrobe like our other politicians…We are not blind – we see what they are wearing on C-Span!!
Shame one you all media clowns – especially you Ms. Campbell Brownose (the witch of CNN)… Shame on you partisan moron – Campbell Brown – for considering the $150,000 wardrobe, hair and make-up for Sarah Palin more important issue than Barack Obama’s association with Ayers. Especially since you were asking us to quit talkin about Ayers because it was “negative”…Well, I guess the attacks on Palin are what? Positive?
Get lost CNN and MSNBC! You are a disgrace to serious journalism…
Oh! Btw…Has CNN or MSNBC investigated how much money have the Republicans paid for Obama’s suits, shoes, and ties? Has anybody tried to figure out who is paying and how much for Michelle Obama’s dresses, make-up, and hairdos? It is my understanding that they did a complete make-over on her just for her appearance at “The View” show….
Hypocrites…Obama is spending hundreds of millions like money is growing on trees and the media morons had to attack Palin for shopping at Neiman Marcus and Saks. Stupid Keith Olbermann spent the whole afternoon on this…what is the big deal with Neiman Marcus and Saks? It is not like she went to Paris to shop!
Scream as you may left-wing-liberals about the $150,000 Palin wardrobe – it is our campaign money and we spend it in any way we choose – for sure more resmponsibly than Obama and Mishelle! (they media keeps their shopping sprees quiet)
Oh, what about Obama’s vacation in August” Who paid for that? Every day they showed him and he had more staff around him (while in his fance bathing suit) than the President of France!
BOOOOOOOO!! MEDIA PARTISAN MORONS!!!
BOOOOOOOO!! CNN & MSNBC CLOWNS!!!

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 3:03 am 3:03 am

PS – Nastyasha, YOU LOSE!!!LOLOL!!!

Posted by: LOL | October 23, 2008, 3:12 am 3:12 am

THE REAL REASON WHY OBAMA IS GOING TO HAWAII
EMERGENCY MOTION FOR ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
Plaintiff ANDY MARTIN (‘Plaintiff’), pro se, respectfully moves this Court on an emergency basis for an Order to Show Cause (‘OSC’) directing the defendants to show cause on or before October 22, 2008 at a hearing before this Court why the relief requested by the Plaintiff should not be granted.
1. This lawsuit does not involve complicated or disputed facts.
2. Time is of the essence because Plaintiff would like to write columns and articles about the Birth Certificate before November 3, 2008.
3. Plaintiff is physically present in Hawai’i and is available to appear before the Court in person at any hearing on or before October 22, 2008.
4. There is intense national interest in access to an officially certified copy of the birth certificate of Barry Soweto AKA Barack Hussein Obama in question as well as any related supporting information which the defendants may have in their possession.
STATEMENT OF CLAIM
1. Plaintiff requested a certified copy of the birth certificate of Senator Obama from the Department of Health and tendered the requisite fee.
2. Defendants refused to provide a copy of said certificate, invoking the confidentiality statutes of the State.
3. The issue of the Senator’s birth certificate has become a controversial topic of intense national speculation.
4. As an author who strives for factual accuracy and attempts to conduct thorough research Plaintiff wants a copy of the Senator’s birth certificate attested to by the State and not a ‘certificate’ which is posted on a web site and which has been debunked as possibly having been altered.
5. One of the more literate and temperate analyses of the unlawfulness of the Defendants’ refusal to issue certified copies of the birth certificate is contained in Exhibit 1 attached hereto.
6. To the extent that the Defendants’ files contain or retain original supporting data for the birth certificate, Plaintiff asks that he also be supplied with that information and/or material as well.
7. It is axiomatic that the birth certificate of a presidential candidate is a document of crucial public concern and significance.
8. While Hawai’i statutes call for a balancing or weighing test where production is considered by a court, most respectfully Plaintiff submits that the balance falls entirely on the side of disclosure where the original birth certificate of a presidential candidate is concerned.
5. A proposed OSC is attached to this Emergency Motion.
Dated: Honolulu, Hawai’i, October 17, 2008

Posted by: Fox news Fan | October 23, 2008, 3:16 am 3:16 am

THE REAL REASON WHY OBAMA IS GOING TO HAWAII
EMERGENCY MOTION FOR ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
Plaintiff ANDY MARTIN (‘Plaintiff’), pro se, respectfully moves this Court on an emergency basis for an Order to Show Cause (‘OSC’) directing the defendants to show cause on or before October 22, 2008 at a hearing before this Court why the relief requested by the Plaintiff should not be granted.
1. This lawsuit does not involve complicated or disputed facts.
2. Time is of the essence because Plaintiff would like to write columns and articles about the Birth Certificate before November 3, 2008.
3. Plaintiff is physically present in Hawai’i and is available to appear before the Court in person at any hearing on or before October 22, 2008.
4. There is intense national interest in access to an officially certified copy of the birth certificate of Barry Soweto AKA Barack Hussein Obama in question as well as any related supporting information which the defendants may have in their possession.
STATEMENT OF CLAIM
1. Plaintiff requested a certified copy of the birth certificate of Senator Obama from the Department of Health and tendered the requisite fee.
2. Defendants refused to provide a copy of said certificate, invoking the confidentiality statutes of the State.
3. The issue of the Senator’s birth certificate has become a controversial topic of intense national speculation.
4. As an author who strives for factual accuracy and attempts to conduct thorough research Plaintiff wants a copy of the Senator’s birth certificate attested to by the State and not a ‘certificate’ which is posted on a web site and which has been debunked as possibly having been altered.
5. One of the more literate and temperate analyses of the unlawfulness of the Defendants’ refusal to issue certified copies of the birth certificate is contained in Exhibit 1 attached hereto.
6. To the extent that the Defendants’ files contain or retain original supporting data for the birth certificate, Plaintiff asks that he also be supplied with that information and/or material as well.
7. It is axiomatic that the birth certificate of a presidential candidate is a document of crucial public concern and significance.
8. While Hawai’i statutes call for a balancing or weighing test where production is considered by a court, most respectfully Plaintiff submits that the balance falls entirely on the side of disclosure where the original birth certificate of a presidential candidate is concerned.
5. A proposed OSC is attached to this Emergency Motion.
Dated: Honolulu, Hawai’i, October 17, 2008

Posted by: Fox news Fan | October 23, 2008, 3:16 am 3:16 am

He was up by five points among registered voters.”
PS – YOU LOSE!!!LOL!!!
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It is in English BOZO:
FIVE PERCENT POINTS UP UP UP UP
AMONG REGISTERED VOTERS!
THE SURVEY BOZO IS ABOUT THE UP UP UP UP UPWARD TREND FOR MCACAIN AFTER AFTER AFTER AFTER THE 3RD THE 3RD THE 3RD DEBATE DEBATE DEBATE!
You get it O’MORON-BOT?! (with the 2 dozen names)!!!!!!!!!
Take the DUMB TEST one more time…who knows? You may be able to pass it before election day!
The DUMB TEST specially designed for the Big O’s Communist Youth Bot Squad!
Ssss, now…concentrate on passing the Dumb Test:
http://www.quizrocket.com/dumb-test/1?tr=Take%20the%20DUMB%20TEST!&tr=Hey%20Dummy!!!!!&trt=9&gatherer_id=100522&utm_source=ValueClick&utm_medium=Pop&utm_campaign=DumbTestR1

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 3:18 am 3:18 am

Lie or Lose that is less than one hundred-thousandth of a percent of voters,which means it is not even close to accurate.The media just uses them to scare people.

Posted by: Obama for Latrine Cleaner '08 | October 23, 2008, 3:22 am 3:22 am

I just donated another $500 to max out my contribution limit to McCain/Palin campaign. Who do you think is Michelle Obama’s designer? Maria Pinto, who sells her clothes at Saks Avenue and other exclusive stores. No matter what Gov. Sarah Palin wears, she looks BEAUTIFUL, and she is worth every single penny. Michelle Obama on the hand still looks UGLY. There’s two sayings in Spanish, “No matter what the she monkey wears, she stays a she monkey” and “Even if the monkey wears silk, she stays UGLY”.

Posted by: Diana | October 23, 2008, 3:33 am 3:33 am

It makes me laugh how “Progressives” are not progressive at all. Instead of encouraging growth & progress, they stifle growth and discourage progress by adopting socialistic policies which over-regulate everything.
Instead of looking forward to a sensible leader like McCain, they look backward at the failures of Bush and the Democrat-controlled congress. They grasp at vague ideas like “Hope & Change” without considering the effects of Obama’s policies.

Posted by: 42n82bfearless | October 23, 2008, 3:33 am 3:33 am

Most of those failures were Congresses which they passed of as Dubya’s.And what do the people here think of Gun Control?

Posted by: Obama for Latrine Cleaner '08 | October 23, 2008, 3:38 am 3:38 am

Barack Obama’s birth certificate revealed here:
LA TIMES
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/06/obama-birth.html
According to the Hawaii State Department of Health (HSDH):
1. Certified copies of birth certificates are NEVER sent electronically. Copies can be requested by qualified individuals in person, by mail, or on line; and the Vital Records (VR) office will MAIL the Certification of Live Birth within 4 to 6 weeks.
2. Certifications of Live Birth will ALWAYS include an embossed seal.
3. The Vital Records office will NEVER black out the certification number.
This copy provided by the Obama campaign is fake. LA Times, please do your job and be investigative journalists for once instead of recycling Kool Aid from the Obama campaign
Posted by: Joe | June 21, 2008 at 01:26 PM
LA TIMES
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/06/obama-birth.html

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 3:50 am 3:50 am

If I were gay, lesbian, abortionist, unpatriotic, anti-American, and a God-less person I would find Gov. Sarah Palin very scary. Gov. Sarah Palin represents a person of strong values, morals, principles and convictions who believes in God, Country and Family.
Barack Obama on the hand represents the forces of evil, who has associated with anti-Americans; terrorists, criminals, racist mentors and spiritual leaders. What kind of person hangs around with such radical associations? What practicing Christian or person who believes in God supports killing babies and same-sex marriage?

Posted by: Diana in California | October 23, 2008, 3:54 am 3:54 am

Contributions,that reminds me of Obama.You know?How he said he was going to use Public Financing and then said it was Corrupt?After months he just suddenly woke up and said it’s corrupt?Gee wonder why he didn’t figure that one out before?And then there’s his support of the New Deal,which was the biggest piece of socialist legislature that this nation has ever seen.

Posted by: Obama for Latrine Cleaner '08 | October 23, 2008, 4:06 am 4:06 am

It’s amazing how we have the right to vote and but lack the maturity to accept others’ rights. I understand that it’s been rough for us Americans lately but being divided is not going to pull us out of the many predicaments we face as a nation or as individuals.
Neither side is evil and something to be feared–not the scary neocons or socialists that will ruin this country. Regardless of who wins, this country will fall if we don’t stop this stupidity.
No matter who wins you just make the best out of your own life.
For both of the candidate’s supporters who have stepped over that line: Grow up and realize that this isn’t a football game where one forgoes human decency because of a passionate fervor to see his/her team win.
This is the United States of America. Have a little pride in yourself–I know your mama’s raised you better :>

Posted by: Ray | October 23, 2008, 4:07 am 4:07 am

And before you all say it he voted against a partial birth abortion ban that said it would NOT infringe on Roe vs Wade.Which has been his big defence.

Posted by: Obama for Latrine Cleaner '08 | October 23, 2008, 4:10 am 4:10 am

THE REAL REASON WHY OBAMA IS GOING TO HAWAII
EMERGENCY MOTION FOR ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE…..
posted by Fox news Fan
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Fox news Fan,
Hmmm, I hope O’s grandma is doing well and she and Obama have a nice visit during his emergency trip to Hawaii to take care of matters pertaining perhaps to …HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE !!!!
Btw, why Obama is not telling anybody what is wrong with his grandmother? The only thing that they said is that she has already been released from the hospital and that the Obama campaign has not disclosed anything about his grandmother’s condition/illness.
Geez, everything has to be a “secret” about this guy. The media told us evrything about Former Lady’s Nancy Reagan’s recent emergency hospitalization – why Obama is not telling us about his grandma? Does she have more rights to privacy than Mrs. Reagan?!
Or his trip to Hawaii is simply Obama “theatrics” to change the subject of the news in the media from “AyersGate”, ACORNGATE, “Joe The Plumber and Obama the Socialist” to his trip to Hawaii to see his grandma?!
Again, I hope that his grandma is OK…but something just does not add up here.

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 4:10 am 4:10 am

Palin the fatal cancer has recieved $2,500 A DAY for clothing. If Edwards had gotten his famous 400 dollar haircut every week it still would’ve taken him 7.2 YEARS to to spend what Palins budget is.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/22/palin-clothes-spending-ha_n_136740.html
And thats not all Palins “So You Think You Can Dance” makeup artist Strozzi was paid $13,200 by the McCain-Palin campaign last month alone.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/22/palins-makeup-artist-even_n_136858.html
And they say Obama is a ‘celebrity’ LMFAO.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 23, 2008, 4:12 am 4:12 am

Ray,if Obamas elected mine would be very short since I own a firearm.Because I will NOT let it be taken away.It was my grandpas and will be my son/daughter’s.I own it and the constitution say I can own it,regardless of what Comrade obama thinks.

Posted by: Obama for Latrine Cleaner '08 | October 23, 2008, 4:15 am 4:15 am

But ‘Obama for Latrine Cleaner’ do you live in the ‘real’ america or ‘fake’ america thats the question?

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 23, 2008, 4:20 am 4:20 am

Joe So-so,why are you writing about what Palin is wearing?Does it really matter or are you just that desperate?

Posted by: Obama for Latrine Cleaner '08 | October 23, 2008, 4:20 am 4:20 am

What is that question supposed to mean?

Posted by: Obama for Latrine Cleaner '08 | October 23, 2008, 4:22 am 4:22 am

“obama for latrine cleaner”
you really don’t know what it means, do you?

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 4:25 am 4:25 am

Well I am DEEPLY sorry if I offend you because I do not understand Liberal.

Posted by: Obama for Latrine Cleaner '08 | October 23, 2008, 4:28 am 4:28 am

It’s not “liberal” actually
it is the language of Governor Sarah Palin, a Republican. Of the State of Alaska.
She’s the one who’s been using that phrase, we’re just trying to figure it out ourselves to que honest… so I guess we’re not so different, you and I.

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 4:32 am 4:32 am

“Ray,if Obamas elected mine would be very short since I own a firearm.Because I will NOT let it be taken away.It was my grandpas and will be my son/daughter’s.I own it and the constitution say I can own it,regardless of what Comrade obama thinks.”
Obama for Latrine Cleaner ’08
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“Senator Obama, a former constitutional law instructor, said some scholars argue the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees gun ownerships only to militias, but he believes it grants individual gun rights.
“I think there is an individual right to bear arms, but it’s subject to commonsense regulation” like background checks, he said during a news conference.
Although Obama supports gun control, while campaigning in gun-friendly Idaho earlier this month, he said he does not intend to take away people’s guns.”
Daniel Downs “The State of America”
Latrine,
You are a freaking dumb-ass. Please go get an education.

Posted by: Joe | October 23, 2008, 4:32 am 4:32 am

It is not “liberal”
it’s the language of one Sarah Palin, Governor of the state of Alaska.
We’re trying to figure it out ourselves…. so I guess we have THAT in common with you…

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 4:35 am 4:35 am

Latrine,
Obama never said he was gonna take your gun away.
But McCain/Palin are saying that us city folks with educations and the such are NOT real America.
WHATEVER will they do when they find out my parents are inmigrants!
FORGET IT!
no martial law! I’M AN AMERICAN and nobody is going to mess around with THAT.

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 4:37 am 4:37 am

Amen, Gigi, Amen.

Posted by: Ray | October 23, 2008, 4:39 am 4:39 am

I mean is this the country we call our own??
A place where you have to be “afraid” or “ashamed” if your name resonates NOT with what’s the norm?
Where if you’re not a “SMITH” or “JONES” or “Taylor” then you’re an outsider?
Do you really think I’m going to give the power to make my son and my future generations feel ashamed of their heritage, to a pair of LUNATICS that combined have the same diplomatic abilities of a pet rock?!
Let me tell you something, the day a country elects a military man for president, you can say GOOD BYE to democracy. I said it about Venezuela and other countries and turns out I was right…
BUT FUERTHERMORE, I ask OF ALL REPUBLICANS ON THIS BOARD..
would you ELECT Michelle Keller for Vice President?

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 4:46 am 4:46 am

Joe,the second amendment does not Guarantee anything.It safeguards the right we already have from the government.He supports the assualt weapons ban,which is absolutly useless.It bans any weapon that has a capacity of more than ten rounds.And since most Automatic weapons have a capacity of 25 or more this would ban many weapons that are useless for crime.And gun control is a sham,it is one of the stupidest things ever created.A criminal by it’s very nature is going to ignore the law,so gun control is just making sure it has more unarmed victims.And news flash,he voted for both the Chicago and D.C. handgun bans.Ehich were 100% UNCONSTITUTIONAL.So there goes that crap about him being a constitutional lawyer.So joe,YOU are a “freaking dumba–”.

Posted by: Obama for Latrine Cleaner '08 | October 23, 2008, 4:48 am 4:48 am

Gigi,I do not give a crap if your parents were immigrants if they were not Illegal.I have no qualms about letting people immigrate,but I dislike(this is putting it mildly) people who immigrate ILLEGALY.Illegal immigrants are responsible for 1/4 of the crime in tis country.And about that remark about military men,let me remind you of a few names;Washington,Teddy Roosevelt, Grant,Eisenhower were all “miitary men” and were some of our greatest presidents.I do not EVER want to hear people insulting the military,those men and women give their lives so you have freedom and you sit here and insult them?You should feel ashamed of yourself for insulting the military,I know I am.

Posted by: Obama for Latrine Cleaner '08 | October 23, 2008, 5:00 am 5:00 am

And FYI if Michelle Keller is anything like Palin I would gladly vote for her.

Posted by: Obama for Latrine Cleaner '08 | October 23, 2008, 5:02 am 5:02 am

This is the United States of America. Have a little pride in yourself–I know your mama’s raised you better :>
Posted by: Ray
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I agree, this is the United States of America. I have much pride in myself and my country. My mama and pappa told me to never hang around – never work with… terrorists and never-never to visit them in their… livingroom. :>
My mama and pappa also told me to never-never believe anyone who says the words “distribution of wealth” – such person is a socialist/marxist/communist :<

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 5:14 am 5:14 am

Natasha,
what is your definition of a terrorist?

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 5:27 am 5:27 am

Let me tell you something, the day a country elects a military man for president, you can say GOOD BYE to democracy.
Posted by: GIGI |
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You do not even know the definition of democracy or where it was even born! Go hit some history books, BOZO and then come back here to tell us that a retired war hero – POW, who almost lost his life for our country (regardless if the war he was fighting was right or wrong he was fighting for AMERICA) would cause the end of Democracy.
Hide your freaking face – UN-AMERICAN IDIOT. Your MARXIST Savior of the “masses” (the sheep) will end democracy in America.
Yes, morally sound patriotic American people want a war hero as our President. We do not want “whinners” – Harvard “elitists”, who forgot their brains at Harvard and ended up working with terrorists, drug dealers, and other Chicago criminals (he has the audacity to call it “community organizing”. Oh! I know…he speaks well!

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 5:33 am 5:33 am

Gigi,that is a stupid question.A terrorist is someone who instills terror in people by murder,bombing or anyother means that will terrorize people.Which is what Bill Ayers is and it has been proven that Obama was a friend of his,case closed.You, Pochahontas,John Smith and anyother disney character you can think of have to accept that.’Night All,
Obama for Latrine Cleaner ’08 Out.

Posted by: Obama for Latrine Cleaner '08 | October 23, 2008, 5:38 am 5:38 am

Natasha,
what is your definition of a terrorist?
Posted by: GIGI
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Ayers – Obama’s buddy fits my definition of “terrorist”. Perhaps you consider him a “trusted radical friend”, Moron!
Time for you to take the Dumb Test again…perhaps you will do better this time around…
THE DUMB TEST
http://www.quizrocket.com/dumb-test/1?tr=Take%20the%20DUMB%20TEST!&tr=Hey%20Dummy!!!!!&trt=9&gatherer_id=100522&utm_source=ValueClick&utm_medium=Pop&utm_campaign=DumbTestR1

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 5:38 am 5:38 am

Gigi,I do not give a crap if your parents were immigrants if they were not Illegal.I have no qualms about letting people immigrate,but I dislike(this is putting it mildly) people who immigrate ILLEGALY.Illegal immigrants are responsible for 1/4 of the crime in tis country.
—- WHO is talking about ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION!! YOU SEE??!! NOW I’m ILLEGAL? you people don’t know HOW to read!
LATRINE: “And about that remark about military men,let me remind you of a few names;Washington,Teddy Roosevelt, Grant,Eisenhower were all “miitary men” and were some of our greatest presidents.I do not EVER want to hear people insulting the military,those men and women give their lives so you have freedom”
- GOOD! so I take it you voted for KERRY?
LATRINE: “and you sit here and insult them?”
who ME? I never insulted them! stop hiding behind the POW shield. I just don’t want coo coo for cocoa puffs McCain for president! He has NO diplomacy and will not only ostracize this nation, but he seems to be talking about a DIVIDED country with REAL Americans and I guess FAKE Americans?
LATRINE “You should feel ashamed of yourself for insulting the military,I know I am”
Well stop insulting them then, have some respect man!

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 5:39 am 5:39 am

Ayers – Obama’s buddy fits my definition of “terrorist”. Perhaps you consider him a “trusted radical friend”, Moron!
Time for you to take the Dumb Test again…perhaps you will do better this time around…
THE DUMB TEST
http://www.quizrocket.com/dumb-test/1?tr=Take%20the%20DUMB%20TEST!&tr=Hey%20Dummy!!!!!&trt=9&gatherer_id=100522&utm_source=ValueClick&utm_medium=Pop&utm_campaign=DumbTestR1
Posted by: Natasha | Oct 23, 2008 5:38:31 AM
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Do you know the definition of “TERRORIST”?

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 5:40 am 5:40 am

THANK YOU LATRINE!
LATRINE: “Gigi,that is a stupid question.
A terrorist is someone who instills terror in people …”
hmmm … instill TERROR, create FEAR… mmmm…
“the violent escalation in rhetoric, especially (though not exclusively) by Palin has filled these rallies with anger and pandemonium. Obama “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist.” He is “palling around with terrorists”
(note the plural noun TERRORISTS = MORE THAN ONE?)
. Obama is “not a man who sees America the way you and I see America.” Wielding a wildly out-of-context Obama quote, Palin slurs him as an enemy of American troops.
By the time McCain asks the crowd
“Who is the real Barack Obama?”
it’s no surprise that someone cries out “Terrorist!”
The rhetorical conflation of Obama with terrorism is complete. ”
LATRINE: “by murder , bombing or anyother means that will terrorize people.”
“The Secret Service is following up on media reports today that someone in the crowd at a McCain/Palin event suggested killing Barack Obama, according to Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley. The shout of “kill him” followed a Sarah Palin rant on Obama’s relationship with radical Chicagoan Bill Ayers”
“Which is what Bill Ayers is ”
then why isn’t he in jail?
LATRINE: “and it has been proven that Obama was a friend of his”
would you like to see a picture of George W Bush with this dude, the PRINCE of Saudi Arabia? holding hands???
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YES, your definition of terrorists is close to that you’d find on a dictionary. I’ve been living in fear since I heard John McCain say that Obama is not an “arab” but rather a good family man.
I didn’t know that ARABS could not be ARABS AAAND good family men.
no, I don’t want to live in fear. I want to live in a country with freedom, ffreedom of speech, of religion, and liberty. I am an AMERICAN and McCain and Palin are NOT taking that away from me.

Posted by: GIGI - | October 23, 2008, 5:57 am 5:57 am

You know, “NATASHA” your insults and your despicable nature DO NOT scare or terrorize me in any way shape of form.
So maybe you could keep that to your family life? maybe for those who live around you, those responsible for the person you are today?
a person who insults and disrespects complete strangers. Maybe that’s OK where you come from, so why don’t you just save all that for them?

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 6:01 am 6:01 am

aaaw the benefits of having an elite academic education…
WASILLA, ALASKA….
The Mayor of WASILLA would be a good vice president BECAUSE…
THEY HAVE REAL RESPONSIBILITIES
THEY HANDLE THE BUDGET?
NO – a firm is contracted for that
THEY HANDLE ISSUES LIKE, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT?
The city of Wasilla does not handle/manage a fire department
THEY HANDLE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM?
They don’t really have a school system to handle, it’s done elsewhere… like part of another section of the borough or something.
ANY SOCIAL SERVICES?
They don’t do Social Services
WHAT DOES THE MAYOR OF WASILLA DO?
Mondays at 10 AM they have a staff meeting
and
every thursday is a check signing day… so the mayor, she signs the checks.
SOURCE? Diane Keller! Mayor of WASILLA!@ lol

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 6:10 am 6:10 am

Gigi,that is a stupid question.
‘Night All,
Posted by: Obama for Latrine Cleaner ’08 |
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FACT: Stupid people ask stupid questions.
Let’s not disturb GIGI-O-BOT…The poor thing is still trying to pass the “Dumb Test”

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 6:11 am 6:11 am

Let me tell you something, the day a country elects a military man for president, you can say GOOD BYE to democracy.
Posted by: GIGI |
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You do not even know the definition of democracy or where it was even born! Go hit some history books, BOZO and then come back here to tell us that a retired war hero – POW, who almost lost his life for our country (regardless if the war he was fighting was right or wrong he was fighting for AMERICA) would cause the end of Democracy.
Hide your freaking face – UN-AMERICAN IDIOT. Your MARXIST Savior of the “masses” (the sheep) will end democracy in America.
Yes, morally sound patriotic American people want a war hero as our President. We do not want “whinners” – Harvard “elitists”, who forgot their brains at Harvard and ended up working with terrorists, drug dealers, and other Chicago criminals (he has the audacity to call it “community organizing”. Oh! I know…he speaks well!

Posted by: Natqsha | October 23, 2008, 6:12 am 6:12 am

– I’ll be flying my American flag upside down –
You should already be doing so.. this Country has been in distress for some time now.
Posted by: [un]Concerned American
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BOZO- I will be swinging our flag with pride and dancing with McCain-Palin and all patriotic Americans to the tune of this video…watch!
A USA Military History (Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6370539579217643597&hl=en
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 6:24 am 6:24 am

Natasha you seem to dispise and detest terrorists. I got one name for you:
Gordon Liddy. Thats John McCains terrorist pal.
Yes, Gordon Liddy is a terrorist. Liddy is, of course, a convicted felon who has “acknowledged preparing to kill someone during the Ellsberg break-in ‘if necessary’; plotting to murder journalist Jack Anderson; plotting with a ‘gangland figure’ to murder Howard Hunt to stop him from cooperating with investigators; plotting to firebomb the Brookings Institution; and plotting to kidnap ‘leftist guerillas’ at the 1972 Republican National Convention — a plan he outlined to the Nixon administration using terminology borrowed from the Nazis.” Liddy also once famously gave his supporters advice on how best to kill federal officials (he recommended shooting them in the head because they might be wearing flak jackets).
McCain has accepted thousands of dollars in contributions from Liddy, attended a fundraiser in his honor at Liddy’s home, and told Liddy that he’s “proud of” him.
Also remember, Liddy can be fairly described as “unrepentant.” When asked if he regretted his felonies, “A vein twitches angrily on one of his scales, but he replies in a level voice, ‘No.’”
On Letterman McCain said he is “not in any was embarrassed to know Gordon Liddy.”
Why not?

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 23, 2008, 6:29 am 6:29 am

So Natasha, Latrine et al:
Isnt it time we cut the B U L L S H I T with terrorists?
Or if you ‘really’ are offended by terrorism ‘palling’ then try to rationalize Gordon Liddy. Because you cant.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 23, 2008, 6:31 am 6:31 am

The Boston Herald
October 11, 2008
It is what it is: Obama allied with scoundrels
In the best tradition of Bill Clinton’s declaration that the answer to the question of whether he was having an affair depended on “what the definition of is is,” Sen. Barack Obama was clearly concealing the truth when he said that William Ayers was “just a guy who lives in my neighborhood.”
The Ayers-Obama connection was, in fact, an intimate collaboration that it led to the only executive or administrative experience in Obama’s life.
After Walter Annenberg’s foundation offered several hundred million dollars to American public schools in the mid-’90s, Ayers applied for $50 million for Chicago. His purpose was to “raise political consciousness” in schools.
After he won the grant, Ayers’ group chose Obama to distribute the $50 million, and the future senator raised another $60 million from other civic groups to augment it. In doing so, he was following Ayers’ admonition to grant the funds to “external” organizations, like American Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), to pair with schools and conduct programs to radicalize and politicize the students.
Reading, math and science achievement tests counted for little in the grants, but the school’s success in preaching a radical agenda determined how much money it got.
Obama should have run screaming at the sight of Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn. Ayers has admitted bombing the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon, and his wife was imprisoned for failing to cooperate in solving the robbery of a Brink’s car in which two police were killed. Far from remorse, Ayers told The New York Times [NYT], in September 2001, that he wished he “could have done more.” Ayers only avoided conviction when the evidence against him turned out to be contained in illegal wiretaps. He was, in fact, guilty as sin.
So let’s sum up Obama’s Chicago connections. His chief financial supporter was Tony Rezko, now on his way to prison. His spiritual adviser was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, of “God damn America” fame. And the guy who got him his only administrative job is former terrorist Ayers.
Not a good recommendation for a president.
© The Boston Herald and Herald Media.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1124922

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 6:36 am 6:36 am

WHO is John McCain and why is he ‘proud’ of Gordon Liddy?
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_10/015229.php

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 23, 2008, 6:36 am 6:36 am

PUTIN IS ON THE PHONE? TELL THAT BRO TO WAIT A MINUTE, UNTIL I CAN STOP STUTTERING. WHAT? NUCLEAR MISSLES HEADED THIS WAY? TELL HIM I HAVE A PLAN FOR HOPE AND CHANGE, AND I’LL GET BACK TO HIM AS SOON AS I FIGURE IT OUT!
Posted by: k
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Ahahahaha!….. :-)
Loin-Girding 101
Joe Biden wants you to gird your loins. Here’s how to do it.
http://www.slate.com/id/2202769/

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 6:40 am 6:40 am

Natasha a comment on Gordon Liddy?

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 23, 2008, 6:42 am 6:42 am

Pu?
don’t you mean Medvedev?????

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 6:44 am 6:44 am

Latrine, a comment on Gordon Liddy?

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 23, 2008, 6:44 am 6:44 am

FACT: Stupid people ask stupid questions.
Let’s not disturb GIGI-O-BOT…The poor thing is still trying to pass the “Dumb Test”
Posted by: Natasha | Oct 23, 2008 6:11:14 AM
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the fact is you know darn well the only terrorists here aer John McCaIN AND Sarah Palin, otherwise why would Obama need a Secret Service Detail like his?
THAT’s why you yourself hide behind the insults and fear-fueling comments. You USE fear to get your point across, you USE insults to terrorize others because you HAVE NOTHING ELSE.
ONE OTHER FACT is anyone that had EVER heard John McCain speak before the latest primares KNOWS THAT JOHN MCCAIN HAS LONG LONG LONG LOOOONG BEEN SINGING THE PRAISES OF SOCIALISM.
McCain believes it and he made it very clear at teh University of Phoenix so why are MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY WHEN HE SAID and I quote
-teenage doctor’s daughter: “why is it that someone like my father that goes to school for like 13 years gets penalized because he’s a doctor and makes more?”
McCain – “I think it’s to some degree because we feel obviously that wealthy people can afford more…”
Girl – “aren’t we, like, gettin closer and closer to socialism?”
McCain – “well I , I , I really belieave that when you are, reach a certain level of comfort is not there’s nothing wrong with paying somewhat more”
and then after that, John asked the girl out on a date.
like you don’t know sht? or maybe YOU DON”T?

Posted by: GIGI - you don't scare me. KEEP trying? | October 23, 2008, 6:55 am 6:55 am

I didnt think so… LOL!

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 23, 2008, 6:55 am 6:55 am

oh don’t follow their game… leave them be, that’s their campaign SMEAR AND TRASH, FEAR AND TERROR…
well, unless you need to get a comment from McCain , I’d be glad to provide you this…
AND I QUOTE
“I know Gordon Liddy. He paid his debt. He went to prison and paid his debt, as people do. I’m not in any way embarrassed to know Gordon Liddy.”
John McCain

Posted by: GiGI | October 23, 2008, 6:58 am 6:58 am

8 years of agreeing with bush –and mccain wants us to believe he is for change—change what –his diaper.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 6:59 am 6:59 am

Hide your freaking face – UN-AMERICAN IDIOT.
Posted by: Natqsha | Oct 23, 2008 6:12:37 AM
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Posted by: Natqsha | Oct 23, 2008 6:12:37 AM
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Hide your freaking face – UN-AMERICAN IDIOT.
Posted by: Natqsha | Oct 23, 2008 6:12:37 AM
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Hide your freaking face – UN-AMERICAN IDIOT.
Posted by: Natqsha | Oct 23, 2008 6:12:37 AM
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Hide your freaking face – UN-AMERICAN IDIOT.
Posted by: Natqsha | Oct 23, 2008 6:12:37 AM
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Hide your freaking face – UN-AMERICAN IDIOT.
Posted by: Natqsha | Oct 23, 2008 6:12:37 AM
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Hide your freaking face – UN-AMERICAN IDIOT.
Posted by: Natqsha | Oct 23, 2008 6:12:37 AM
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Hide your freaking face – UN-AMERICAN IDIOT.
Posted by: Natqsha | Oct 23, 2008 6:12:37 AM
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Hide your freaking face – UN-AMERICAN IDIOT.
Posted by: Natqsha | Oct 23, 2008 6:12:37 AM
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I’m John McCain, and I approve this crap

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 7:02 am 7:02 am

mccain says this about obama—mccain is the master of lies and deception….at one time he actually denounced america—-the hanoi songbird sings again.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 7:02 am 7:02 am

They were calling Obama a Marxist on the McGlauflin Report last night, even close associates of Obama say he is a Marxist..He will be defeated, he will not get the chance to destroy America
Posted by: common sense
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Yes, indeed! Marxist Obama will destroy America…
We will never allow America to become the land of Obama’s “USA: The New Communist Experiment”.
“American Union” (as in Soviet Union) our land shall never be.
Obama can take his “Ayers & Co” community organizing experience and go to Russia… to organize some Siberian Gulags!
This presentation is a must watch for the left-wing-liberal media clowns and all “morally sound” American fellows.
A VIDEO PORTRAIT OF BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?RsrcID=2036
AMERICA THINK BEFORE YOU VOTE

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 7:02 am 7:02 am

just think what would have happened if mccain had his way and privatised social security—-we may not have anything left wit the stock market falling.bankrupt.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 7:05 am 7:05 am

Let me tell you something, the day a country elects a military man for president, you can say GOOD BYE to democracy.
Posted by: GIGI |
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You do not even know the definition of democracy or where it was even born! Go hit some history books, BOZO and then come back here to tell us that a retired war hero – POW, who almost lost his life for our country (regardless if the war he was fighting was right or wrong he was fighting for AMERICA) would cause the end of Democracy.
Hide your freaking face – UN-AMERICAN IDIOT. Your MARXIST Savior of the “masses” (the sheep) will end democracy in America.
Yes, morally sound patriotic American people want a war hero as our President. We do not want “whinners” – Harvard “elitists”, who forgot their brains at Harvard and ended up working with terrorists, drug dealers, and other Chicago criminals (he has the audacity to call it “community organizing”).
Oh! I know…he speaks well!

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 7:05 am 7:05 am

–I’ll be flying my American flag upside down–
You should already be doing so.. this Country has been in distress for some time now.
Posted by: [un]Concerned American
————————————–
BOZO- I will be swinging our flag with pride and dancing with McCain-Palin and all patriotic Americans to the tune of this video…watch!
A USA Military History (Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6370539579217643597&hl=en
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 7:08 am 7:08 am

mccain picks palin—and the twit still dont know what the job description is—–she thinks she would be in charge of the senate. tells little third graders this crap—great judgement mccain.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 7:08 am 7:08 am

Marxists/Socialists/Communists for Obama
America wake up! The American Marxists/Socialists/Communists have posted this proclamation right on Barack Obama’s official website (see link below)
Marxists/Socialists/Communists for Obama
“This group is for self-proclaimed Marxists/Communists/Socialists for the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency. By no means is he a true Marxist, but under Karl Marx’s writings we are to support the party with the best interests of the mobilization of the proletariat. Though the Democratic Socialists of America or the Communist Patty of America may have more Socialististic values, it is pointless to vote for these candidates due to the fact that there is virutally no chance they will be elected on a National level. The members of this group are not Leninists, Stalinists, etc. and do not support or condone the actions of North Korea, China, Cuba or any other self-procalimed “Marxist States.” They do not in anyway represent the Marxist philosophy nor do they represent Socialism/ Communsim. We support Barack Obama because he knows what is best for the people!”
Source:
BarackObama.com
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/group/MarxistsSocialistsCommunistsforObama

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 7:10 am 7:10 am

anyone that had EVER heard John McCain speak before the latest primares KNOWS THAT JOHN MCCAIN HAS LONG LONG LONG LOOOONG BEEN SINGING THE PRAISES OF SOCIALISM.
McCain believes it and he made it very clear at teh University of Phoenix so why are MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY WHEN HE SAID and I quote
-teenage doctor’s daughter: “why is it that someone like my father that goes to school for like 13 years gets penalized because he’s a doctor and makes more?”
McCain – “I think it’s to some degree because we feel obviously that wealthy people can afford more…”
Girl – “aren’t we, like, gettin closer and closer to socialism?”
McCain – “well I , I , I really belieave that when you are, reach a certain level of comfort is not there’s nothing wrong with paying somewhat more”
and then after that, John asked the girl out on a date.
like you don’t know sht? or maybe YOU DON”T?

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 7:10 am 7:10 am

Source:
BarackObama.com
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/group/MarxistsSocialistsCommunistsforObama
Posted by: Natasha | Oct 23, 2008 7:10:14 AM
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Im sorry, i’m so dumb…
CAN YOU SPECIFY if your source is
http://www.obama.com
or http://www.my.barackobama.com
?

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 7:12 am 7:12 am

The Chicago Tribune
Editorial
Problems with endorsing Obama
October 21, 2008
My, my. In their dumbfounding endorsement of Barack Obama, it seems to me that members of the Tribune’s editorial board must not have first read some pages in their own paper. Obama’s negatives have been cited ad nauseam, so I won’t repeat all of them. But there are some downsides in his candidacy that were not addressed in the unpersuasive endorsement statement, and they are a big deal to me. They include:
• The senator is a radical socialist with stated preferences for the Marxist notion of redistributing the wealth. Does the editorial board want the U.S. to morph into the socialist model of a dying Europe? Does it want our culture destroyed?
• With the likely veto-proof Democrat majority in Congress, a President Obama will have the opportunity to name justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Is it the desire of the editorial board to have a leftist majority on that bench to creatively rewrite the Constitution and restructure society without regard to what citizens may think?
• Much closer to home, the editorial board has observed the wonderful things that happen in Illinois when one party controls Chicago, Cook County and the state. Does the editorial board want the entire nation governed as miserably as is Illinois with Democrats controlling the White House, Congress and the judiciary?
I don’t advocate any of these destructive directions for our country.
—Charles F. Falk, Schaumburg
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-1021vplettersbriefs0oct21,0,3600252.story

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 7:12 am 7:12 am

mccain alies the hanoi songbird—-the –d–average student—-wrecked five planes—gets hurt bailing out of his plane–and tells he was tortured—-sorry mclier some of us know better –far better—-you should have been tried for treason.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 7:14 am 7:14 am

The Wall Street Journal
Obama’s Tax Plan Is Really a Welfare Plan
Barack Obama’s tax plan is the opposite of supply-side economics. He proposes to raise marginal rates for just about every federal tax. He also proposes a raft of tax credits that taxpayers can receive if they engage in various government-specified activities.
Moreover, the tax credits would mostly go to those who pay little or nothing in federal income taxes. His trick is to make the tax credits “refundable.” Thus, if the tax credit is for $1,000, but the taxpayer would otherwise only pay $200 in taxes, the government would write a check to the taxpayer for $800. If the taxpayer pays nothing in federal income taxes, the government would pay him the whole $1,000.
Such credits are not tax cuts. Indeed, they should be called The New Tax Welfare. In effect, Mr. Obama is proposing to create or expand a slew of government spending programs that are disguised as tax credits. The spending on these programs is then subtracted from the total tax burden, in order to make the claim that his tax plan is a net tax cut overall.
On the tax side of the ledger, the details released by his campaign last week confirm what a President Obama has in mind for our most productive citizens. The top individual income tax rate, for example, would be increased by 13%, to 39.6%; the next-highest rate would be raised to 36%. The top rates on capital gains and dividends would rise by a third, to 20%
The Social Security payroll tax would be raised between 16% to 32% for families making over $250,000 a year. This means that the real returns these people get from their lifetime payments into the retirement program will be driven below 0%, according to my own previous research, which was published by the Cato Institute and elsewhere.
Mr. Obama also wants a permanent federal estate tax, with a top rate of 45%; his health-insurance plan includes a new payroll tax on employers; and he also contemplates several increases in the corporate income tax, including a new so-called windfall profits tax on oil companies.
Then there is the spending side of the ledger. Mr. Obama proposes a fully refundable Making Work Pay Tax Credit, which would have the government pay out $500 to each worker and $1,000 to couples — reminiscent of George McGovern’s 1972 election proposal for the government to send a $1,000 check to everyone.
His American Opportunity Tax Credit would provide a $4,000, fully refundable tax credit for college tuition expenses. His Mortgage Interest Tax Credit would provide a 10% credit — refundable — to offset mortgage interest payments for lower- and middle-income families. His Health Care Tax Credits, which the campaign says “will ensure that health insurance is available and affordable for all families,” include “a new refundable 50 percent health tax credit on employee premiums paid by employers.”
Currently existing tax credits would also become spending programs in the Obama tax program. The Savers Credit would be made fully refundable, and would be expanded, according to the campaign, “to match 50% of the first $1,000 of savings for families that earn under $75,000.” The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit would be made refundable and expanded to allow “low-income families to receive up to a 50 percent credit on the first $6,000 of child care expenses.”
The Earned Income Tax Credit is already refundable. Mr. Obama would expand it to “increase the number of working parents eligible for EITC benefits, increase the benefits available to noncustodial parents who fulfill their child support obligations, increase benefits for families with three or more children, and reduce the EITC marriage penalty, which hurts low-income families.” In short, welfare spending is to be increased by paying more money out to low-income income tax filers.
The latest Congressional Budget Office data shows the bottom 40% of income earners already pays no income taxes. Indeed, they receive a net payment from the federal income tax system — meaning from the taxpayers — equal to 3.8% of all federal income taxes, because of the refundable tax credits under current law. The middle 20% of income earners, the true middle class, pays 4.4% of federal income taxes.
Overall, the bottom 60% of income earners pay less than 1% of federal income taxes on net. When “tax credits” primarily go to this group in the form of checks from the government (rather than a reduction in their tax burden) it is simply an abuse of the language to call the spending a tax cut.
Consequently, to say, as the campaign does say, that the candidate’s tax plan is a tax cut on net — and that it would limit taxes to 18.2% of GDP — is grossly misleading. The Obama tax plan would sharply increase real taxes. It also would come nowhere near to paying for the massive increases in federal spending he has proposed, including the spending that is disguised in the form of refundable tax credits.
The Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121910303529751345.html?mod=most_emailed_day

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 7:14 am 7:14 am

I don’t advocate any of these destructive directions for our country.
—Charles F. Falk, Schaumburg
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-1021vplettersbriefs0oct21,0,3600252.story
Posted by: Natasha | Oct 23, 2008 7:12:28 AM
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Yes I can see how you confused me asking to specify if it was http://www.barackobama.com
or
http://www.mybarakobama.com
with
“please quote some random cut and paste”
but then let me repeat…
DID YOU JUST TRIED TO PASS A http://WWW.MYBARACKOBAMA.COM QUOTE AS COMING FROM http://WWW.BARACKOBAMA.COM
?
LOL

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 7:15 am 7:15 am

Editorials
Journals
Blogs…
does this girl know how to write her own thoughts?
does she have any thoughts?
wait, she can’t tell the difference BETWEEN A NEWS ARTICLE AND AN EDITORIAL
SOOO…

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 7:18 am 7:18 am

put mccain in he will show you what taxes are all about —tax the poor give to the rich—-he believes in the trickle down theory—–rich get the cake –we may have the crumbs—typical repub mcbush.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 7:18 am 7:18 am

Obama admits he supports Marxism during an interview with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News…
***The Obama [KGB] Squad has blocked the video but the text of the interview is still posted.
By Scott Miller
Karl Marx, author of The Communist Manifesto, penned the recap of his basic economic philosophy below:
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”
Barack Obama, in an interview with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News, admits that he shares the above Marxist economic theory. Watch this (5:47 into the clip, but watch the whole clip):
“If am sittin’ pretty, and you’ve got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can’t, what’s the big deal for me to say I’m going to pay a little bit more… that is neighborliness”
No Senator, that is Marxism. What kind of dementia makes these liberal Marxists think they have the right to tell someone else, another free human being, how much money they should or should not have? It’s none of your damn business Barack… but the hell out!
And some of you thought I was exaggerating when I said this clown was a Marxist…
Obama Admits He Supports Marxism
http://theconservativepost.com/WordPress/?p=550

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 7:18 am 7:18 am

NATASHA IS LIVING PROOF OF THE MCCAIN’S EFFECT IN OUR NATION
SHE FIRMLY BELIEVES THAT ANYONE WHO:
SUPPORTS OBAMA
IS A DEMOCRAT
HAS RECEIVED A HIGHER EDUCATION
LIVES IN A BIG CITY
is NOT A REAL AMERICAN.
Just listen to his advisers, listen to his VP choice!!
MCCAIN DOES NOT THINK WE ARE ALL AMERICANS, AND CRAZY NUT CASES LIKE NATASHA WILL BECOME ‘RED SONJA’S” WHO DEFEND THEIR “COUNTRY” against normal people who just havea difference of oppinion!!!
I DON’T WANT THAT

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 7:21 am 7:21 am

mccain admits in his own book that he was a traitor and spread propaganda denouncing our country—

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 7:21 am 7:21 am

“Of the 50 states, Alaska ranks….blah blah blah…”
Posted by Concerbned American
————————————-
Hmmm, at least you know how many states there are in the Union, BOZO!
Obama thinks there are 57! (poor thing…he got confused with the 57 states of Islam!)
REUTERS NEWS
May 9 – On the campaign trail in Beaverton, Oregon, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama mistakenly tells a crowd that’s he’s been to 57 states – with one left to go.
Reuters Video
Obama: I HAVE BEEN IN 57 STATES
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=82127

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 7:22 am 7:22 am

Obama Soviet Anthem: Hilarious
http://www.wikio.com/video/389423
*O’ Hail the Messiah Lord Obama
Glenn Beck Parody base on the Hymn “Gimn Sovetskogo Soyuza” (The National Anthem of the Soviet Union)

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 7:23 am 7:23 am

natasha–the queen of cut and paste.put a few articles about mccain and the spread of propaganda –sonething he is still at today—tells lies about anything.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 7:25 am 7:25 am

Comandante Natasha, I’m so sorry, but that video is no longer available…
hmmm… I wonder why?
PLEASE PLEASE don’t kill me! I have a baby!!!
:(

Posted by: gigi | October 23, 2008, 7:26 am 7:26 am

A DICTATOR’S ENDORSEMENT FOR BARACK OBAMA…
Following are excerpts from a public address delivered by Libyan Leader Mu’ammar Al-Qadhafi marking the anniversary of the U.S. air raid on Libya. The address aired on Al-Jazeera TV on June 11, 2008:
“Libyan Leader Mu’ammar Al-Qadhafi: Obama Suffers Inferiority Complex That Might Make Him Behave “Whiter Than the White.” He Should Be Proud of His African, Muslim Identity. Ben-Gurion Gave the Green Light for the Killing of JFK ….”
TEXT (Qadhafi’s Public Address – June 11, 2008)
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1791.htm
VIDEO – Qadhafi: Obama is a Muslim – Qadhafi’s Public Address – June 11, 2008
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/gaddafi-obama-is-a-muslim/2563816338/?icid=VIDURVNWS07
Posted by: Natasha | Oct 22, 2008 7:31:19 PM

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 7:28 am 7:28 am

natasha–the queen of cut and paste.put a few articles about mccain and the spread of propaganda –sonething he is still at today—tells lies about anything.
Posted by: rodney | Oct 23, 2008 7:25:12 AM
==============
and what I love most about it SHE DOESN’T EVEN BOTHER READING THEM~! this is the second of her videos that i have checked and none have worked so far… they both said “this video is no longer available” lol
I’m not checking anymore, she shoudl learn to read her own stuff…
MAYBE SHE CAN FIND OUT FOR US, HOW DOES SOMEONE SPEND OVER $150,000.000 in clothes in less than two months?!

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 7:28 am 7:28 am

mccain you can sing on ,old songbird—but keep your hands off social security—–you are a —d—student halfwit..what happened when you wanted to be promoted to admiral—–the arswer is still the same—no -no- no

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 7:29 am 7:29 am

mccain admits in his own book that he was a traitor and spread propaganda denouncing our country—
Posted by: rodney | Oct 23, 2008 7:21:53 AM
======================
mm yeah but see RODNEY what you fail to see here is that that’s OK because..
well evidently because McCain followers don’t read books.
nope, if it ain’t in a juicy blog… they won’t cut n paste it.

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 7:32 am 7:32 am

ah and when you finishe explaining to me how a hockey mom manages to spend over 150K in clothes for THREE WEEKS can you also explain to me why ALASKA taxpayers have to carry the burden of over $21,000 for her three daughters to travel, and over $700 per night at the Essex HOtel?

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 7:35 am 7:35 am

mccain cannot get promotion in military–but thinks he is qualified to handle social security–privatise it—-what is next sell shares of the usa to china.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 7:35 am 7:35 am

gigi
these caracters go to web sites that some other idiot made and believe all the crap on them—want to find the truth about mccain –some librarys have old newspapers etc and can get the real truth about the songbird.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 7:38 am 7:38 am

gigi
these caracters go to web sites that some other idiot made and believe all the crap on them—want to find the truth about mccain –some librarys have old newspapers etc and can get the real truth about the songbird.
Posted by: rodney | Oct 23, 2008 7:38:49 AM
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that’s waaaay too much work ! lol

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 7:40 am 7:40 am

Comandante Natasha, I’m so sorry, but that video is no longer available…
hmmm… I wonder why?
Posted by GIGI (O-BOT) = gigi = 24 Different Names
———————————
Try again BOZO! I just checked it…
Ahahaha! For a minute, I thought the the Obama [KGB] Squad took it down…
Guess what, BOZO… Our Constitution does not protect the right to free speech only for the ObamaSquadMorons!
Isn’t this a Great Country? :>
Long Live America!
Obama Soviet Anthem: Hilarious
http://www.wikio.com/video/389423
*O’ Hail the Messiah Lord Obama
Glenn Beck Parody base on the Hymn “Gimn Sovetskogo Soyuza” (The National Anthem of the Soviet Union)

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 7:42 am 7:42 am

mccain blows off his mouth about nonsense just to cover up his massive shortcomings—-rev wright etc. is absolutely nothing compared to the hanoi songbird.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 7:42 am 7:42 am

What are you hung over rodney you are not typing in all caps ????

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 23, 2008, 7:45 am 7:45 am

I don’t know who Mark Gregg is but I am glad this
letter is circulating. It puts into words what many
people feel.

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 7:45 am 7:45 am

natash calls people bozo—we will refer to her as the twit in future references,—–fire on the forestal 132 sailers dead—first blame it on fueling plane–then blame it on someone dropping a rocket all rediculas—but dont tell us mccains part in this fiasko.
perhaps another coverup by daddy mccain.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 7:47 am 7:47 am

hey mccain what have you done with the old hag calling obama an arab—-where has the make believe plumber gone –better known by union people as a SCAB—-takk about saying and doing anything to be pres—you mccain are a loser–and the twit you picked is still tryind to figure out job description.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 7:52 am 7:52 am

Natasha,
admit it.. you’re glad SOMEONE wrote that letter because it means you don’t have to.
It means you can keep doing what you KNOW to do… which is NOTHING.
All you do is copy and paste other people’s writings. and
honey,
THAT’S A FACT.
Once again, resume calling people insults and the such…
IT’S ALL YOU KNOW TO DO.
Obviously, you were not raised well.
WE CAN’T HAND OUT COUNTRY TO PEOPLE LIKE THIS WOMAN!

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 8:05 am 8:05 am

PLEASE DEMOCRATES, PLEASE READ THIS FROM A HIGH RANKING DEMOCRATE, A MAN WHO IS KNOW FAR AND WIDE AS A STAUNCH DEMOCRATE, JUST READ IT AND SEE HIS VIEW! IT’S CALLED:
Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?
REMEMBER, this was written by a Democrat….
http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/081017light.html
*** I wonder how many Democrates will actualy care what one of thier owns states in his opinion piece ??? Do you even care anymore to read an un-biased reporter do his JOB…

Posted by: Mark Garnett | October 23, 2008, 8:08 am 8:08 am

natash calls people bozo—we will refer to her as the twit in future references,—–fire on the forestal 132 sailers dead—first blame it on fueling plane–then blame it on someone dropping a rocket all rediculas—but dont tell us mccains part in this fiasko.
perhaps another coverup by daddy mccain.
Posted by: rodney | Oct 23, 2008 7:47:07 AM
=-=======================
no no uh uh!
I am not giving up my manners just because she wants to be the “abc blogosphere bully”
I do not negotiate with terrorists.

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 8:08 am 8:08 am

Hey I am glad to see abc is reporting on Irans Proposal of setting condtions to meet with the United States to disarm

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 23, 2008, 8:10 am 8:10 am

when obama came on the scene with the platform for change, mccain spouted experience was his strong point—but i guess 26 years of nothing and 8 years as a bush clone would not work.
he nows tries to promote himself as the change guy—-sorry mccain you may say and do anything –but this will not work.
goodbye old somgbird your past is catching up with you.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 8:11 am 8:11 am

I do not negotiate with terrorists.
Posted by: GIGI | Oct 23, 2008 8:08:41 AM
Your presidential canidate wants to

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 23, 2008, 8:11 am 8:11 am

PLEASE DEMOCRATES, PLEASE READ THIS FROM A HIGH RANKING DEMOCRATE, A MAN WHO IS KNOW FAR AND WIDE AS A STAUNCH DEMOCRATE, JUST READ IT AND SEE HIS VIEW! IT’S CALLED:
Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?
REMEMBER, this was written by a Democrat….
http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/081017light.html
*** I wonder how many Democrates will actualy care what one of thier owns states in his opinion piece ??? Do you even care anymore to read an un-biased reporter do his JOB…
Posted by: Mark Garnett | Oct 23, 2008 8:08:36 AM
==================
OH YEAH I’ve read that! and I think it’s a great piece..
it matches so well with this:
In the 1990s, JOHN MCCAIN backed an unsuccessful effort to create a moratorium on all new government regulation. And in 1996, he was one of only five senators to oppose a comprehensive telecommunications act, saying it did not go far enough in deregulating the industry.
AND I QUOTE SENATOR MCCAIN:
“I’m always for less regulation,” he told the Wall Street Journal in March. He added: “I’d like to see a lot of the unnecessary government regulations eliminated.”
wao!!! talk about bipartisan!!!
Mark, THANK YOU!

Posted by: GIGI - there's hope! | October 23, 2008, 8:14 am 8:14 am

dont the bomb bomb iran scare anyone as we are still in iraq and afganastan.–what is next a world war—and mcdummy leading it, sing on old songbird.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 8:16 am 8:16 am

and what I love most about it SHE DOESN’T EVEN BOTHER READING THEM~! this is the second of her videos that i have checked and none have worked so far… they both said “this video is no longer available” lol
I’m not checking anymore, she shoudl learn to read her own stuff…
Posted by a Big Zero LYING MORON.
————————————–
IDIOT you are still struggling passing the Dumb Test???!!! I kmow it must be hard on you BOZO!
STOP TROLLING SO YOU CAN DIVERT THE ATTENTION FROM BIG O’s “SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET”! ANYONE WHO IS NOT AS STUPID AS YOU ARE KNOWS YOUR “DIVERTION” TACTICS!
STOP LYING (like your Marxist Leader)
THE VIDEOS ARE WORKING FINE. Perhaps YOU do NOT know how to use the computer OR YOUR MOMMY MAKES SURE YOU CAN NOT SEE ANY VIDEOS, BAMBINO!
YOU DO NOT READ ANYTHING THAT QUESTIONS OBAMA’S CHARACTER (EVEN IF YOU READ YOU ARE SO STUPID YOU DO NOT COMPREHEND) THAT IS WHY YOU HARDLY EVER BRING ANY LOGICAL ARGUMENTS OTHER THAN “MELODRAMA” AND “THEATRICS”
OBAMA HAS DONE A GREAT JOB WITH YOUR TRAINING IN…”THEATRICS”
(HE IS A GREAT ACTOR – WE KNOW!)
Hey- KEEP TALKING TO YOURSELF UNDER DIFFERENT NAMES – PSYCHOTIC OBAMA ADDICT – WE KNOW THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR NAME AND START CONVERSATIONS WITH YOURSELF TO MAKE IT LOOK THAT MANY OBAMA MORONS ARE JOINING IN! (YOUR LOUZY STYLE GIVES YOU AWAY)…

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 8:17 am 8:17 am

Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, this week Fannie Mae’s regulator reported that the company’s quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were “illusions deliberately and systematically created” by the company’s senior management, which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal.
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s report goes on to say that Fannie Mae employees deliberately and intentionally manipulated financial reports to hit earnings targets in order to trigger bonuses for senior executives. In the case of Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae’s former chief executive officer, OFHEO’s report shows that over half of Mr. Raines’ compensation for the 6 years through 2003 was directly tied to meeting earnings targets. The report of financial misconduct at Fannie Mae echoes the deeply troubling $5 billion profit restatement at Freddie Mac.
The OFHEO report also states that Fannie Mae used its political power to lobby Congress in an effort to interfere with the regulator’s examination of the company’s accounting problems. This report comes some weeks after Freddie Mac paid a record $3.8 million fine in a settlement with the Federal Election Commission and restated lobbying disclosure reports from 2004 to 2005. These are entities that have demonstrated over and over again that they are deeply in need of reform.
For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac–known as Government-sponsored entities or GSEs–and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. OFHEO’s report this week does nothing to ease these concerns. In fact, the report does quite the contrary. OFHEO’s report solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay.
I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.
I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation.
In January 26, 2005, Senator McCain cosponsored legislation that had it been passed might have averted the current debacle of mortgage loans. It might have saved the taxpayer billions and the fall of venerable financial institutions would not have happened.

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 23, 2008, 8:17 am 8:17 am

sounds like another flip flop to me.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 8:21 am 8:21 am

Hey I am glad to see abc is reporting on Irans Proposal of setting condtions to meet with the United States to disarm
Posted by: reddog0216 | Oct 23, 2008 8:10:44 AM
—————–
this is new? to you right?:
http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 8:21 am 8:21 am

Let me tell you something, the day a country elects a military man for president, you can say GOOD BYE to democracy.
Posted by: GIGI |
————————————-
You do not even know the definition of democracy or where it was even born! Go hit some history books, BOZO and then come back here to tell us that a retired war hero – POW, who almost lost his life for our country (regardless if the war he was fighting was right or wrong he was fighting for AMERICA) would cause the end of Democracy.
Hide your freaking face – UN-AMERICAN IDIOT. Your MARXIST Savior of the “masses” (the sheep) will end democracy in America.
Yes, morally sound patriotic American people want a war hero as our President. We do not want “whinners” – Harvard “elitists”, who forgot their brains at Harvard and ended up working with terrorists, drug dealers, and other Chicago criminals (he has the audacity to call it “community organizing”. Oh! I know…he speaks well!

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 8:22 am 8:22 am

I do not negotiate with terrorists.
Posted by: GIGI | Oct 23, 2008 8:08:41 AM
Your presidential canidate wants to
Posted by: reddog0216 | Oct 23, 2008 8:11:48 AM
=================
yeah yeah yeah,I KNOW I KNOW!
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES the osama is coming blabla
BE AFRAID BE VERY AFRAID and horrible things will happen if the OSAMA becomes president we will all die
and if I like the Osama I’m not a real american and you are and only those who like McCain are real american and if I don’t like McCain then Natasha is going to kill me and devour my child in the name of her country: The Real United States of Social America or commonly known in Small town USA as : RUSSIA

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 8:24 am 8:24 am

Posted by: Natasha | Oct 23, 2008 8:22:06 AM
============
so you endorse Hugo Chavez to run for re-election then?

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 8:25 am 8:25 am

Hey I am glad to see abc is reporting on Irans Proposal of setting condtions to meet with the United States to disarm
Posted by: reddog0216 | Oct 23, 2008 8:10:44 AM
—————–
this is new? to you right?:
http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/
Posted by: GIGI | Oct 23, 2008 8:21:51 AM
No its not news to me but it is to all people considering to vote for obama as a real problem that he needs to deal with if elected.Biden made it clear will will have a large crisis if obama is elected and whats he going to do???

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 23, 2008, 8:25 am 8:25 am

where the hell is mccain a war hero–did he save someones life what act of heroism did he do—the guy should have been tried for treason—but his daddy saved his butt.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 8:25 am 8:25 am

natasha the twit better get educated about the hanoi songbirh.before spouting bs.—-where were you when his crap went on.still swing you know where.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 8:28 am 8:28 am

GIGI,
Come on now I never said those things all I am saying is Obama is seen as weak in the world Do you recall the Iranian Hostage situation in the 80s

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 23, 2008, 8:29 am 8:29 am

It seems as though either candidate will say anything to get elected. As if it matters what they say. The majority of repubs will vote for him becase there is an “R” beside his name, and the same can be said who will vote obama just because there is a “D” beside his. How about we demand both stop speaking in generalities and give us substance. I watched all 3 debates and neither answered a single question.

Posted by: will it end | October 23, 2008, 8:31 am 8:31 am

Ex-GOP operative tells cautionary tale about ‘how to rig an election’.
“Allen Raymond went to prison for jamming phones of N.H’s Democratic Party”
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/22/rigging.election/index.html
Vote early if you can, dont let the right wing extremists manipulate this election too.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 23, 2008, 8:32 am 8:32 am

this is new? to you right?:
http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/
Posted by: GIGI | Oct 23, 2008 8:21:51 AM
No its not news to me but it is to all people considering to vote for obama as a real problem that he needs to deal with if elected.Biden made it clear will will have a large crisis if obama is elected and whats he going to do???
Posted by: reddog0216 | Oct 23, 2008 8:25:36 AM
====================
aw com’on… yes it was… you can’t lie to me
;)
How is negotiating to disarm, a problem?
Let me tell you something, don’t blink while I do because this is an important piece of information:
Ayatollah Khomeini is not afraid of John McCain. But he’s watchful and carefully waiting for the right ignition to have the reason and put us and the rest of his foes against a wall.
John McCain cannot be trusted to handle this matter because he has NO DIPLOMACY. He is aging rapidly and even commited a disrespectful (what, TWO acts) faux pas during the debate. When he “lost it” and chided like a histerical woman “CONGRATULATIONS JOE, YOU’RE RICH” and when he referred to Obama as “THAT ONE”
and his job as president was on the line.
DO YOU REALLY think, that McCAIN can handle the delicate diplomatic relatinos (or lack thereof) with these countries?
DO YOU?

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 8:34 am 8:34 am

both sides are trying to manipulate the election. just ask the opposing side. we can all find some facts to back our claim. the bottom line is, come nov. 5 half the country will be upset and claim that the “winner” somehow rigged it in his favor.

Posted by: will it end | October 23, 2008, 8:36 am 8:36 am

whats he going to do???
Posted by: reddog0216 | Oct 23, 2008 8:25:36 AM
================
Well if let’s say he really doesn’t know what to do… he can ask Colin Powell.
Are you familiar with teh Powell Doctrine?
I have to say, I’m NOT Powell’s #1 fan. But I do respect the man for such a great legacy.

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 8:36 am 8:36 am

gigi palin can —she watches russia from her porch–she is foreign policy expert—-HA HA HA HA HA

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 8:37 am 8:37 am

gigi palin can —she watches russia from her porch–she is foreign policy expert—-HA HA HA HA HA

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 8:37 am 8:37 am

I watched all 3 debates and neither answered a single question.
Posted by: will it end | Oct 23, 2008 8:31:43 AM
=====================
I thought Obama was pretty thorough on this healthcare issue. I did need further research but it was good to go on my own and find the info that affected me personally.
well…
that’s BEFORE I realized my status as a REAL AMERICAN was at stake… kind of makes healthcare and gas prices NON ISSUES you know?

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 8:39 am 8:39 am

gigi palin can —she watches russia from her porch–she is foreign policy expert—-HA HA HA HA HA
Posted by: rodney | Oct 23, 2008 8:37:43 AM
========================
lol to be fair, she did visit ITaly, Japan, Mexico, Morocco etc (at Epcot Center) !

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 8:42 am 8:42 am

OBAMA 11 POINTS AHEAD AND GAINING—GUESS THAT SAYS IT ALL.MCCAIN THE SONGBIRD IS FACING HIS PAST. GOODBYE

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 8:43 am 8:43 am

lol
I love it when they get bored with knowledge. YOu see??? without insults, without crapola, we can get rid of the terrorist like Natasha.
ttl ya’ll
THE un-AMERICAN BOZO

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 8:45 am 8:45 am

whats he going to do???
Posted by: reddog0216 | Oct 23, 2008 8:25:36 AM
================
Well if let’s say he really doesn’t know what to do… he can ask Colin Powell.
Are you familiar with teh Powell Doctrine?
I have to say, I’m NOT Powell’s #1 fan. But I do respect the man for such a great legacy.
Posted by: GIGI | Oct 23, 2008 8:36:51 AM
Do you mean Powell the man who stood in front of the UN with the vials of white powder????

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 23, 2008, 8:45 am 8:45 am

GIGI
I HAVE BEEN THERE MANY TIMES–GUESS I COULD QUALIFY TO RUN THE WORLD ,,HA HA HA HA WHAT A BUNCH OF LOSERS

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 8:46 am 8:46 am

oooh, I can read a poll too. whatever! i will concede that in the polls that are closer, Obama is still ahead. but polling has been proven to not be as accurate as some would hope.

Posted by: will it end | October 23, 2008, 8:46 am 8:46 am

Obama and Marx: A crash course
Published: Sunday, October 19, 2008 3:00 AM CDT
“A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Communism.”
With those words, Karl Marx launched a revolution with “The Communist Manifesto.” Interestingly, the opening of his essay, cowritten with Friedrich Engels, begins with the assertion that the European powers are using the “branding reproach of Communism” to label their opponents. Marx then says, “It is high time the communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.”
If Marx were alive today and living in San Francisco, perhaps he would have instead written this: “A spectre is haunting Democratic politics — the spectre of socialism.” Certainly, the “branding reproach of socialism” is now publicly acknowledged to have been used against the Democratic Party, and against its standard bearer, Barack Obama. It is high time for Obama and his allies to publicly assert their political and economic philosophy. If it is socialism, say so. If it is not, please explain why.
This, of course, is made immediately relevant by Obama’s famous comment to Joe the Plumber that, “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” In particular he was talking about his tax plan, which is a plan for redistribution of wealth from top to bottom.
This is a matter of fact. When Obama tells you that his tax plan will benefit 95 percent of taxpayers, he is misstating the truth. The fact is that 30 to 40 percent of Americans, the poorest among us, already don’t pay any taxes. But what Obama’s plan will do is allow them to sign up for a variety of tax credits, so the government will send them a check for a couple thousand dollars or more every year. Where does the money come from to make those payments? From Americans who do pay taxes. It literally is redistribution of wealth. Instead of using taxes to pay for the necessities of infrastructure and defense that they were intended for, the government as envisioned by Obama will be “spreading the wealth around.”
The question is whether Americans care. And if they don’t, why not?
Ask yourself, why did we spend 50 years after World War II fighting a Cold War to eliminate communism if we actually believe in it? Is this nation actually prepared to admit we were wrong, and Karl Marx was right? Marx’s credo, “From each according to his ability; to each according to his need,” has a nice ring. It can easily be seen as an institutionalized form of Christian charity — providing for the less able, or the less advantaged. But look at the results of communism and socialism in Europe, and you will quickly conclude that any philosophical niceties are vastly outweighed by the political realities.
When you look at Marx’s list of goals for communism in chapter two of “The Communist Manifesto” (www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm), you can see that socialism has already made great advances in the United States. But in particular pay attention to No. 2 — “A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.”
In this regard, Obama has outdone Marx himself. A progressive tax just puts a greater share of the burden on the rich. We already have long since had such a tax. But now Obama wants to find a way to hand out money to the poor. Is it any wonder that he is ahead in the polls?
As Ben Franklin reputedly said, “When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
– Frank Miele is managing editor of the Daily Inter Lake and writes a weekly column. E-mail responses may be sent to edit@dailyinterlake.com
© 2008 Northwest Montana Daily Inter Lake
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Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 8:46 am 8:46 am

Or was it the powell that said there were WMD’S in Iraq I Know Bush Had his arm so far up Powells A$$ that he was a puppet of the republican Machine

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 23, 2008, 8:47 am 8:47 am

I FULLY EXPECT TO SEE SOME KIND OF VOTER INTIMIDATION AT THE POLLS BY MCCAINS FOLLOWERS AS HE HAS TRIED EVERY OTHER VILE TACTIC—WHAT THE HELL IS HE A COMMUNIST.

Posted by: rodney | October 23, 2008, 8:51 am 8:51 am

MIA: Marxists: Marx & Engels: Library: 1848: Manifesto of the Communist Party: Chapter 2:
To ALL morally sound patriotic Americans:
Please take a look at Marx’s list of goals for communism in chapter two of “The Communist Manifesto”
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm, you can see that socialism has already made great advances in the United States.
But in particular pay attention to No. 2 — “A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.”
MIA: Marxists: Marx & Engels: Library: 1848: Manifesto of the Communist Party: Chapter 2:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm
Obama and Marx: A crash course
© 2008 Northwest Montana Daily Inter Lake
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/articles/2008/10/22/opinion/columns

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 8:55 am 8:55 am

There is a reason why we have a secret vote. Heres a hint, when going to the polls DO NOT give away who you are voting for. its not worth the headache of someone convinced that one side is the only choice. be as discrete as you can. Both sides are scheming against the other. and im sure tactics will not be honorable. just dont give away who you will vote for.

Posted by: will it end | October 23, 2008, 8:56 am 8:56 am

Wait, wait, wait…. John McCain is accusing somebody else of saying anything to get elected?
Holy cheez-whiz, Batman! It’s official: We’ve crossed the boundry into Bizarro-World.

Posted by: Yukon Sam | October 23, 2008, 8:57 am 8:57 am

Or was it the powell that said there were WMD’S in Iraq I Know Bush Had his arm so far up Powells A$$ that he was a puppet of the republican Machine
Posted by: reddog0216
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Bingo! You hit the nail on the head!… :>

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 8:59 am 8:59 am

THAT’S EXACTLY RIGHT … OBAMA HAS SAID ANYTHING TO GET ELECTED.
He has an ad running that says he will spend every day that he is in the White House thinking about us, thinking about you, thinking about me???
WHAT A JOKE !! WHAT A LAUGH!!! THERE IS ONLY ONE PERSON OBAMA CARES ABOUT … AND THAT IS BARACK OBAMA !!!!
VOTE MCCAIN/PALIN TO SEND A MESSAGE TO ACORN, CNN/MSNBC, DNC – THAT VOTER FRAUD IS NOT OK, THAT MEDIA LYING, TWISTING OF FACTS AND MEDIA BIASENESS IS NOT OK AND THAT A GOVERNMENT RUN BY OBAMA, PELOSI AND REID IS NOT OK …
Posted by: NoOBAMAReidPelosi_Combo | Oct 22, 2008 10:27:26 PM
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Ok we get you’re against Obama and his policies. Now explain in the same fashion why Bush/McCain policies are better since we have and are currently experiencing the utter failure of those policies?

Posted by: McCain/Palin = Corporations First | October 23, 2008, 9:00 am 9:00 am

half the country will conveniently wash there respective hands regardless of the outcome. Either side will claim the other didnt legitimately win. thus washing their hands and having no respect for the incoming president. BOTH if these candidates have done nothing but cause a great division in this great land. What a shame!!!!! All I hear is why to not vote for the other guy.

Posted by: will it end | October 23, 2008, 9:03 am 9:03 am

McCain/Palin = Corporations First
It is easy to explain you think the failures are as a result of the bush policies when ifact it is the demcrats that caused the housing market bubble and eventual burst.Corporations do not pay taxes they simply pass them along to the consumers.

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 23, 2008, 9:08 am 9:08 am

He also said that all he see are Virginians. Not real Virginians or fake Virginians. Not Pro or Anti Americans
McCain has yet to denounce those remarks from his VP and his spokesperson Pfoten(how ever you spell it)
DENOUNCE THOSE REMARKS MCCAIN!!!!!
A Northern Virginan.

Posted by: Omentum | October 23, 2008, 9:13 am 9:13 am

does anyone realize that we will be electing a legislator into the executive branch???? there isnt a difference between the two. both will pass soo much legislation that we all will suffer. legislation doesnt solve problems, it creates more with their well intentions and unseen repercussions. So in other words i feel that either of these guys are snakes and will only cause more strife on all people then say all of our presidents combined

Posted by: will it end | October 23, 2008, 9:14 am 9:14 am

Obama has only been in the senate for three years but he is the second highest receivers or donation from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
All Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008 (follow link for complete list)
Dodd, Christopher $165,400
Obama, Barack $126,349
Kerry, John $111,000
McCain, John $21,550
All Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008
http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2008/09/18/all-recipients-of-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac-campaign-contributions-1989-2008/

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 9:14 am 9:14 am

Barack Obama Couldn’t Pass a Routine Background Investigation
By Gregory D. Lee
Retired DEA Supervisory Special Agent
October 10, 2008
A while back, radio talk show host Michael Savage brought up the notion that Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama couldn’t pass a background investigation to become an FBI special agent.
He doesn’t know how right he is.
Sen. Barack Obama wouldn’t pass a routine government background investigation, not only to become an FBI agent, but a police officer as well. If he were a soldier, his background would preclude him from obtaining a security clearance. He wouldn’t even qualify to be a support person in a federal agency, such as secretary, for that matter. His past cocaine usage disqualifies him from being a DEA agent.
There’s another big problem Sen. Obama has: His association and business relationship with Weatherman Underground founder William Ayers, a former domestic terrorist who is still unrepentant for his bombings on U.S. landmarks and police stations. Usually, the company you keep reveals who you really are. Ayers felt then, as he does now, that America is the evil of the world and needs punishing for past and current bad acts. Not many federal agencies would want someone with that kind of chip on his shoulder working for it.
Also, Sen. Obama’s association with Tony Rezko and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) come to mind. Rezko was just convicted of promoting corruption among Chicago politicians. He helped in the purchase of the senator’s home and was a campaign fundraiser for Obama. ACORN is being investigated by the feds for systematic voter registration fraud. Not good things.
Let’s not forget about Sen. Obama’s pastor and mentor for 20 years, America-hater Rev. Jeremiah Wright. When first questioned about his membership in Wright’s black theology church, Sen. Obama first denied knowing Rev. Wright harbored such negative feelings about the U.S., but after being further pressed, he dismissed the reverend’s conduct as like a “crazy uncle” who lived in the basement. He finally decided that he couldn’t politically afford to stay in the church, and dropped his membership.
To keep job applicants honest, many government agencies such as DEA, FBI, CIA and others require them to take a polygraph examination. Do you think Sen. Obama could pass a polygraph when he approves an ad that mocks Sen. John McCain for being unable to send e-mails without mentioning his poorly mended broken arms while in custody of the North Vietnamese which prevents him from manipulating the computer keyboard? He’s not computer illiterate, he’s handicapped!
Would you want a police officer in your city associating with such people? Not likely. But Obama supporters ignore these associations because they are desperate for a Democrat in the White House.
A federal government full-field background investigation would also look for prior inconsistencies, exaggerations and outright lies on an application for employment.
I once conducted a background check for an applicant to become a secretary for DEA. She had previously worked for a large police department as a secretary, and left the job to have a child. She was ready to re-enter the workforce and wanted to work for DEA. She seemed perfect for the job until the background investigation revealed that she lied on her application. She claimed to have 30-semester hours of college in office management, when in reality she attended one day of one class and then dropped out. The fact that she lied was sufficient justification to consider her application no further. After all, if she would lie about that, what else has she lied about? Obviously the woman lacked integrity, which is a vital qualification for any position within the federal government, even a DEA secretary who would have access to all investigative reports.
I’d like to conduct Sen. Obama’s background investigation. I’d review his application for the Illinois state bar and see if he mentioned the drug usage that he disclosed in one of his books. If the question about drugs was asked, and he denied it at the time, his integrity is immediately put into question. He revealed it in his book to float a balloon to test his potential as a viable presidential candidate. Admitting it prevented his political opponents from attacking him about it. In fact, in the eyes of many Sen. Obama supporters, using drugs enhances his resume. It’s something they can relate to.
Personally I like my presidents to not associate with known criminals, be drug-free for a lifetime, have unquestioned integrity and be able to pass a simple background investigation.
Gregory D. Lee is a nationally syndicated columnist and a retired DEA Supervisory Special Agent. He can be reached at http://www.gregorydlee.com.
http://www.northstarwriters.com/gl045.htm

Posted by: Natasha | October 23, 2008, 9:36 am 9:36 am

Time to be more patriotic, you rich selfish buggers, and start spreading YOUR wealth.
http://www.workforce.com/section/00/article/25/83/58.php
Powerful House Democrats are eyeing proposals to overhaul the nation’s $3 trillion 401(k) system, including the ELIMINATION of most of the $80 billion in annual tax breaks that 401(k) investors receive.
House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-California, and Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Washington, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, are looking at redirecting those tax breaks to a new system of guaranteed retirement accounts to which all workers would be obliged to contribute.
Hmm …. “a system of guaranteed retirement accounts to which all workers would be obliged to contribute.” That sounds very, very familiar, doesn’t it? Don’t we already do this with Social Security?
That means your employer can no longer write off their contributions to your 401(k), and your capital gains would be TAXABLE year-on-year. In other words, it becomes just another investment or savings account, with no tax benefit at all, and no employer contribution. Instead, Uncle Sam would give you your “matching” funds — up to a whopping $600 per year! Whoopee!
Maybe you’ll be lucky, and they’ll have Franklin Raines running the agency issuing those bonds.
The Democrats want to end the private retirement system that has allowed Americans to become a vast investor class and put them back in thrall of the federal government. This is nothing more than a second welfare system that would sit on top of the crumbling Social Security entitlement. It would leave the American working and middle classes with no retirement option other than a government handout.
If the Democrats control both Congress and the White House, kiss your 401(k)s goodbye.

Posted by: Democrats are Coming for Your 401k | October 23, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

I have to wonder if the staffers paid by the RNC to cut and paste reams and reams of bogus “news” into comment threads really understand just how obvious and impotent they are. It’s like watching the Wizard of Oz shouting into his speaking tube and firing off the fireballs even after the curtain has been pulled back to reveal the sad little man within. I suppose it’s a living, but man… it’s gotta be the suckiest job in the world, watching your guy go down in flames and you can’t do anything about it. I feel your palin… ummm… pain.

Posted by: Yukon Sam | October 23, 2008, 9:56 am 9:56 am

Highly recommended! All about this you can watch here: http://tozm.com/wiD
Better to see once than a thousand times to hear or read!

Posted by: david | October 23, 2008, 10:03 am 10:03 am

It is sad what our political discourse has become. Telling people who have no idea of history or what “facts” are that Obama will bring in socialism. Do they think Johnson was a socialist? How about Clinton – or Bush 41 or 43? No, of course not. But this is one of many words and phrases tossed to an electorate who no longer has the capacity to analyze information. Too much TV, passive activities, listening to the radio, and no reading or getting out in the mountains, woods, or looking at the stars make all of us poorer citizens in this democracy.
The Republican reaction to Obama is like a kid who has to take medicine – even though it is good for them, they still kick and scream and the fear they have of it is a size 20 reaction to a size 2 issue. We definately need Change in this country.

Posted by: Mom | October 23, 2008, 10:10 am 10:10 am

If Barack Obama wins the election, he will show all of you just how white he really is. He will turn on you like the spin of a top, tell you fools to go about your business, go find a job and heal thy self.

Posted by: Warlock | October 23, 2008, 10:16 am 10:16 am

when a man spends 605 million on a campaign for the Presidency, it makes one wonder. Especially an election Chavez, Castro Or the President of Iran could win over McCain
Gross Inadequacy on the part of his true political credibility I think.

Posted by: MOMO | October 23, 2008, 10:21 am 10:21 am

I love all the Obamatron fools who insult John McCain on this forum because he told the truth. You would rather be lied to by a politician who changes his views to fit the politics of a situation and to benefit no one but himself. “Uh Oh I was supposed to accept campaign finance reform? Oh well it benefits me to not do so. Who cares if I set back campaign finance reform for 100 years, this is good for me right now”
“Uh Oh, Canada is mad at my NAFTA view, well I will just tell them that it was all a lie”
“Uh Oh, people realized that my tax plan makes no sense and is welfar, I will try to sneak a change in…God knows that the mainstream media won’t call me on it anyway”
“Uh Oh, people realize that I have a Blame America First mentality and hang out with radicals? I will just tell them that I didn’t know Rezco was a crook, Rev, Wright was anti-America, and Bill Ayers was a terrorist…Yeah…the media will help me out…aqs long as I get elected who cares what I say”
And you guys insult McCain.
Idiots.

Posted by: kljsdlkadsj | October 23, 2008, 10:25 am 10:25 am

Barack Obama talks in some many directions and changes those directions so many times he will soon churn himself into butter. He seems so child like in that he does not know what he wants to do or what he wants to be when he grows up.

Posted by: Warlock | October 23, 2008, 10:27 am 10:27 am

The Myth that He (obama) is the 1st Black President is another gross belittling of the heritage of African Americans to which Obama is not party, perpetrated by the atheist Hollywood bigots
It is more demonic than slavery itself to rape the dreams of a people and replace them with this counterfeit meglomaniac.
Obama is as Black as Middle Class America and the Population of Scranton Sellout!

Posted by: MOMO | October 23, 2008, 10:28 am 10:28 am

The more vile attacks McCain and Palin make, the lower their poll numbers drop — but they are too STUPID to learn!

Posted by: Thomas Mc | October 23, 2008, 10:32 am 10:32 am

Yukon Sam,
You are pathetic. You actually believe that anyone here supporting McCain is a paid RNC worker???
ROTFLMAO
How ignorant can a person be? I guess you believe that the USA bombed ourselves on 9/11 as well huh?
Tell me this: Why do you like Obama? Is it that he will take money from the intelligent, hardworking people of the US like myself and give it to the lazy unemployable Obamatrons like yourself? Is it because he wants to penalize those who have succeeded of whom you are so jealous? Is it because he hates this country that you obviously think caused every problem ever known to mankind? Or is it simply because some liberal-Brainwashed College kid told you what to think and you are too stupid to see any other side.
Get a life. No one here is paid to post these things. We post them because Obama is the worst candidate in the history of the United States.

Posted by: Fred | October 23, 2008, 10:32 am 10:32 am

BlackJack,
Hate to have to tell you but Palin ain’t more than another worthless politician who demagogues against power and mismanagement but proceeds to do the same once in power. If McCain and Palin were so interested in reform they would clean up their own party first. They have no interest since they will need Republicans to continue to hold power. McCain has been playing this reform demagoguery for 27 years and has changed very little. All he has done is make a name for himself and continue to get elected. Palin is more of the same. And as for executive experience….two years as head of Alaska, population 700,000 is a joke. Republicans need stop pushing her qualifications. She has none. You want to dis Obama and his experience fine. But hand me any b.s. about Palin. She is not qualified even to be mayor of Wasilla if you ask me.

Posted by: indy_voter | October 23, 2008, 10:58 am 10:58 am

McCain and others speak the truth and the dumb deaf and blind refuse to hear it. We know all about this type of mentality. Perhaps the “righteous wind” is blowing through Obama’s fans’ heads. You don’t have to agree with McCain’s policies. But it doesn’t mean that Obama is not a fraud. You will be hearing our words in your heads for years to come, and wondering, “how could I have not seen it?”

Posted by: msa123 | October 23, 2008, 11:40 am 11:40 am

McCain is disgusting – he only adds to the anxiety of this nation. This election is probably the most important in modern times and McCain continues his trivial pursuit. …………….
http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/10/23/election-anxiety/

Posted by: Ohg Rea Tone | October 23, 2008, 11:47 am 11:47 am

But to cast socialist aspersions on a tax refund to working families whose incomes are too low to pay income taxes is to paint a big pink stripe onto McCain’s supposed idol, Ronald Reagan. In 1986, Reagan signed legislation greatly increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit, a credit for low-income workers that reduces the impact of payroll taxes in order to boost take-home pay above poverty levels. When the credit is more than the amount of federal income taxes owed by an individual, that person receives a tax “refund.” Reagan praised the earned income tax credit as the best “anti-poverty” and “pro-family” legislation ever enacted by Congress.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_joe_conason/mccain_s_socialist_delusion

Posted by: AJBopp | October 23, 2008, 11:54 am 11:54 am

Oh Fred, I’m so sorry! I didn’t realize.
The only thing more tragic than being a paid sock puppet for the RNC propoganda machine… is to be an UNPAID sock puppet for the RNC propoganda machine. And to do it without knowing or understanding that you’re just a tool… it would move a harder heart than mine to weeping just to think of it.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Posted by: Yukon Sam | October 23, 2008, 11:55 am 11:55 am

Obama is the new Teflon President. Anything the republicans say does not stick!
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 23, 2008, 11:58 am 11:58 am

BlackJack; “Barack Obama’s is a senator of the 13th District of Illinois”
US Senators are elected by and represent their entire state… US Senators don’t have Districts, Congressmen do. Back to remedial civics with you, half-wit!!

Posted by: Torrboy | October 23, 2008, 12:10 pm 12:10 pm

Obama will say anything?
You mean, Senator McCain, that Obama will call you a terrorist, socialist, even a communist to get elected?
Huh. Didn’t know that.

Posted by: Paul | October 23, 2008, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm

Let’s see, Sen McCain.
In 2000, you ran for president because you said the country needs “straight talk.”
Then in 2002, you wrote that your campaign wasn’t really about any reforms or any other patriotic reasons, but simply the result of your long-standing ambition to be president.
In 2008, you say you’re running because you always put “country first.”
And… Obama is the one who will say anything to get elected?

Posted by: Paul | October 23, 2008, 12:18 pm 12:18 pm

Obama and all his Bolshevik drones want to play Animal Farm in the U.S.A.
Those of us who aren’t mindless drugged up emotional wrecks see the deception being perpetrated by your beloved puppet master, and McCain will win as a result.

Posted by: Hippie Smasher | October 23, 2008, 12:30 pm 12:30 pm

Obama is the new Teflon President. Anything the republicans say does not stick!
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 23, 2008, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm

An amazing comment to make since it actually speaks to McCain’s mindset, rather than Obama. It is McCain who has said anything, including a litany of outright lies, in order to get elected. So here we go again with McCain trying to accuse Obama of something McCain himself is guilty of doing. Shameful behavior from a man who should know better. McCain is unfit to serve.

Posted by: United States goes BLUE! | October 23, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm

palins clothes dont fill the empty void in her head,shes an idiot,for someone that tal all tid patrioutic stuff todd and belonged to the a.i.p and she wrote welcoming letters to the a.i.p right before she was the gov. inplain land todd has only been a repulican since aug 08 no wonder maccain is going to lose.there the real terrouist

Posted by: JZ | October 23, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm

Hot off the wire: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrat Barack Obama’s lead over Republican rival John McCain has grown to 12 points in the U.S. presidential race, with crucial independent and women voters increasingly moving to his side, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Thursday.
Apparently the American people have had enough of McCain’s “campaign”.

Posted by: Vietnam Vet | October 23, 2008, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm

Apparently McCain will say anything – except on the issues – to get media coverage. Pathetic.

Posted by: Vietnam Vet | October 23, 2008, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm

Posted by: GIGI | Oct 23, 2008 8:36:51 AM
Do you mean Powell the man who stood in front of the UN with the vials of white powder????
Posted by: reddog0216 | Oct 23, 2008 8:45:42 AM
==================
see that’s your (our) problem right there! WE CAN’T FOCUS on the real issues and what really matters and what REALLY QUALIFIES people to represent us if we get so darn distracted with all this CRAPOLA!
FOR GOD’s SAKE out of respect for whatever small or tiny percentage of decent legacy of a human being, PUT THAT STUFF ASIDE AND JOIN THE BIG PEOPLE TABLE and let’s talk about a powerful understated, underrated, and historically late arrival of a doctrine that should have been into place since Franz Ferdinand’s murder!
It’s so hard to stay focused when all we do is waive shiny things and expensive suits and pregnant kids and race cards and gender cards and empty suits and the red socks and the white socks and the freaking rays!!!!!!!!
JOIN THE TABLE ALREADY! ENOUGH CRAPOLA!!!!!!

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm

What’s up with these “robocalls”? it’s the third/fourth time I hear/see the term and I have no idea what’s that…
I know I got a hate piece in the mail and it made me mad because I’m a REGISTERED Democrat, why would they waste paper??? I’m a 33 year old college graduate who lives in a big city, I drink cosmopolitans, chilean wine (casillero del diablo $7 a bottle) hang out at Tapas y Copas (Spaniard, Spain is next to Marruecos (Morocco) which is where my BF is from so CLEARLY im a terrorist and that was a waste of paper….
lol! sorry!!
someone enlighten me about the robocalls please.

Posted by: GIGI | October 23, 2008, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm

Here’s a factual example of “democratic” financial responsibility (and lying):
WHO screwed up Social Security??
When Social Security began the “democrats” SAID:
Participation would be VOLUNTARY.
The contributions would be TAX-DEDUCTIBLE.
The funds wouldn’t be used for anything ELSE, and
interest would ADD to the account.
The payouts would NEVER BE TAXED.
LBJ & demo majorities in the House and Senate put the
funds in the General Fund so they could use it for
their pet projects (PORK), no interest adds to the
fund now!
CARTER & demo majorities in the House and Senate
gave Social Security to immigrants who had never
PAID IN!
CLINTON & demo majorities in the House and Senate
made the CONTRIBUTIONS taxable, AND made the
PAYOUTS taxable! (Al Gore cast the deciding vote on
the payouts!)
OBAMA wants to GIVE Social Security to the 11 million
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS that are here, ALONG WITH
Medicare! (Think more or them will come then to get
in on THAT?) AND, with demo majorities in the House
and Senate, he’ll SUCCEED!
AND, after all THAT, the “democrats” have the GALL to
blame Republicans for the mess Social Security is in!

Posted by: lightnin | October 23, 2008, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm

Here are some straws, Senator McCain… Feel free to grasp for them frantically.

Posted by: TexasLou | October 23, 2008, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm

Every GOP campaign in memory ALWAYS makes up rediculous charges 2, 3, or more times a day about an opponent then charges that the other guy is making things up and saying anygthing to get elecgted. Lets keep our heads screwed on folks and keep our attention focused on what actually is happening. First, business (the ones I’ve talked to) all say the first thing they are missing is customers who can afford to buy their products and NOT low taxes! Secondly, we ALREADY spread our wealth to the oil companies and speculators who bid up the oil prices in a bubble that just burst!! Down by half and without the output from one newly drilled oil well!!! IMAGINE THAT?!

Posted by: Tigman | October 23, 2008, 5:39 pm 5:39 pm

For the record, McCain not only made 32 tapes revealing American intelligence for the Viet Cong, but once he was released, he denied that any POWs were left in Vietnam, leading the Viet Cong to kill those men as they weren’t ‘worth’ anything to the Viet Cong anymore.
Also, he put the McCain Bill into place, which ensured that POW files could not be declassified. This was very painful for the families of POWs who wished to learn the details of their loved ones’ confinements and ascertain that they were, in fact, dead. Many speculate he did this in order to preserve his political career.
As the son of an admiral he does have the support of many ranking officers, but among the troops, he is unpopular for his lack of votes or ‘NO’ votes on Veterans issues. He gets poor ratings from Vets organizations for his awful record.
For more information on military against McCain google: McCain vets ratings, Vietnam Veterans Against McCain, McCain ratings IAVA, McCain ratings DAV, McCain on fcs Army Times, McCain Manchurian Candidate…

Posted by: What John isn't Saying | October 23, 2008, 7:23 pm 7:23 pm

No McCain that would be you who would say and do anything to get elected. But the reality is you will not be elected president of the USA on Nov. 4 !
No weapon forged against you [ Barack Obama] will prevail, and you [ Barack Obama] will refute every tongue that accuses you [ Barack Obama] . This is the heritage of the servants [ Barack Obama] of the LORD, and this is their [ Barack Obama] vindication from me,” declares the LORD. – Isaiah 54:17
” I [ God ] will send my terror ahead of you [ Barack Obama] and throw into confusion every nation you [ Barack Obama] encounter. I [ God ] will make all your [ Barack Obama] enemies turn their backs and run.” – Exodus 23:27
The Lord will rescue me [ Barack Obama] from every evil attack and will bring me [ Barack Obama] safely to his heavenly kingdom. – 2 Timothy 4:18
11 For he will command his angels concerning you [ Barack Obama] to guard you [ Barack Obama ] in all your ways; 12 they will lift you [ Barack Obama ] up in their hands, so that you [ Barack Obama ] will not strike your [his] foot against a stone. 13 You [ Barack Obama ] will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you [ Barack Obama ] will trample the great lion and the serpent. – Psalm 91:11-13
I have given you [ Barack Obama ] authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you [ Barack Obama ]. – Luke 10:19
It’s time for the American people to get it right and NOT vote for McCain-Palin, instead vote for change. It’s time for this country to turn the page and seek a new and better future for ourselves and our children.It’s time for REAL change in Washington, it’s time to elect Barack Obama for president !
Obama-Biden are the wiser and stronger team to solve the crucial challenges we have in this nation and abroad !
Amen.

Posted by: Barack Obama IS Our 44th president ! | October 23, 2008, 8:08 pm 8:08 pm

Michelle is one ugly ass, angry militant racist gorilla, dontcha think?
ugggghh, go back to Kenya b*tch!

Posted by: MONKEY HOUSE | October 23, 2008, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm

please crawl back under your rock and insert your head back into your a**.

Posted by: to Monkey House | October 23, 2008, 9:45 pm 9:45 pm

Obama has a record of voting to raise taxes. This reminds me to Bill Clinton’s campaign with promises to lower taxes. What ever became of that? Politicians will say anything to get elected. Out of Obama’s 94 tax related votes, all 94 were for tax increases, and only 7 contained modest cuts for some people. History doesn’t lie. And promises can be empty. What Democratic President has lowered taxes since JFK?

Posted by: C. Castillo | October 23, 2008, 9:47 pm 9:47 pm

For the record, McCain not only made 32 tapes revealing American intelligence for the Viet Cong, but once he was released, he denied that any POWs were left in Vietnam, leading the Viet Cong to kill those men as they weren’t ‘worth’ anything to the Viet Cong anymore.
Also, he put the McCain Bill into place, which ensured that POW files could not be declassified. This was very painful for the families of POWs who wished to learn the details of their loved ones’ confinements and ascertain that they were, in fact, dead. Many speculate he did this in order to preserve his political career.
As the son of an admiral he does have the support of many ranking officers, but among the troops, he is unpopular for his lack of votes or ‘NO’ votes on Veterans issues. He gets poor ratings from Vets organizations for his awful record.
For more information on military against McCain google: McCain vets ratings, Vietnam Veterans Against McCain, McCain ratings IAVA, McCain ratings DAV, McCain on fcs Army Times, McCain Manchurian Candidate…

Posted by: What John isn't Saying | October 23, 2008, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm

Michelle Obama first lady……ROFL thats funny more like first charcter in the Planet of the Apes” NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT, SHE DOES HAVE A STRIKING RESEMBLANCE TO ZERA! BUT NOWHERE NEAR THE SCRUPLES! MICHELLE SHOULD BE BANISHED FROM THE USA.

Posted by: GORILLAS R US | October 24, 2008, 1:07 am 1:07 am

It’s funny… all John McCain does is whine about all of the “negative campaigning” that’s going on. Yet, every time he opens his botoxed mouth, all he can do is try to take swipes at his opponent. LOL What a sad, desperate, pathetic old man. I used to respect him. Now, I just feel sorry for him.

Posted by: Scott | October 24, 2008, 2:01 am 2:01 am

I have a couple of issues with McCain, and since this original article focused on McCain’s reaction to Obama’s tax plan I’ll address that first.
Whatever you wish to label Obama’s plan, the primary goal is to benefit US Citizens as opposed to US Corporations. one point raised was addressing the lavish tax cuts large corporations are granted.
John McCain responded by stating “that big corporations often move work overseas if they can because the tax rate is much lower.
“If they go to Ireland, they’re only paying 11 percent. So where are they going to go where they can create wealth and create jobs? It’s simple fundamental economics,” McCain said as he defended his plan to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent.”
This might sound good on the surface, until you realize that those large corporations are benefiting from the tax cuts while at the same time outsourcing the jobs they create overseas to take advantage of lower wages in those countries, then turning around and selling their products to the American people. Thus lining their corporate pockets, supporting the economics of foreign countries. all out of the pockets of the American people.
I’m sure we’ve all had the experience of calling a customer service number for an American made product, and ended up speaking to someone in India or some other foreign country.
There is a middle ground that could be had on this issue though. My suggestion would be sure provide these corporations with tax cuts as incentives to keep them operating in the US, but with the stipulation that the jobs they create go to the American People. If they insist on outsourcing, then rescind the tax cuts and levy an additional import fee on their products. Unless they offer a one of a kind product, they then would not be able to compete in the US market by passing those extra costs onto the American Public, nor could corporate greed allow the upper echelon members of the company profit at the expense of the American People.
The second issue I have with McCain is the truth issue. I’ve seen a number of posts here stating that they supported him because they considered him truthful Yet when his campaign released a statement claiming Hamas had issued a statement via another web site supporting Obama and how happy they would be if he were elected. a statement specifically geared to tie Obama to terrorists. The statement included the original site this information came from, and following the link it was a site I had encountered previously when verifying an article that was very damning to a group of people. Before I form an opinion regarding something that could harm another I do my best to ensure the information is accurate. This site was not a reliable source of information, instead it was a site more geared toward stirring up anger and hatred aimed at specific groups of people. I wrote McCain about this addressed how using this source could damage his credibility and even presented him with accurate verifiable information to show the motives of the site and how they had outright lied regarding other issues. He never responded, but instead continued to raise the Hamas statement for sometime after.
The third issue I have with him is that he needs to spend more time discussing his plans if elected and stop spending so much of his speeches focusing on Obama. Every time I see him on TV at a rally his focus on Obama is so prevalent as to almost be high school aged juvinile.

Posted by: Kat | October 24, 2008, 10:32 am 10:32 am

I am enjoying everyday that I come to these blogs, and see the republicans flail about in a panic coming up with conspiracy theories about Obama, name calling, making making sh:t up. And then to see the McShame campaign imploding on itself as all of the rats start jumping off of the sinking ship. Since they ran one of the most juvenile campaigns in modern history. Who came up with their strategy, a high school student?
So now that we come into the final days of this campaign, it will be interesting to see how low the republicans can go from here. They’re just about at the bottom, so there can’t be too much left.
By the way, what to you republicans call all of the honorable republicans who are backing Obama? The list keeps getting longer and longer.
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 24, 2008, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm

Financial Crisis and the Way to Recovery
The term “shocking” can’t even come close to describe the severity of the financial crisis that we are faced with. According to Barack Obama, the only way we can get out of this mess is for this country to adapt socialistic values and enforce socialism by gaining control of all three branches of government. I’m sure that the mountain of money his campaign has collected from domestic and foreign donors, names the Obama campaign won’t disclose, will be used for that purpose. As soon as total control is gained, organizations like ACORN will have a green light to further abuse the law to suppress free speech, control the outcomes of elections and brain wash children in schools to believe that socialism is the answer to all of our problems. With total control of the government, and help from people like Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright and Antoin Rezko, who will probably be pardoned, achieving the ultimate goal, “a life of sexual confusion and moral collapse” will become a strong possibility.
The proof that socialism, or spreading the wealth around does not work can be seen by examining ACORN and its accomplishments by manipulating bancs to make loans to minorities with bad credit. By using charges of racism and threats to use CRA to block business expansions, ACORN and Obama already contributed to the crises we are in today and finding new ways to distribute the wealth will only make the situation much worse. His idea to put a three-month moratorium on foreclosures will further weaken the already fragile banking industry and only benefit delinquent homeowners by allowing them to live rent-free.
In order for our economy to start prospering again, we first need to elect an honest leader who is determined to stamp out the corruption in government and to stop the leftist movement from destroying the middle class. The hard working people can no longer be expected to keep giving until they themselves have nothing left to give.
Cybercorrespondent
http://cybercorrespondent.blogspot.com

Posted by: Cybercorrespondent | October 25, 2008, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm

Obama is a socialist. He’s also funded by anti-American interests. Obama will do anything to get elected, then change everything he promised as he always has. He doesn’t know foreign policy which is extremely important. The Democrats are also responsible for the economy today, NOT THE REPUBLICANS.
Wake up, people!!!

Posted by: concerned | October 31, 2008, 9:57 pm 9:57 pm

Barack Obama has refused to release his medical records. Instead, the public will have to make do with an undated letter signed by a doctor which assured the press and the American public that Obama was “in excellent health”.
When John McCain delayed releasing his medical records to the press last May, the New York Times thundered to it dwindling readers:
“No presidential candidate should get to the point that he has locked up his party’s nomination without public vetting of his health.”
–New York Times, on John McCain in May 4 2008 “Missing Records”
Six months later, the New York Times is predictably silent on the still-secret Obama medical records.
http://www.bloggernews.net/118332

Posted by: Natasha | November 1, 2008, 6:09 am 6:09 am

You should already be doing so.. this Country has been in distress for some time now.

Posted by: Replica master | May 7, 2009, 9:16 am 9:16 am

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