Obama’s Prime Time TV Pitch

Just in: 2 Ohio government employees, 1 an obama donor have been charged in the records snooping case of “joe the Plumber” they are now being questioned as to who they wre doing the undercover work for’
Panic Attack at Dailykos.. the kiddies are on medication now after seein the Gallup poll showing only a 2 point spread between Obama and McCain lmao

please get out and vote!!!! take others with you to vote. vote early!!!

Obama is the man!

McCain=4 more years of Bush’s policy’s, or Obama and a true change.

- STOP THE MADNESS – VOTE FOR CHANGE – 2008

How does Obama explain this?
According to Snopes.com, Princeton was requested to put a ‘restriction’ on distribution
of any copies of the thesis of Michelle Obama (a/k/a/ Michelle laVaughn Robinson) saying
it could not be made available until November 5, 2008 but when it was published on a
political website they decided they would lift the restriction.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/thesis.asp

Can someone explain socialism to me? Social Security, Medicare, Fannie Mae, government schools, bailouts….seems like we have been a socialized country for decades but someone forgot to tell us. I’m not sure how either candidate is going to slow down the advancement of socialism in our country. The conversation may have to shift in order to have an effective government. If a Communist nation like China can thrive in this global market I’m thinking the U.S. will be okay as a quasi-Socialist/Capitalist nation.

Exactly how will Obama fix the economy? Tax the middle class and successful to dole out to the non-working, unproductive welfare people?

This guy just has an answer for everything. Typical lawyer. He has left himself PLENTY of loopholes. Like a good lawyer does. When he raises your taxes he’s going to tell you “now what I meant was…” And I feel bad for the people that have voted early for BHO. Khalidi is finally rearing its ugly head. But good thing the media is in the tank for BHO – he may get lucky and nobody will see it til after election day.

I agree with D Adams. Baseball is way more important than who our President is going to be. F#$%in’ A. I think we found Joe Six-Pack and he is D Adams.

Obama is biggest spender of your saved money, he does not care of saving your money, he just spend and he will do the same way in the US government if he was elected. He is too dangerous to our country future.*****Rashid Khalidi Photo: Another Questionable Barack Obama Friendship***
by Jim Brogan
The Post Chronicle
October 28, 2008
http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/article_212181989.shtml
Rashid Khalidi is a friend of Barack Obama. In fact, Khalidi and his wife used to babysit for Barack and Michelle Obama. Why is that significant?
The National Review Online’s Andrew McCarthy has a great piece breaking it down. There is no doubt that it would be making headlines in the mainstream media if it were about a Republican.
Apparently, in 2003, the then llinois state senator, attended a party for Rashid Khalidi. Nothing too harmless right? Wait, it gets better.
Khalidi’s friends were seeing him off as he left his post as a professor at the University of Chicago to go on to Columbia University.
As luck would have it, Khalidi was the spokesman for Yasser Arafat when he headed up the PLO, and surprise, surprise, He is also an outspoken vocal critic of Israel.
At this event a Palestinian American reportedly read a poem which accused the Israelis of terrorism in their treatment of Palestinians, and criticized U.S. support of Israel.
But it wasn’t just that Obama attended the gathering, its the glowing testimonial he poured on Khalidi, as did Bill Ayers. Did we mention he was also in attendence?
Here are some excerpts from a “Los Angeles Times” story back in April about the event via OneNewsNow.com.
“A special tribute came from Khalidi’s friend and frequent dinner companion, the young state Sen. Barack Obama. Speaking to the crowd, Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi’s wife, Mona, and conversations that had challenged his thinking.
“His many talks with the Khalidis, Obama said, had been ‘consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases…It’s for that reason that I’m hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation – a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid’s dinner table,’ but around ‘this entire world…’
And then there is the little issue about a “tape”
“The event was videotaped, and a copy of the tape was obtained by The Times.”
An indignant McCarthy asks why this videotape hasn’t been released.
Bio: Khalidi was born in New York to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother, according to his Wikipedia page. He received a B.A. from Yale University, where he was a member of Wolf’s Head Society, in 1970, and a D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1974 and spent many years as a professor and director of both the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago before joining the Columbia faculty. He has also taught at Georgetown University, Lebanese University, and the American University of Beirut.
Khalidi is married to Mona Khalidi, former President of the Arab American Action Network.
The Khalidis and Obamas are good friends. In his capacity as a director of the Woods Fund, Barack Obama in 2001 and 2002 steered $75,000 to the Arab American Action Network, reports Town Hall.
According to an Times account of the dinner, Obama speaks of the fact that he and Michelle had been frequent dinner guests at the Khalidi home and that the Khalidis had even baby-sat for the Obama girls.

McCain is avoiding the issue. He is using fear tactics and smears and is trying to paint Obama as a radical. Yet Obama’s economic team consists of Warren Buffet, Robert Ruben, and Paul Volker, well respected and in the center, including the most respected former Secreatary Treasurer and Fed Chief.

mccain doesn’t offer us anything but the same old broken economic policies republicans have been pushing for years.

I loved the Berlin speech and Obama having a press conference with Sarkozy. I thought he rocked.
Berlin was so spectacular and amazing and I loved every minute.
McCain was just jealous and lashing out like a petulant child after that.
And McCain is being a spoiled petulant child now because Obama has the money for a half hour prime time show and he does not.

Barack Obama is saying to Joe the plumber that he believes the power of government ought to be used to redistribute wealth in the United States,” to take wealth from productive people and give it to people who have not been as successful. And that is socialism at best — and I think you could even make a case that, in its own way, it’s Marxism.”

Obama booked this time almosta month ago. Bud “Light” Selig put the WS game on the same day.

Didi,when are you going to give all us Haters the answer to why you support a man who thinks we are like Nazis!!!!If that doesnt give you a reflection into the mans soul,WHAT WILL????????

What “middle class” person earns more than $250,000 a year!? I call this upper class. And he will only increase tax for the amount OVER the $250,000.
You have to love the misinformation coming from the Republican camp.

Today I receoved an e mail from the obama camp asking me to take election day off to vote. What the Obama people don’t realize is that most blue collar americans can’t just take a day off from work to vote. Their bosses will not allow it. Just one more example of how obama is out of touch with most of america. Obama is just politics as usual a black man with the same body parts as a white man. Nothing new new.

Of course he is not going to focus on him. There is still a lot of questions Americans have about Obama and the media refuses to ask and do their job.

Obama was “bringing the threshold down” from $250,000 to $200,000, before Biden seemed to lower it to $150,000.
However, the Saturday ad was not the first time Obama talked about the $200,000 mark.
At the final presidential debate two weeks ago, he said his plan would provide “a middle-class tax cut for people making less than $200,000.”

Interesting opinion piece by Campbell Brown of CNN, showing how Obama is keeping at least one of his campaign promises. I’m sure this is the first of many that he’ll break:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/28/campbell.brown.obama/index.html

Obama is biggest spender of your saved money
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Incorrect.
Changes proposed by Obama’s campaign would mean the national debt would grow by $5.7 trillion over 10 years, while proposals spelled out by McCain’s campaign would add $10.9 trillion, according to the Tax Policy Center.
McCAIN HAS NO WAY TO PAY FOR HIS POLICIES!
WE CANNOT AFFORD THE SAME SPEND SPEND SPEND AND BORROW POLICIES OF GEORGE BUSH McCAIN.

Obama’s tax plan has been praised by many economist and successful investors like Warren Buffet.
Its just an adjustment of the Tax brackets. Its happens all the time in countries that have adopted progressive taxation and the US is one of them.
Just because McCain campiagn spin doctors want to call it socilism, it does not become socialism in anyway. Lets grow a brain and not get carried away with the spin from either side.

Obama will pay for his policies by eliminating more of the mlitary. You do remember that Clinton neutered the military to balance the budget. Now that’s a bad decision. Obama will finish the job Clinton started. Leave America open for attack from all sides.

It is amzing how many people voting for McCain who make 30K, 40K or maybe even 50K are worried about Obama raising taxes on people more than 250K. Where has the worry from the rich been for middle class families who are struggling to get by. The Bushs tax policy have not worked. The people at the top are doing fine and middle class families are losing their homes, jobs and healthcare.
People like ‘Joe the Plumber’ would recieve tax cuts under Obama. Speaking of good oleJoe, he was out today agreeing with another campaigner that if Obama was elected President that would mean “death to Isreal”. And this is the person McCain is using for his campaign mascot? Just more misguided information to scare the masses.

McCain has not offered a clear vision of where he wants to take this country in 4 years, and Palin is completely unprepared for VP. She can not even correctly identify what a VP does. Obama/Biden offer a much better alternative. They will cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans, end the Iraq war safely and help mend our relationships with our allies and foes around the globe. McCain offers tax breaks for the rich and taxes on health care benefits. He has not shown any understanding of what fixing this economy entails.

Obama said that he would allow Bush’s tax cut expire, another word for tax increase. Family making $25000 will pay $700 more, People make $50000 will pay $2500 more, Those make $75000 will pay $3000 more.
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Complete Bullsh**.
Obama WILL NOT raise taxes on the income groups you listed. You seem to continually lie about his tax policy.
The expired Bush tax cuts will be re-written. NO ONE who makes under $250k will se a tax increase. Obama has stated this and you are simply denying it.

Today I receoved an e mail from the obama camp asking me to take election day off to vote. What the Obama people don’t realize is that most blue collar americans can’t just take a day off from work to vote. Their bosses will not allow it. Just one more example of how obama is out of touch with most of america. Obama is just politics as usual a black man with the same body parts as a white man. Nothing new new.
Posted by: al | Oct 28, 2008 10:46:43 PM
Buddy Obama is not out of touch.What Obama wants you to do is tell your boss to allow a day off to vote so that you can vote early and work on election day.Voting is your right and no boss will dare to stop you from voting it.In a way Obama is telling you if the boss didnt allow you sue that rich man get the money so he can tax you and distribute a small portion of the big wealth you acquired to the poor and downtrodden.

This has got to be the most important election of our times and we have so many Americans going to the voting booth mislead because the media is scared of Obama and will not tell the truth. It is your resposibility to do your research, the information is available. This may be our last opportunity to save our country. For all of you that say how Obama is so intelligent and charasmatic. These are not reasons to vote for a man. Remeber these are the same qualities of Stalin and Hitler, and required to lead the masses down the wrong path. We know McCain and Palin are good at heart, and more important we know that McCain will protect this country. Obama is in this for one thing To rule the world”, the information is available and its up to you to disprove me. Remeber all the times you have heard people complain how the media tell half truths if they tell us anything at all.

A fool and his money are soon parted by a vote for Obama.
Posted by: Damocles | Oct 28, 2008 10:55
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Too late for that under President Bush a lot of my money departed when my 401k statement came rolling in last week.

PALIN RAISED TAXES ON THEOIL COMPANIES THEN USED THAT MONEY TO JUST GIVE A CHECK TO WORKING CLASS ALSAKANS.
If that’s not “spreading the wealth”, what is? She is calling Obama a “socialist” for her own policy.
Pub supporters are such hypocrites.

>>>McCain=4 more years of Bush’s policy’s..<<< Ummm, it's "policies", not "policy's." It's a plural noun, not a contraction. Another Obama-struck scholar.

For all of you republicans and democrats who are sick of this disgusting election its time to form real third party for 2012,leave the extremists in both parties behind and lets really take back our country wit a much needed third party. Now thats change you can beleive in.

Can someone please tell me exactly what Obama is changing and how he is going to change it? Anyone can claim that they will bring “change” but I have not heard one person explain what he is changing and how he is going to change it!!!!

Will he be sitting in front of a faux-Greek fireplace? Will Ron Popeel be a special guest?

JOHN McCAIN IS THE BETTER CANDIDATE
Values shape Policy.
Any Pied Piper can soothe the masses with promises of milk and honey but Promises never tell you ‘…what they’re really made of…’
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On Economics:
Obama’s values dictate that ‘…we should spread the wealth…’
McCain’s values dictate that ‘….we should not raises taxes on anyone….’
Obama’s values dictate that ‘….$1 million a day in earmarks is ok in 6yrs…’
McCain’s values dictate that ‘….Zero earmarks are ok in 26 years….’
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ON Life:
Obama’s values dictate that ‘…life begins above my pay grade…’
McCain’s values dictate that ‘…it starts at conception…’
Obama’s values dictate that ‘…when dealing with evil you would…confront evil…’
McCain’s values dictate that ‘…when dealing with evil you would…defeat it!…’
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ON SELF DEFENSE:
Obama’s values dictate ‘…I have no intention of taking away folks’ guns…but…I support the D.C. handgun ban in private homes…’
McCain’s values dictate ‘…gun control is a proven failure in fighting Crime…’
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This election has two VERY DIFFERENT candidates.
One candidate’s values appear to still be evolving, while another candidates appear set.
Only one candidate really knows the man he is…..John McCain.

For people who are ever-so-hopefully posting about the Khalidi issue, you should probably be aware of this: (oh, and by the way – being Palestinian-American isn’t a crime in the US, last anyone checked):
” During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.
A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi’s Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank.
The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi’s group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of “sociopolitical attitudes.”

al, You do have a good idea but in the interim, Obama is not the choice! Voting for Obama is like trying to get the flu.

What hope does Obama give you? Make a list without the word change in it.
Posted by: Damocles | Oct 28, 2008 10:57:32 PM
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Obama gives me hope…
1. That education will be reformed and that our children can once again begin learning without being taught just take a test.
2. That hard work and determination can take you anywhere, despite who your are and what color you are.
3. That this country will get back to being the leader that it once was and not just the war machine we have become.
4. That we rebuild our cities, roads, and bridges so that our communities do not crumble before our eyes on television again.
5. That healthcare will become something that ever American can have access to. We are 42 in life span inthe world. Why? We need to correct that.
6. That every American can start prospering again and not just getting by.

he just needs to hit on policies , from child care to healthcare , education , equal pay for women , seniors earning under 50k dont pay taxes, JUST BRING OUT the Hillary clinton style speaking to the everyday voters in his policies and he have plenty.
speak of the safety blanket his platform is to protect every day americans .
speak of putting the billions we are wasting in iraq back in fixing our own backyard.

go BO GO BO GO BO WILL HE EVER HAVE ANY THING GOOD TO SAY ABOUT HIS COUNTRY…..WISHFULLY IT WOULD BE IM LEAVING MY COUNTRY AND NOT COMING BACK TO NAZI GERMANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bush,cheyney and mccain are no prizes but you liberal dunces that support mr.hussein are completely off the map!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gee THANKS George Steph! Did your new buddy Barack pay you to help him advertise his new “Barack Variety Half-Hour”? WHO CARES WHAT BARACK IS ABOUT TO SAY ON HIS HUGE MEDIA BUY!!! Are you ACTUALLY so in the tank for Barack that you feel the need to give a TV Guide synopsis of the same BS that he has been leveling at the American people over the past 2 years of campaigning? George, word of advice, we realize that you feel bad about being so darn rough on Barack during his pitiful debate performance against the stronger, more capable Sen. Hillary Clinton; but do you have to be so darn kiss-a*s*s now about it?

Rosa sat so Martin could march. Martin marched so Obama could run. Obama runs so our children can fly. (NPR)

Faye, Do you really think that Obama is going to do all of the stuff on your list? Tell me how. If I were running for President I would promise everyone a ride to the moon. You would probably believe me if I had a D after my name..

>>>Obama gives me hope…<<< He just gives me indigestion and a splitting headache.

Do you people actually think that your comments here will convince someone to vote for either candidate? Though the Dems may have their issues, I think the GOP has run an extremely negative campaign. I have received a few of those nasty smear calls against Obama and that really turned me off. And I believe that is part of what has turned off a lot of other voters.
Also the GOP has held unto power for 8 miserable years and frankly, that’s why people are yelling for change. We’ve hit rock bottom and can can only go nowhere but up.
Bottomline, there’s no need to insult each other or any of the candidates, its natural for peoeple to vote for a different party in this kind of situation.

Jason, how can providing tax breaks for the vast majority of people in this country be taxing the middle class?
Or do you consider folks making over a quarter of a million a year middle class?

Damocles, even though Obama has a large electoral vote according to the latest polls, we must not be complacent. We have to go out there and vote for Obama/Biden to ensure that he is elected.

Son of Rodin
you go back 30 years to Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was not sitting at these banks telling bankers to approve loans for people who had bad credit, poor job history or were not making enough money to pay the mortgage…the banks took those risk just because those risky loans make more in interest. Banks took risk to make profits and KNEW they would get free because of the FDIC.

For all you folks relying upon “hope” to improve your lives…try seizing your own destiny and working harder to improve your own lives. Government is not, and never can be, the answer. Just ask Winston Smith, who works in the Ministry of Truth…

Frankly, I’d be more impressed with Barack if he took the multi-millions of dollars that he plans to spend on his huge “media buy” and gave it to a worthy charity like $$$ for orphanages or hospices or cancer research. Is a multi-million dollar media buy REALLY an example of Barack’s “Politics of Change”? Barack understands one thing and one thing only – personal & political ambition.

I can hardly remember an election when I’ve waited so long to decide on my choice for President. One week from today, I’ll cast my vote for Sen. McCain, and here’s why:
1. MCCAIN SEEKS TO LIMIT ABORTION – Sen. Obama’s position may be called the “audacity of hopelessness.” He is out of step with his own running mate, Joe Biden, who in 2003 with 63 other senators voted to ban the practice of partial birth abortion. Under a President Obama, a Federal Freedom of Choice Act would increase the number of abortions performed annually, defying the “safe, legal, and rare” rhetoric that is often heard by abortion’s proponents. On the other hand, Sen. McCain has consistently voted to protect the unborn, the right to life prerequisite to all other rights that we enjoy in this country.
2. MCCAIN FAVORS CUTS IN MILITARY SPENDING – He has been very clear that we don’t need new weapons systems that cost billions, and would cut them from the bloated Pentagon defense budget. That money can be used elsewhere, perhaps to expand peaceful programs that are working, such as PEPFAR, the U.S. initiative against the spread of AIDS in Africa.
3. MCCAIN IS CORRECT ON IMMIGRATION AND GLOBAL WARMING. He seeks a path to citizenship for those who are living in the U.S. illegally, and wants to tighten border control. Also, he acknowledges the need for “Creation Care,” that we must take care of this earth, as God’s stewards, and this includes keeping the thermostat in-check.
4. MCCAIN WOULD MAKE THE GOVERNMENT LIVE WITHIN ITS MEANS. There is a huge disconnect between the average American who must carefully budget and Washington, that spends like there’s no tomorrow. We need a Dave Ramsey approach to federal spending! McCain has the record to show he’d stand-up to wasteful spending.
On these four issues, Sen. McCain is dead-on. Together, they tip my vote in his direction.

A mighty wind will be a’blowin. More hot air with no substance. Hopefully he’ll perform some sleight of hand.

Damocles
And McCain would? McCain can not even stay on message longer than 60 seconds…much less make real ‘turn arounds’ in this country. He is too busy being a maverick. (since you said do not say change).

Im wating to see McCain to start yelling at kids to get off his lawn!!

jhw539, You lose, Michelle is just plain creepy!

>>>Jimmy Carter was not sitting at these banks telling bankers to approve loans for people who had bad credit, poor job history or were not making enough money to pay the mortgage<<< You're right. It was the Clinton administration, under threats from Janet Reno's Justice Department, which drastically expanded the implementation of the CRA. Either the banks "played ball" and gave out risky loans they otherwise would not have made, or mergers and other action the banks sought would be – shall we say – "delayed", or worse. The banks played ball, but then devised a way to shift the risk away from them by coming up with CDOs. The Democrats distorted the free market, and the free market came up with a way to counter the distortion. Which is why government should not meddle unnecessarily in free markets. Teddy Roosevelt-type regulation is one thing, to protect the public. But the CRA was something else entirely.

Remarks on here are nothing more than the childhood games we used to play…My dog is better than your dog…..so? My dad can whip your dad…Nanny nanny boo boo
By now, people know who they are going to vote for. Some will base their votes on the issues, some will base their votes on race or on gender. Change? Don’t expect it, regardless of who is elected, come January it will be business as usual in Washinton. Once sworn in, all of those campaign promises will fly right out the window. Just wait and see.

No way Reverand wright..Huckabee will be mad.We are already tired of hearing fights between candidates..cannot afford to listen pastors fighting each other.So let us prioritize things that needs to be marked in history rather than pushing it all at once.
OBAMA THE African American First
pALIN THE Women second
Huckabee the Pastor third.
JOE THE Plumber fourth

McCain = Bush .A vote for McCain is like voting for 4 more years of bad economy of G.W.B.
McCain has not offered a clear vision of where he wants to take this country in 4 years. The world will change with a new leader and his name is BARACK OBAMA.
Yes We Can 08!!!

…………….”Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change”

Another Groupie singing to…..
Messiah Master Koolaid Mixer – NOBAMA and his BAND OF LEMMINGS
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Faye Daniels believes Obama gives me hope…
1. That education will be reformed and that our children can once again begin learning without being taught just take a test.
THE DELUSION: employers are CONSTANTLY having to provide REMEDIAL TRAINING to College Grads!
2. That hard work and determination can take you anywhere, despite who your are and what color you are.
THE DELUSION: Obama has been given a FREE RIDE THIS ELECTION and most of his life. Even his HOME was paid for by Tony Rezco!
3. That this country will get back to being the leader that it once was and not just the war machine we have become.
THE DELUSION: this county IS THE WORLD LEADER; BEFORE, NOW, AND AFTERWARDS.
Can you say Islamic Extremist?
4. That we rebuild our cities, roads, and bridges so that our communities do not crumble before our eyes on television again.
THE DELUSION: all budgets across the land have all infrastructure on a maintenance schedule. Only defective engineering causes ‘early attention’.
5. That healthcare will become something that ever American can have access to. We are 42 in life span inthe world. Why? We need to correct that.
THE DELUSION: You have drunk the UN Koolaid. The United States IS WAY AHEAD IN life span. The UN IGNORES the infant mortality rates below 1 years old for Europe and all other countries EXCEPT THE USA BECAUSE THEY CAN’T SAVE PREMATURE BABIES.
6. That every American can start prospering again and not just getting by.
You can’t lift up one American by pulling down another American.
Give a man a fish and he is dependent. Teach a man to fish and he is independent.
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obama reminds me of that famous line from the god father II when Michael Corilone tells that Senator from Nevada, ” Senator where all part of the same hyprocrisy” Lets have a real third party candiate in 2012. A mixture of moderate republicans, conservative democrats and indepentents, its time to bring the party of JFK back.

these tricks are tired and old
the GOP soul has been sold
Rovian politics are history
Hope is for You and for Me (kellygirl, HP)

sorry for the mis post***
Um Damocles please tell me a short man with a daddy complex that crashed 3 planes, received favoritism to get in the war college, Graduated in the bottom 5 of his class is going to fix this country! Sounds like Bush to me except Bush was a better pilot!!

MANCHESTER:
McCain stated in EVERY debate he was AGAINST any cuts in the military (which is really stupid since it’s 50% of our budget and includes a lot of waste.)
McCain DOES NOT have a policy for the government to live “within it’s means”. He says he does, but the number indicate otherwise. McCAIN’S POLICIES ARE MORE COSTLY THAN OBAMA’S.
McCain and Parrot don’t even acknowledge the cause of global warming. So how can they possibly have any idea how so stop it? You can’t find a cure without understanding the cause.
Basically, you’re whole statement is incorrect.

Go Phillies…you say B. Obama is following in the footsteps of John F. Kennedy….that’s not a nice thing to say….we all know what happened to JFK

Faye, Talking points and debates aside. Message delivery and style aside. McCain makes more sense than Obama. Obama’s policies are unatainable without completely gutting the military. Also the Iraq mess becomes a failure as well under Obama. Obama does not have the nerve to finish Iraq. I do not want my friends and family members who served honorably in Iraq to have fought in vain. Obama will cut and run. The democrat mantra.

I am a small business owner and when Obama raises my taxes, I will be cutting jobs. I just ask that you don’t get mad at me…please contact Obama for a job.

If you want to learn the facts, do some digging on your own. The collection of Hannityisms and McCain one liners overwhelming. The unapologetic citation of Wikipedia is hilarious. You want a fact to quote? Give it to me, and I can guarantee you will be able to cite it in Wiki by tomorrow morning!
HOW have the Republicans been able to convince the self-described blue collar workers here that the income redistribution burden to the middle class in favor of the rich over the last eight years is something they have to fight to retain. It’s Robin Hood in reverse, and the very people carrying the tax load are fighting to continue to be the beasts of burden. Joe the Plumber-making less than $60K-has even admitted that he would fare better under an Obama administration, but campaigns for McCain.
If you work for a company that provides healthcare, you will now be TAXED on the full value of your health plan. No pretax deduction of your small contribution. That goes back plus the extra, roughly 80% more of the full value of the plan. It’s a $10-12K salary increase, only you don’t get to take it home… but you get to pay the taxes. AND he wants to start that right away (although McCain is vague on how the rest of the plan falls into place-negotiations with governors still need to happen). HOW IS THIS NOT A MIDDLECLASS TAX?
Who will feel this more? The guy earning $50K or the guy over $250K (you know, the ones who can afford shelters against the measly 3% dropback to Regan tax levels). Look on MCcain’s website; check the American Nursing Assn and AMA websites. Don’t let them do the thinking for you.
How many hunters lost their rifles in the eight years of a Democratic presidency which also balanced the budget? Better triage what is really important to you and your family.
GoFoxNews needs to rethink his calculations. I’m a bit above his highest tax bracket, and I will be better positioned on taxes… not piling on a phantom benefit amount and paying the taxes on that.
We need change, or we all go down with the elephants that have stampeded over our country.

Patrick
I believe that Obama has proven to be a better candidate. He has not talked of pulling anyone down.
Give a man a fish and he is dependent. Teach a man to fish and he is independent.
I believe in this quote as well, but, at a time when goverment is willing to bail out banks and companies and average Americans are losing their homes,…I think that help is something the goverment can do. We are rebuilding Iraq, when Iraq has money and is basically asking us nicely to leave. Why can’t we use money to help American citizens. If the money can be found to help Wall Street…why can’t money be found to help hurting Americans?
You have your choice and I have mine.

de I know words can get confusing but i was referring to the great legacy of JFK, now I see why you are voting for obama. You make me confusion.

Thank you. I find complete satisfaction and sleep very well at night knowing deep down, I NEVER VOTED FOR A BUSH….. And I will NEVER consider voting for a Reagan Republican…. maybe a Goldwater Republican but NEVER a Reagan Republican. His Reaganomics – which has been Bushy’s playbook for 8 years is based on the Trick Down Theory of Economics but Bushy knows how to look out for his greedy buddies. While Bushy sells that trickle down theory, his greedy buddies scarf up.. never let it trickle down and get fatter.
Tell me… Mr. CEO… WHEN IS ENOUGH ENOUGH? How is that billions of dollars going to enhance your lifestyle any better than the millions you already have? SHEEZE… Greedy fools would rather see Main Street starve as they ruin the economy just as long as their bottom line is recession-proof.

charlie daniels says it all

Saw the WaPo story on how ABC wanted the Obama piece too late for Obama to do it with them, and the ONE MILLION BUCKS went elsewhere.
At least ABC doesn’t seem too upset about it.
Who are we kidding? If “Pushing Daisies” tanks in the first half hour, they’ll be smashing their Blackberries against the wall over there.

Patrick
I agree its going to be a lot closer than everyone thinks … on e will win the Electoral college and the other the popular vote and if Obama wins the electoral vote then mcain can point to all the fruad that ACORN has done

Barack Obama spent part of Tuesday outside in the rain in Chester, PA, while John McCain postponed his outside rally in nearby Quakertown. Dressed in sneakers and jeans, the rain pouring down as he spoke, Obama addressed the 9,000 who turned out. “Let me just begin by saying that a little bit of rain never hurt anybody.”
It’s so good to know that Obama chose not to disappoint the crowd who waited in the rain to see him while McCain hid in a warm building.
If he will stand in the rain with us, he will always look out for us!!
Even though it was cold and rainy he didn’t let his people down….can’t say the same for McCain, at the first site of rain he cancelled his rally. Wow what a maverick!

To bad Hillary figuered out how to beat obama she was just about one month to late to win.

McCain doesn’t have a clue on the economy. That’s why he is losing. It’s simple.

al
yep she had info on Obama and chose not to use it! Im sure she was paid off like everyone else

Damocles
And if he does not win the election, is he going to go back to AZ and not tell Bush or Obama all this valuable information he has? ;-)

I JUST SAW OBAMA TODAY IN HARRISONBURG,VA.
Got there 5 hours early and still was way back in the line. Even in the middle of Redneck country, Obama has incredible support.
So many, in fact, that they had to turn away about 3000 people. Obama came outside and talked to and thanked the people who had stood in the wind and cold for hours before he went in for his speech. He apologized that they couln’t get in, but the local fire marshall had made the decision.
Obama is truly Presidential.
I actually met Michelle Obama in Charlottesville,VA during a woman’s conference a few weeks ago. She’s incredibly personable.
In about two sentences it was easy to tell Michelle is WAY more knowledgable and much smarter than the GOP VP candidate. (And she’s not even running for office)
There is a clear choice for this nation and it does not include Republican “leadership”. We need a new direction and the “mavericks” only stole the slogan. They have no real plan to change this nation for the better.

CANT BELIEVE THE STUFF THAT KEEPS COMING OUT ON OBAMA THE MESSIAH BUT WHERES THE COVERAGE UNFRICKING BELIEVABLE

Obama08
I doubt you were even there youre a paid Obamabot

@sandy
Iam Proud of OBAMA.OBAMA is a man of steel.He understands struggle and hardship and for him rain is piece of cake.

2008: Obama wins the election.
Democrats take both houses of
Congress
2010 : Nothing changes Republicans take back house
2011: Nothing changes
2012: Third party under hillary wins presidency. now that my friends is change.

This will be a show, alright.

al
yep… the big mama of the Democratic party prevented any support goingto Hillary in the close of the primary campaign… shes the epitome of corrupution

faye daniels
I believe Mccain can go after bin laden and get him and the people who say well Palin will be president are crazy Mccain will serve one term as will obama if he gets elected… no more than one term… hes not a god or anything new in poltics just better at it

As a democart I like MCCain but I just can’t vote for the GOP’s crazy policies.
this year will be a pass for me.

moderate republican
Obama doesnt have steel in his spine… where does Biden come up with this stuff… Biden will be a total embarrassment to Obama and you obamabots will be forced to get hillary as VP

al
I saw that I could vote for mccain and not feel guilty as a statement to those who think think that the Democrats should have the most left policies it ever had and I carried through on my threat you obamabots dont know that clinton people are more fiercly loyal than new Obama people so dont mess with us!

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Hey Go FoxNews,
Did they tell you this about YOUR man?
the truth hurts”
During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.
A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi’s Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi’s group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of “sociopolitical attitudes.”

moderaterepublican – I float between several blogs – it is suprising how many Republicans, lifers, are voting for Obama. They have decided to vote for country, not the party line. I also run across many Independents who have faith in Obama’s ability to turn this country around. Perhaps that is why McCain is struggling mightly in what where once solid red states and not gaining ground in blue states.

I believe it was mnwix who posted about Michelle Obama’s thesis. Correct me if I am wrong, but she has no “real” role in an Obama administration. True he might bounce ideas off her, but come on…
I find it interesting also that Mr. Obama has chosen, or was asked to, hold his infomercial on “Republican” networks, but ABC is being scoffed for being a supporter and not airing. Why should he preach to the choir?
As for polls…it doesn’t really matter until the electoral votes are counted. Anyone could change their mind, not make it in to vote, or many other circumstances could come up. Don’t get in a lather about polls. I read another story tonight on this same site that had a poll where Obama was leading by 16 points. Get over it!
As far as older white women who are economically pinched…my mom’s already made her choice and it isn’t McCain. Sorry, Johnny Mac.

sandy
just as many democrats arent voting for a straight ticket but for Mccain and the democrats down ticket so you may havea problem

You can count me in as a former Democrat for McCain/Palin. And I vote, and have voted in every election since I was 18. Not going Democratic this year. No way. I worked too hard to get what little I have to have The Saviour give my earning away to the illegals and the low life welfare scum who refuse to get off their asses and get a job. Go McCain! Go get’em!

we can all tell george is in the tank for obama. by the way has anyone realized that george looks like richard marx?

sandy
Im not a republican
all Im saying is dont think Obama will win by a landslide because all the dem senate and house candidates are doign well I intentionally lied to pollsters and I think many more will do the same

Mojo Drivin – come on! You were never a Democrat – just a troll trying to get Obama’s supporters riled. Will not work – try again!

I own a small business. If Obama is elected I will have to close my business and let go of my staff as the tax increase that Obama proposes will ruin my business. All the major business will leave this country as well.
Say no to communism. Say no to Obama.

OH THEY WONT RELEASE THEM JUST LIKE HIS MEDICAL RECORDS

demsnever
I never thought Id say this but I agree with you I work nights for a small business and Im sure they would have to downsize with Obama in

JG – I believe Senator Obama will win the popular vote – McCain himself has said so. And on a state-to-state basis, Senator Obama will take the electoral college – probably not by the margin I would like to see, but take it he will.
However, todays’s EC count:
EV map 364 Obama 157 McCain 17 ties
http://www.electoral-vote.com /

women4palin
dont give up vote for Mccain/palin anyway its our moment to excercize our duty in what will be a close election despite what the media is saying…my mom said she had a nixon moment when she voted for him over kennedy in 1960 … this is my nixon moment!

Johnathan Fish – AH! A troll!! You will not vote because Obama has it all sewn up? – no supporter of Senator Obama would ever say they will not vote!

One year ago, Obama made a promise. He pledged to accept public financing and to work with the Republican nominee to ensure that they both operated within those limits. Then, Omama broke his promise when he figured out how to collect a lot of money, more than what he really needs, to fund his presidential campaign and to fund these wasteful prime-time TV slots. Obama has already broken his promise. How many more promises would he break if he became the US president ? Let’s cast our votes wisely on Nov 4th.

It is interesting that McCain is using the same tactics that George McGovern used in his bid for the presedency. These lessons were actually not lost on Nixon. This is where the idea of divisive polictices was born.
The old addadage – If you don’t know your past you will repeat it (generally). We need someone who will UNITE the US not divide it. McCain has already proven that he wants the presidency more thas a united US. Why do I say this? Look at what he said at the beginning of the 2000 campaign and this one – he would run a campaign of inclusion not hate. Well GOOD JOB in running a HATE CAMPAIGN!!! He calls Obama a hypocrite – LOOK IN THE MIRROR. And remember Christians, it was Christ who said, ‘You who is without sin, cast the fisrt stone!’

Fomer Hillary support here, Voted for Obama already. Bill Clinton best president in a long long time. Got impeached for something trivial. Bush and the Republicans go to war illegally and rule by fear and scare tatics, Ruined the country. Yet he is not brougt up on one charge…..Hypocrits.

Everyone has the right to chose the candidate they think is best. But most of the pro-McCain posts are just anti-Obama.
It very rare we ever see anyone actually supporting McCain for any reason other than Obama is a “insert smear here”.
And the vast majority of anti-Obama BS is just that – bullsh**. A bunch of fabricated accusations and inuendo with no factual basis other than some biased speculation.
Can’t wait until Tuesday and I don’t have to read to all the rediculously stupid crap that is posted on here on a daily basis.
Once Obama wins, the trolls will go back to their video games.

Everything McCain says about Obama is a lie, so if you base your decision on that, you are being played for a sucker one more time. The Republicans have been taking wealth from the middle class and giving it to the rich for years – check the stats.
The gap between rich and poor is getting bigger in the world’s richest countries – and particularly the United States – as top earners’ incomes soar while others’ stagnate, according to a 30-nation report released recently. In a 20-year study of its member countries, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said wealthy households are not only widening the gap with the poor, but in countries such as the U.S., they are also leaving middle-income earners further behind. The United States has the highest inequality and poverty in the OECD after Mexico and Turkey, and the gap has increased rapidly since 2000, the report said. Thanks Republicans for this stellar performance in redistribution the wealth up. Republicans concerned for the middle class? – NOT!

WHITE PICKET FENCES: It’s noted that Sen. Obama plans to utilize the 700 billion dollar bailout to convert suburban homes recently acquired by the government (due to failed mortgages) to Section 8 low-income houses for inner-city families. Despite stereotypical fears of crime, school deterioration, and plummeting property values, arguably a low-income relocation program to suburbia enhances social equity for poor inner-city families, integrates the suburbs, and affirmatively spreads the wealth.

** Then, Omama broke his promise when he
** figured out how to collect a lot of
** money, more than what he really needs,
** to fund his presidential campaign and
** to fund these wasteful prime-time TV
** slots.
I can’t wait for the show, it will be a hoot! As for funding, who would blame him.. he had no idea how the world would wind up supporting him like they do, and given the obvious intolerance issue, he had a larger hurdle to overcome..
As for broken promises.. John McCain said a year ago he would run an ‘honorable campaign’.. that sure didn’t pan out so well.. he will go down in history for one of the nastiest political campaigns ever.. like TIME magazine recently wrote:
“McCain’s lies have ranged from the annoying to the sleazy, and the problem is in both degree and kind. His campaign has been a ceaseless assault on his opponent’s character and policies, featuring a consistent—and witting—disdain for the truth. Even after 38 million Americans heard Obama say in his speech at the Democratic National Convention that he was open to offshore oil-drilling and building new nuclear-power plants, McCain flatly said in his acceptance speech that Obama opposed both. Normal political practice would be for McCain to say, “Obama says he’s ‘open to’ offshore drilling, but he’s always opposed it. How can we believe him?” This persistence in repeating demonstrably false charges is something new in presidential politics.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1842030,00.html

Troll? Ha. Whatever. Well, this “troll” has got to go to bed so he can actually go to work tomorrow–unlike 99% if you Saviour supporters. Take it, Sandy! Goodnight, y’all.

doug
once in office Obama will be impeached for things like ACORN

mojo
they have to rely on some kind of sick messianic thing because there is no there there!

JG,
Why cause the socialist Obama will unite all the squirrels in the rose garden? Come on….Please investigate McCain a little more before you throw those jabs. You dont hear about the old McCain cause Obama doesnt run negative adds to get the vote. He has actual ideas. Actually investigate McCain a little more instead of blogging and you might find a little more disturbing news.

JG – sorry – my work will pay off! What have you done for your candidate except shoot off your mouth?

”
As a democart I like MCCain but I just can’t vote for the GOP’s crazy policies.
this year will be a pass for me.”
There’s always Nader.

As an American I am distraught —
When I read most of the comments on this site — I am appalled and disguseted.
Half the people commenting here don’t deserve a democracy — they obviously aren’t willing to do the work that is necessary by citizens — to be informed and demand information and accountablility by their elected officials.
The great American experient is in demise and soon will be on life support unless those that are taking it for granted do not wake up and do the hard work necessary by citizens to make democracy work.

“The great American experient is in demise and soon will be on life support unless those that are taking it for granted do not wake up and do the hard work necessary by citizens to make democracy work.”
As long as candidates are able to spend $600 million to buy the presidency, there will never be change.

“http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/opinion/26kristof.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin”
I wouldn’t wipe my @ss with that rag. They have ZERO credibility.

Luke – I HAVE done the work! I have worked my butt off for Senator Obama’s campaign! And, I voted early today as that option is avilable in my state. I am a severe arthritic and have Parkinson’s but I have been an active volunteer. I have been doing the hard work necessary ….to make democracy work!

Mack – you must be referring to those articles from Judith Miller who helped the administration lie us into Iraq!
Other than those it has been a very reputable paper.

All I have to say is that since the Obamas are my neighbors, I get real tired of BH throwing garbage over the fence. Just a few months ago it was a Baby Ruth wrapper and an empty pickle jar. (Vlassic, I think) What’s up with that?
Oh, and another thing BH snores really loud. Whole neighborhood can’t stand it!Vote for Obama if you want but don’t expect anything but garbage over the fence.

Damocles
Hmm that was a real nice though out comment about the issues….I can see how that solves any problems.

Yes Sandy, and I commend you on that — truly. When I referred to most of the comments on this site I was referring to those that I am sure you see here and in other comments.
Doug, as fellow Vietnam vet. I commend you also.
What I am dispirited about is there are serious issues and both candidates have strenghts and limititations. What we don’t seem to be able to get to is a civil discussion about these and what the future direction should be.
I support Obama. I recognize he is not perfect, but who is. When I tally up all the things that I think are important and what each candidate brings to the party. I come down on Obama’s side.

Luke, You need to re tally up the pros on Obama’s side. He will say anything for your vote. McCain is an open book.

Damocles – I have never ventured into moveon territory. And “spout network?” Give me a break – the only network you must watch is FAUX News – you certainly do seem to be hung up on their spew. I watch cable and network news so I get the viewpoint from BOTH sides.

damocles
yep Moveon was gearing up for 2008 when they were supposed to be gettign Kerry elected and the media has really kicked this can down the road and you will see that all Obama really is is a “can” even someone as bright as Clinton had problems in his presidency and Obama isnt as bright as clinton just more resourceful with donors

Yes-We-Will, Now we’re getting somewhere with this thing.

Luke,
Thank you for your service as well. It was no doubt harder for you than it was for me and I commend you. I too am tired of all the fear tatics and how McCain wraps himself in the flag about his P.O.W. status. I commend him, but he did not abide by the code of conduct and sold the U.S. out by telling his captors who his daddy was. That is the true test of a man. What will he do when the S*** hits the fan for real. I wish people would actually look at the real McCain.

Sorry luke above post was from me.

Damocles,
Yours is exactly the kind of comment I was referring to in my initial comment!!
How about some thoughtful information — not more partisan BS.

Wait a second Luke! I can spout and spin with the best of em but it does no good. You won’t change. I won’t change. Let’s just shake hands and part as friends!

Luke – thank you for the explanation! Much appreciated!
I do understand what you are saying. There is no discussion of issues by many bloggers – just the same trash we see posted here night after night.
Senator Obama stood in the pouring ran today to address his rain-soaked supporters; McCain cancelled his rally in the same area to go to a warm building instead. Some maverick!
No human being is perfect. But Senator Obama is the closest we have between the candidates. He is a future-oriented leader with a vision to return this country back to greatness. Will I always agree with every decision he makes? No. But he is the best shot this country has got!

With as bad as the economy is, I think Obama doing this is not a good use of the money and it could backfire on him. It looks excessive and gives the appearance he’s trying to buy the Presidency.

JG
Soooo if you have investigated McCain how did the Roosevelt get paid for? How many planes has he crashed? (if you crash one you lose flight status, but he got 3!!) How did he get into war college? Keating 5? Why Regan didnt like McCain? Come one answer if you have done the research.

concerned american
4 more years of the last 8 yrs is the dumbest slogan on record… Obama wont win NC wont win VA wont win FL and if mccain wins PA he will get the electoral majority… otherwise its going to be a long night and you are powerless!

I wouldn’t wipe my @ss with that rag. They have ZERO credibility.
We know – you don’t wipe your @ss at ALL.

JG,
Still waiting for the answers…..google.com…theres a tool to help….

you all suck

Hey Doug, If all you are trusting is Google for your spin, look a little deeper. Go to the library of congress and spend a few days

Damocles,
Nope. I actually read books not eat them. Google was for the pre research as the library is closed, Feel free to help out JG if he is having trouble.

Shelley, you just don’t get it. We the people of this country are donating this money to Barack Obama, some of us on a monthly basis giving the little we can spare, specifically to ensure our candidate will be able to beat the corporate sponsors of the republican side. We want it all to go to that purpose – It won’t backfire!

Doug,
I guess damocles and his friends have not noticed that there are many many books scanned into google (well never the entire book, but great big sections of them).
I would ignore them. They think that if they keep telling themselves McCain is going to win, it will happen.

Damocles,
Yes I know where the library is and instead of trading insults why dont you show us your library knowledge and answer the questions.

Bill you should have been man enough to come say that to the face of the 100,000 of us in Denver this past Saturday.
What a cowardly little turd you are throwing such hate from under your rock.

dee dee lynn
and if you keep telling yourself that its goignt o be a landslide for Obama that wont happen… Obama is no Bill CLinton and certainly no Hillary Clinton and you will be forced to accept Hillary in a high position in Obamas admin because she got him elected if he is elected

If you will go back a few posts I made it perfectly clear where I stand. What good does re-hashing spin do?
Obama is as far left as one can go. McCain is not quite ar right as Obama is left. Neither a perfect choice. McCain is transparent. Obama is a book without words.

I got your si se puede, here naco chingada!

I would ignore anyone using the name “dee dee”

Most of the USA regrets bringing slaves to these shores. We should have left them alone.

– Obama is no Bill CLinton and certainly no Hillary Clinton –
Nope, he’s been likened more to JFK than Clinton. Of course, Clinton wasn’t too bad either.

I see that Joe the Plumber is now campaigning for McCain. How soon before he gets a wardrobe upgrade?

concerned american thinks they are very cleverto cut and paste and tie things together things just arent as simple as obama sees them thats why Obama is GW Bush and 4 more yrs of the last 8 is ludicrous because they are talking about themselves! Its clever but extemely dumb at the same time!

JG says “nobody believes that all the 100 thousand are real voters I think its the same crowd bussed around the country or flown around the world in the case of the speech in berlin ”
You just keep believing that… in fact maybe you should call the McCain campaign to tell them. They might not have heard that yet and you could become the next “Joe the Plumber”
But just in case I’m wrong you better watch out, they’ll be in your neighborhood next.

only good negro is one in Kenya

negro negro negro. Liberal Liberal Liberal. Commie Commie Commie. Obama Obama Obama.

I’ll be shootin the 100K osama voters if they show up in my neighborhood wanting to steal stuff.

I dunno DEE DEE, did Bill Clinton Cum shot on you too?

Bill Clinton has a new video game out! It’s called LETS CUMSHOT ON THE CHUBBY JEW!

You know Bill, we could point out to you how small, vile, disgusting and hate-filled your posts are but clearly you don’t care, and everyone else can see them for what they are.
Personally, like I said, I think you should offer yourself up as a poster child for the Republican Party. You could personally keep them in the political wilderness for a long long time.
Wouldn’t that make you feel important?
By the way, I would not “come to your neighborhood to steal” because I am not given to stealing, AND I am fairly sure you don’t have ANYTHING I want.

DEE DEE, DEE DEE, NANNY NANNY BOO BOO. BITE MY ASS

BOOT TO THE HEAD, DEE DEE GRUBERMAN!

It was revealed today that McCain is the leader of a fanatical Muslim group known as the Sword of Islam. This group, which originated in the Jewish section of Saudi Arabia, has just formed a new terrorist group with McCain as its leader. The nefarious members of this new group, known as Baby Jihadists, have devised a diabolic plan to kill innocent Americans. First they place orphan babies in adoption agencies in an attempt to have them adopted. Once they are adopted and brought to America they set up vast undercover networks dedicated to the overthrow of America as we know it.
These babies are not ordinary babies. McCain teaches these babies to poop their drawers as he does himself. Once their drawers are full of poop, you cannot tell if it is poop or a bomb. That’s the problem, because these are baby suicide bombers. DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT attempt to change these diapers. Once you pull a pin, it’s all over: SPLAT. And should you be hit by flying shitt, blame their leader, John McCain.

CA IS A F UC KIN G MO RON WHO BELIVES EVERYTHING HE IS FED BY BARACK HUSSEIN OSAMA YO MAMA.

Congratulations, Democrats! You withstood the simulated attacks by a Republican. No matter what he said, true or not, you banded together and warded off the infidel. I have to hand it to you, I tried my best, but you won.

this ends the test of the Obama Emergency Network. If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed as to where to go and what to do.

just remember the only good democrat is a dead one, like JFK.

And bill,
for the record, NOBODY tells me where to go and what to do…

McCain got Palin to excite the evangelical base and now Joe the plumber to excite the idiot base. In an effort to pull out all the stops I hear McCain is going to be stumping with his new buddies, “Danny and Paul the skin heads” to help excite the psycho base.

dough
the point is Mccain was absolved of the Keating 5 scandal and it is not right not to know the depth and detail of Obamas involvement with ayers and ACORN and even the details of Obamas Grandmothers condition since he used taxpayer money to fly to Hawaii the other day

JG
Clearly you are not a woman or you would know that ALL woman think about shoes and handbags, and we know, therefore, that Sarah Palin is LYING about giving those clothes back because no same woman would give them back.
And for the record, my grandmother was a postal worker, and my grandfather was a truck driver, and my parents were BOTH regular enlisted in the military, and I put myself through school working multiple jobs.
I still have family that live in “manufactured homes” as someone on here so indelicately put it.
So are you now going to tell me that because I have worked hard and because I did better economically than my parents, there is something wrong with that?
Is that the new offical Republican position?

oh yeah? DEE DEE S h ut the f uc k up and go the f uc k a way, b i t c h. How’s that C U N T?

Dee Dee, I don’t like you or your type. you are what’s wrong with America.

concerned american
the truth is your scared because the gap is narrowing and obama only leads early voting by 1 pt so far ayou have nothing to say so you should just go away!

bill,
“me and my type” are what’s wrong with America?
Hmmm, which one of my type? Was it my mother who died of a service-connected injury (regular enlisted in the military, remember)?
Was it my uncle who was a pilot shot down over Vietnam?
Is it my brother-in-law and sister, both Gulf I vets (one disabled)?
I am sorry, which one of them is what is wrong with America, or is it all of them?
Perhaps you won’t answer, but rather just call me some name my mother would rise up out of her grave and slap me if I said…

Hey Bill, did you forget your medicine today? Would you like to join Danny and Paul on McCain’s “Excite the psycho base” tour. You guys are taking this election thing way to serious!

– the truth is your scared because the gap is narrowing and obama only leads early voting by 1 pt so far ayou have nothing to say so you should just go away! –
Shaking in my boots dude :)
Still waiting for that explanation as to how McCain differs significantly from Bush on his policy stances though..

So…is it true that Obama will be naming William Ayers as his Secretary of Homeland Security?

LOL Mike.. you arguments are just Sooooo logical and rational.. amazing how ignorant some people can be!

No JG,
I am voting for Obama because although I managed to get through college by work 3 and 4 jobs, I don’t think people should have to do that.
Theoretically, I should have gotten help with tuition from the VA, but (as they often do) they “misclassified” my mother’s condition so that the kids were not eligible for help when she died, and they don’t review things once the service member has died.
AND I am voting for Obama because he thinks the way veterans are treated is outrageous (whereas McCain, who should know better, has one of the worst voting records in the Senate on veteran’s issues).
AND I am voting for Obama because, now that I have moved up the ladder a bit, I see HOW MUCH this country is stacked against you if you are a working person, and I want that changed.
AND I am voting for Obama because I have personally people (even professional people) go bankrupt from medical bills and its WRONG.
AND I am voting for Obama because the government should not be involved in my private life.
AND I am voting for Obama because (since I have the luxury of being able to travel) I can see just HOW FAR BEHIND the rest of the industrialized world we are in infrastructure.
AND I am voting for Obama because (since I have the luxury of being able to travel) I have personally seen how much the Bush foreign policy (most of which McCain supports) has hurt our standing in the world.
And I could go on, but that will do.

Dee Dee
those clothes are mccain campaign props nothing more

Doug-
Don’t even try to talk about McCain’s judgment without mentioning Obama’s impaired judgment and checkered past:
Rezko
Ayers
Wright
ACORN.
There’s too many skeletons in his closet.

JG,
I will bet you Sarah keeps them, because any sane woman would keep them (and frankly, I would not blame her, as long as she pays the taxes on them as a gift).

JG you are dillusional. You sound like a spoiled Brat. You people haven’t got a clue. You Deserve OBAMA

Mike
Obama wont win I guarantee it

And no JG, there is nothing “starry eyed” about me. I am fairly cynical.
And I don’t think associating with “questionable people” is okay. However, I also don’t believe that everyone who disagrees with me is a terrorist.
In fact, I have noticed that the neocons at the Weekly Standard have a habit of labelling all sorts of people who disagree with them terrorists, even though THEY are the ones who advocated and aided in the perpetration of an unprovoked attack against a nation who did nothing to us, which makes them, I suppose something like terrorists.
And as for Ayers (which is I suppose the person to whom you are alluding), if he was so “questionable” why was he allowed to sit on a bi-partisan charitable board funded by a Conservative Republican, which is the way in which Obama was “associated” with him.
Any by the way, JG, have you done background checks on everyone you work with, or go to church with? Who knows, you may be “associating” with “questionable” people.

42n,
Please look up McCains past and its even more disturbing. Daddy complex, crappy pilot with a short temper who womanized and got out of big trouble cause he cried daddy. Ex Navy lobbyist to the Carter Administration. Who compromised his fellow P.O.W.s by telling his captors that he was the Adm son to escape the beatings that didnt stop for his P.O.W.s and got moved to a hospital to be used for propaganda. He walked out of that prison cause of his daddy and he used it. He spit on the code of conduct for military P.O.W. and until you serve and understand what that is about you will never understand so I will not hold it against you.

JG,
Its the Republican Party that maintained Sarah could keep the clothes as a gift, and they actually said she did not have to pay taxes (although I am fairly sure she does). So, if anyone is expert on loopholes, I suppose its them.
I don’t think Obama has been using campaign contributions on his wardrobe or anyone else’s.

By the way, JG
How can you “guarantee” that Obama won’t win?
Are you a high level GOP operative planning to rig the election (again)?
If so, how are you guys planning on trying it this time?
The Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be in a cooperative mood this election season (I guess appointing one disastrous Republican President was enough for them).

1. If corporations and higher-income individuals who run businesses are taxed more, they will pass the tax increases on to the rest of us in higher prices (and/or lower quality).
2. So even IF (and that’s a BIG IF) Obama lowered taxes by $1,000 for some people, I guarantee you that we’d pay much more than that in higher prices!
3. We would also see many businesses have to cut jobs because of the higher taxes for corporations.
4. More unemployment payments eventually means more taxes for everyone.
5. Just a note: Of course Hollywood celebrities support Obama and the higher taxes. These people feel guilty that they make truckloads of money (millions and millions) for each movie and feel a need to resolve their guilt. Moreover, they can make back any extra in taxes by just charging a few million more to star in the next movie. Simple enough. And you? You’ll pay more for your movie ticket Joe.

Oh Mike, please is that the best you can do?
Really, I mean Cindy McCain probably spends $475 getting her hair done (and they spent $32,000 per week on Sarah Palin’s hair and make-up).
In fact, if you want to see what a regular guy Johnny “six-pack” McCain why don’t you do the video tour of his Phoenix house (google it, its really fun).
I think the best part is the fully air-conditioned “playhouse” in the backyard that was for Megan McCain.
It looks a lot like the first house I ever owned (it may be a bit bigger in fact).
And what does a person need with 10 living rooms?
I have a (Republican) friend (whose family owns a defense contracting business) and he has 10 living rooms in his house. He never knows where to sit you when you go to visit.

Yawn–do you really think I would miss Pushing Daisies for that, when we have free Obama infomercials pretty much 24/7 on most of the major networks “news” reports?

Hey Dee Dee Lynn Lynn, when Obama takes over the only people with house with 10 livingrooms will be Obama and the Pelosi’s. Why do you think people are jumping ship there scared to death. They don’t want Obama thugs to come after them and say”You didn’t support me.” Wake up

Obama,the antichrist don’t take my word fore it.Find a saft place four your family and just obsever from a safeplace
don’t get to close. A look a touch,a word.How easy it for us to be pulled in. We have becomed a weak willed people
looking for an easy way out.mankind is wweak. When you put blood sweat and tesrs into somthing you expect something
for you. You feel the grace of
god

No Mike,
As a resident of the Dallas area, I can assure you that all those rich Republican donors who live in Highland Park (near the site of the new George W. Bush library being built with the billions of dollars they donated) will still have all of their houses with 10 living rooms.
In fact, W and Laura are building one there now, and Rove is rumored to be.
Cheney already has a house in Highland Park, although I have never verified how many living rooms he has (and of course, he officially disowned it so he could say he was not a resident of Texas so as not to violate the constitution by having a President and VP from the same state).
And, I can drive down Beltline Rd. and it seems that Halliburton is still doing fine and all those Mercedes Benzes leaving there don’t seem too distressed.
No, I don’t think an itty bitty tax increase will hurt any of them or cause them to give up their 10 living rooms.
And on that note, its very interesting (because I can see it from up close here) just how thrilled all these big Dallas donors who so love W are with McCain.
That’s strange, considering he promises to be nothing like W.
Why do you suppose they would like him so much?
I even saw Janine Turner (a high profile Dallas Republican “socialite” type) stumping for Sarah Palin on Larry King.
If McCain and Palin are going to change things so much, why do all of Ws donors so love them?

So here’s a little McCain Trivia for those pathetic, Republican pit bulls who just keep running into the same old parked cars:
JOHN McCAIN – THE MOST FLAWED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN HISTORY
Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:05 AM
Roland C. Eyears
It is now clear that what is left of the Republicon Party, after being fatally poisoned by the Bush administration, intents to commit suicide by nominating Senator John McCain (R-Hanoi) for the presidency. Where do I start?
THE EARLY YEARS
McCain spent his boyhood in exclusive boarding schools where staffers were paid to put up with his tirades. We all did some immature things before we matured. But with McCain, the tirades continue today.
Had he not been the son and grandson of admirals, there is scant chance he would have been admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy. Given his behavior patterns and academics, had he not been the son and grandson of admirals, there is little doubt he would have been thrown out. Instead, in 1958 he managed to graduate 894 out of 899. Had he not been the son and grandson of admirals, he is no chance he would have been accepted into the prestigious naval flight training program over far better qualified officers. On his way to becoming a North Vietnamese ace, the aviator lost 3 expensive aircraft on routine, non-combat flights. Little was made of all that, because he was, you know, the son and grandson of admirals.
McCain’s most horrendous loss occurred in 1967 on the USS Forrestal. Well, not horrendous for him. The starter motor switch on the A4E Skyhawk allowed fuel to pool in the engine. When the aircraft was “wet-started,” an impressive flame would shoot from the tail. It was one of the ways young hot-shots got their jollies. Investigators and survivors took the position that McCain deliberately wet-started to harass the F4 pilot directly behind him. The cook off launched an M34 Zuni rocket that tore through the Skyhawk’s fuel tank, released a thousand pound bomb, and ignited a fire that killed the pilot plus 167 men. Before the tally of dead and dying was complete, the son and grandson of admirals had been transferred to the USS Oriskany.
As a rising naval officer, McCain was surrounded by rumors of numerous adulterous affairs, such as used to be called “conduct unbecoming an officer.” Author and biographer Robert Timberg has detailed several of McCain’s sexual relationships with subordinates when serving as a Squadron Leader and an Executive Officer. I think we all know such behavior is a clear violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, in other words, a crime.
When McCain’s application to the National War College was rejected, according to noted author and researcher Joel Skousen, he whined to daddy who pulled strings with the Secretary of the Navy.
PRISONER OR HONORED GUEST?
McCain’s 5½-year stay at the Hanoi Hilton (officially Hoa Loa Prison) has ever since been the subject of great controversy. He maintains that he was tortured and otherwise badly mistreated. One of many who disagree is Dennis Johnson, imprisoned at Hanoi and never given treatment for his broken leg. He reports that every time he saw McCain, who was generally kept segregated, the man was clean-shaven, dressed in fresh clothes, and appeared comfortable among North Vietnamese Army officers. He adds that he frequently heard McCain’s collaborative statements broadcast over the prison’s loud speakers.
On October 26, 1967, McCain’s A-4 Skyhawk was shot down over Hanoi. The fractures of 1 leg and both arms were reportedly due to his failure to tuck them in during ejection. According to U.S. News & World Report (May 14, 1973), McCain didn’t wait long before offering military information in return for medical care. While an extraordinary patient at Gi Lam Hospital, he was visited by a number of dignitaries, including, to quote McCain himself, General Vo Nguyen Giap, the national hero of Dienbienphu.
Jack McLamb is a highly respected name in law enforcement circles. After 9 years of clandestine operations in Cambodia and unmentionable areas, he returned home to Phoenix where he became one of the most decorated police officers on record. Twice McLamb was named Officer of the Year. He went on to become an FBI hostage negotiator. This man has stated that every one of the many former POWs he has talked with consider McCain a traitor. States McLamb, “He was never tortured…The Vietnamese Communists called him the Songbird, that’s his code name, Songbird McCain, because he just came into the camp singing and telling them everything they wanted to know.” McLamb further quotes former POWs as saying McCain starred in 32 propaganda videos in which he denounced his country and comrades.
The Glavnoje Razvedyvatel’noje Upravlenije is the Soviet’s military intelligence division. Numerous sources confirm that during the Nam Era, the English-speaking Vietnamese who conducted interrogations of American prisoners were always overseen by Russian GRU officers. The ranking GRU officer at the Hanoi Hilton had a multilingual teenage son who was tasked with translating all interrogation reports into Russian. He would become known only as T.
According to T who interpreted all interrogations and notes pertaining to McCain during the latter’s stay from December, 1969, to March, 1973, when a well-fed looking McCain’s was released, privileges were extended. These included time at a furnished apartment in Hanoi – furnished with 2 prostitutes. McCain would attribute such absences to solitary confinement.
It has been widely reported that following his father’s appointment as CINCPAC Commander-in-Chief of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater of operations, McCain was offered an immediate parole. McCain insists that he refused such a preference. Others insist that his father refused to allow such a preference. In any event, such an offer would have required the approval of the Soviet masters, and T would have seen documentation. He has no recollection of such an offer.
In 1991 the Soviet Union was in a state of collapse. People and things were up for grabs. During that thaw, a mass document swap took place between the KGB and CIA. All T’s translations were included. If these dots are really connected, it is small wonder that McCain had fought consistently to keep all files sealed, block any attempts to retrieve POWs, and establish the friendliest of relations with his former tormentors.
Imagine the possibilities. A Clintonian leak during the presidential campaign. Or, in the unlikely event of a McCain victory, blackmail of the Manchurian Candidate.
It is public record that Admiral McCain was on hand to greet his son upon return. According to Major Mark A. Smith (USA Retired), a Green Beret and former POW, a trusted friend of his accompanied the Admiral that day. Later, when the friend referred to that meeting, McCain became enraged, volunteered that he had received “no special treatment,” and then denied that his father was there.
In 1989 legislation known as The Truth Bill was introduced in the U.S. House. It required the Department of Defense to publish the names and information on all unaccounted for POWs, MIAs, and KIAs in WW II, the Korean War, and Vietnam. It languished and was resurrected 2 years later. Then came the McCain Bill, promptly enacted, that blocked such information. The DoD does not even have to acknowledge confirmed sightings of live Americans.
TEMPER AND TEMPERMENT
The senator’s temper and temperament remain in question. His biographer quotes him: “At the smallest provocation I would go off into a mad frenzy, and then suddenly crash to the floor unconscious.” Has he moderated over time? Apparently. Somewhat. Senators who have had McCain scream hyphenated obscenities at them nose-to-nose include Rick Santorum, Richard Shelby, Thad Cochran, and James Inhofe. Most colleagues decline comment. The man has been called psychologically unstable.
BIRDS OF A FEATHER?
Four years ago McCain loudly defended the glorious hero of the Vietnam War, John Kerry. That would be the young naval officer who hid out in an office until he took command of a river patrol boat for a few weeks. He put in for a purple heart every time he got a scratch or bruise. With 3 of those, he rotated out with the intention of running for public office as a war hero. When Kerry saw the level of anti-war sentiment, he quickly morphed into an anti-war hero running for public office and later married the widow of an extremely wealthy, conservative senator who died under highly suspicious circumstances. Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have not died. Their affiliate is Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain, headed by former Sergeant Ted Sampley, who also serves as vice-president of the half-million member Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Rally.
Sampley has spent years working toward the return of Vietnam era MIAs and POWs abandoned by our government (which is invariably the case at a war’s end). McCann has thwarted him at every turn, dismissing 1,600 credible first hand sightings, 14,000 second hand sightings, and countless radio intercepts that supported the observations.
In 1991 a Senate Select Committee held hearings on the subject of Vietnam POWs. Tracy Usry, honored Vietnam veteran and former chief investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, testified that American POWs were routinely interrogated by Soviet intelligence officers. Several times, an enraged McCain interrupted, shouting that, “…none of the returned U.S. POWs released by Vietnam was ever interrogated by the Soviets.” He knew better. So apparently did Bui Tin, former Senior Colonel, NVA, who testified that he had been privy to all Soviet documents pertaining to American prisoners. He supported Usry, refuted McCain, and offered his personal records as added proof.
In short order, Usry and all participating staff members were fired. Jack Wheeler, Republicon insider and master strategist, attributed that to McCain’s behind-the-scenes pressuring.
Add to that McCain’s despicable treatment of families of POWs. Is that based on guilt or is the man simply despicable?
A LITTLE HISTORY LESSON
In the 1920s, the Bronfman family of Montreal rose to power and wealth based particularly on its Seagrams liquor business, which had as its Prohibition Era partner Meyer Lansky, American Mafia boss. Bootlegging profits were enormous. The family branched into many areas, including media. In recent years, Bronfman acquired a major chunk of Time-Warner.
Michael Collins Piper is the author of several books including FINAL JUDGMENT and THE HIGH PRIESTS OF WAR. According to his research, Jack Ruby, Texas nightclub manager and silencer of JFK’s alleged assassin, was a Bronfman asset. Piper identifies Ruby as “a key player” in the smuggling of arms stolen from U.S. military bases to Israel.
In the years prior to World War II, the move into Arizona was made. In 1941, Gus Greenbaum of Phoenix started a national wire service for bookies. When he shifted to Las Vegas in 1946 to oversee Meyer Lansky’s casino interests and subsequently replace the infamous, violent Bugsy Siegel, Kemper Marley was appointed crime syndicate boss of Arizona. According to sources within the Marley group, it was Bronfman who put him in the liquor business and enabled him to build a statewide monopoly. In 1948, the feds sent 52 employees to prison for liquor violations. Rumor has it that Marley remained untouched because one of his lieutenants, James Hensley, took the fall and did a dime. Piper reports that Hensley’s attorney and dealmaker was William Rehnquist. Yes, that would be the Chief Justice who later pulled his former girlfriend onto the high court and spent his last decade on the bench hallucinating on drugs. Upon release, Marley gave Hensley one of the biggest Anheuser-Busch distributorships in the country – certainly the biggest in Arizona. Thank you for your faithful service.
Then one day in 1981, an obscure, newly retired naval officer rode into the land of sun, cacti, and retirees. After his first wife, who had raised his children and waited for him became crippled in an accident, John McCain had dumped her overboard and married his mistress – Cindy, daughter of James Hensley. The next year the “straight talker” was installed in the U.S. House of Lords. Four years later he moved to the senate.
So who owns honest John McCain? The mob that runs Arizona? The big Vegas money that continues to contribute heavily? The Israeli connection? You be the judge.
UNDERSTANDING ECONOMICS – WHO NEEDS IT?
Not long ago, McCain stated to a journalist that, “Economics isn’t my strong suit.” But, he added, he is reading Greenspan. That would be Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan who, during his tenure, expanded the money supply more than in all the years since 1913. The Greenspan who kept the printing presses running at warp speed, turning out little pieces of paper called money and backed by the promises of politicians. Alan the Inflator fueled the dotcom bubble, the stock market bubble, and more recently the real estate bubble. It is no wonder that the LONDON ECONOMIST recently pegged 2007 true U.S. inflation at 17%. Just what we need – another president who is an economic illiterate. It’s small consolation that McCain admits it, because if elected, he’d appoint the wrong advisors.
MCCAIN VERSUS THE CONSTITUTION
McCain, also known as senator hyphen around D.C., frequently partners with members of the far left. The McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill was an obvious, full-frontal attack on the First Amendment – perhaps the most blatant since the Sedition Act 200 years previous. Specifically, it outlawed the most protected of free speech, political descent. This alone should be a deal breaker. Anyone voting for the bill should have been impeached and removed from office. George Bush, when he broke another of his pledges and signed the odious legislation, said he had problems with it but that the Supreme Court might very possibly strike down parts. Apparently, his thinking was (1) this is bad law, but why should I worry, and (2) I don’t need to do my job because somebody down the line might do it for me.
Accordingly, it is entirely logical that radio talk show hosts are in strong opposition to McCain. They understand how much he hates free speech, and they don’t want to see a return to the deceptively named Fairness Doctrine that used to force broadcasters to devote matching time to the promotion of liberal views to balance conservative. At the core is the liberals’ fear of exposure to the marketplace of ideas and free discourse. To them, it is not enough that you have a dial and an opposed thumb. If we’re going to have a Fairness Doctrine, let’s carry it all the way out. For every 80 anti-gun news stories, I want to see 80 (easy to find) pro-gun stories. Not 1. For every male bashing commercial, mandate one female bashing. Let’s limit the number of black players on college and NBA teams to 12½ percent, reflective of the population. Et cetera.
McCain also works to destroy the Second Amendment. John McCain does not trust you with a firearm, regardless of the plain words of the Constitution. He would bar you from defending yourself from marauders and certainly from an out-of-control government. The Gun Owners of America rates McCain F minus. Although the National Rifle Association is far softer in defending gun rights, its president has termed McCain the “worst Second Amendment candidate.” Example: McCain sponsored an amendment to S. 1805 that would destroy gun shows by outlawing private gun sales at such events, although they have been proven to not be a significant source of criminals’ weapons. A next step would be the outlawing of private transfers. A father would be unable to pass down a family treasure without government blessing. The unconstitutionality of all this is of no importance to the senator and his ilk. Check his record. This alone should be another deal breaker.
Just about everybody loves a maverick, right? Spirit of America and all that. We often impute a certain sense of integrity to someone who turns on his own. Is the senator from Hanoi really a maverick? Sure, but from what? Honor? Duty? The Constitution he works so hard to make irrelevant? But as a career politician and long-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations, McCain is also a one- worlder and a senior insider.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE
I’m sure the sponsor of the so-called Campaign Finance Reform Bill wouldn’t mind if we took a cursory look at his donors. They include the sinister international currency manipulator George Soros, JP Morgan Chase & Company, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Lehman Brothers. In other words, McCain is backed by most of the usual suspects who back “the competition.”
According to WorldNetDaily, since 2001, this candidate has receiving funding via the Reform Institute of Alexandria, Virginia, founded to launder money from George Soro’s Open Society Institute and Theresa Heinz Kerry’s Tides Foundation. Let’s just know who owns whom. All this only makes sense. The senator is a long-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a one-worlder, an ultimate insider.
Funding scandals? Sure. We have them too. Does anybody remember the Keating Five debacle from 1987 that cost depositors and taxpayers $160 million? Charles Keating owned American Continental Corporation and its subsidiary Lincoln Savings & Loan. Facing multiple federal indictments, he called on the recipients of his largesse – Senators Alan Cranston, John Glenn, Don Riegle, and from the great State of Arizona Dennis DeConsini and John McCain. Strings were pulled, but, in the end, Keating was convicted. In 1991, the Senate Ethics Committee (I know, such an oxymoron) ruled that McCain hadn’t quite done anything illegal. But by his own standards he was corrupt.
D.C. FOLLIES
Recently, the New York Times ran a piece suggesting that McCain may have had an affair with lobbyist Vicki Iseman that went back 8 years. Ms. Iseman is a partner in Alcalde & Fay, who represent Carnival Lines, several broadcasters, and municipalities. The Times, along with Drudge and the Washington Post, had been sitting on the story for some weeks. The allegations are unproven, and, the senator has exhibited extraordinary self-control when denying them. I can only say that he has a history of this type of Clintonian behavior, both in the military and, admittedly, during his first marriage. Apparently it is acceptable anymore. In any case, I question whether the Times should have run with this.
Influence peddling? Sure, McCain rode Lowell Paxson’s jet several times. It would be asking a lot of a high-profile senator to walk through a crowded airport and climb on a commercial flight. Maybe he wrote Paxson checks at the commercial fare rate. He did accept $100,000 donation from Alcalde & Fay. And he did write 2 letters recommending that the FCC approve Paxson’s purchase of a Pittsburgh TV station. Only two? Lobbyists lobby. I don’t have any finger to point here.
THE GREAT CONSERVATIVE
Taking a page from Bill Clinton’s Attorney General, McCain has called Christian leaders “agents of intolerance.”
McCain often crosses the aisle to block the confirmation of conservative judges with strict construction leanings. His record on taxes is clear; he likes them. Senator hyphen has co-sponsored ill conceived legislation that would boost gasoline prices by more than half a dollar a gallon. And he supports radical global warming measures that would significantly disadvantage the U.S.
COME ON UP. HERE’S A CHECK.
Teaming again with Teddy Kennedy, at al, the senator from Hanoi sponsored an amnesty bill for illegal aliens. A top aide, Juan Hernandez previously held a cabinet level position with ex-president of Mexico Vincente Fox. This dual citizen is on record as favoring “Mexico First.” McCain supports open borders. Well, until he caught sight of the prize. These days he’s auto-phoning into Ohio, promising that “first I’ll close the borders.” He’d still like to see Social Security money paid to the sneak-ins. Another deal breaker?
DISCLAIMERS AND CONCLUSIONS
The presidential frontrunners have a curious commonality. Not one has any significant administrative history. None has headed a company, none has managed an organization, and none has ever had to meet a payroll. Their experience has been totally devoted to throwing other people’s money at problems they created (often for that very purpose), and they’ve run nothing but their mouths. Seriously, if you owned a large business enterprise, is there any chance that you would pick one of the candidates to manage it?
As for the illegal, immoral war in which we are engaged, Obama is clean, Hillary is implicated, and McCain says he’s fine with another hundred years.
Personalities aside, I’m not certain how much difference it makes. McCain has essentially endorsed Hillary. According to him, “She has integrity,” and “I have no doubt that she would be a good president.” He likes, really likes the woman, and says, “I think she’s a very good person.” Meanwhile, Barack Hussein Obama’s policies differ not one whit from Hillary’s. So that’s a popularity contest.
Then there is the matter of the label. In his way, George Bush has done to the Republicon Party what Bill Clinton did to the Democrat Party in his way. In the last congressional race, the Rs did poorly; yet their D replacements have fixed nothing. The congress’s approval rating is 22 percent. As the legatee of Bush, what does baggage does McCain bear? Here are just a few bags: unrestrained spending, huge trade deficits, illegal wars of aggression, empire building beyond our capacity, abandonment of our fallen veterans, war crimes, the elimination of civil liberties with war as a pretext, the death of habeas corpus, favoring Israel over the U.S., the stock bubble, the real estate bubble, collapsing home values, permanent core job losses, true 10 percent inflation, debasement of the currency (They won’t even publish M3 numbers anymore.), torture of prisoners (On October 6, 2006, McCain voted to exempt the CIA from restrictions.), prisoner rendition, deconstruction of the Constitution, opening our borders to everybody and anybody, violations of separation of powers, corruption, and incredible incompetence. I could go on. My question: Is the Republicon nomination worth more than 15 cents? Even if McCain puts nominal Democrat Joe Lieberman on his ticket to demonstrate bi-partisanship and pull in Dems and Independents?
Are you a genuine social conservative? Do you believe in our wonderful Constitution? Are you opposed the Iraq War and its precursor strategies that have killed hundreds of thousands of innocents? Are you fiscally responsible? Do you truly understand the principles of republicanism? Do you believe in marital fidelity? Are you a supporter of free speech? I submit that if your answer to any of these questions is yes, you cannot vote for John McCain and retain your integrity. The lesser of 2 or 3 evils is still evil. In this case, not by a measurable amount.
The party of Ronald Reagan left me years ago. America’s bright beacon of hope, so loved by much of the world for over 200 years, is being reduced to a faint glow in the eyes of the true believers.
We have had some incredibly unqualified and inept people run for and sometimes win the top job. But John McCain must be the most flawed and compromised candidate in our nation’s history.

Won’t you answer my question Mike?
If McCain and Palin are such “mavericks” and they are going to do things so differently from W, then why do all the rich Republicans here in Dallas (you know, the Halliburton people, the big oil people, the investment and insurance people–AIG has a BIG building here) why do they all love McCain so much?
Why have them been giving him SOOO much money?
Why did Sarah Palin come here and do a very very pricey fundraiser at a very exclusive Dallas hotel?
After all, W has been very good them. They are all richer than ever, so why would they be backing someone who would change that?

I guess there it’s okay to be a Democrat and live in a big house. Just not a Repbulican. What do you think the majority of these CEO’s are…check it out their Democrats. So much for Big business and Republicans. I lived in Wahingtons state…the liberal state where a small business has a hard time making. And the big businesses get tax breaks. I also lived in Austin where small businesses thrive…actually it’s booming right now.

Oh my goodness Mike, you are further gone than I thought.
CEOs are overwhelmingly Republican because that’s the party that lines their pockets.
Meg Whitman, Carley Fiorina, Richard B Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, all CEOs (just an introductory list). The Enron guys (Ken Lay for example) BIG Republicans.
AND J D I am afraid you are a bit confused.
The world laughed at us when he put a wannabe cowboy in the White House.
AND they laugh at John McCain’s VP pick (she’s an international joke).
They don’t laugh at Obama. They take him very seriously.
Most of the world regards the possibility that we will elect Obama as a sign that the United States might be returning to its senses.

Maybe BHO should be running for President of the World.
Or does that campaign start 143 days after he takes office?

– Or does that campaign start 143 days after he takes office? –
Might want to check up on that ‘fact’ :)
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/832119/is_is_true_that_barack_obama_only_has.html?cat=75
It’s just so sad to see what would be considered normally rational people take the fear and ignorance bait, hook line and sinker.. and in most cases, not even realize it.

Concerned,
I meant you seem more charitable than I am (about granting them that they are rational).
Its really time to go…

VOTE NO – MCCAIN IS A BAD CANDIDATE – VOTE NO
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McCain: has a 90% PRO BUSH voting record
McCain: is a racist who voted against MLK becoming a national holiday
McCain: has NEVER voted on ANYTHING that benefitted the middle class.
McCain: has insulted Americans intelligence with fear mongering and smears.
McCain: chose Palin as his running mate
McCain: wants to stay in Iraq for alteast 10 more years. @ ($10 billion per month)
McCain: has no economic plan/health care plan/education plan
McCain: believes our current economy is strong
McCain: wants to make the billion dollar tax breaks for the rich permanant.
McCain: is a 72 year old Republican millionaire in bad health
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VOTE NO – MCCAIN – VOTE NO

The world laugh’s at us because they watch the same media you do. They spin the facts to control your mind. And appears they’re doing a good job. And by the way some one mentioned VA hospitals. I recently met a guy that lost his leg in Iraq and was at Walter Reed for weeks. He claims he was interviewed by two major networks and they didn;t like his story. He said some spoiled brat started the whole story and the media ran with it. Walter Reed was a fine facility and the medi distorted the facts to get a story.

Ahh, it seems the night crew has arrived.. good night guys.. long day tomorrow.. I’ll leave you to fend off the rabid right fear mongers :)
Obama 2008 – it’s good for America

The choice should be clear. You like the way the last 8 years has been vote for McCain, you don’t like the way it has been and a change is needed vote for Obama. If someone is on the fence now, I don’t understand!

Imagine how dumb America will look if Sarah and I get in? But my friends, we will FIGHT,FIGHT,FIGHT all the way… Barack is the smarter guy and I think he can fix a lot of our problems, but we’ll show everyone we don’t need that in the White House. Let’s give more welfare to the rich and let them take care of the working class like they are so good at. That’s called stimulating the economy my friends. A helping hand for the needy, disabled, out of work middle class, elderly, disabled veterans, is just plain Socialism, Communism, Marxism, or any other bad thing you can think of my friends. SHARING THE WEALTH? Why that’s crazy talk. Us rich guys gotta stick together and keep it all for ourselves! I am not talking to you folks that make less than $200,000 a year, your just plain dummies like Joe, but I’ll take your votes anyway. I am not going to live in any less than 8 houses, why should any of us important folks like myself have to?! My friends, we can win this and further separate us wealthy bunch from the middle class, together we’ll create the top 5% Super Rich and a 95% dirt poor. Just the way it should be! Are ya with me my friends, let’s FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, to keep it all for ourselves. That darn Obama is just looking out for the needy, disabled, out of work middle class, elderly, disabled veterans.—– I approve this message.

All Obama supporters, do you really want to give any politicians regardless parties unchecked powers to control and change anything they want???
Think harder before you cast your freedom away and assuming Obama-pelosi-Raid will give you a few hundred Dollars. Absolute power corrupt people.
1. Barney Franks already promised to raise tax across board. Hold on your wallet.
2. Obama said that he would allow Bush’s tax cut expire, another word for tax increase. Family making $25000 will pay $700 more, People make $50000 will pay $2500 more, Those make $75000 will pay $3000 more.
3. You pay more on things you buy, because business pass tax increase to you by raising prices
4. Millionaire Obama and his rich friends Kennedy, Pelosi and Fannie Mae CEOs do not pay more tax, only you the middle class pay more, because they hide their money in the Trust. They do not represent middle class.
5. Obama will raise Social Security tax, medicare tax, medicaid tax, unemployment insurance tax, capital gain tax, death tax, etc
Obama-Pelosi-Raid do not care about middle class, they only want your money to control you and to give to the people of his chosen such as voting fraud organization ACORN and his wife’s hospital that doubled her salary to $300,000 in return.
Chad, try to find some more credible reasons to accuse him if you don;t want say you are simply racist

I think John McCain should have done this same thing even though he doesn’t have nearly as much money as Obama does. I just hope and pray that it’s complete waste of time and money for Obama. I’ve voting for McCain. I made up my mind a long time ago. McCain doesn’t want to raise anyone’s taxes! Obama is a tax and spend liberal!

How much tax money is burned into wars, even some imagined enemies. We could use these money to built a better world instead. So just cut off the non-necessary expenses, no need to increase anybody’s tax, we could do better than McCain, who is tooooo negative. His philosophy is examctly the same old school as Bushs’, which cannot fit in the new world any more.

Dear carlyonsue,
We are all tax and spend liberals. We live in a liberal democracy- the crowning achievement of Western Civilization.
We all enjoy the benefits of the spending that our taxes enable. Did you, for example, go to school? Do you drive your car on a… road? If your house catches fire tonight, will firefighters come and put it out?
Let’s quit this silly game of pretending that we don’t appreciate what taxes do for us. It doesn’t fly.

We cannot afford the ineptitude of Sarah Palin and John McCain after eight years of George W. Bush.Over the past few weeks we have had the opportunity to see the real John McCain—irrational, hateful and just plain out of touch with reality. This isn’t the person whom we need to lead our nation.If the man is this angry, what would he do in a crisis? God forbid.McCain’s anger is telling about his history of a lack of judgment. He’s a good poster child for an anger-management class. he is so out of touch , when people are loosing their jobs and homes in bad economy,he still supports the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy while ignoring low income people.His latest proposal of the day, an “only” $300 billion bailout for the gamblers or idiots (or at best,those caught up in a national “pay later” mindset) who bought house than they afford.How can McCain call himself a fiscal conservative, and not a socialist, with a straight face? I am conservative republican and will vote for Obama.

ABC did NOT turn down the offer to broadcast this program. Obama did not want to air it on ABC. Get your facts straight.
It is a good thing to have this program. Tehre are so many LIES and SMEARS out there and the IGNORANT who disagree with the principle that taxes on the wealthy will destroy America. They MUST pay, if they made thier money here. I am lookin forward to seing what he has to say – without being interrupted by the GOP lies.

Mark – Democrats have been waiting a long time to get rid of GOP. Swing voters and undecided’s are one thing, but there isn’t a staunch Dem anywhere in the country who isn’t voting for Obama! The only people Obama inspires to ‘hold their noses’ are GOP.

Good for ABC for not airing this program. I think it is in bad taste that Mr. Obama used the time slot of the World Series to do his program. He could have chosen any other time and did not. I appreciate ABC for not airing this.
Posted by: D Adams | Oct 28, 2008 10:13:19 PM
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You’re IGNORANT! Obama is not airing on ABC because he did NOT BUY TIME on ABC.
How American of you to put BASEBALL as more important than this election! You should not be allowed to vote; and I hope that you are not.

Anyone voting for McCain hasn’t really looked into his health care plan…if you want to call it that… Look McCain has no good new ideas…He has been in the Senate so long that he has become part of the problem and he is certainly not part of the solution. His campaign has been so out of touch, so negative and so inconsistent…Hey, does that sound like the definition of “erratic” to you and is that what we need as Pres….not for me..

The Los Angeles Times is refusing to release a videotape that it says shows Barack Obama praising a Chicago professor who was an alleged mouthpiece for the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was a designated terrorist group in the 1970s and ’80s.
According an LA Times article written by Peter Wallsten in April, Obama was a “friend and frequent dinner companion” of Rashid Khalidi, who from 1976 to1982 was reportedly a director of the official Palestinian press agency, WAFA, which was operating in exile from Beirut with the PLO.
Click here to read the original LA Times story: ‘Palestinians See a Friend in Barack Obama.’
In the article — based on the videotape obtained by the Times — Wallsten said Obama addressed an audience during a 2003 farewell dinner for Khalidi, who was Obama’s colleague at the University of Chicago, before his departure for Columbia University in New York. Obama said his many talks with Khalidi and his wife Mona stood as “consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases.”

The Los Angeles Times is refusing to release a videotape that it says shows Barack Obama praising a Chicago professor who was an alleged mouthpiece for the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was a designated terrorist group in the 1970s and ’80s.
According an LA Times article written by Peter Wallsten in April, Obama was a “friend and frequent dinner companion” of Rashid Khalidi, who from 1976 to1982 was reportedly a director of the official Palestinian press agency, WAFA, which was operating in exile from Beirut with the PLO.
Click here to read the original LA Times story: ‘Palestinians See a Friend in Barack Obama.’
In the article — based on the videotape obtained by the Times — Wallsten said Obama addressed an audience during a 2003 farewell dinner for Khalidi, who was Obama’s colleague at the University of Chicago, before his departure for Columbia University in New York. Obama said his many talks with Khalidi and his wife Mona stood as “consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases.”

The world series doesn’t start till 8:30, dummy

King Obama can film it but he cannot force me to watch it. There is still Andy Griffith, M*A*S*H, and I Love Lucy. And you can find a John Wayne movie most any time of day. A REAL AMERICAN!

The GOPs legal thuds are in place so if the election is to close they can figure a way to steal the election as before.

“Bush Administration to talk to Taliban”
—Obama gets slammed by the Rep for suggesting we have to talk to enemies sometimes and start using the tool called deplomacy. Now that is exactly what the Bush administration is doing. Obama also pushed for a time frame in Iraq and got slammed for it, and low and behold a couple of months later, a time line was pushed by the Bush administration. Seems like Bush listens to Obama.

News producer Jesse Watters takes you on a tour of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s new mansion — including Greek columns, endless garages, golf course, and more…
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/28/a-tour-of-jeremiah-wrights-new-mansion/</p

When Senator McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, he violated the first tenant of a President – KEEP THE COUNTRY SAFE. She is dangerously unprepared; so as a Republican, I cannot vote for John McCain in good conscience. Most Republicans I know feel the same way.

I am a lifelong registered republican who is an “older white economically distressed woman” who is scared to death of John McCain getting into office. I don’t want an impulsive, angry and mercurial person trying to lead me anywhere. If JM is trying to “reach” me, it ain’t working as I have not heard or read anything that gives me information as to what and how he plans to do to help the USA get back on track. I could care less that he is a POW and been in the Senate for eons – apparently that is ALL he has to offer. And what’s with his wife? Michelle Obama has been out there activately supporting her husband, while Cindy (Barbie doll #2) just stands there like a stick, in her houte coutour clothes, smiling like a Cheshire cat. Does she even have a voice? Some first lady she’d make. And don’t even get me started on Sarah. I’ll take Tina Fey anyday – if you switched the two, the GOP would get the better deal with Tina – brains, sense of humor and the ability to actually grasp the issues.
This is one “older, white, economically distressed female” who knows the straight talk express derailed a long, long time ago and I’m walking away from the wreckage as fast as I can.

All McCain has are lies and smears. When people hear the true McCain when he is not permitted to tell lies without being called on it, as they did in the debates, people move in huge numbers to Obama. We need a president with some courage and character, not John McCain who will say and do anything to advance himself.
VOTE OBAMA / BIDEN ’08!!!!

It seems like either the national polls might be right or the state polls might be right but not both. The huge state poll leads 25% about in Cal. NY, Ill for Obama only 15% for McCain in Texas seem to be saying that out of these 4 state Obama will be wasting over 10 million more votes than McCain. Everything else is just tight or not that big. If the state polls are right Obama should be leading by more than 5 or 6 points. If the national polls are right Obamas state polls look wrong
by enough that he could actually lose many swing and even leaning states.

If you don’t think power corrupts take a good look at John McCain. He is physically addicted to it. Most men his age would be satisfied with a 26 year career in the senate. But no, not “that one”.
He wants power so badly that getting it justifies any and all means to that end.
McCain dodders around telling whatever lies they give him to mouth, no matter how foul. He spouts fear, incites McCarthyism, ethnic and racial hatred at every opportunity. No matter that people are worried and fearful enough that they will be unable to pay their bills and feed their family.
McCain offers no real help to these people.
His concern is for the people who have corrupted him, Oil company executives, Banking and Insurance company C.E.O.s and now Military Arms Manufacturers.
“power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”
Don’t let “That One” get absolute power.

I think I missed the part where you can vote via text-message on whether this infomercial was lame or not.

Barack Obama seems like a man of integrity. However, I have found it extraodinarily insulting the way he has focused on the over $250,000 per household income level as some indicator of wealth and greed. I happen to be one of those who has worked his ass off and taken advantage of opportunities to create a great career for myself, and yes, I make very good money…well over $250,000. Has anyone heard Mr. Obama or his political advisors say where people like me fit in with his vision for change, other than as a source of additional tax revenue to redistribute? This morning on Good Morning America, I listened to Clair McCallister (Dem. Mo) say that Barack Obama will cut taxes for working people. It was a revelation to me to find out that I stopped being a worker the minute I became successful (defined by making more than $250,000 I guess. I felt liking reaching inside the TV and strangling her.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I am thankful for the fact that I am in the position I am in. It is just that I don’t feel like I and people like me really have any value to the Barack Obama version of society, other than as a source of revenue for him to orchestrate his own personal vision of wealth redistribution.
Oh well, the next time the charities come calling for help, I’ll just have to tell them to go see Uncle Barack.

I am puzzled how Obama’s tax policies sound like socialism when they are the same rates people paid under Clinton.
It is common sense, not socialism, that for capitalism to work a healthy middle class is necessary.
Businesses need customers, the more the merrier. People who are having a hard time affording necessities aren’t going to have the money for ‘extras’.

Hey, this is off-subject, but I just want to give a shout out to Howard Dean and his 50-State Strategy.
I remember when he moved those graphics straight from his DFA website to the DNC website.
He took a lot of flak from the DLC types, but he stuck to it. And today, the race is being fought almost entirely on what was once thought to be untouchably red turf.
Good job, Howard Dean!

Too bad ABC couldn’t agree to air the ad when everyone else did…just another straw for the Right to pick.

To bad Hillary figuered out how to beat obama she was just about one month to late to win.
Posted by: al | Oct 28, 2008 11:36:16 PM
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Here is a slant on your comment that I think even George Stephanopoulas will enjoy: Hillary Clinton knows full well the limited experience and voting record of Sen. Barach Obama (D) for IL.
With such a close race and her fairly high approval rate in the primary, why not wait…Let Sen. Obama take the helm, hopefully win in November, speak with eloquence, demonstrate his limited experience with mediocre presidential accomplishments. In 3 years…. election time will gear up again and with true perfection her biggest opponent, Mr. Obama, will have single handledly dismantled himself as a viable candidate. Political strategy at its finest.