By Lee Speigel

Oct 8, 2008 10:01pm

Pre-Rally Speakers Invoke Obama’s Middle Name

ABC News’ Imtiyaz Delawala reports: Two pre-rally speakers in the last three days have invoked Sen. Barack Obama’s middle name “Hussein” in their warm-up speeches at McCain and Palin events, prompting the campaign to distance themselves from the remarks.

At a pre-rally speech in Bethlehem, PA today, Lehigh County GOP Chairman Bill Platt referred to the Democratic presidential candidate twice by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama. Critics charge that such references wrongly imply that Obama is Muslim, when he is in fact a practicing Christian. While Hussein is a traditional Arabic name, Obama was named after his Kenyan father who shared the same name.

The McCain campaign sought to immediately distance themselves from the remarks today, which were made well before Sen. John McCain and his running mate Gov. Sarah Palin had arrived at the event.

As McCain spoke to the crowd of thousands at the indoor rally, the McCain campaign released a statement, saying. “We do not condone this inappropriate rhetoric which distracts from the real questions of judgment, character, and experience that voters will base their decisions on this November."

In a pre-rally speech on Monday in Estero, Florida, Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott also referred to Obama by his middle name, telling the crowd of nearly 9,000 Palin supporters, “On Nov. 4, let’s leave Barack Hussein Obama wondering what happened,” prompting loud cheers from the crowd as Scott walked off stage. Scott’s remarks came as part of a string of warm-up speeches while Palin attended a private fundraiser in nearby Naples, FL, over an hour before she had arrived at the event site.

According to the Fort Meyers News-Press, an investigation has now been opened into whether Scott violated the Hatch Act by engaging in political activity while on duty and in uniform. The local ACLU and NAACP chapters have also asked for an apology.

Scott, who became sheriff in 2005 and is currently up for reelection, says he does not regret his remarks. “I absolutely, unequivocally don’t regret saying it,” Scott told the News-Press on Monday. “In order to be a speaker at this event, I had to give my full name — Michael Joseph Scott — to the Secret Service, even though I’m the sheriff of Lee County. So why would I apologize? Is there some kind of double standard here where I have to give my full name, but I can’t use his?”

“Unless he changed his name, my position hasn’t changed,” said Scott of Obama. “It seems very clear to me that people have one of three stances on this thing: There are those who dislike it, there are those who like it, and there are those who think it’s a whole big deal about nothing, which is where I stand.”

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Web Archives Confirm Barack Obama Was Member Of Socialist ‘New Party’ In 1996
In June sources released information that during his campaign for the State Senate in Illinois, Barack Obama was endorsed by an organization known as the Chicago “New Party”. The ‘New Party’ was a political party established by the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) to push forth the socialist principles of the DSA by focusing on winnable elections at a local level and spreading the Socialist movement upwards. The admittedly Socialist Organization experienced a moderate rise in numbers between 1995 and 1999. By 1999, however, the Socialist ‘New Party’ was essentially defunct after losing a supreme court challenge that ruled the organizations “fusion” reform platform as unconstitutional.
After allegations surfaced in early summer over the ‘New Party’s’ endorsement of Obama, the Obama campaign along with the remnants of the New Party and Democratic Socialists of America claimed that Obama was never a member of either organization. The DSA and ‘New Party’ then systematically attempted to cover up any ties between Obama and the Socialist Organizations. However, it now appears that Barack Obama was indeed a certified and acknowledged member of the DSA’s New Party.
From the October 1996 Update of the DSA ‘New Party’:
“New Party members are busy knocking on doors, hammering down lawn signs, and phoning voters to support NP candidates this fall. Here are some of our key races…
Illinois: Three NP-members won Democratic primaries last Spring and face off against Republican opponents on election day: Danny Davis (U.S. House), Barack Obama (State Senate) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary).”
http://web.archive.org/web/20010306031216/www.newparty.org/up9610.html
http://politicallydrunk.blogspot.com/2008/10/web-archives-confirm-barack-obama-was.html
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26913

Posted by: LightSeeker | October 8, 2008, 10:12 pm 10:12 pm

What’s wrong with that??????
Do you want more names?????
Barack Hussein Obama……
Barry Soetoro…..
Best choice is:
McCAIN/PALIN ’08

Posted by: Nicholas | October 8, 2008, 10:16 pm 10:16 pm

This is dishonest:
“In order to be a speaker at this event, I had to give my full name — Michael Joseph Scott — to the Secret Service, even though I’m the sheriff of Lee County. So why would I apologize? Is there some kind of double standard here where I have to give my full name, but I can’t use his?”
They are doing it to spread fear and suggest that Senator Obama is somehow “foreign” and “dangerous” – no other reason.

Posted by: Wiscon108 | October 8, 2008, 10:17 pm 10:17 pm

The lack of respect, or really their disdain they show Obama is telling. It speaks to the fringe, which is becoming all their campaign is about anyway.

Posted by: MIguy | October 8, 2008, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm

That’s alright as long as McCain uses his middle name “lying POS”. AT least that what I hear most often, John “Lying POS” McCain said today, etc.etc.

Posted by: JR | October 8, 2008, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm

Barack Hussein Obama – The man who is afraid of his own middle name.
What a wimp!
PUMA! McCain/Palin 2008 – In lieu of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party which ignores her sex.” – Susan B. Anthony

Posted by: LeeLee07 | October 8, 2008, 10:27 pm 10:27 pm

John McCain served on the board to the U.S. chapter of an international anti- Semitic terrorist group that supports ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America. John McCain is a terrorist sympathizer who condones the murder of innocent civilians.
It’s true, see for yourself at usatoday.com
Link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-10-07-mccain-iran-contra_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

Posted by: Fairfax | October 8, 2008, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm

I would much rather be known as Hussein than “Sydney”. Sydney is a girls name. Ive always thought mcCain is a closet homosexual.

Posted by: Jo | October 8, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm

SO WHAT if your offended by his middle name you won’t vote for him anyway. Boo freakin’ hoo!

Posted by: hmn | October 8, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm

gObama! Nothing but lies being posted here by losing Republicans!
OBAMA/BIDEN ’08
Vote for Change!

Posted by: PropagandaRefuter | October 8, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm

What I find that is hard to understand, Is that neither canadate can lower taxes, increase or decrease spending. that is the house of rep. responsibility. I find that Obommas statement the he wants to use a knife instead of an ax to trim the budget sounds real good but the President does not have line Item vetos. Why are they so bent on making miss leading statements. Are they afraid to break the mold and lay blame on the real problem and that is the house of reps. Would It wake the nation that the controlling party is really the blame for the current problems, but wanting to try to impede a lame duck president and cause all the cauous and step back and point the finger at President Bush and say it is his fault. People wake up we were attacked and wall street fell like a rock but came back and reached all time highs just a few monts ago. Now we have a very bias news media that does not present issues but views and is trying to dictate what opinions americans have. Presenting polls that does not reflect my views. I have not recieved one poll call nor have I talked with anyone that has. I believe that the news media are going to find out about the “silent majority” will not accept the bogus and outright blaint liberal views that is being touted as progress in the name of change.
Cheers, Rex

Posted by: rex | October 8, 2008, 10:32 pm 10:32 pm

Your right McCain is a lying piece of s**t, and so are his supporters.

Posted by: SemperFi | October 8, 2008, 10:34 pm 10:34 pm

The McCain campaign meekly denounced the “Hussein” stuff, so they consider that off limits. Yet somehow connecting Obama with “domestic terrorists” – when there are no facts to back it up – is OK…
http://www.political-buzz.com/

Posted by: matt | October 8, 2008, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm

Hussein is Obama’s middle name. That is a simple fact. Stop reporting such idiotic stories! Be a journalist for once. We are sick and tired of ABC reporters whinning about everything not pro-Obamaish! True unbiased,fair journalism is dead at ABC. A sad group of opinion givers work there!

Posted by: mom4USofAmerica | October 8, 2008, 10:43 pm 10:43 pm

Hussein is Obama’s middle name. That is a simple fact. Stop reporting such idiotic stories! Be a journalist for once. We are sick and tired of ABC reporters whinning about everything not pro-Obamaish! True unbiased,fair journalism is dead at ABC. A sad group of opinion givers work there!

Posted by: mom4USofAmerica | October 8, 2008, 10:43 pm 10:43 pm

Don’t you honestly think it’s more important who the VP is for Obama?

Posted by: Marcus | October 8, 2008, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm

These stupid republicans are more concerned with someones name then they are concerned for America.
Under pressure of being 11% and 120 electoral votes behind, the true colors of the republicans are showing through: Racism, bigotry, facism.
Barack Hussein Obama has won this election. His 11%/120-electoral lead surpassess any presidential election in history.
Why does Obama have this commanding lead? Because republicans have sickened America with their lies, racism, bigotry, facism, deceit, and raping of the American people.
The rotting, stinking corpse of republican ideology is gasping and spewing blood and feces. Expect more of the same for the next 4 weeks.

Posted by: clifton | October 8, 2008, 10:56 pm 10:56 pm

So what this is the stupdest thing ever, if you don’t like your middle name, change it!! If not stop whining about it. If he becomes President they will use it on inaguration day, it will be on the invitations, it will be on the television screen, it will be used to swear him in. If you have a problem with people using the name given to him by his parents maybe he should not be running for President, this is lunacy and idiotic that no one can use his name.

Posted by: kim | October 8, 2008, 11:00 pm 11:00 pm

These stupid republicans are more concerned with someones name then they are concerned for America.
Under pressure of being 11% and 120 electoral votes behind, the true colors of the republicans are showing through: Racism, bigotry, facism.
Barack Hussein Obama has won this election. His 11%/120-electoral lead surpassess any presidential election in history.
Why does Obama have this commanding lead? Because republicans have sickened America with their lies, racism, bigotry, facism, deceit, and raping of the American people.
The rotting, stinking corpse of republican ideology is gasping and spewing blood and feces. Expect more of the same for the next 4 weeks.

Posted by: clifton | October 8, 2008, 11:01 pm 11:01 pm

Yep Clifton – blood and feces about sums up your candidate .. is he home holding hands with Murtha degrading our troops??

Posted by: Cindy | October 8, 2008, 11:04 pm 11:04 pm

You can call Barack whatever name you want. But on November 5th, you can call John McCain “Toast”.

Posted by: Jonz316 | October 8, 2008, 11:05 pm 11:05 pm

A House of Representative candidate for sure. Very logical gentleman.

Posted by: Rickey | October 8, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

A House of Representative candidate for sure. Very logical gentleman.

Posted by: Rickey | October 8, 2008, 11:09 pm 11:09 pm

Here we go again with this “terrorist” Ayers.
Let me ask you stupid republicans a question. If Ayers was a terrorist, why isn’t he in jail? Why was he never charged with terrorism? Why is he just a regular guy, working as a college professor, when terrorism carries a life sentence?
Could it be because he’s not a terrorist, just a guy who opposed the vietnam war at a time when America had pretty well God Damned itself by drafting our young men to go die in a presiden’t stupid war?
Ayers is no terrorist. Yet all you stupid republicanbots believe it’s so just because McWar and McFailin’ say so at rallies.
America is God Damned… but only for 4 more weeks.

Posted by: clifton | October 8, 2008, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm

Hillary had already warned us of the subprime morgage mess. But she also warned us about Obama. Shame on you Mr. Obama.

Posted by: young_voter | October 8, 2008, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm

I find it hard to believe that McCain doesn’t approve this considering it didn’t start happening until he started his Obama-is-un-American advertising push

Posted by: TRBoston | October 8, 2008, 11:14 pm 11:14 pm

Between McCain’s “Holy Rollers” and Obama’s “Red Brigades” could somebody wake me when this is OVER! I’m tired of the childish babbling on here. No wonder you folks need a “leader” to tell you what to do. I thought once one reached the age of reason they didn’t need a mommy or big brother anymore. Sadly some folks just can’t make it unless somebody they don’t even know tells them what they think or what to do. Tragic.

Posted by: hmn | October 8, 2008, 11:15 pm 11:15 pm

I was more offended that McCain referred to me as a prisoner today. “My fellow prisoners”.. LOL!

Posted by: Mitch | October 8, 2008, 11:15 pm 11:15 pm

While everyone is talking about President Obama’s middle name, has anyone checked out the American deaths in Iraq for the past 3 months:
July – 13 US soldiers killed
August – 23 US soldiers killed
September – 25 US soldiers killed
Violence is inreasing in Iraq. The surge FAILED. Not politically correct to say so, but a fact none the less.
But let’s get back to President Obama’s middle name, because that’s what we republicans must focus on.

Posted by: clifton | October 8, 2008, 11:16 pm 11:16 pm

You know, if Obama is sworn in as President, will he not take the oath by saying his name in full? He had so many years to get rid of his name. It shows that he is very proud of his heritage — whatever that might be. One point to note also is, according to the Islamic religion, if you are born into a Muslim family, you are a Muslim and cannot be “born again” into some other religion.

Posted by: Jane | October 8, 2008, 11:16 pm 11:16 pm

Lightseeker – Head towards the light and don’t look back!

Posted by: Mitch | October 8, 2008, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm

Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin, what if things were switched around?…..think about it.
Would the country’s collective point of view be different?
Ponder the following:
What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including
a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?
What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe
disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?
What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while
he was still married?
What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain
killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five?
(The Keating Five were five United States Se nators accused of corruption
in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings
and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)
What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
What if Obama couldn’t read from a teleprompter?
What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included
disc ipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?
What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many
occasions, a serious anger management problem?
What if Michelle Obama’s family had made their money from beer distribution?
What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?
You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality,
do you really believe the election numbers would b e as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes
positive qua lities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in
another when there is a color difference.
Educational Background:
Barack Obama:
Columbia University – B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware – B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law – Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
John McCain:
United States Naval Acade my – Class rank: 894 of 899
Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University – 1 semester
North Idaho College – 2 semesters – general study
University of Idaho – 2 semesters – journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College – 1 semester
University of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.A. in Journalism
Education isn’t everything, but this is about the two highest offices in
the land as well as our standing in the world. You make the call.

Posted by: richardcranium1 | October 8, 2008, 11:20 pm 11:20 pm

Lehigh County GOP Chairman Bill Platt’s use of the word Hussain on Barack Obama is an indication of someone who is primitive in the 21 century in the US. No matter how many times Obama and his surroggates say, he is no Muslem, people see him as a Christian, Platt’s use of the name Hussain to potray Obama as a Muslem is ignorant and primitive. He may say this is politics, but never mind. His ideology matters. No wonder why McCain is loosing because he is surrounded by people like Platt.

Posted by: Bobby | October 8, 2008, 11:22 pm 11:22 pm

The DNC and liberal media are the ones who don’t want Obama’s middle name spoken. Names have meanings especially in certain parts of the world. In America, Hussein strikes a certain cord. Certainly not Obama’s fault, but still it’s his name and if he becomes President as he lays his right hand on the Koran, I mean the Bible, he will have to recite his full name as he is sworn in. Will “journalists” cry foul then and imply that our country’s oath of service is somehow racist?

Posted by: Puka | October 8, 2008, 11:22 pm 11:22 pm

Jane wrote – “according to the Islamic religion, if you are born into a Muslim family, you are a Muslim and cannot be “born again” into some other religion.”
Hey Jane – according to the United States Constitution, if you are born in America, you are born into a country whose Constitution requires separation of church and state, and which states as illegal discrimination based on religion.
Not sure what country you think you live in, but this is America. Whatever confederate nation of racist bigotry you are from, go back there.

Posted by: clifton | October 8, 2008, 11:24 pm 11:24 pm

The day we swear in a president whose middle name, Hussein, cannot be spoken for fear of reprisals, is the day that America the beautiful, land of the free and home of the brave will cease to exist. May the Good Lord have mercy on our souls!

Posted by: steelwaters | October 8, 2008, 11:29 pm 11:29 pm

There is nothing wrong with the name Hussein. It means “blessed”. Only you racist bigots who do not realize we have more allies in the Muslim world that enemies make fun of it. Do you nut cases realize that 1 billion people are Muslim around the world.
BUT THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE BARACK!
But what if it did, SO WHAT!
Have you forgot there was a King Hussein of Jordan who was a friend of Israel and negotiated a peace agreement with them. He was the father of the current king Abdullah, an incredible smart and energetic young leader in the Muslim world, and pro-American.
So get real and stop the attacks on his middle name.

Posted by: Mike | October 8, 2008, 11:31 pm 11:31 pm

There is nothing wrong with the name Hussein. It means “blessed”. Only you racist bigots who do not realize we have more allies in the Muslim world that enemies make fun of it. Do you nut cases realize that 1 billion people are Muslim around the world.
BUT THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE BARACK!
But what if it did, SO WHAT!
Have you forgot there was a King Hussein of Jordan who was a friend of Israel and negotiated a peace agreement with them. He was the father of the current king Abdullah, an incredible smart and energetic young leader in the Muslim world, and pro-American.
So get real and stop the attacks on his middle name.

Posted by: Mike | October 8, 2008, 11:31 pm 11:31 pm

I think it’s absolutely dispicable that a peace officer would so blatenly lie about his motives.Palin encourages it and McCain hides behind her skirt. The sheriff used Barack’s middle name to invoke a negative response from the audience. Does he really think the American people are that stupid? Does he shave his head or is he just naturally a skinhead? Maybe he should cover that shine up with a big white sheet.

Posted by: Bea | October 8, 2008, 11:31 pm 11:31 pm

There’s nothing wrong with using his full name if your intent is pure. The intent of these speakers is to fire up a crowd’s xenophobic and partisan tendencies.

Posted by: wow? | October 8, 2008, 11:31 pm 11:31 pm

There is nothing wrong with the name Hussein. It means “blessed”. Only you racist bigots who do not realize we have more allies in the Muslim world that enemies make fun of it. Do you nut cases realize that 1 billion people are Muslim around the world.
BUT THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE BARACK!
But what if it did, SO WHAT!
Have you forgot there was a King Hussein of Jordan who was a friend of Israel and negotiated a peace agreement with them. He was the father of the current king Abdullah, an incredible smart and energetic young leader in the Muslim world, and pro-American.
So get real and stop the attacks on his middle name.

Posted by: Mike | October 8, 2008, 11:34 pm 11:34 pm

I think this plays to the Fox News base. I think it puts off the Independents, who just want to hear about the issues. This is why the polls are moving to Obama.

Posted by: just sayin' | October 8, 2008, 11:35 pm 11:35 pm

Clifton, in today’s world Ayers would be viewed as the worst of terrorists and given the harshest sentence. Remember our own home-grown terrorist bombings in Oklamhoma? The reason Ayers was not convicted was because the investigation was botched.
Senator McCain has every right to question Obama’s poor judgement which has exemplified itself in his dealings not only with Ayers, but also with Tony Rezko and his shady real estate deals and not to forget his association and very recent defense of Jeremiah Wright, who is like an uncle to him. To most of America, Rev. Wright is a hate monger.
Obama’s defense of his relationship with Ayers will not fly with most Americans who are not of the Liberal kind. For Obama to say that the Republicans are trying to frame him for having a relationship with a man who commited terrorist acts on our nation when he was only 8 years old is tantamount to saying I like Hitler or Pol Pot because I don’t know exactly what they did.
Obama was thirty something years old when he engaged Ayers to kick off his campaign for his Senate seat in Chicago. That was a decision he had to make as an adult and not as an 8 year old child. And this certainly scares some people who are trying to understand who this newcomer in politics really is.
John McCain’s problem is that he has run a bad campaign by not framing the real concerns people have of Obama in the right way. And that’s to the detriment of his campaign.

Posted by: Jane | October 8, 2008, 11:35 pm 11:35 pm

The more I think about this Hussein debacle, the angrier I get. What is thi? We have begun to lose our freedoms and he has not even been elected yet! What are we becoming? A bunch of sniveling cowards?
As far as I’m concerned, Obama can take his middle name, Hussein, and stick it where the sun don’t shine. Yeah! I said it! I said it! I SAID IT! HUSSEIN!

Posted by: steelwaters | October 8, 2008, 11:36 pm 11:36 pm

Jane, most Americans vote on issues that affect them, such as the economy. the voters, like yourself, who vote on fear and baseless nonsense are slipping into the minority in this country. barack obama is only scary to those who don’t want a change in the status quo. unfortunately for you, most Americans see their 401ks dwindling and they link it to the deregulation policies of the Republicans and John McCain.

Posted by: huh? | October 8, 2008, 11:39 pm 11:39 pm

steelwater, you can say it. you just look silly.

Posted by: Knowledge is Good | October 8, 2008, 11:40 pm 11:40 pm

John Mkkkain is not a racist!!!!period.

Posted by: Adams | October 8, 2008, 11:45 pm 11:45 pm

The Sleaze bucket McCain & his Racist wit.. He’ll do anything to Win an Election.. This is the “Joke” you Republicans want to put in office..
John McCain continues to argue that he has some longer record on Capital Hill that better qualifies him for public office. Yet few know that an ugly part of this record is John McCain’s long history of telling bigoted, racist and homophobic jokes at Bullfeathers lounge in Washington, D.C. to his friends over drinks. McCain also has a long record of opposition to virtually every piece of legislation dealing with civil rights or Gay rights..
At times, McCain is far less than trying to be funny. Such as this quote that sums up the real John McCain political philosophy:
“I play to win. I do whatever it takes to win. If I have to “f” my opponent to win I’ll do it. I won’t give it a second thought”.—-John McCain
In addition to being a ruthless and caustic politician, McCain has long held bizarre views, calling respected South African leader Nelson Mandela, “A terrorist”, offered some support for White Supremacists George Wallace, Jr. and former KKK leader David Duke, and calling the children of divorced fathers, “far babies”. For 27 years, McCain continued to use the ugly term, “gxxk” to refer to all Asians, and not just those Vietnamese who mistreated him as a POW.
After a week of running some outrageous personal attack ads against Obama that avoided issues and were simply personal attacks in nature, racist candidate McCain has fallen slightly behind in the presidential race according to new polls by Gallup and Rasmussen. Racist candidate McCain, needs to be taken at his word when he claims that he plays “to win” and will “do whatever it takes to win”. With his personal racist sentiments it must be highly personal for McCain when his opponent is a well educated, handsome, young African American, which reflects the type of highly personal nature of the attacks ads that racist candidate McCain is using to destroy his opponent. McCain has always made race an issue during his entire career as a politician. And 2008 is unfortunately no exception for McCain. Same old McCain. Same old racism
This Old Goat will Never, Ever get my Vote!

Posted by: dvine | October 8, 2008, 11:45 pm 11:45 pm

Is it important for the president and his family to exhibit Christian values in every aspect of their lives? John McCain broke his vows & deserted his crippled first wife. He is an adulterer, and maybe even a coward, for not honoring his vows. His second wife Cindy may be an adulteress as well. They were married in a lavish society wedding one month after McCain’s first marriage was dissolved. A Christian name is no guarantee of integrity & honor. John McCain may be an adequate president, but are he, and his wife and family, adequate role models for our children. If John McCain becomes president, will I have to make excuses & explanations, to my son and other children, on the forgiveablity of divorce, the forgiveability of deserting a woman who was brought to the alter and bound bound in a covenant of love and devotion? Similarly, if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will I have to explain to my daughter the acceptability of becoming a teenage mom? It seems hypocritical all around

Posted by: bcblue84 | October 8, 2008, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm

If it’s his name, why worry about this?

Posted by: Christie | October 8, 2008, 11:47 pm 11:47 pm

The McCain/Palin campaign rallies are more like KKK meetings than anything else.. If these two are elected it’ll set this Country back many, many years..

Posted by: dvine | October 8, 2008, 11:50 pm 11:50 pm

Mike I agree completely. People equate muslim with terrorist and it’s just an assumption. A wrong one at that. Muslim extremistis are terrorists. Even Christianity has extremists. Didn’t one blow up the ERM building in Oklahoma?The KKK used twisted bible verses to justify their actions. It’s all the same, just different names.

Posted by: Bea | October 8, 2008, 11:51 pm 11:51 pm

So let me get this straight, who are really the racist people here? The ones who use his birth name? Or the ones who condemn the use? Why is usage of the name so offensive to you? Who is really the ignorant, racists in this entire situation?

Posted by: kim | October 8, 2008, 11:51 pm 11:51 pm

Only human garbage resorts to the implication-laden rhetoric that the republicans are now using. We’ve seen appeals to prejudice before – particularly in 1930′s Germany. Sadly, there’s no shame in the ranks of republicans – for unjustified wars, mass-murder, squandering of our financial resources, and appeals to prejudice, racism, and stupidity. Even more sadly is to see how efffective the lowest of low roads is for so many of our intelligence-challenged population. McCain’s a bum – and Palin is simply an embarrassment.

Posted by: Bob | October 8, 2008, 11:54 pm 11:54 pm

Don’t forget.. the reason why we can’t bring liquids on planes and why we have to remove our shoes is due to British terrorists!

Posted by: Concerned American | October 8, 2008, 11:54 pm 11:54 pm

Biden would of picked Hillary for vp. Hussein Obama should of picked Hillary, but he picked Biden, and he would of never picked Palin, becous she is a women. And he dont want to offend his Muslim brothers and His muslim cousin Odinga in Kenya. So if Hussein Obama is president, All women will be left behind.

Posted by: Jan | October 8, 2008, 11:55 pm 11:55 pm

I don’t think he would have picked Hillary.. Biden was a much better choice.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 8, 2008, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm

Sheriff Michael Joseph Scott has given the voters of the County a solid reason not to vote for him. He publicly sought to agitate hostile feeling towards a Presidential candidate, a matter the Secret Service does not take lightly. The man is a raciest in a police uniform. Such uniformed persons were once known as ‘Peace Officers.’ Scott, in my view, falls short of this title.

Posted by: Lou R | October 8, 2008, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm

Jan, I’m sure that’s why he married a woman with an Ivy League education and a law degree.

Posted by: Ignorance is Bad | October 8, 2008, 11:59 pm 11:59 pm

the following has Johns full name so it must be OK… PAST IS PROLOG
There were over 400 men held by the NVC. The torture they inflicted on these men was harsh, but they stuck to the Code of Honor. Then came a young man a pilot who was shot down. He was in need of medical help, so to get the help he wanted he abandoned the CODE. With information from that man, the NVC moved their anti-aircraft guns to the flight paths provided by this man and many a pilot died. When the prisoners were released they were given promotions for their time in prison. John Sydney McCain when released was NOT provided with a promotion. Do you dare take a jab at the reason?
McCain / Palin
LIES before HONOR

Posted by: Kim | October 9, 2008, 12:00 am 12:00 am

So when it is a crime in America to mention someone’s middle name?
Barrack Hussein Obama, is’nt that his real name?
Why is it a crime to point it out.

Posted by: Greg h | October 9, 2008, 12:01 am 12:01 am

Hey Knowledge Is Good,
It may be the case that knowledge is good but it doesn’t sound like it applies to you. BTW, shouldn’t you be off worshipping Hussein?

Posted by: steelwaters | October 9, 2008, 12:01 am 12:01 am

Jane, Obama worked with Ayers. And I find it interesting that no one questions him working at a University. So every student, their parents, all the people working there, everyone who attended the fund raiser, the people of Chicago, and every person that has come into contact with Ayers, should be seen as a terrorist supporter and their judgement should come into question. This happened forty years ago. No one has heard from Ayres since then. So I’m assuming that the 60′s are over and quite possibly the man is trying to live his life. If a person’s judgement is going to come into play, then lets look at everyone that has ever attended a McCain fund raiser.Including all of his wife’s contacts too.

Posted by: Miki | October 9, 2008, 12:02 am 12:02 am

Why is it racism to point out someone’s middle name?
Has America gone completly mad?
Hussein is the legitimate middle name of Obama, infact Barrack Huseein Obama is used in his passport.
Why is it such a big deal to point it out.
If Obama is not happy with his middle name, why did’nt he change it.

Posted by: Greg h | October 9, 2008, 12:03 am 12:03 am

There is a segment of our population that are ignoramus miscreants with a negative IQ and they populate the Republican party.
Historians sometimes wonder how Hiler ever managed to get control of Germany and turn it into the fascist state of Nazi Germany. It was with people like these that attend the Palin rallies and with individuals like Slimey Sarah who seems to be good at provoking the most base of emotions from them. NOW we know why the GOP/Rove machine forced Grandpa McCain to choose her. The Pits is good at what she does best, slinging slime. One day soon, it will all come back on her. BTW, she known as Palinocchio in Alaska.

Posted by: maximus | October 9, 2008, 12:04 am 12:04 am

President Barack Hussein Obama has a great ring to it. Better get used to it wingnuts!
Obama/Biden ’08

Posted by: Chris | October 9, 2008, 12:04 am 12:04 am

Kim, it’s not the usage of Barack’s middle name. It’s the connotation. It’s the reason they say it. The emphasis being on Hussein. Because the dimwits at their rallies think it means he’s a terrorist. It’s the implication that’s offensive.

Posted by: Bea | October 9, 2008, 12:06 am 12:06 am

– Obama worked with Ayers –
Which is a tenuous connection at best.. nothing like McCains real and direct ties to Islamic militants in Kosovo or the terrorists he covertly funded in Nicragua to overthrow the government. I was in Nicaragua during that time, and the brutality was mind boggling.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 9, 2008, 12:07 am 12:07 am

President Barack Hussein Obama
You are SOOO! RIGHT that is sounding BETTER all the time… I like it. Sounds like Honor and Respect.
OBAMA/BIDEN 08′
McCain / Palin
LIES before HONOR

Posted by: Kim | October 9, 2008, 12:09 am 12:09 am

Steelwaters, You have a narrow view of things, which is why you probably voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004. Fortunately, most Americans vote on the issues that affect them. Perhaps you don’t have a 401k, but most do and they are affected by the policies of deregulation, which McCain has supported for 26 years. The politics of fear and diversion won’t work. I could care less if you say Obama’s middle name because I am educated and not fearful of people whom have different backgrounds than me. There are many like you, just not enough to win this one for McCain. You simply sound silly.

Posted by: Knowledge is Good | October 9, 2008, 12:10 am 12:10 am

“Hussein” is a muslim name……..
“Obama” is a Kenyan name…….
“Soetoro” is an Indonesian name….
Best choice is:
McCAIN/PALIN ’08

Posted by: Nicholas | October 9, 2008, 12:11 am 12:11 am

Washington Post and Chicago Tribune reported that Barack Obama’s former backyard neighbor and current convicted felon is now co-operating with fed investigators about Chicago Mob politicians like Blagojevich and Barack Obama.
Barack should get all the fraud votes from his co-felons at ACORN, because he has to be president to pardon Rezko and fire all the US attorneys.

Posted by: Convict A1584597 | October 9, 2008, 12:11 am 12:11 am

We all know if Obama’s middle name was Joe then these speakers would never even say his middle name when speaking of him. But because it is an ethnic name that just happens to also be the last name of the former dictator of Iraq these guys are hoping to prey on the prejudices of the uneducated. These people weren’t voting for Obama anyway so it doesn’t matter. It is nothing more than another example of how far McCain has fallen. Not only will he never be President but now he has lost his integrity. Ambition can be a good thing unless it requires you to lose your ethics. McCain has become a joke almost as much as his moronic running mate.
Obama/Biden ’08

Posted by: Chris | October 9, 2008, 12:12 am 12:12 am

McCain’s middle Name is Sidney !!!……
John SIDNEY McCain………..How about Johnny “Sisssssssssy” McLame !!!!!!….So Reps are going to say…but that’s NOT his real name…Then Obama shouldn’t be called…….barack….HUSSSSSSSEIN…obama….EITHER !!!…..Name Calling DOESN’T WIN ELECTIONS !!!!!!!

Posted by: skyglider2008 | October 9, 2008, 12:14 am 12:14 am

Apparently Nicholas votes based on names

Posted by: Concerned American | October 9, 2008, 12:15 am 12:15 am

Nicholas, George Bush. Now there’s a good American name. How’s that working for us?

Posted by: wow? | October 9, 2008, 12:16 am 12:16 am

– Nicholas, George Bush. Now there’s a good American name. How’s that working for us? –
Not only that, but have you noticed the VP’s first name?
Apparently Nicholas wasn’t paying attention, or wasn’t old enough to vote back then

Posted by: Concerned American | October 9, 2008, 12:19 am 12:19 am

Why are we spending so much time on a name, did we have a say in what name we were given, does that really say what sort of person we are, aren’t there more important things to talk about!

Posted by: gnight | October 9, 2008, 12:23 am 12:23 am

Republicans must remember voters hate them much more than Obama. That’s why republicans are going down as losers this election.

Posted by: McCain/Palin = Corporations First | October 9, 2008, 12:23 am 12:23 am

The good in all this is after Barack Hussein Obama becomes our President he will lend such HONOR to the office that in upcoming generations President Barack Hussein Obama will be a focal point for people naming their children. HE who laffs last.

Posted by: Kim | October 9, 2008, 12:25 am 12:25 am

If Obama was so ashamed of his middle name ‘Hussein’ then he should have changed it to something else.
Barrack Obama is ashamed of his middle name and his country, but he wants to be US President! Go figure.

Posted by: Greg h | October 9, 2008, 12:25 am 12:25 am

– more important things to talk about! –
Absolutely.. but you see, the problem is that most McCain supporters are completely unable to carry on a meaningful discussion on why they support his position, and any discussion usually revolves around name calling, guilt by association or other fallacies, spouting off of standard GOP sound bytes or some ad hominem attack.
Makes it kind of hard.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 9, 2008, 12:27 am 12:27 am

Greg h, I don’t think he is ashamed nor should he be.

Posted by: huh? | October 9, 2008, 12:27 am 12:27 am

By the way, for those who believe in guilt-by-association:
Obama served with Ayers on a board for charitable community work that was organized by a conservative Republican, Walter Annenberg, who was friends with Ronald Reagan and whose wife gave an endorsement today to the McCain campaign.

Posted by: davep5 | October 9, 2008, 12:28 am 12:28 am

– Barrack Obama is ashamed of his middle –
Please cite where he has said he was ashamed of his name.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 9, 2008, 12:28 am 12:28 am

Hey Knowledge is Good,
I still say it is not apparent that knowledge applies to you. This is especially true demonstrated by your willingness to make assumptions about me when in fact you know nothing about me. And as I communicate to you, I will be sure to keep it that way. You should make time to become knowledgable about the things of which you speak. By doing so you might actually begin to live up to your name. Right now though, you continue to fall short! HUSSEIN TO THE POWER OF INFINITY!

Posted by: steelwaters | October 9, 2008, 12:32 am 12:32 am

If the man does not like his middle name being used, then he should change it. It’s that simple. He retained that name so he could imply someone was being racist or to imply he is a terrorist. He is making use of it in a way that helps him.
I have never heard of anyone refusing for their middle name to be used before. I have heard of people changing their names. Why did he not do that unless he wanted to use it as a weapon against others or is he using it to appeal to Muslims? I think he is the one who wants it used to garner sympathy from the media and those who would only vote for him with a name like Hussein. What a whiny girlboy he is.

Posted by: ronda | October 9, 2008, 12:33 am 12:33 am

– If the man does not like his middle name being used, then he should change it. It’s that simple. He retained that name so he could imply someone was being racist or to imply he is a terrorist. He is making use of it in a way that helps him. –
Now THAT is just plain ignorant.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 9, 2008, 12:35 am 12:35 am

‘Please cite where he has said he was ashamed of his name.’
Then why is Obama so concerned and upset when people mention his middle name? Obama has been crying about foul tactics.
After all Obama has sent the Feds after a Florida sheriff who referred to Obama’s middle name.

Posted by: Greg h | October 9, 2008, 12:35 am 12:35 am

Call Obama whatever you want, after this election you can call him “Mr. President”.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 12:36 am 12:36 am

Steelwaters, Debate may not be your thing. Your anger doesn’t further your argument. McCain is down in the polls because he uses the tactics of fear and diversion, but issues matter. The economy is in disarray and so the silliness doesn’t resonate. I know all that I need to know about you based on your silly posts. Gallup: Obama 52, McCain 41.

Posted by: Knowledge is Good | October 9, 2008, 12:38 am 12:38 am

– Then why is Obama so concerned and upset when people mention his middle name? Obama has been crying about foul tactics. –
Apparently, the point of the article, and the way Palin (and many, many others) is using it to incite intolerance, escalating in some instances to chants of ‘kill him’ escaped you.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 9, 2008, 12:39 am 12:39 am

ronda,
good point.
I have never seen someone who has raised such a stink his middle name.
Obama is such a whiny,girly man who threatens to send the Feds when people refer to his middle name.

Posted by: Greg h | October 9, 2008, 12:39 am 12:39 am

So, Obama is the only one that can say his name, If anyone else says it it’s racist. It absolutely bogles the mind that this guy has gotten this far.
I can’t believe the American people are falling for this guilt trip he’s had everybody on from the very beginning. If you disagree with him, you’re racist, if you mention his background or childhood muslim school, you’re racist, say his middle name, you’re racist, mention his association with terrorist and criminals, you’re racist, question his and his wife’s anti-american preacher and views, you’re racist.
Come on people, are we really this gullible.
You would rather elect someone that will run this country into the ground, than be called a racist.

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 12:41 am 12:41 am

‘Apparently, the point of the article, and the way Palin (and many, many others) is using it to incite intole’
Yeah nice pointless diversion. After all if just simply referring to someone’s middle name is causing killer instincts as you claim, this is laughable.
It seems to me that Obama wants to have it both ways, he is proud of his middle name and also not proud of it.

Posted by: Greg h | October 9, 2008, 12:42 am 12:42 am

Greg h
Are you illiterate? Thats not why the sheriff is beeing investigated. No wonder McCain campaign struggles. He only has the extremists and uneducated racists backing him now…

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 12:42 am 12:42 am

I can see Dems passing a new law saying it will be a felony to mention Obama’s middle name. They might add it to the hate crimes bill.

Posted by: Greg h | October 9, 2008, 12:43 am 12:43 am

Steelwaters, ronda, Greg h:
Wow. Y’all make a great argument. I was gonna vote for Obama based on the economy, but now I think I’ll vote for McCain. It’s all in a name plus I don’t like whining.
I’m kidding here folks. The economy sinks and you three think that Obama’s middle name is the problem with this country? Wow again.

Posted by: Funny | October 9, 2008, 12:44 am 12:44 am

JoeShmoe ,
Are you dumb as box of rocks? The Sheriff is being investigated because he referred to Obama’s middle name. Do you really think if he would have been investigated if he had not done so?
He is not the first sheriff to campaign for a candidate, then why is Obama sending the feds after him.

Posted by: Greg h | October 9, 2008, 12:45 am 12:45 am

‘ The economy sinks and you three think that Obama’s middle name is the problem with this country’
It is Obama who is raising such a stink and fuss about people using his middle name, not regular Americans complaining about it.

Posted by: Greg h | October 9, 2008, 12:46 am 12:46 am

The judgemental ignorance is astounding. I feel like I’m in a time warp.

Posted by: Bea | October 9, 2008, 12:47 am 12:47 am

Jane wrote – “Clifton, in today’s world Ayers would be viewed as the worst of terrorists and given the harshest sentence”
Jane, you’re out of your mind. Ayers is nothing but a college professor.
A terrorist is someone who kills innocent Americans. In today’s world, it is our current president who is the worst of the terrorists – Killing 4,180 American soldiers for a lie.
That is why, Jane, OBama is leading this race by the largest margin (11% / 90 electoral votes) of any presidential candidate in history.
Because when you line up Ayers (Obama’s acquataince) with Bush (McCain’s acquaintance), there is simply no comparison when you’re talking about who’s pallin’ arround with terrorists.
The “harshest sentence” you refer to is the 25% approval rating of your drunk pres’dint.

Posted by: clifton | October 9, 2008, 12:50 am 12:50 am

Greg h, because he’s an officer of the law. At the very least he practically insighted a riot. Not to mention he’s a racist pig, pun intended.

Posted by: Bea | October 9, 2008, 12:51 am 12:51 am

So true Funny. They’re REALLY grasping anything that can save McCains already sinking campaign. The fact is that McCain is old, and he is old news. He gambled that going negative would save his campaign, but we already see its going nowhere. I think the fact that John McCain hired the same sleeze that started the smear campaign against McCain and ‘his black illigitimate black child’ in 2000 says it all. The man has no integrity left.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 12:53 am 12:53 am

From an AP report 9 hours ago:
“McCain has called the use of Obama’s middle name both improper and inappropriate and once apologized after a supporter warming up a rally used it. Referring to Hussein — a name Obama shares most famously with deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein — is widely viewed as an effort to link Obama to radical Islam even though he is a Christian with no such ties.
Shouts of “socialist,” “terrorist” and “liar” from supporters followed McCain’s references to Obama at Lehigh University.”

Posted by: Concerned American | October 9, 2008, 12:54 am 12:54 am

And yet, still not a single McCain supporter that can discuss his stance on the issues or why they support them.
Sad.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 9, 2008, 12:55 am 12:55 am

Jane.. just for fun, google “McCain and KLA” or “McCain and US council for World Freedom” or “McCain and World Anti-Communist League”
Go ahead.. it’s fun, really.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 9, 2008, 12:57 am 12:57 am

Can you imagine if the son of a Republican who is on the McCain team, hacked into Obama’s email and looked at his private account and emails what this country would have done? First, we would have found so much more than the NOTHING they found on Gov. Palin. This kid better get 5 years and pay the $250,000 and the father should be removed from the Obama campaign.
NEVER EGO FIRST OBAMA……
COUNTRY FIRST McCAIN/PALIN!!!!!
Hope all 30% of the Hillary supporters that are voting McCain have long memories….and do not forget her treatment by BO and media…..all FIVE AND A HALF MILLION OF US…let’s make the difference.

Posted by: hanna | October 9, 2008, 12:59 am 12:59 am

NA!NA!NA!NA! NA!NA!NA! HEY! HEY! McCain GOOOOOODDDBYYEEE!! We are not prisoners. Once again he just can’t get it right. What more will it take for certain people to realize that McCain is just really a poor excuse for a man. He graduated from the very bottom of his class. Obama graduated no.1. McCain cheated on his wife and married the woman that he was having an affair with. Obama has been married to his wife for 16yrs. America knows who show true leadership. If people idea of a great President is : A “D” student that barely got his “D”iploma. Favorite word is “D”eregulate. Has signs of “D”ementia. If elected, WE ALL ARE DOOMED!” OBAMA/BIDEN

Posted by: PROUD AMERICAN | October 9, 2008, 1:01 am 1:01 am

Fear tactics aren’t working. Look at Pollster.com for a listing of national and state polls. Things aren’t looking good for camp GOP. They wanna talk about anything but the issues. The problem is that Americans care about the issues.

Posted by: Silly Strategist | October 9, 2008, 1:01 am 1:01 am

Greg h
You just proved my point, if you think the sheriff beeing investigated because of Obamas name. Then you truly have some problems. I will try to spell it out slowly so you maybe understand:
H A T C H A C T. Political activity during duty in uniform. The military, nor the law inforcement cannot make political ‘shows’ like this while in duty or in uniform. Have someone explain to you, even though i doubt you’ll ever get it.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 1:01 am 1:01 am

– Can you imagine if the son of a Republican who is on the McCain team, hacked into Obama’s email and looked at his private account and emails what this country would have done? –
Yeah.. pretty much the same.. not much.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 9, 2008, 1:02 am 1:02 am

hanna, Hillary has endorsed Obama. Hillary is campaigning for Obama.

Posted by: huh? | October 9, 2008, 1:03 am 1:03 am

JoeS.. you really are fixated on this one, aren’t you?
Come on, tell us how you think McCains health plan is better than Obamas.. I dare you.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 9, 2008, 1:05 am 1:05 am

John “Sydney” McCain IV
That’s NOT a name I would trust to understand the problems ordinary working Americans have to deal with today.
————————
A mother who names her kids…
Track, Trig, Bristol, Willow, Piper…
Well, I must say I find her a little suspect, too.
She must be smoking weed. :-) Those are the kind of names a pothead would think are cool.

Posted by: m@chiavelli | October 9, 2008, 1:07 am 1:07 am

Knowledge Is Good,
If merely speaking the name HUSSEIN is causing so many people so much grief, then HUSSEIN should get rid of his name PERIOD. What is this country coming to when speaking a presidential candidate’s name warrants a Federal investigation? Is this America–land of the free and home of the brave or some country being governed by a dictatorship? We have a constitutional right to freedom of speech and if HUSSEIN can’t respect that–than he doesn’t need to be running for president PERIOD. I repeat, HUSSEIN TO THE POWER OF INFINITY! Now arrest me!

Posted by: steelwaters | October 9, 2008, 1:12 am 1:12 am

People in COLORADO, INDIANA, OHIO, MICHIGAN, NEVADA and NORTH CAROLINA… Regardless of who you’re voting for, please double check to see if you’re REGISTERED TO VOTE! You may have been removed from rolls just like thousands of others. Tell your family and friends to check if they’re still registered too!
Here’s the story:
Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, according to a review of state records and Social Security data by The New York Times.
The actions do not seem to be coordinated by one party or the other, nor do they appear to be the result of election officials intentionally breaking rules, but are apparently the result of mistakes in the handling of the registrations and voter files as the states tried to comply with a 2002 federal law, intended to overhaul the way elections are run.
Still, because Democrats have been more aggressive at registering new voters this year, according to state election officials, any heightened screening of new applications may affect their party’s supporters disproportionately. The screening and trimming of voter registration lists in the six states — Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Nevada and North Carolina — could also result in problems at the polls on Election Day: people who have been removed from the rolls are likely to show up only to be challenged by political party officials or election workers, resulting in confusion, long lines and heated tempers.

Posted by: ES | October 9, 2008, 1:12 am 1:12 am

After watching the performance’s of Palin at this rally and her inability to say “No” to those in the audience threating to “kill” Obama, I really knew then that many Americans are not willing to have change. As for the Sheriff who started ranting to a crowd while he was “on duty and in uniform” hopefully he will have his badge pulled and be made an example of.
This campaign is about the people suffering at the hands of Republicans and Democrates in Washington who are still giving to their buddies on Wall Street. Its about our neighbors and families losing their homes, jobs, retirements, and health care. The public needs to realize that the games McCain and Palin are playing with name calling and threats are just coverups for the real problems we are all facing. Maybe Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ike were not enough to wake everyone up. Maybe 9-11 has faded into many Americans lives. We have men and women fighting in other countries while their homeland is falling apart. Can someone honestly say that the last 8 years or even the last 20 years have been great for you? Can you honestly vote for someone who has no sense of need when thousands of Americans are going homeless? Why should Cindy McCain care about the millions of us who are losing our homes when she owns 8 including vacation homes, is heir to the Budwieser fortune, which recently sold out to a foriegn country, and who has never had to fight to keep food on her table, clothes on her childrens backs and never had to wonder if next months bills could be paid. McCain cannot even stick to one program in a campaign, how will he stick to one as President. Oh and please look at the Big Bailout People, there is an Earmark in it for Palin and Alaska, the fishermen in her state will get big tax breaks from now on, and McCain voted for it!! Yep, golly gee, he did, as Palin would say!! In last nights debate he said he has not voted for any Earmarks in years!! I will agree also that Obama is rich and may not be suffering like the rest of us either, but, sometimes we have to take a chance, to make a Change. Besides the only other answer would be to write in Hillary Clinton or “Walter”Jeff Dunhams Dummy!!

Posted by: CatMWorrilow | October 9, 2008, 1:19 am 1:19 am

steerlwaters,
Again, nobody says you can’t say a name. It’s a bit silly the way you want to say it to infinity and beyond, like you have a Buzz Lightyear complex. The Sheriff is in trouble for campaigning in his uniform, not his words.
Meanwhile, the American people are moving towards Obama simply because McCain’s supporters cannot discuss the issues that are affecting them. HINT: It starts with economy.
If you really think you are advancing your cause, then go at it. I think there are some like you, who cling to fear. I also think that most are beyond this sort of silliness, which is why McCain doesn’t use the name calling tactics in nationally televised debates.
Obama is winning. Your rants won’t change that.

Posted by: Knowledge is Good | October 9, 2008, 1:20 am 1:20 am

I tell you McCain had my vote, but these types of bozos have caused me to back the less experienced Obama. McCain’s not the problem, its the right wing haters. Unfortunately, McCain must lose in order to stand up to that nonsense. Sorry McCain, I wanted to vote for Hillary but she lost, backed you instead since you showed leadership, but in the end must go with Obama to drown out the nonsense. That’s just the way it is.

Posted by: WestCoastMessenger | October 9, 2008, 1:20 am 1:20 am

steelwaters
Maybe stupidity should be against the law too, but bad news for you is then you would be locked up forever.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 1:21 am 1:21 am

– I tell you McCain had my vote, but these types of bozos have caused me to back the less experienced Obama. –
Please tell me why you were a McCain supporter to begin with? You mention experience.. was that your criteria or did you have others?

Posted by: Concerned American | October 9, 2008, 1:22 am 1:22 am

There are plenty of facts that tie Obama to Bill Ayers..just don;t take my word for it…read the recently released papers by the Univ of Illinois that detail the work that Obama did for Ayers…and you can judge for yourself….no.. Ayers wasn;t just “someone I knew in the neigborhood” as Obama claims.

Posted by: Truthteller | October 9, 2008, 1:23 am 1:23 am

Truthteller, is this like McCain and Charles Keating, who was actually convicted of a crime.

Posted by: Wheels on the Bus | October 9, 2008, 1:25 am 1:25 am

Q.B.C has rejected three of my posts.Seems that want me to kiss MCcain’s a$$.

Posted by: orangecat | October 9, 2008, 1:27 am 1:27 am

So, this is what the McCain’s campaign has been reduced to…invoking Obama’s middle name.
And they wonder why American’s aren’t supporting his candidacy!

Posted by: m@chiavelli | October 9, 2008, 1:27 am 1:27 am

– Ayers wasn;t just “someone I knew in the neigborhood” as Obama claims. –
Yes, we have already established that some time ago (months?) A tenuous connection at best still..
Now go google “McCain and KLA”
then googlel “McCain and US Council for World Freedom”
or “McCain and World Anti-Communist League”
or “McCain and McCain Albanian American Civic League”
And see what a real terrorist supporter McCain is.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 9, 2008, 1:28 am 1:28 am

John “Cindy” McCain, wow that sound like a sissy name…..

Posted by: Big AL | October 9, 2008, 1:32 am 1:32 am

Use of Karl Rove-ian Best Methods: Repeatedly and regularly point a finger of illegitimacy at the opposing candidate. Repeatedly and regularly point a finger of illegitimacy at any information outlet that might cause the targeted supporters to think too critically or too much about the supported candidate.
Bear in mind, the best thing that can happen for the supported candidate in an endeavor reliant on Karl Rove-ian techniques is that early in the process, based on party affiliation or non-issue based biases or preferences, each supporter strongly or weakly decides to vote for the target candidate and thereafter is never subjected to any new election information; 2nd preference – said supporter will automatically reject new election information critical of supported candidate based on a programmed perception that the source is illegitimate; 3rd preference – any time the Rove-ian operative sees the potential for the commission of a bad act by anyone remotely connected to the adversary’s side, particularly bad acts that the Rove-ian operative’s side has already committed or is in the process of committing, accuse the other side of the bad deed, preferably while bombastically displaying righteous indignation in the presence of the target voter.
Of course, such “Best Methods” are dependent on what appears to be a Karl Rove-ian view that implicitly and emphatically asserts the general and natural gullibility or prejudice of the American electorate. In the words of Kurt Vonnegut, “And so it goes.”

Posted by: DMD | October 9, 2008, 1:33 am 1:33 am

Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 9, 2008 1:28:29 AM
Now go google “McCain and KLA”
then googlel “McCain and US Council for World Freedom”
or “McCain and World Anti-Communist League”
or “McCain and McCain Albanian American Civic League”
And see what a real terrorist supporter McCain is.
——
And we should thrown in Gov. Palins’ ties to the Alaskan Independence Party – a party dedicated to seceding from Alaska (she was friendly, her husband was a registered member).
——
Palin is not the loyal patriotic “American” she makes herself out to be.
True, patriotic Americans do not wan a secessionist like her one heart-beat away from the Presidency.
Sarah Palin is the Jefferson Davis of our time:-)

Posted by: m@chiavelli | October 9, 2008, 1:35 am 1:35 am

“invoking Obama’s middle name” … what is this? … like who cares what his middle name is … Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden said he was not qualified to be President … and I believed them … and politics doesn’t change it for me!!

Posted by: Cassandra Washington | October 9, 2008, 1:39 am 1:39 am

Not to mention KKK, John McCain is endorsed by a domestic terrorist organization. John McCain has not rejected or condemned KKK. Let the republicans talk about Ayers, their hypocrasy shows when their candidate is supported by the largest terrorist organization in America today.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 1:40 am 1:40 am

WestCoastMessenger,
You are as much a McCain supporter as Bin laden is for Bush. Quit fooling around. There are many Hillary voters who are not happy with Obama and his bunch of extremist loons hijacking their Democrat party.

Posted by: Greg h | October 9, 2008, 1:41 am 1:41 am

Knowledge Is Good,
HUSSEIN, and his followers are using every trick in the book to divert attention away from his lack of experience, his unsavory associations and his lack of readiness to be president. Just ask Joe Biden, his running mate, he said as much himself. Those are the reasons I think he’s unfit to be president, not the fact that his name is Hussein. It’s a very common name in the Muslim world so why would I have a problem with that? HUSSEIN, unfortunately, happens to be the weakest candidate left standing and that’s why he’s not my choice for president. Can’t you accept that? It has nothing to do with his name. HUSSEIN TO THE WHAT? TO THE POWER OF INFINITY. I’m going to bed now–I’m sleepy. Goodnight.

Posted by: steelwaters | October 9, 2008, 1:42 am 1:42 am

I think it is funny and effective to invoke the middle name of Barack “I’ve not really accomplished anything” Obama. His middle name is HUSSEIN…where’s the problem? Obama supporters, just gather at the pavillion and drink the kool-aid. Obama can do no wrong and is our new “Christ and Savior” At least that is what the mindless and the media wish us all to believe. I don’t walk goose step to a Cult of Personality. Period!

Posted by: Heath | October 9, 2008, 1:42 am 1:42 am

JoeShmoe,
Answer the question. Is this the first Sheriff to publicly campaign for a candidate. Answer no. Then why is he being investigated.
Even many Obama supporters acknowledge here openly that Obama sent the Feds after him because he referred to his middle name.

Posted by: Greg h | October 9, 2008, 1:43 am 1:43 am

What is in a name! Every person has a name given by their parents when they are born. No one can fault a name and condemn a person just because they are named differently. Perhaps, what makes a person great is that his name is different than everyone else. Hussein is a good name and pretty common around the world. If Hussein can provide us leadership, bring our troops back home and end the war in Iraq, bring back investment and jobs to the US and steer our economy back to the right direction, then it will be Hussein I will vote for!

Posted by: ;@ | October 9, 2008, 1:43 am 1:43 am

What is in a name! Every person has a name given by their parents when they are born. No one can fault a name and condemn a person just because they are named differently. Perhaps, what makes a person great is that his name is different than everyone else. Hussein is a good name and pretty common around the world. If Hussein can provide us leadership, bring our troops back home and end the war in Iraq, bring back investment and jobs to the US and steer our economy back to the right direction, then it will be Hussein I will vote for!

Posted by: ;@ | October 9, 2008, 1:43 am 1:43 am

– Americans do not wan a secessionist –
Well, to be honest, I supported the Florida Keys seceding from the US and forming the Conch Republic :)
But that was all in fun, and was at the time of the Mariel boatlift when the US Border Patrol closed off the border between Key Largo and Florida City to stem the flow of Cuban immigrants into Florida. Residents were tired of the claims that they were looking for immigrants, yet searching glove boxes and suitcases in a guise to find drugs being smuggled, and causing backups miles long at the county border leaving the keys. We had some nice T-shirts made up and drank lots of rum.
Nothing like them guys in Alaska, but I guess if I ever decided to run for President, it could come back to haunt me in these current mud slinging times where just about anything can be used as an attack.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 9, 2008, 1:43 am 1:43 am

– Obama can do no wrong and is our new “Christ and Savior” –
Sorry, but wrong on both counts..
Obama has a better platform for changing the direction of this country.. period.
McCain would be taking us down the same road we are on just with his tax plan alone. I can’t believe people still think trickle down taxation works even though is has proven to be such a disaster time and time again… yup, looks good on paper.. but that don’t mean it work in the real world, and hasn’t over and over again.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 9, 2008, 1:52 am 1:52 am

Greg h
As far as the other sheriffs campaigning, were they in duty & uniform?
Do you trust anonymous people posting on this board rather than fact checking press? What is the complaint that the investigation is based on? Greg why dont you give U.S. Office of Special Counsel a call, they submitted the complaint. Its the HATCH ACT.
Check the complaint, is it because of Obamas middle name, or is it the Hatch Act?
This is not a rethorical question, answer this please.
Its EASY to look it up its in the article linked: Fort Meyers News-Press.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 1:56 am 1:56 am

Concerned American,
Yeah higher taxes according to Obama are the way to prosperity isn’t it?
It has worked wonders in Germany, France, Spain isn’t it?
Btw what is the unemployment rate in those countries.

Posted by: Greg h | October 9, 2008, 1:59 am 1:59 am

If he is unhappy with his middle name then he should change it to something like Barry, or Osama.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 2:01 am 2:01 am

Obama is an opportunist…because
he run for president before the end of his first term……..
It’s scary……..
Obama manipulated the caucuses,DNC and party leaders and got the nomination..
It’s scary………….
Obama had bad connections with anti-
americans and convicted felon Tony
Rezko……….
It’s scary……….
His economic plan is higher taxes and
big government…….
It’s scary……….
His VP Biden said:He’s un-fit for
commander in chief…….
It’s scary………
I can go on and on………
Best choice is:
McCAIN/PALIN ’08

Posted by: Nicholas | October 9, 2008, 2:01 am 2:01 am

“Yeah higher taxes according to Obama are the way to prosperity isn’t it?”
Tax us into oblivion. That Bstard is spending 29 million a week on attack ads.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 2:03 am 2:03 am

“concerned american” I agree that ‘trickle-down economics’ is imperfect and I’m sure that you(as is obvious from your sttement) would much rather have Obama, Pelosi et al tax our sorry tails unmercifully and give the proceeds to the poor and recalcitrant that elect such as their ilk, which begs the question: ” when the communist( oops ) Democrat party control the House, the Senate, and White House and turn their Union goons loose on the country, where will you be able to hide from them???? HMMMMM???

Posted by: cuznmikie | October 9, 2008, 2:09 am 2:09 am

LightSeeker, I don’t care! I care about our 401K. I care about our grocery bill,heating our home, putting gas in the car, providing a good life for our children, high health insurance premiums etc. And from what I’ve seen in the last two debates Obama seems to have my best interest in mind. How can John McCain relate to people like me. He has 7or 9 homes (I have only one), 13 cars(we have two), and Mrs. McCains convention outfit cost over $300,000 that’smore than the worth of my home. His new 300 billion plan for homeowners benefits the institutions that got us into trouble and hurts the taxpayer. People who work hard and worry about the economy don’t care about the dirt politicians dig up we care about what’s best for our country and our families.

Posted by: Carolyn | October 9, 2008, 2:12 am 2:12 am

I hear John McCain is going to raise taxes for anyone who owns less than 8 houses. If you own more than 8 houses you get a tax cut.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 2:13 am 2:13 am

“”concerned american” I agree that ‘trickle-down economics’ is imperfect and I’m sure that you(as is obvious from your sttement) would much rather have Obama,”
What the dummys are unable to comprehend is that small businesses employ a majority of the American workforce. The small business owners have stated that if Obama is elected and their taxes are raised, they will have to let people go. Dimwits are going to vote themselves out of a job or any chance of getting one.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 2:15 am 2:15 am

“I hear John McCain is going to raise taxes for anyone who owns less than 8 houses. If you own more than 8 houses you get a tax cut.”
No one’s taxes will be raised under McCain. Obama promised to raise taxes. f you sit on your ass and collect welfare, then you’ll be fine.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 2:16 am 2:16 am

Obama can do no wrong and is our new “Christ and Savior”
************************************
You know I am sick of you religious nuts, What you mean is that he is in the way of your Christ and Savior Palin.
You people need to get a life, Period. Please get out of mine.

Posted by: Thinking | October 9, 2008, 2:18 am 2:18 am

I looked at both McCains and Obamas tax plan our family will get a bigger tax break under Obama.My wife and I have a combined income of $108,000. My boss who owns the company who makes over 5.5 million a year in salary not including bonuses will get more of a tax break than me or someone who makes even less than me under McCains plan. I work just as hard as him or even harder. I may not pay more in taxes under either candidates plan but I will get a bigger tax break from Obama.

Posted by: Marc | October 9, 2008, 2:29 am 2:29 am

Mack, i dont make above 200 000$ So my taxes will be just fine with Obama, why wouldnt I want lower taxes? Even economists say lower-mid income taxes will decline with Obamas tax plan.
McCain on the other hand wants to protect his rich buddies with making Bush’s taxes for the wealthy permanent…

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 2:30 am 2:30 am

“cCain on the other hand wants to protect his rich buddies with making Bush’s taxes for the wealthy permanent… ”
Do you work for someone else? If you do and their taxes are increased then you’ll vote yourself out of a job. Do you think businesses have a never ending money spigot?

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 2:33 am 2:33 am

OK, up to this point I have watched the two political parties poke and gab each other as one would expect. Mostly keeping to it to the political climate. “Your view’s on how a President should handle foreign policy shows your inexperience”. Or “Your ideas on health care would not help the American people but cause them more money”. “Your ideas will raise taxes”.
And for things that are said or not said. We all make mistakes. Remembering things under pressure and or just not having the facts strength, hey we are all human. I do give allowance for that. As well as each person seeing the same problem, but having different ways of dealing with it. I’m ok with that.
These are things that should be argued by the candidates. I want to hear these types of things. Go for it. Show me what you got, know and have. How are you going to work for me as President of These United States? Poke and gab each other to death on the issues that mean something the American public, ME!!
However, because you are NOT doing well in the polls and on the rode, you use out and out lies. Or when it looks like you might get an edge over the other candidate you back handedly stir up the “Racal Pot” and say that he is or has ties with being a “TERRORISTS”. What are you thinking? Do you want to win so bad that you put a fellow American in possible harms way from extremist that are looking for ANYTHING to hurt and kill?
In Florida on Monday, Palin’s remarks about Obama and Ayers elicited waves of booing from supporters. One person at a rally shouted “Kill him!” according to a Washington Post report. A sheriff who introduced Palin at a rally referred to the Democratic candidate as “Barack Hussein Obama.”
Just a note: The “American” that called Obama “Barack Hussein Obama”, is the sheriff. A man that took the oath, “to serve and protect.”
By stooping into this dark side doesn’t show that you care about “America”. It shows that you are a very sad and angry individual. It shows that the love of God (being a Christian) is not in you. The Christ that I know would NEVER endanger another brother for earthly gains.
Shame on you McCain/Palin. We will all have to stand before Him (God) and answer for all that we have and have not said. You will not have your Political Party there to back you up. Remember God is watching you and us all. Do and say things that will our Lord will say, “Welcome good and faithful Servant, Welcome”.

Posted by: NIA-New Mexico | October 9, 2008, 2:40 am 2:40 am

“My boss who owns the company who makes over 5.5 million a year in salary not including bonuses will get more of a tax break”
Self preservation. Do you think if he gets hammered with taxes that he will keep the same amount of employees out of the goodness of his heart? Please take a look at past history for reference. If he wants to continue making the same amount of money he’ll off set the tax increase by letting people go. Everyone is expendable.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 2:42 am 2:42 am

Mack thats the Bush economic plan, did Bush’s plan work? Why wasnt more jobs created under Bush presidency may I ask? Has the ‘trickle down’ economy worked?
Furthermore, McCains healthcare plan is a tax raise in disguise. The tax credit McCain proposes wont cover full insurance in most cases. Go to Center for American Progress Action Fund and check it out.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 2:43 am 2:43 am

OK, up to this point I have watched the two political parties poke and gab each other as one would expect. Mostly keeping to it to the political climate. “Your view’s on how a President should handle foreign policy shows your inexperience”. Or “Your ideas on health care would not help the American people but cause them more money”. “Your ideas will raise taxes”.
And for things that are said or not said. We all make mistakes. Remembering things under pressure and or just not having the facts strength, hey we are all human. I do give allowance for that. As well as each person seeing the same problem, but having different ways of dealing with it. I’m ok with that.
These are things that should be argued by the candidates. I want to hear these types of things. Go for it. Show me what you got, know and have. How are you going to work for me as President of These United States? Poke and gab each other to death on the issues that mean something the American public, ME!!
However, because you are NOT doing well in the polls and on the rode, you use out and out lies. Or when it looks like you might get an edge over the other candidate you back handedly stir up the “Racal Pot” and say that he is or has ties with being a “TERRORISTS”. What are you thinking? Do you want to win so bad that you put a fellow American in possible harms way from extremist that are looking for ANYTHING to hurt and kill?
In Florida on Monday, Palin’s remarks about Obama and Ayers elicited waves of booing from supporters. One person at a rally shouted “Kill him!” according to a Washington Post report. A sheriff who introduced Palin at a rally referred to the Democratic candidate as “Barack Hussein Obama.”
Just a note: The “American” that called Obama “Barack Hussein Obama”, is the sheriff. A man that took the oath, “to serve and protect.”
By stooping into this dark side doesn’t show that you care about “America”. It shows that you are a very sad and angry individual. It shows that the love of God (being a Christian) is not in you. The Christ that I know would NEVER endanger another brother for earthly gains.
Shame on you McCain/Palin. We will all have to stand before Him (God) and answer for all that we have and have not said. You will not have your Political Party there to back you up. Remember God is watching you and us all. Do and say things that will our Lord will say, “Welcome good and faithful Servant, Welcome”.

Posted by: NIA-New Mexico | October 9, 2008, 2:46 am 2:46 am

As an independent who has voted for both parties in the past.I can say that I do not like this new bail out plan as suggested by McCain last night at the debate. 300,000,000,000 in addition to the 700 billion? The taxpayer will loose. Romney should have won the nomination with Huckabee as VP or at the very least MCcain should have choose Romney instead of Palin. I like the woman but I have serious doubts about her economic,foreign policy, and domestic policy knowledge.

Posted by: logan | October 9, 2008, 2:47 am 2:47 am

Barack “The Man With No Middle Name” Obama-say, does he have a friend named Tuco he hangs out with?
Oh, that’s right-Obama has no friends. Just guys he ‘happens’ to serve on boards with and hear racist, anti-American sermons from for 20 years. Oh, and guys he MAY have known who go to prison.
So, someone above says that McCain is a homo because his middle name is Sydney. That lofty logic just bowls me over and makes me respect the Obamabots soooo much more now!

Posted by: Grand Old Party | October 9, 2008, 2:48 am 2:48 am

Carolyn,
Obama stays in a 5 million dollar mansion in one of Chicago’s priciest suburbs. Surely Obama understands the concerns of the working poor. (sarcasm off)

Posted by: Greg h | October 9, 2008, 2:51 am 2:51 am

I SMELL KARL ROVE.
THE SAME
THE SAME
THE SAME
THE SAME
THE SAME
THE SAME
THE SAME
Anyone else see it?
how low can you go…

Posted by: GIGI | October 9, 2008, 2:52 am 2:52 am

“Mack thats the Bush economic plan, did Bush’s plan work? Why wasnt more jobs created under Bush presidency may I ask? Has the ‘trickle down’ economy worked?”
It’s the difference between having a job and not having a job. You have a job, so it’s worked for you. When your boss’ taxes get raised he will make cuts in other places to off set that increase. Obama can’t force him to not let people go.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 2:52 am 2:52 am

“Carolyn,
Obama stays in a 5 million dollar mansion in one of Chicago’s priciest suburbs. Surely Obama understands the concerns of the working poor. (sarcasm off)”
Doesn’t everyone spend 29 million dollars a week?

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 2:53 am 2:53 am

mack, knock it off. he didn’t marry his money .

Posted by: gigi | October 9, 2008, 2:57 am 2:57 am

“mack, knock it off. he didn’t marry his money .”
He can spend money, I’ll give him that and if he is elected, he will spend our tax dollars just as fast. Smoke and mirrors.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 2:59 am 2:59 am

I’m not buying it Mack. People are sick of the greed and sick of ceo’s walking away with millions while average people pay and a tax plan that benefits the wealthy is not what most people want.

Posted by: Deb | October 9, 2008, 2:59 am 2:59 am

“I’m not buying it Mack. People are sick of the greed and sick of ceo’s walking away with millions while average people pay and a tax plan that benefits the wealthy is not what most people want.”
Not every ceo is wall street tycoon making 200 million a year. 84% of our workforce works for small businesses. When small businesses taxes go up people get laid off. That is just the way it goes. Listen to the small business owners, they are saying that they will let people go if their taxes are raised.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 3:04 am 3:04 am

ronda,
good point.
I have never seen someone who has raised such a stink his middle name.
Obama is such a whiny,girly man who threatens to send the Feds when people refer to his middle name.
Posted by: Greg h | Oct 9, 2008 12:39:44 AM
———————-
you’re an idiot.
No really, if you don’t see what ROVE is doing, you’re an idiot.
what? no more “BARRY this, BARRY that” idiots.
Like William can’t be Bill. OOoOOOooh! Loookiiiieee meeee!!! BILLY BOY!!!
idiots
anyone noticed that you’d have to make over $250K a year to get any real tax $$ under McCain’s plan??? NOooooooo, we’re talking about Barack’s MIDDLE NAME.
idiots. you get what you deserve.

Posted by: GIGI | October 9, 2008, 3:09 am 3:09 am

forgot my source:
Tax Policy Center

Posted by: GIGI | October 9, 2008, 3:10 am 3:10 am

“mack, knock it off. he didn’t marry his money .”
He can spend money, I’ll give him that and if he is elected, he will spend our tax dollars just as fast. Smoke and mirrors.
Posted by: Mack | Oct 9, 2008 2:59:06 AM
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how?
didn’t think so.
shut up.

Posted by: GIGI <------------really tired of these idiots | October 9, 2008, 3:12 am 3:12 am

Not every ceo is wall street tycoon making 200 million a year. 84% of our workforce works for small businesses. When small businesses taxes go up people get laid off. That is just the way it goes. Listen to the small business owners, they are saying that they will let people go if their taxes are raised.
Posted by: Mack | Oct 9, 2008 3:04:52 AM
=============================
what are you talking ABOUT?! which small business owner is gonna get higher taxes??????
You’d have to make over $750K personally A YEAR to be on the tax break that’s gonna get higher taxes under Obama’s plan… YOU CALL THAT A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER??? buddy, A LAWYER makes about $250K!
idiots.

Posted by: GIGI | October 9, 2008, 3:15 am 3:15 am

Self preservation. Do you think if he gets hammered with taxes that he will keep the same amount of employees out of the goodness of his heart? Please take a look at past history for reference. If he wants to continue making the same amount of money he’ll off set the tax increase by letting people go. Everyone is expendable.
Posted by: Mack | Oct 9, 2008 2:42:48 AM
=================================
crowning the king of idiots here! UNREAL! you really think that someone is going to stop making MILLIONS just to avoid paying more taxes?
ARE YOU INSANE?
This isn’t “unemployment” where you rather not work because then your benefits won’t be cut off… this is NOT how business people think, I ASSURE YOU.
GOD!

Posted by: GIGI | October 9, 2008, 3:19 am 3:19 am

As a previously undecided I think the clincher for me at the debate was Obama’s insurance plan. I believe health insurance is a right for every American.I’m sure my story is a common one. My job didn’t provide health insurance, which was ok with me at the time because I am young and have always been healthy. Stupid way of thinking I know, but I honestly didn’t think I would need insurance yet and the cost prevented me from purchasing it. Well, three years ago at the age of 31 I found a lump in my breast. Luckily it was nothing, but the mammogram, ultrasound and surgery cost over $38,000. When you think you may have cancer having to worry about money and loosing everything you’ve worked for is something no one should have to go through. I’m luckier than most in that I’m able to pay off my medical bills and I now have employer provided health insurance (which I can keep under Obama’s plan), but if the lump turned out to be something more I don’t know what I would have done.I know I would have lost my home. It’s not something I would wish on anyone. Unfortunately the financial mess our country is in will make it difficult for any president to do anything about the cost of health care.

Posted by: Susan | October 9, 2008, 3:41 am 3:41 am

One thing is certain, Obama has done nothing to unite the Democrats and the Republicans on this board. From the looks of it, he hasn’t managed to unite the Independents either.
I guess Richard Pryor had it right when he said:
VOTE NONE OF THE ABOVE

Posted by: DisgustedIndependent | October 9, 2008, 3:44 am 3:44 am

SO WHAT! BIG DEAL! IT IS THIS NAME ANYWAY! I CAN THINK OF A LOT OF OTHER NAMES TO CALL HIM. SO GET REAL!

Posted by: Linda | October 9, 2008, 3:46 am 3:46 am

Mack
I think Obama and his wife come from humble beginnings so yes I think they probably can relate to what people are going through more so than McCain. I’m not knocking McCain I just don’t think he’ll do as much for the middle class-Me- as Obama. For me this isn’t about political party it’s about my family.Like I said before it’s about our 401K, our grocery bills,heating our home, putting gas in the car,and our childrens future. I do agree with you that the amount of money both candidates spend is shameful.
“Obama stays in a 5 million dollar mansion in one of Chicago’s priciest suburbs. Surely Obama understands the concerns of the working poor. (sarcasm off)”
Doesn’t everyone spend 29 million dollars a week?

Posted by: Carolyn | October 9, 2008, 3:58 am 3:58 am

One thing is certain, Obama has done nothing to unite the Democrats and the Republicans on this board. From the looks of it, he hasn’t managed to unite the Independents either.
I guess Richard Pryor had it right when he said:
VOTE NONE OF THE ABOVE
Posted by: DisgustedIndependent | Oct 9, 2008 3:44:10 AM
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how so? care to elaborate?
Susan, to you: THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS BIT OF YOUR LIFE and at teh same time bringing in something substantial to the conversation.
Unlike others.

Posted by: GIGI | October 9, 2008, 4:29 am 4:29 am

McCain blew this one again – I could hit him. I wouldn’t apologize for using someone’s FULL name – it’s common in elections.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was used over and over as I recall and that was all it was about.
All we ever knew about Obama, from MSM is that he was a community organizer with a funny name, oh, and he’s black.
Gee, that’s who I want to lead the free world,.
Concerned American now wants to vote for this freak – Concerned American, do your homework and find out about Obama’s lies, his distortions and his radical past. Ask yourself if you want the USA to Stand for Union of Socialist States of America (USSA – a vote for Obama) or the United States of America (vote for McCain/Palin).
My vote is for Sara Palin, she represents my views and has hope and real change to turn this country around economically. I’ll have to take McCain with her.
Anyone voting for Obama after a brief search on the internet about his background wishes to live in the Union of Socialist States of America (USSA), kinda has a USSR ring to it, eh?
Go ahead and vote for that freak – black, pink, purple, whatever color or whatever name the freak has, he’s a cocky, condescending anti-American who DOES NOT deserve to be in our government.

Posted by: obamayomama | October 9, 2008, 5:24 am 5:24 am

;@ -
Didn’t your fellow democrats promise and end to the war in 2006 when you voted them all in? And you are not furious calling them liars (because we are still in Iraq)?
We don’t need 4 more years of the same last two – THROW THE FAR LEFT DEMS OUT!!!!!! Send then to Russia.
How can Barack Hussein Obama be a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, New Party and the Democratic party and run on the ticket as a Democrat?
This man just fries me – even Hillary knew of his shady dealings.
Bill Clinton had it right about Obammie – “A Chicago Thug”, yes indeedy, Barack Hussein Obama and his American hating church, wife and colleagues -
Sure, VOTE OBAMA! You’ll get what you deserve.
You can rest assured, with Obama in the white house, terrorists won’t have such a hard time getting thru security anymore – heck, obama will just hand them whatever they need to know and I am serious when I say that.

Posted by: obamayomama | October 9, 2008, 5:30 am 5:30 am

The ultimate terror attack – The New party of the Democratic Socialists of America announces their candidate: Barack Hussein Obama.
Hail Obama
And you guys are actually believing and going to vote for this freak – makes me sick that this country can life up such a hateful un-American. What happened?

Posted by: obamayomama | October 9, 2008, 5:33 am 5:33 am

You right-wingers are unAmerican scum bags. By the way, how come some of you Iraq War supporters that come on this board aren’t over in Iraq right now fighting the good fight? Chicken hawks!

Posted by: Dino | October 9, 2008, 5:33 am 5:33 am

I hope that cockroach sheriff gets fired from his job. Ha!

Posted by: RV | October 9, 2008, 5:35 am 5:35 am

What, is the con artist Obama ashamed of his muslim heritage?

Posted by: rob | October 9, 2008, 5:44 am 5:44 am

Gigi -
Better start googling to find out what comprises 95% of taxpayers and who exactly the top 5% that are gonna be taxed by Obama are.
That lawyer, who makes $250K/yr IS a small business. He employs people.
The top 5% (who pay over 70% in taxes) are making about $130K, 150K/yr per IRS data.
Barack Hussein Obama is talking out two sides of his mouth – “giving tax breaks to 95%” (off the backs of the other 5%) but taxing only those making $250K or more? Huh? Those are EMPLOYERS – you can’t tax the crap out of people when the economy is down and you can’t invoke an economic stimulus by bogging people down with taxes.
Obama says tax cuts for 95%, but over 40% of that 95% don’t pay taxes anyway.

Posted by: obamayomama | October 9, 2008, 5:49 am 5:49 am

obamayomama
KKK endorses McCain. Theres your terrorists.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 5:50 am 5:50 am

Hahahaha! Figures, Obama sickin’ the legal eagles on the sherriff. Just because he said his name – OMG and there are freaks that are voting for him and think using his name is wrong. wow

Posted by: obamayomama | October 9, 2008, 5:52 am 5:52 am

joe – you got your facts wrong – they endorse Obama.

Posted by: obamayomama | October 9, 2008, 5:53 am 5:53 am

Black is beautiful, baby! I can’t wait for Barack to become president. I hope he makes all you white, right-wing, racist crackers sit at the back of the bus. What a refreshing change it would be!

Posted by: Cool Cat | October 9, 2008, 5:59 am 5:59 am

obamayomama
Palin is the real terrorist!
FBI is investigating Palin on terrorist charges. She made bombs in the basement for blowing up polar bears.
Btw Todd Palin is the next president of Alaska when it seceeds from USA.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 6:00 am 6:00 am

yeah right Joe – saw the “credible source” about the endorsement. Maybe the guy who made the video is from the same radical extreme left blog who tried to advance the theory about Palin’s pregnancy being fake & covered for her daughter.

Posted by: obamayomama | October 9, 2008, 6:00 am 6:00 am

Look, it’s not the middle name. Obviously it’s not a problem for Senator Obama. It’s the way that it is used. It will be used during his swearing in ceremony. But in this case the Sherriff of Lee County used to incite hate and distrust. And what the heck is a Sherriff doing, wearing his full uniform, during a campaign rally. Something tells me, that I should remove my Obama/Biden bumper sticker when I drive to Ft. Myers next week. Let’s face it, racism is still alive in the south.
Arie Bakker

Posted by: Arie Bakker | October 9, 2008, 6:11 am 6:11 am

Here is something for you to ponder! In Missouri Obama had the police arrest anybody for saying anything misleading or aired commerical that were suppossed to be dishonest! Now if he can do that as part of a “TRUTH SQUAD” when he is a Senator, what do you think he will do as President? What, people can not have differences or oppinion? Sounds like we are heading for a Dictatorship! If this crazy is elected dont you dare open your mouth and say anything negative or you will be put in Jail!

Posted by: chuck | October 9, 2008, 6:15 am 6:15 am

Who gives a sh__ what Obama’s middle name is? These folks who are trying to link him to Saddam or whatever weren’t gonna vote for him anyway.
Everyone else will, though, come November.

Posted by: DreadAmerican | October 9, 2008, 6:19 am 6:19 am

Haven’t you obama supporting fools learned from 9/11. This man claims to be Christian yet doesn’t believe in the things of the Bible.
Why is it that people can tell when a rainstorm is coming. Yet you can’t see that electing Obama as the president is indeed the biggest mistake this country could make. It’s already happening, look at the economy. Look at the things the bible has foretold. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that bad things will happen. Obama doesn’t salute the flag and believes that this nation’s song represents violent meanings or whatever his dumb complaint was. It’s like saying that all the soldiers and people who fought to save our nation did it in vain. Can’t you see!! The very things Obama is for and has planned, is going to curse the U.S. It’s already happening, look around you, predict the storm. Choose Obama and you’ll choose the fate of this nation. Obama is going to murder us, don’t be decieved. Would you really have voted for Obama back in 2002, I don’t think so. Wake up America, go back to your first love. Don’t let the blind lead the blind. Repent and get saved!

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 6:24 am 6:24 am

The US is going to become a very scary place if Obama is elected. People will be prosecuted if we say anything that Obama does not like. We won’t even be able to say his middle name.
Usually we have a congress to protect us but the congress will be overwhelmingly contain democrats so Obama will be able to do anything that he wants.
He can have Rev. Wright at the White house, William Ayers, Tony Rezko will be pardoned from prison.
What do we really know about Obama?
I’m really scared.
Democrat for McCain

Posted by: mark | October 9, 2008, 6:27 am 6:27 am

Obama didn’t take offense when his friend and spiritual mentor of the past 20 years called him Barack Hussein Obama.
I’m going to call him Hussein Obama for now on, just to see how long it will take before I’m arrested.
If it’s that big of a problem for him (his OWN name for God’s sake!) then f-ing CHANGE it! That’s all there is to it!

Posted by: Paul | October 9, 2008, 6:30 am 6:30 am

People talk about Obama and say, why would Obama start his political carrier at the house of a known terrorist? I think that is a valid question. But what is even scarier is, WHAT DID WILLIAM AYERS SEE IN OBAMA?
It is not too late to vote against this corrupt politician.
McCain/Palin 08 -
and a known, qualified democrat 2012

Posted by: MeganDC | October 9, 2008, 6:31 am 6:31 am

I find the middle name “controversy” kind of comical. Even if one concedes Obama isn’t a Muslim, you certainly can’t call him a Christian considering his pro-infanticide views. As for the supposed “Christian” church he belongs to, there’s nothing “Christian” about it considering it’s Pastors profane anti-American rants.

Posted by: Jack | October 9, 2008, 6:36 am 6:36 am

It really is crazy the way Obama came out of nowhere and got so many people’s attention. It’s as if people were blinded by something far beyond our comprehension.
Obama is creepy and he sounds to good to be true. I think that if he is our next president, then we will really be in for it. It’s just like the comment from “wake-up”. Would we really elect Obama as the president in 2002, after 9/11. Crazy how we forgot what happened. I feel there are far more things to come and with Obama as president, we need to start digging our graves now.

Posted by: Val | October 9, 2008, 6:36 am 6:36 am

he is not afraid of his name, but he knows how racists are

Posted by: Avembe | October 9, 2008, 6:43 am 6:43 am

All that’s left of the Republican party is the trash and thugs. Most of us true Republicans have gone Independent.

Posted by: Patrick | October 9, 2008, 6:51 am 6:51 am

Hehe you religious nuts are a hoot. Tell me what does the bible say about adultery, what does it say about John McCain? McCain was boinking plasterfaced Cindy while still married to Carol.
Once a cheater always a cheater.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 6:54 am 6:54 am

MUCH BETTER than John McSame or Sarah Failin.
WAKE UP AMERICA !! One of those political stunts in the making. Trying to scare us.
But this is much scary :
At 70++, McSame is already wandering (as seen on his debate performance), and of course, out of touch. But this is real, just a minor stroke or a sever headache or flu could make all of us breathless too for a week or month (or even longer), even after his recovery.
And what is his campaigning? No on-the-job-training? If so, who would be Da President, a women who had hands laid on her by a minister who beleived in WITCHES. Who keep on whining about the media, of course, except FauxNews.
omg.
RIGHT CHOICE is CLEAR :
OBAMA / BIDEN for 2008

Posted by: eduardo | October 9, 2008, 6:54 am 6:54 am

Okay class lets look at the facts.
Christianity=anti-abortion & Anti-gay
Obama=pro abortion & pro gay
He’s obviously not a Christian, gotta be Muslim.
Well think about it, he only has to hold up this front until elections are over. Then once it’s all said and done, than chaos and hell breaks out. Don’t be mad when I say I told you so.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 6:55 am 6:55 am

Yeah, but the ‘true christians’ WANTS a VP who believes in witchcraft lol. Maybe Palins witch hunter can have mass exorcisms broadcasted from the White House.
Palin is still possessed btw, the exorcism didnt help the first time…

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 6:59 am 6:59 am

I could understand complaints if some clever or snotty parody were being used, but this is the guy’s legal name. How about Hillary Rodham Clinton? Nothing wrong with that.
Mama and Daddy gave him his middle name. Deal with it. I thought Obama idolized his father, as in “Dreams from…” If his father is such an important part of his psyche, then where does he come off rejecting this name?

Posted by: Katherine | October 9, 2008, 6:59 am 6:59 am

To WAKE UP , MARK and VAL
part of the reasons your claims aren’t interesting is that you are using a TYPICAL racist rhetoric…I’m not saying that you are racist …But EVERY black man and woman…since birth knows that a black folk has to be shown SCARY…in the mind of any white…it’s such an old..you know …same o’ sameo o’
If you wanna make your case efficiently, try something else, try hard…Obama even said it …Because the ONLY thing that we understand from your comments is that:he is Black so he is scary…he is the anti christ(of course since he is black)he will ruin this country, only a white guy can do something,matter of fact ONLY white guyz can be commander in chief!!!!!!!
It’s ok that you ‘re against Obama, but do find something else…HRC tried, she failed,the GOP is trying too and is failing…there’s only 3 weeks left…I think Obama won’t win though i deeply hope he does…but i know that it will be because of racism!!!!

Posted by: Avembe | October 9, 2008, 7:00 am 7:00 am

Actually this is good news for the Obama campaign, polls showing that the more negative McCain goes the higher poll numbers for Obama. I would’nt be surprised if Obama has a solid 15-17% lead by the end of the week.
McCain shot himself in both feet.. again.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 7:04 am 7:04 am

I do agree that it was wrong for what McCain had done. I’m not exactly fascinated of all that he has done. But being for Obama who says its okay to kill living beings that have hearts and feel the pain of being cut up and slow death, that’s a joke. I’m telling you, this facade he’s fronting is only gonna last until he’s president. There’s more at hand. and as for religious, no i’m not. This is something undeniable that any athiest or scholar could see happening.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 7:05 am 7:05 am

talking about virtues of christianity
…you don’t wanna go there..because frankly…there is a bunch of stupid things made by christianity so please
May i remind you that this country is built on TWO genocides,both “endorsed” by christians!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Avembe | October 9, 2008, 7:08 am 7:08 am

Oh you’re so funny AVEMBE, if you only knew the color of this person. Actually I’m not white. I’m probably the most underrepresented race in the United States. This has nothing to do with color though. I didn’t even know he was black when he first came out, seriously. I don’t need to bash on his race, I’m clearly stating the facts.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 7:11 am 7:11 am

Barack Hussein Obama is his name. All presidential candidates use their middle names as they do IF/WHEN they become president. Does he banish Hussein off monogramms on his white linens at his mansion at home? He is nothing but a cry baby and spoiled arrogant wimp. How about he sign up for the U.S. Military and serve this country for about 20 years. Obama is a big ZERO.

Posted by: ml | October 9, 2008, 7:12 am 7:12 am

@ Avembe,
Why is it racist to attack Obama? If anyone is racist it is Obama. Obama is scary, not because he is black but because of his corrupt, racist and terrorist ties.
Let’s look at a quote from Obama’s book if you want to talk about someone who is racist.
“There was something about him that made me wary,” Obama wrote. “A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white”

Posted by: mark | October 9, 2008, 7:13 am 7:13 am

Avembe,
it’s funny that the ignorant view of Christianity doesn’t faze the increasing number of people being converted to Christianity. A real way of life and not a religion. And I would know about genocide, my people faced it back then and are still facing genocide till this day. Obamam can’t help us, only God can.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 7:14 am 7:14 am

less than 4 weeks now to go. Then all the gum flapping wont matter and the cockroaches and intolerant can go back into the walls and under rocks. It wont be a new era but we can damn sure turn the page on the darkest era of politics in our countries existence. The Bush era. All the harsh diatribe and damning rhetoric isnt going to change it so flail away I suppose.

Posted by: zane | October 9, 2008, 7:15 am 7:15 am

You can call me racist if you want to. Obama supporters always so that is anything negative is said about Obama. The problem with Obama is not that he is black but that his has corrupt, racist and terrorist ties. I would love to have an African American in office, just not Obama.
Lets talk about someone who makes racist remarks.
“There was something about him that made me wary,” Obama wrote. “A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white”

Posted by: mark | October 9, 2008, 7:18 am 7:18 am

mark McCain isnt all goody two shoes either…
“I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.” – John McCain

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 7:19 am 7:19 am

Another racist remark from Obama:
From Dreams of My Father: “I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.”

Posted by: mark | October 9, 2008, 7:20 am 7:20 am

And another racist comment from Obama:
From Dreams of My Father: “I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother?s race.”

Posted by: mark | October 9, 2008, 7:21 am 7:21 am

I couldn’t have said it better myself mark. And not to mention, his racist reverend. This has nothing to do with race. I would be more than proud to support a black president, if he wasn’t so fake.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 7:22 am 7:22 am

There are about 40 of these racist quotes from obama’s books but I will just post this last one so I can go to work:
From Dreams of My Father: “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”
I would never make comments like these, much less publish them in a book.
Dem for McCain

Posted by: mark | October 9, 2008, 7:23 am 7:23 am

mark
answer this please, your argument that Obama is a racist then by same standards John McCain is a racist too.
Is John McCain a racist yes or no?
Try prove yourself not to be a mindless hypocrite.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 7:25 am 7:25 am

So when Barack Hussein Obama sits without pre-condition with Osama ( President of Pakistan one day) , I can see him saying ” Brother, We did it. I just wish our cousin Saddam Hussein was here at the table”
I can see the MSM including this Blog pulling this down because they are in the TANK for this terrorist loving candidate

Posted by: vs | October 9, 2008, 7:31 am 7:31 am

Btw mark
Copying and pasting from shady websites doesnt qualify as ‘facts’. A lot of your supposed ‘quotes’ doesnt even appear in Obamas book.
go to fightthesmears.com and learn something today.
Who here believes mark owns or even has read Obamas book?

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 7:33 am 7:33 am

So when Barack Hussein Obama sits without pre-condition with Osama ( President of Pakistan one day) , I can see him saying ” Brother, We did it. I just wish our cousin Saddam Hussein was here at the table”
I can see the MSM including this Blog pulling this down because they are in the TANK for this terrorist loving candidate

Posted by: vs | October 9, 2008, 7:35 am 7:35 am

Obama is nothing but a hypocrite and a liar. A slimy, two faced politican. He tells the San Fran elite that Pennsylvanian’s are bitter, gun clinging, racists .. then he comes to PA to suck up. People of PA, do not forget the remarks this man made about you. This is what he thinks of the people of Pennsylvania.
John McCain has more class in his little finger than Obama could ever dream of having. Case in point: harsh remarks about American people. This is a good example of Obama’s judgement and what he thinks in his heart. He thinks he is above the working class. Don’t reward him with your votes.

Posted by: ml | October 9, 2008, 7:38 am 7:38 am

Obama is a hypocrite, he is just a slimy, two faced politican. He tells the San Fran elite that Pennsylvanian’s are bitter, gun clinging, racists .. then he comes to PA to suck up. People of PA, do not forget the remarks this man made about you. This is what he thinks of the people of Pennsylvania.
John McCain would never say such harsh remarks about American people. This is a good example of Obama’s judgement and what he thinks in his heart. He thinks he is above the working class. Don’t reward him with your votes.

Posted by: ml | October 9, 2008, 7:40 am 7:40 am

Yeah I bet it was Obama’s plan all along. Why would he be against the national anthem and flag, because he’s not a true American. And this is who our next president is going to be. I can see it now, the former United States. It is true, he came out of nowhere, you who are decieved by him are his puppets.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 7:42 am 7:42 am

Jane wrote – “according to the Islamic religion, if you are born into a Muslim family, you are a Muslim and cannot be “born again” into some other religion.”
That’s like a Catholic saying “divorce doesn’t exist but annulment does”. Assuming such a passage exists, what if you no longer believe in the Islamic religion. Then, you would no longer believe in that passage of their creed.
The idiotic things people use to support their opinions which are obviously based on fear of diversity… boggles the intelligent mind.
’nuff said.

Posted by: MM | October 9, 2008, 7:42 am 7:42 am

President
well repubs better get used to it.
considering we don’t want the same liars that brought us the last 8 years
a lot worse than Obama’s middle name.

Posted by: dl | October 9, 2008, 7:42 am 7:42 am

One thing that I love about Palin is, that she has brung out the hate that exist in this country. You know the hate that most African American’s talk about that goes unchecked. Just look at the crowd’s for her, they really show a rainbow of people. Look very closely and see who exist in the crowd, and tell me what is there ethnic background
is.

Posted by: demarco | October 9, 2008, 7:45 am 7:45 am

the liars brought us everything from Palin
to wmd
to global warming
to Cheney and energy speculation
to presidential signing statements and judicial appointments and cover ups
to greeted as liberators
to the littany of lies coming out of the McCain campaign now
throw this 8 year old lying scum that has slowly been destroying our country
…to the curb
President obama 08

Posted by: dl | October 9, 2008, 7:45 am 7:45 am

IBD: Is ACORN Stealing The Election?
It’s a legitimate question to raise now that the FBI has raided the offices of the nonprofit Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now in Nevada and North Carolina, two states where Obama and John McCain are running neck-and-neck. ACORN has registered bogus voters in both states.
The group’s voter-registration fraud is rampant, and authorities plan a nationwide sweep of ACORN offices to collect records.
In Nevada, state officials say the fraudulent registrations included forms for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team, including quarterback Tony Romo.
“Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada,” Secretary of State Ross Miller said, “and anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won’t be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4.”
While those names will be flagged on Election Day, felonious voters may have better luck using other cutouts. Nevada, along with several other key battleground states, requires no ID to vote.
In North Carolina, where Obama has been running nonstop ads, ACORN has registered a record number of new voters, many of them suspicious. Statewide, Democrats are doing better than the GOP in new converts — even in traditionally Republican counties.
There have been 218,749 newly registered Democrats in North Carolina since January — more than five times the 38,337 new Republicans, state records show.
The numbers show a startlingly close political battle even in Republican-dominated Union County, with 4,233 new voters registering as Democrats and 4,362 as Republicans. In previous election years, new Republicans have outnumbered Democrats 2-to-1 in the fast-growing Charlotte-area county.
In Missouri, one ACORN registrant named Monica Rays showed up on no less than eight forms, all bearing the same signature.
Suspicious election officials sent letters to some 5,000 ACORN registrants in St. Louis, asking the letter recipients to contact them.
Fewer than 40 reponded.
In Kansas City, 15,000 registrations have been questioned, and last year four ACORN employees were indicted for fraud.
In addition, ACORN officials have also been indicted in Wisconsin and Colorado. Investigations against others are active in Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
ACORN has also been registering convicted felons — including inmates — in Florida and other battleground states. ACORN boasts registering a record 1.5 million new voters so far this election.
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Posted by: LightSeeker | October 9, 2008, 7:46 am 7:46 am

I do, if you want I can send a copy of this book to you highlighting the very statements that mark displayed. No charge no return. Then you tell me what you think of Barack Obama.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 7:48 am 7:48 am

It would be very interesting to see what the inside of Obama’s house looks like. Just a mind boggling thought.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 7:52 am 7:52 am

I am disappointed with John McCain and his campaign team, including his Veepee candidate, Sarah Palin. These people are meant to know better than anyone that it is no good sowing bad seed of fear, hatred, and racist comment about their main opponent, Barack Obama.
I think John McCain is bringing up all these negative advert about Barack Obama because he is fast loosing the campaign to be president, and showing that he is an angry man who does not have any good ideas to talk about. If he does, why doesn’t he just keep to the subject at hand that is bedevelling the economy of the nation.
As a born-again Christian, I am also disappointed with Sarah Palin, who is supposed to be a practising christian herself. She has just demonstrated to me by her negative utterances about Barack, that she does not know God at all, neither does she walk in love. She seems to me to be fake. Because if she knows God and her Bible very well, as well as have an obedient heart, she will know that it is a SIN before God to be spreading destructive rumor about another person, especially as it relates to Barack’s association with Ayers.
Also, Barack’s middle name, Hussain is an Arabic name that has nothing to do with religion. Obama is a practising Christian, even though he has that middle name, as anyone with that name can become a christian.
My former Pastor, who leads an 8,000 strong member church was from a muslim background, and has a muslim name. He became converted to christianity, went to a bible school and is now pastoring a church.
My Pastor’s muslim name did not stop him from being a christian, rather it has worked for him positively. So John MacCain and Sarah Palin should find something else to talk about, because these ego trip of their will not work.
And let this be known to John McCain and his team, in fact, they can write this down;that John MacCain will loose this election if he doesn’t stop this negative advert and attack on Barack, because people can and will see through all these things, that it is fake, boring and a sign of an ANGRY man, who is also loosing.
In fact, people will vote John McCain down because they are tired of this charade. So he needs to be very careful, so that it does not backfire.
John McCain, you have been warned.

Posted by: Samuel Olumoyegun | October 9, 2008, 8:02 am 8:02 am

They should invoke his middle name! Obama is an I-D-I-O-T!!!!!

Posted by: Obama+Biden=Losers | October 9, 2008, 8:12 am 8:12 am

Well Samuel I agree that Palin and McCain’s current and past doesn’t sit well with Christians. I really wish we had someone else running for president.
But when you view Obama, he is for abortion, Abortion is wrong in God’s eyes. But they also support late term abortion. This means that the babies are close to well developed, and are being murdered. You can’t tell me that Obama is a Christian supporting abortion. He doesn’t even believe in the things of the bible. Read about him, I have. I’ve done my homework on Obama and McCain. Sarah Palin is against abortion period. Obama is for gay marriage etcetra. I’m not trying to bash gay people, “love the sinner, hate the sin”. God said he made man for woman. not man for man or woman for woman. Obama is for that, he’s not a Christian. Follow him closely, I think his little dance he did with Ellen Degeneres makes it clear that he supports gay marriage. I’m sure this statement is going to get alot of people upset, but I’m only stating the facts.

Posted by: Valerie | October 9, 2008, 8:14 am 8:14 am

If Obammy doesn’t like people using his full name, then why don’t the idiot change it! OMG…..Obama is such a little “cry baby!”
Wahhhh….Wahhhh….I want my mommy!

Posted by: Obama+Biden=Losers | October 9, 2008, 8:14 am 8:14 am

LeeLee07 – The Susan B. Anthony quote also applies to the disregard of women’s rights over their own bodies by the republican party who would rather see “The State” tell women what they can and can’t do. For me, that is the greatest outrage. PUMAs are operating on a juvenile level of thinking by assuming a McCain/Palin presidency is “getting back at” the democratic party. It’s kind of like biting off your nose to spite your face. At any rate, your votes for McCain are not in high enough numbers to make a difference. Most women have a better and higher level of understanding of the impact of their votes.

Posted by: counting crows | October 9, 2008, 8:14 am 8:14 am

infidels do NOT FEAR,for our new KING shall be crowned in your United States.
he will bring peace prosperity and happiness thru out our lands.Praise be to ALLAH.
this KING…he will bring the muslim islamic religion to the front, where it should have been many years ago.Praise be to ALLAH.
he will be know by the islamic muslim world as:
KING HUSSEIN OBAMA. Praise be to ALLAH!
prepare his palace my muslim brothers and on that glorius day rejoice,and give your blessings KING HUSSEIN OBAMA !
praise be to ALLAH !
for our prayers have been answered.
the infidels will no longer control our destiny, we will then be allowed to spread the word of ALLAH and his lessons
to the masses without fear of reprisals from the infidels.PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!
go now my brothers and make known that a new king comes….
Praise be to ALLAH !
for BLESSED IS OSAMA his will was done, soon the infidels will no longer be
among us.
BLESSED IS KING HUSSEIN OBAMA for his will be the light that will shine thru out our lands.
PRAISE BE TO ALLAH !

Posted by: IranIrack | October 9, 2008, 8:15 am 8:15 am

i don’t know what obama dancing with ellen has to do with the election but whatever. He is not a christian, research him. And yes muslims can be christian, as a matter of a fact, there are more muslims converting to christianity today, than there ever was. look into it for yourself. don’t go by hearsay.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 8:18 am 8:18 am

I dont see the big deal it is his middle name after all.I do believe ayers was and still is a terrorist and is willing do the worst kind of harm to children (brainwashing).His teachings are designed to revolt against the system of capitalism which is the backbone of our country.You can say what you want Obama was in charge of spewing ayers teachings in the form of distributing the money to the programs.I am also sorry if I worked for someone doing something questionable, I would want to know more about it unless of course I was okay with the goings on.

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 9, 2008, 8:19 am 8:19 am

Everyone with a brain knows why they keep using his middle name. It’s because dimwits like the Republicans have very shallow minds and think just because his middle name is Hussein that he is a terrorist.

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 8:19 am 8:19 am

“I have a temper, to state the obvious, which I have tried to control with varying degrees of success because it does not always serve my interest or the public’s.” – John McCain
During last night’s debate, John McCain said we need “a cool hand at the tiller,” but McCain has proven to be a loose cannon. He has accosted his Congressional colleagues on both sides of the aisle on everything from the federal budget to diplomatic relations. He is known for hurling profanities rather than settling disagreements calmly. His belligerence is legendary. Even conservative Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi has said, “He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.”
When someone earns the nickname “Senator Hothead,” the public ought to call his character into question. McCain’s propensity to explode undermines his abilities as a rational decision maker, particularly on national security issues — which could prove disastrous considering our country is already involved in two wars.
With the election less than four weeks away, here’s a chance for you to take concrete action:
McCain’s temper is critical to his decision-making abilities, and his character must be discussed. As Drew Westen writes, “The political brain is an emotional brain. It is not a dispassionate calculating machine, objectively searching for the right facts, figures and policies to make a reasoned decision.” That why it’s so crucial people know the real Senator Hothead.

Posted by: banks | October 9, 2008, 8:20 am 8:20 am

Most women have a better and higher level of understanding of the impact of their votes.
Posted by: counting crows | Oct 9, 2008 8:14:52 AM
Which is why this Hillary supporter is voting for Obama.

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 8:21 am 8:21 am

Okay there you have it. Thank you IranIrack Terrorist freak. You just predicted the future of what will become if Obama is elected president. Praise your so-called Allah, in the end, God has the last word. “Every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord forever!” Yup that includes you too iran iraq whatever you are. You never have succeeded in destroying in Israel, and you never will. God has kept his promise this long, have fun in the lake of fire with Satan iraqirani terrorist freak.

Posted by: Valerie | October 9, 2008, 8:23 am 8:23 am

Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Friends. They’ve worked together for years. But Obama tries to hide it. Why?
Obama launched his political career in Ayers’ living room. Ayers and Obama ran a radical “education” foundation, together. They wrote the foundation’s by-laws, together. Obama was the foundation’s first chairman. Reports say they, “distributed more than $100 million to ideological allies with no discernible improvement in education.”
When their relationship became an issue, Obama just responded, “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” That’s it?
We know Bill Ayers ran the “violent left wing activist group” called Weather Underground. We know Ayers’ wife was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list. We know they bombed the Capitol. The Pentagon. A judge’s home. We know Ayers said, “I don’t regret setting bombs. …. I feel we didn’t do enough.”
But Obama’s friendship with terrorist Ayers isn’t the issue. The issue is Barack Obama’s judgment and candor. When Obama just says, “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” Americans say, “Where’s the truth, Barack?”
Barack Obama. Too risky for America.

Posted by: I'm Barack Obama, and I Approve This Radicalism | October 9, 2008, 8:25 am 8:25 am

Well McCain is loosing and will loose the election. Its not he isnt a good politician or hasnt served his country with great honor. Its because he represents the old way of doing things and doesnt represent the future and the changing world both at home and abroad we live in. His campaine also sounds desperate with Palin running around using the Ayers thing. People dont care about that right now. The polls are showing people have enough negitivity and fear in their lives right now without being handed more by McCain. First McCain needs to lighten up and quit looking p#ssed off all the time. He should, but wont, get rid of Rove and even Palin. Another by product of Rove I am sure. Obama just needs to continue doing what he doing and put his sites on the economy and its a done deal.

Posted by: CW | October 9, 2008, 8:26 am 8:26 am

Posted by: I’m Barack Obama, and I Approve This Radicalism | Oct 9, 2008 8:25:15 AM
Why don’t you bring up McCain’s questionable associations? It would only be fair.

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 8:27 am 8:27 am

Posted by: CW | Oct 9, 2008 8:26:24 AM
How right you are!
I am concerned about the economy and any person in their right mind is concentrating on that. I don’t care what Obama’s middle name is or this thing with Ayers. I want to know how they are going to fix things. This other stuff is just nonsense.

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 8:30 am 8:30 am

MCCAIN IS USING SCARE TACTICS TO GET THE UNEDUCATED VOTE——IT IS NOT OBAMA PEOPLE NEED TO BE SCARED OF —IT IS MCCAIN—-HE IS TRYING TO INCITE THE SKINHEADS AND THE KKK—-BETHLEM AREA HAS HAD SEVERAL MURDERS AND VIOLENCE IN THE PAST CONNECTED WITH THESE SUBVERSIVE GROUPS—IF YOU THINK HE HAS YOUR INTEREST AT HEART —YOU ARE SADLY VERY MISTAKEN—I THINK HE CROSSED THE LINE A LONG TIME AGO.

Posted by: rodney | October 9, 2008, 8:30 am 8:30 am

Does ACORN have an office in Indianapolis? You know they do.
According to STATSIndiana, In 2007, Indianapolis/Marion County had an estimated population of 876,804. Of that number 232,607 were below 18 years of age, for a total of 644,197 people in Marion County/Indianapolis 18 or over and thus eligible to vote. (Indiana allows felons to vote as long as they are not incarcerated).
So we have 644,197 people eligible to be registered in Marion County/Indianapolis, and 677,401 people registered. Congratulations go to Indianapolis for having 105% of its residents registered!
Across the nation voter registration irregularities are coming to light. Many of these irregularities involving the former employer, ACORN, of one of our Presidential candidates, Barack Obama. Now it comes to light that Obama’s campaign has paid ACORN over $800,000 for “get out the vote” efforts so far this campaign season.
At some point, someone is going to have to look into this stuff.

Posted by: An ACORN doesn’t fall far from the tree | October 9, 2008, 8:30 am 8:30 am

IT’S NOT THAT OBAMA DOSEN’T LIKE HIS MIDDLE NAME. THE REPUBLICANS ARE THE ONES MAKING A BIG CAMPAIGN PUSH AND ATTACK WITH IT.

Posted by: ears open | October 9, 2008, 8:32 am 8:32 am

It is really sad to see John McCain lower his standard. He was always a straight up guy and now seems so desperate he will do anything. In years or even months ago he would NEVER have allowed talk like this in his campaign.
I expect durt and lies from Palin because that is the only way she knows how to win, but McCain is going down with her.
It has sure changed my mind about him.

Posted by: newrepublican | October 9, 2008, 8:32 am 8:32 am

Posted by: I’m Barack Obama, and I Approve This Radicalism | Oct 9, 2008 8:25:15 AM
Why don’t you bring up McCain’s questionable associations? It would only be fair.
Posted by: J | Oct 9, 2008 8:27:40 AM
Name one questionable association of McCains that has bombed The pentagon the capiitol and the Nyc police headquarters or for that fact any similar????

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 9, 2008, 8:32 am 8:32 am

AYERS IS BABY CRAP COMPARED TO THE SUBVERSIVES MCCAIN IS ASSOCIATING WITH—ALL HE NEEDS IS A SHEET AND PILLOWCASE——MAKES YOU WONDER HOW VILE MCCAIN ACTUALLY IS.PALIN IS A KNOWN EXTREMEST.

Posted by: rodney | October 9, 2008, 8:34 am 8:34 am

Blame the parents for sticking the poor kid with a wierd name.

Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 9, 2008, 8:34 am 8:34 am

The economy won’t matter anymore once Obamam is elected. All he has to do is become president and believe me, America is going to take a turn for the worst. And the muslims are attacking Christian churches for a good time now. read further between the lines, there are bombs being planted in their churches and they are being murdered by this terrorist groups. Open your eyes.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 8:34 am 8:34 am

Posted by: rodney | Oct 9, 2008 8:30:32 AM
As whacked as some people are nowadays, I hope that nothing happens to Obama. If McCain or Palin had any class they would make it known that they don’t condone that type of behavior to their supporters. To say nothing, makes me tend to think that they agree with some of the things that have been said.

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 8:35 am 8:35 am

REDDOG
I COULD TELL YOU ABOUT MCCAIN THAT WOULD CURL YOUR HAIR—JUST GET ME STARTED WITH NAM.

Posted by: rodney | October 9, 2008, 8:36 am 8:36 am

Mitch…that was SO funny.It shows you how out of touch McCain REALLY is. He is WAY too old to be president. And it may not be just age. Many people in their 80′s are viable, but not McCain. Let’s be real folks. He cannot govern and Palin is a radical!!!

Posted by: cindyct | October 9, 2008, 8:36 am 8:36 am

- Barack Obama – First Presidential Debate, September 26, 2008
“I think Senator McCain’s absolutely right that we need more responsibility…”
“Senator McCain is absolutely right that the earmarks process has been abused…”
“He’s also right that oftentimes lobbyists and special interests are the ones that are introducing these…requests…”
“John mentioned the fact that business taxes on paper are high in this country, and he’s absolutely right…”
“John is right we have to make cuts…”
“Senator McCain is absolutely right that the violence has been reduced as a consequence of the extraordinary sacrifice of our troops and our military families…”
“John — you’re absolutely right that presidents have to be prudent in what they say…”
“Senator McCain is absolutely right, we cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran…”

Posted by: richardcranium1 | October 9, 2008, 8:37 am 8:37 am

Let every vote count, is the Democratic Party’s mantra these days. That slogan might better be: Let every vote count as often as we need to win.
Such, at any rate, are the tactics of ACORN, Barack Obama’s favorite “community organizers,” and its Project Vote – of which, the Democratic presidential candidate has boasted, “I started working as the director . . . here in Chicago.”
ACORN has been implicated in voter-fraud schemes in 15 states – including Ohio, from where The Post’s Jeane MacIntosh reports today that a Board of Elections investigation has unearthed evidence of widespread voter fraud.
Two voters told MacIntosh they had been dragooned by ACORN activists into registering several times – one reporting having signed up “10 to 15″ times.
ACORN canvassers “would ask me if I was registered,” he said. “I’d say yes and they’d ask me to do it again.”
Tuesday, Nevada officials raided ACORN’s Las Vegas offices as part of a probe into voter-registration fraud – noting that some forms submitted by ACORN workers included the names of Dallas Cowboys players.
Officials in Lake County, Ind. report that fully 1,100 of 2,000 new voter-registration forms delivered by ACORN were “suspicious.”
In Washington state, officials recently closed an investigation into ballot cheating that resulted in prison terms.
ACORN submitted more than 800 phony registration forms in Independence, Mo., with one woman registering 10 times, using three birthdates, four different Social Security numbers and six different phone numbers.
And, as The Post reported Monday, another pro-Obama group, Vote Today Ohio, took advantage of a quirk in that state’s law, which allows people to register and vote on the same day without having to prove residency, to drive hundreds of people from homeless shelters and drug-rehab centers to the polls.
John McCain’s campaign says all this “doesn’t pass the smell test.”
Actually, it stinks.
And it’s being done by a group with which Barack Obama has proudly been associated.
What, then, would they be able to pull off with a friend in the White House?

Posted by: ACORN | October 9, 2008, 8:37 am 8:37 am

Posted by: Wake Up | Oct 9, 2008 8:34:39 AM
Bush already destroyed this country. All we can do from here on out is crawl out of the hole he and his cronies have put us in.

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 8:37 am 8:37 am

I heard a former prisoner who was with McCain, and he said that things were not as McCain suggest. He sayd McCain hastened changed at al. That he is the same, selfish,spoiled, rich kid he always was.
Kind of puts things in propective

Posted by: concerned | October 9, 2008, 8:39 am 8:39 am

MCCAIN GETTING INVOLVED WITH THESE EXTREMEST GROUPS TELLS US A LOT ABOUT HIS CHARACTER—COME ON GANG THE SKINHEADS AND THE KKK—DONT YOU THINK PERHAPS HE IS A LITTLE SICK—THE FACT HE IS RUNNING FOR PRES MAKES HIM TOTALLY UNEXCEPTABLE—-HE IS BEHAVING LIKE A MAD MAN.

Posted by: rodney | October 9, 2008, 8:42 am 8:42 am

A VOTE FOR OBAMA IS A VOTE AGAINST AMERICA PERIOD!

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 8:42 am 8:42 am

What, then, would they be able to pull off with a friend in the White House?
Posted by: ACORN | Oct 9, 2008 8:37:25 AM
Nothing would be as bad as what Bush has pulled the last 8 years.

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 8:43 am 8:43 am

Acorn…many states have this law and they didn’t jsut go into affect. The only reason McCain is upset is because refugees from Katrina and Ike who lost their homes will be able to vote.
The Republicans made a BIG push to stop voters who had no home. This is called caging. They got the addresses of the homes destroyed in both huricanes and had them posted as uninhabited. This was the person couldn’t have a confirmed address at the polls.
All of these voters are in the south and mostl are black.

Posted by: mainegirl | October 9, 2008, 8:44 am 8:44 am

Well now, the dirt, the prejudices and desperation of the Republican Party is raising its ugly head!
How dare you call a person Muslin because of their middle name? Must Obama be held responsible for the name his parents decided to give him or is it fair to be made to feel ashamed of it?
Is every Italian a member of the MAFIA, every CAUCASIAN THE K.K.K. every Spanish person a member OF LATIN KINGS or DRUG CARTELL? …NO! Are we that weak that we can’t see that we are BEING PLAYED?
Look at the records versus rhetoric of the two men, the displays of leader during a crisis and the goals each man has indicated they will follow. We don’t need a person whose philosophy is to just throw hail marries and hope for the best or have temper tantrums when he doesn’t get his way / feels overwhelmed. A person who feels that whatever he says you must believe even though the facts prove otherwise.
Are we a country who is afraid of change? Are we so comfortable in feeling sorry for over selves that we are will continue to let the 1% of the population maintain the wealth and comfort while the rest of us work harder and receive less. I’m tried of watching them eat the steak and throw me the bone. I’m petrified of McCain’s health care policies that will probably cause my death due to my illnesses and my inability to afford HEALTH CARE on my own. This policy alone should make you see this man doesn’t care about the middle class. The Republicans have shown me they are good at lying and cheating to win an election but they are terrible at governing. The Democrats under Clinton promoted policies that let us all feel some part of the American dream. Personally, I have no choice. I must try a new way.
RIGHT NOW, WE NEED A LEADER WHO CARES ABOUT THE MIDDLE CLASS!!
OBAMA / BIEN 08

Posted by: y.sister | October 9, 2008, 8:44 am 8:44 am

A VOTE FOR OBAMA IS A VOTE AGAINST AMERICA PERIOD!
Posted by: J | Oct 9, 2008 8:42:24 AM
Yeah whatever. I guess you think you are clever jackass.

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 8:44 am 8:44 am

J…why is that?

Posted by: thetruth | October 9, 2008, 8:45 am 8:45 am

wake up -” there are bombs being planted in their churches and they are being murdered by this terrorist groups.” are these the same groups that bobmed the chruch in Birmingham in the early 1960′s killing 4 little girls? Just wondering.

Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 9, 2008, 8:45 am 8:45 am

Looks like Obama and his campaign have been illegally registering voters in swing states. I knew Obama was an idiot, this continues to prove my theory. He’ll do anything, like his Chicago thugs, to undermine an election. Obama needs to go back to Africa!

Posted by: Obama+Biden=Losers | October 9, 2008, 8:45 am 8:45 am

Michelle Obama, Now that will be one FAT AXX UGLY first lady! America has sunken to a new LOW.

Posted by: rodney | October 9, 2008, 8:46 am 8:46 am

rodney
Why is it because someone is white you say the KKK is that not racist ??????

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 9, 2008, 8:49 am 8:49 am

Looks like Obama and his campaign have been illegally registering voters in swing states. I knew Obama was an idiot, this continues to prove my theory. He’ll do anything, like his Chicago thugs, to undermine an election. Obama needs to go back to Africa!
Posted by: Obama+Biden=Losers | Oct 9, 2008 8:45:47 AM
Where do you get his campaign is registering illegal voters. So what he has contributed to ACORN. That doesn’t mean that he condones what’s going on.Y
You need to go back to the backwoods of wherever you came from and slither back under your rock!

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 8:49 am 8:49 am

Michelle Obama, Now that will be one FAT AXX UGLY first lady! America has sunken to a new LOW.
Posted by: rodney | Oct 9, 2008 8:46:37 AM
Agree!

Posted by: Obama+Biden=Losers | October 9, 2008, 8:49 am 8:49 am

HEY J
TAKE A LOOK AT THE REPUB TROLL USING MY NAME TO TRY TO MAKE ME LOOK LIKE SOME KIND OF REPUBLICAN NIT WIT —VERY ENTERTAINING—–WE HAVE THE BUMS SCARED.

Posted by: rodney | October 9, 2008, 8:50 am 8:50 am

J…why is that?
Posted by: thetruth | Oct 9, 2008 8:45:02 AM
Why is what?

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 8:50 am 8:50 am

There is a long tradition of referring to presidents by their full names. John Quincey Adams, Franklin Deleno Rosevelt, Dwight David Eisenhouser, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Richard Milhouse Nixon. Why can I name these president’s middle names off the top of my head? Because that is how they have been referred to. Hussein is his middle name. There is nothing wrong with using it.

Posted by: Rick | October 9, 2008, 8:51 am 8:51 am

J, quit drinking the KoolAid. You know, damn well, that Obammy knows about the illegal registering. He did it when he ran in his districts in Chicago…thats how he won. Now, he is trying to do it nationwide. The problem is, he can’t. This will hurt him, the media is already tying the illegal voter registration in the swing states to Obammy. What a loser…Obammy is an IDIOT!

Posted by: Obama+Biden=Losers | October 9, 2008, 8:51 am 8:51 am

Posted by: rodney | Oct 9, 2008 8:50:37 AM
Same one that used mine. Simple minds…what can you do…lol

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 8:51 am 8:51 am

Where do you get his campaign is registering illegal voters. So what he has contributed to ACORN. That doesn’t mean that he condones what’s going on.Y
You need to go back to the backwoods of wherever you came from and slither back under your rock!
Posted by: J | Oct 9, 2008 8:49:30 AM
You guys kill me if McCain was involved with acorn it would be all over the news

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 9, 2008, 8:52 am 8:52 am

REDDOG—CHECK THE AREA AND THE EXTREMEST—I KNOW THE AREA WELL—-TALK ABOUT RACIST AND HATE MONGERS—

Posted by: rodney | October 9, 2008, 8:53 am 8:53 am

Its amazing as I visit my cabin in the country in N.Ga mountains. This town and others like it in N. Ga have always been heavy republican. Things are changing. Granted that McCain/Palin yard signs the majority openly saying they will vote for McCain, however in my private conversations with friends and locals, even though they openly support McCain, more are telling me that in the voting booth they will vote Obama. This area is almost all white and if you knew this area, you would understand why someone might not openly and publicly say they are supporting Obama. Confederate flags still fly proud here. But what they say and what they will do in the voting booth are two different things. This isnt what one or two told me but many that are closet Obama supporters. For an area I thought would never come out of the dark ages, its good to see people changing in their ideas and priorities and trying to put decisions based on race behind them. Just yesterday over heard a couple of good-ole-boys talking to eachother. One said, “Can you believe me, of all people, will be voting for a black man for President” and the other responded, ” McCain just isnt getting it and that Palin lady just doesnt have a clue.” Just an observation.

Posted by: CW | October 9, 2008, 8:54 am 8:54 am

Not only did he do it when he was in Illinois he used it against he counterparts to get them off the ticket.He won his seat by default it was nobody or him Quite honestly the way Chicago is they probably should of picked nobody he would of got more done

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 9, 2008, 8:55 am 8:55 am

Obama isn’t the person he is making himself out to be. Not that McCain or Palin are saints. I’m saying that there is a lot more to Obama then people think or see. I’m not a republican or a supporter of McCain. Look at what Obama has done. He doesn’t even salute the AMERICAN flag. He doesn’t even care for the national anthem. Hello isn’t that a bit strange for an American. He’s not going to turn out to be the person he portrays himself to be.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 8:55 am 8:55 am

Posted by: Obama+Biden=Losers | Oct 9, 2008 8:51:54 AM
First of all he is Senator Barack Obama.Please quit showing your ignorance by calling him Obammy.
If anybody it losing it’s McCain. You republicans are so desperate its pathetic.
You will not steal this election like you did in 2000 and you will not swiftboat Obama like they did Kerry in 2004. NOT THIS TIME!

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 8:56 am 8:56 am

Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, according to a review of state records and Social Security data by The New York Times.
Because Democrats have been more aggressive at registering new voters this year, according to state election officials, any heightened screening of new applications may affect their party’s supporters disproportionately.
Obama is undermining the campaign yet again. This guy will sink to new lows to try to win the election. Lets send Obama and Michelle back to Africa where they belong!

Posted by: Obama+Biden=Losers | October 9, 2008, 8:56 am 8:56 am

REDDOG—CHECK THE AREA AND THE EXTREMEST—I KNOW THE AREA WELL—-TALK ABOUT RACIST AND HATE MONGERS—
Posted by: rodney | Oct 9, 2008 8:53:06 AM
I dont know about you rodney.You seem to have alot of hate of white people why is that???

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 9, 2008, 8:56 am 8:56 am

J….sorry buddy…..its Obammy….kinda like Aunt Jemima!
Read it and weep!

Posted by: Obama+Biden=Losers | October 9, 2008, 8:57 am 8:57 am

Posted by: Wake Up | Oct 9, 2008 8:55:59 AM
Your comments are stupid and ignorant. How does any of that put food on your table or gas in your car?
I don’t give a rats’ behind about all the distractions the Republicans have been pushing. I want to know how they are going to fix things. Obviously McCain doesn’t have any solutions just distractions.

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 8:58 am 8:58 am

Barack HUSSEIN Obama!
Barack HUSSEIN Obama!
Barack HUSSEIN Obama!
Barack HUSSEIN Obama!
Hmmm…….sounds like a Muslim to me, huh? Keep chanting this idiot’s middle name….we don’t want a HUSSEIN in our Whitehouse!

Posted by: Obama+Biden=Losers | October 9, 2008, 8:58 am 8:58 am

MCCAIN WILL LOSE A FEW MORE VOTES WITH THIS ASSOCIATION WITH EXTREMEST –THE MOST VILE KIND –SKINHEADS AND KKK—-WOW HOW LOW CAN THIS GUY GO.
HAVE FUN WITH THE DUMMIES J
MUST GO TO WORK

Posted by: rodney | October 9, 2008, 8:59 am 8:59 am

OBAMA WILL LOSE A FEW MORE VOTES WITH THIS ASSOCIATION WITH EXTREMEST –THE MOST VILE KIND –SKINHEADS AND KKK—-WOW HOW LOW CAN THIS GUY GO.
HAVE FUN WITH THE DUMMIES J
MUST GO TO WORK

Posted by: rodney | October 9, 2008, 8:59 am 8:59 am

I am so glad this article came out. I am very concerned our freedom of speech is going to be in trouble if we can not use a person legal name without controversy.

Posted by: Pat | October 9, 2008, 8:59 am 8:59 am

Posted by: Obama+Biden=Losers | Oct 9, 2008 8:57:06 AM
God what redneck idiot you are. I really feel sorry for people like you. You have no self esteem so you have to bash others and make up stuff. Pathetic, miserable troll.

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 9:00 am 9:00 am

McCain/Palin 08!
“COUNTRY FIRST!”

Posted by: Obama+Biden=Losers | October 9, 2008, 9:00 am 9:00 am

J
YOU CAN TALK TO THE SHINHEADS ON HERE
GOODBY

Posted by: rodney | October 9, 2008, 9:01 am 9:01 am

Posted by: Obama+Biden=Losers | Oct 9, 2008 8:57:06 AM
God what redneck idiot you are. I really feel sorry for people like you. You have no self esteem so you have to bash others and make up stuff. Pathetic, miserable troll.
Posted by: J | Oct 9, 2008 9:00:28 AM
Hey J, I hear your mommy calling you! It’s time for your nap!

Posted by: Obama+Biden=Losers | October 9, 2008, 9:01 am 9:01 am

If Mc Cain has not the balls to tell them to stop, he is indeed behiind this along with his ticking bomb of a running mate.She is due to visit Nh I hope they run her out of town on a rail.

Posted by: NH voter | October 9, 2008, 9:02 am 9:02 am

Posted by: Obama+Biden=Losers | Oct 9, 2008 8:58:53 AM
Ok Sarah, Alaska wants your pathetic behind back.

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 9:02 am 9:02 am

be calm brothers do not feed the beast that is those of the United States right,
once the new king is crowned ALL WILL CHANGE.
do not fear there rettoric, for ni is at hand, be bold and clear in thought and writing of our new king !!!!
KING HUSSEIN OBAMA!
for his blessings we will all recieve in righteous way, voice ALL thy praise to ALLAH,non belivers will fall by the wayside and be tromped under our feet!
we brothers ALLAH has selected to bring to forward the new king of islam.
KING HUSSEIN OBAMA
Now..fortify and reinforce your committment to ALLAH my brothers for the infidels will attempt in vain effort to control YOUR righteousness,
Praise be to ALLAH that we never wavier in righteous thought.
PRAISE BE TO ALLAH for his loving gift, the new king.
KING HUSSEIN OBAMA!

Posted by: IranIrack | October 9, 2008, 9:02 am 9:02 am

Are there two J’s on here?

Posted by: cin | October 9, 2008, 9:03 am 9:03 am

CIN
NO JUST SKINHEAD IMITATERS.

Posted by: rodney | October 9, 2008, 9:05 am 9:05 am

Obama supporters: “Like lambs being led to a slaughter.”

Posted by: Obama+Biden=Losers | October 9, 2008, 9:05 am 9:05 am

Jenny rome… read the book epicenter by joel rosenberg. That’s where i get my information.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 9:05 am 9:05 am

ABC, CNN, NBC, Fox, or MSNBC need to air a special on the KEATING 5 and IRAN-CONTRA affairs. McCain was part of a committe/task force that secretly sold weapons to Iran! THINK about this AMERICA..he helped arm the same country that he wants to take us to war with! He intervened on behalf of KEATING, who stold billions in savings from the elderly and other Americans! YOU DON’T HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD ON THIS – IT’S PART OF THIS COUNTRY’S HISTORY – LOOK IT UP!

Posted by: Diane | October 9, 2008, 9:05 am 9:05 am

I am so glad this article came out. I am very concerned our freedom of speech is going to be in trouble if we can not use a person legal name without controversy.
Posted by: Pat | Oct 9, 2008 8:59:59 AM
You are naive if you don’t know why they are doing it. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out. Oh well scare these stupid voters by using his middle name and they are dumb enough to think he’s a terrorist.
Newsflash! Unless you are a Republican, which seems to attract really stupid people, we don’t care what his middle name is.

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 9:06 am 9:06 am

If McCain supporters really wanted for McCain to win this election they would be telling him loudly to quit the attak ads and get a plan of hope and the future. Instead they echo the attacks which are already showing to hurt McCains poll numbers. Sure different seeing the Reps shoot themselves in the foot, where as its usually the Dems that tend to beat themselves. This time the GOP will loose the election because of the GOP.

Posted by: CW | October 9, 2008, 9:08 am 9:08 am

Are there two J’s on here?
Posted by: cin | Oct 9, 2008 9:03:25 AM
One is a Republican troll who gets his jollies but signing on as other people. Shows the mentality of some people.

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 9:08 am 9:08 am

Actually more like, “The blind Leadeth the Blnd.”

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 9:11 am 9:11 am

Well you Republican trolls. I hate to tell you this but Obama will be your next President. Get used to the idea. I must get to bed.
Obama/Biden ’08

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 9:11 am 9:11 am

ABC, CNN, NBC, Fox, or MSNBC need to air a special on the KEATING 5 and IRAN-CONTRA affairs. McCain was part of a committe/task force that secretly sold weapons to Iran! THINK about this AMERICA..he helped arm the same country that he wants to take us to war with! He intervened on behalf of KEATING, who stold billions in savings from the elderly and other Americans! YOU DON’T HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD ON THIS – IT’S PART OF THIS COUNTRY’S HISTORY – LOOK IT UP!
Posted by: Diane | Oct 9, 2008 9:05:59 AM
He was exonorated in the keating 5 scandal you should look that up.As far as the iran contra thing thats world politics Todays freedom fighter is tommorows terrorist

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 9, 2008, 9:14 am 9:14 am

Erratic John McCain has very bad judgement.
Erratic John McCain is very very sick with cancer.
Erratic John McCain is mentally unstable if you believe George W. Bush.
Erratic John McCain is an angry man.
Erratic John McCain is a reckless man.
DO YOU REALLY THINK JOHN IS FIT TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?
Don’t let the Good Lord punish you for poor judgement.
VOTE SENSIBLY IN THE NAME OF THE LORD ON NOV. 4TH.

Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 9, 2008, 9:15 am 9:15 am

The McCain/Palin rallies have become nothing more than white supremist tantrums.

Posted by: confused | October 9, 2008, 9:16 am 9:16 am

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Officials in Missouri are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states. “I don’t even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy,” Davis said. “We have identified about 100 duplicates, and probably 280 addresses that don’t exist, people who have driver’s license numbers that won’t verify or Social Security numbers that won’t verify. Some have no address at all.” FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton said the agency has been in contact with elections officials about potential voter fraud and plans to investigate. On Tuesday, authorities in Nevada seized records from ACORN after finding fraudulent registration forms that included the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys. In April, eight ACORN workers in St. Louis city and county pleaded guilty to federal election fraud for submitting false registration cards for the 2006 election. U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway said they submitted cards with false addresses and names, and forged signatures. BARACK OBAMA HAS GIVEN $800,000 IN CAMPAIGN FUNDS TO ACORN, A GROUP THAT ENGAGES IN VOTER FRAUD IN ALL SWING STATES, IN EVERY SINGLE ELECTION.

Posted by: Carrie | October 9, 2008, 9:17 am 9:17 am

The ACORN group in Ohio has admitted they can do nothing to stop voter registration fraud by their organization.
Well, if that’s the case, they should not be allowed to register voters.
I find it just a little bit suspicious that Obama used to work for this group, or subsidiaries of this group, has donated $800,000 to ACORN for voter registration drives which he originially misrepresented the donation when reporting it to the FEC, and then all of these voter registration fraud reports on behalf of ACORN start popping up all over, particularly in the battleground states.
I’m sorry, but this sounds like just too much of a coincidence to me.

Posted by: Lee | October 9, 2008, 9:20 am 9:20 am

ABC, CNN, NBC, Fox, or MSNBC need to air a special on the KEATING 5 and IRAN-CONTRA affairs. McCain was part of a committe/task force that secretly sold weapons to Iran! THINK about this AMERICA..he helped arm the same country that he wants to take us to war with! He intervened on behalf of KEATING, who stold billions in savings from the elderly and other Americans! YOU DON’T HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD ON THIS – IT’S PART OF THIS COUNTRY’S HISTORY – LOOK IT UP!

Posted by: Diane | October 9, 2008, 9:20 am 9:20 am

I don’t know what good Lord you are serving steve from NJ, but I know the real Good Lord hates abortion. Exactly what Obama is for. He claims to be Christian but doesn’t even believe the birth and resurrection of Christ. Hmm. We need a new person to run for president.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 9:22 am 9:22 am

Is anyone else concerned (we should be) that McCain referred to the crowd as his fellow “soldiers” yesterday, instead of citizens? Is this a sign of post-tramatic stress syndrome from war injuries?

Posted by: Intelligent voter | October 9, 2008, 9:22 am 9:22 am

Dear GOP,
Please please keep this up. Because look at the polls. The “all hate all the time” campaign is helping you to totally crater with 27 days to go. As Americans focus on the economy, the loss of jobs and the mess in Afghanistan, you are focused on twaddle. Along with the economic results of 8 years of Bush/McCain economic theory, it demonstrates why you are simply unqualified to govern. Keep it up. Bring up Wright – bring up his fourth grade essays. Attack his wife. Pick on his kids. Go for it.

Posted by: nh bob | October 9, 2008, 9:22 am 9:22 am

Diane:
If all of the major news networks “need” to report on Keating and Contra, then they also “need” to report on Obama and his long history of connections to ACORN and his role in their registration drives and his representation of ACORN in court on housing matters.
Fair is fair. Let’s get EVERYTHING out in the open before Election Day.

Posted by: Lee | October 9, 2008, 9:24 am 9:24 am

Wake up – thanks I prefer to get my information from history books and daily news casts. Go put on your bedsheet and burn a croos or two.

Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 9, 2008, 9:24 am 9:24 am

Not to mention he wants to take the protection we’ve provided for Israel. The bible said that those who are against Israel will be cursed. It’s not wonder why our economy is a mess. And let’s examine the things that will follow.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 9:26 am 9:26 am

McCain has nothing else… nothing to offer, no ideas, all he can do is go on attack. He’s not the sharpest tool in the shed…

Posted by: karen miller | October 9, 2008, 9:26 am 9:26 am

Hey Wake Up…why aren’t you awake? Obama is not for Abortion, in fact, I bet NO ONE is really for Abortion. We are for Choice. The decision is between a person and God-not between Government and the person, nor YOU and the person, but God and the person.
Do you really think the Republicans will EVER change Roe v. Wade? It’s STRICTLY a political point with them, that they parade out every 4 years to SIMPLY rally their base to the polls. If they really wanted things to change, they could have politically done it by now….So, WAKE UP!

Posted by: Intelligent voter | October 9, 2008, 9:28 am 9:28 am

Oh my gosh! Acorn wants to register poor people? You mean we might let poor people and young people actually vote? Oh noooooooo! What will this mean for democracy if we get people to actually vote and participate in elections? How can we stop this? Let’s get our torches and our sheets and our shotguns and go teach them a lesson like in the good ol days.

Posted by: nh bob | October 9, 2008, 9:28 am 9:28 am

You know the weird thing is that if the Obama campaign started calling John McCain by John Sidney McCain that would be incredibly weird as well. It wouldn’t be racist, but it would be very strange and would get coverage. So let’s be honest here…that sheriff used his middle name on purpose and has a horrible story to try and cover it up. No one uses anyone’s middle name normally.

Posted by: Ordermonger | October 9, 2008, 9:29 am 9:29 am

how funny Jenny Gnome, I’m not even white of KKK. If you only knew what nationality I am. You’re too funny, just as funny as your lame assumptions, go figure.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 9:29 am 9:29 am

The bible also said you will go to hell for eating fried clams.

Posted by: nh bob | October 9, 2008, 9:29 am 9:29 am

Um….Isn’t that his middle name??? my logic must bee skewed..hillary rodham clinton, . ..why is it “wrong” to use his last name?? am I missing something??

Posted by: heidi b. | October 9, 2008, 9:30 am 9:30 am

McCain = DISHONORABLE; Palin = SCARY!!!

Posted by: Howard Gallas | October 9, 2008, 9:31 am 9:31 am

Wake Up,
In addition to abortion:
The Good Lord also hates war.
The Good Lord Also hates the Death Penalty.
The Good Lord also hates genocide.
The Good Lord also hates bigotry.
The Lord says “Thou shall not kill” and he means all “killings”.
Is that the Lord you believe in, because that is the one I am talking about, or are you just a hypocrite pretending to believe in the Lord.

Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 9, 2008, 9:33 am 9:33 am

Yes, keep lying to yourself. You can do that now but it always catches up to you. Anyone for choice, their fate has aleady been chosen. Jump into a fire, get use to it now instead of after your death.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 9:33 am 9:33 am

Sorry but you must be reading the book of morons or something. War is Sanctified! Read the right bible son.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 9:34 am 9:34 am

PRAY WITH ME BROTHERS
Praise be to ALLAH,
keep my brothers strong in your faith,
Praise be to ALLAH,
that you do not let the infidels rest until the job is complete.
Praise be to ALLAH brothers,
we take the infidels apart from the inside where there loyalties lay.
Praise be to ALLAH !
KING HUSSEIN OBAMA !
PRAISE BE TO ALLAH !

Posted by: IranIrack | October 9, 2008, 9:35 am 9:35 am

Obama = Anti-Christ. You will see.

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 9:37 am 9:37 am

If this man can get skinheads and KKK to vote for him, then he should be President! GoBama 08′ & ’12……Nov.4 America will finally prove to be a land of equal opportunity and respect.

Posted by: Bobbi | October 9, 2008, 9:38 am 9:38 am

Acorn does not want toregister poor people I know you are not that shortsighted nh bob .They want to change the political landscape to their own agenda at all means .They have been known to do this for some time now.And yes BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA supports them and there efforts

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 9, 2008, 9:43 am 9:43 am

Estero, Florida, Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott SAID:
“Issue of my appearance at the rally in uniform has been raised. It is noteworthy that I recently completed my primary campaign and continue my general campaign in the same uniform. My practice has been to wear the uniform at all times and as is undisputed, I am on duty 24/7 and 365. It is also noteworthy that I joined my fellow Florida Sheriffs in Tampa very recently for a political rally…all were in full uniform…….
————————————————-
And where did THEY find this guy? He just admitted that he and others violated 5 CFR 734.302 (a) and Sec. 734.306.(a). He also just indicated his fellow sherrifs for the same violations, by refereencing them. This will automatically start a second investigation.
—————————————–HATCH ACT
Use of official authority; prohibition.
(a) An employee may not use his or
her official authority or influence for
the purpose of interfering with or affecting
the result of an election.
(b) Activities prohibited by paragraph
(a) of this section include, but
are not limited to:
(1) Using his or her official title while
participating in political activity;
(2) Using his or her authority to coerce
any person to participate in political
activity;
Sec. 734.306 Participation in political activities while on duty, in
uniform, in any room or building occupied in the discharge of
official duties, or using a Federal vehicle.
(a) An employee may not participate in political activities subject
to the provisions of subpart E of this part:
(1) While he or she is on duty;
(2) While he or she is wearing a uniform, badge, insignia, or other
similar item that identifies the employing agency or instrumentality or
the position of the employee;
(3) While he or she is in any room or building occupied in the
discharge of official duties by an individual employed or holding office
in the Government of the United States or any agency or instrumentality
thereof; or
(4) While using a Government-owned or leased vehicle or while using
a privately-owned vehicle in the discharge of official duties.

Posted by: LAW & ORDER | October 9, 2008, 9:43 am 9:43 am

If Obama does NOT like his middle name, why does not he change it??? since when calling someone by middlename is crime!!!

Posted by: frieda | October 9, 2008, 9:44 am 9:44 am

IranIrack, as God’s word has always been kept, so shall it be in the last days when once again, Iraq cannot defeat Israel. As always Iraq will be defeated and God as always will reign.

Posted by: Valerie | October 9, 2008, 9:47 am 9:47 am

McCain, according to yesterday Gallup polls is loosing by 11 points. Since you are not what we need right now, please keep listening to Rove and Palin and they will certainly loose the election for you. Keep up you Ayers stuff as its working for Obama. Rove is a great campaine adviser for Obama. Keep talking about negetivity and swift boat tatics. Its working! For Obama.
What exactly is ther difference between Al Qaida and the GOP? They both want people to carry a gun in one hand and a Holy Book in the other. They both want to use terror (fear) tactics to make people see it there way and if people dont, they both want to force people, both domestic and internationally to live by their standards. What the big differance.

Posted by: CW | October 9, 2008, 9:48 am 9:48 am

Wake Up,
Unjust wars are not sanctified you moron.
What Bible have you been reading?
The Bible written by Sarah Palin’s Voodoo Pastor Mothe from Tanganyika?

Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 9, 2008, 9:49 am 9:49 am

I am puzzled………….
Isn’t Obama’s LEGAL middle name HUSSEIN? Has Obama dropped or changed his middle name from Hussein to something else? Don’t we all use our middle names?
So…..Why is it a problem to call Obama using his FULL LEGAL name. Again his full LEGAL name is BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. Why should it be offensive to anyone? In fact we may need to get used to it in case he becomes our president.
I know Hussein is a muslim name. But if the majority of Americans choose a muslim man as their president, it is fine with me. After all, we live in a democratic country. That’s why we need to get used to the muslim name of the democratic nominee: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA.

Posted by: Cheryl M. | October 9, 2008, 9:52 am 9:52 am

Obama supporters stay cool. WE will win in November regardless of all of the hate being spewed out there by the repugs.McCain and Palin are being very unchristian by inciting hatred, and it will come back to haunt them.
THAT ONE/BIDEN 2008

Posted by: Donna | October 9, 2008, 9:52 am 9:52 am

I wish you could see that I’m not white, or anything close to it. It’s not a matter of color or race. It’s all about God and always will be. Read the book of Ezekiel and you will see that what’s going on today has already been foretold. Repent and turn to God. “Every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord forever” don’t be cast into hell because of foolishness. Good luck, I’m praying for you America. Bye!

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 9:53 am 9:53 am

We’re protecting Israel, God has promised to protect Israel, hello. That war is sanctified. Don’t worry, I will pray for you too. Don’t be decieved steve from nj. get your heart right son. later..

Posted by: Wake Up | October 9, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

I would like to add this to my post.Does anyone know John McCain’s middle name? I have never heard it mentioned at rally introductions…so what does that say to everyone who is trying to make light of McCain using Obama’s middle name? what pupose does it serve….say it
GO OBAMA

Posted by: Donna | October 9, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am

Why is this an article. IS IT NOT HIS NAME? If so, then people may use it. Who has ever heard of a president of the US with a name no one’s allowed to use.

Posted by: TO | October 9, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am

This Hillary supporter is laughing his way to the polls on Novemebr 4.
The idiotic democratic party leaders picked the least qualified muslim man over the most qualified true American woman.
I am happily, excitingly, proudly voting for John McCain. No way that a muslim becomes the president of my country. Never.

Posted by: Franklin J. | October 9, 2008, 10:07 am 10:07 am

Cheryl M.,
You are WRONG you ignoramus.
Hussein is not a MUSLIM (religious) name, it is an ARABIC (language) name.
Guiliani is not a CHRISTIAN (religious) name, it is an ITALIAN (language) name.
John/Jean is not an ENGLISH/FRENCH (language) name, it is a CHRISTIAN (religious) name.
Kennedy is not a CHRISTIAN (religious)name, it is an IRISH (language) name.
Do you get the picture?
You morons scare me.
May be we should have a voter’s test, just like the driver’s test. This will force people to get a Voter’s License. With that we can prevent morons from giving us the Gorge Bushes of this world
.

Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 9, 2008, 10:09 am 10:09 am

Franklin J———Just by your post Hillary would be glad not to have you in her party and its good to see you and others like you going with the loosing party. Even Rush hung up on an idiot and called him uneducated when he said Obama is a Muslim and thats Rush. The GOP party will welcome idiots like you. Why does the GOP attract racist and idiots? I think we all know.

Posted by: CW | October 9, 2008, 10:20 am 10:20 am

2nd Source Confirms Obama Socialist Party Membership, Plus How They Infiltrated Democratic Party
Yesterday, we disclosed 2 documents, a archived press release from the New Party in 1996 and an archived Populist Progressive article, both confirming Barack Obama’s membership in the Socialist Affiliate of the Democratic Socialists of America. On Wednesday, I went hunting for additional sources…

Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 9, 2008, 10:23 am 10:23 am

During the democratic primary, I often heard Obama supporters called the former first lady, “Hillary Rodham Clinton’ or simply “Hillary”. And, now they do not want their candidate to be called by his full name? What are they afraid of?

Posted by: Albert | October 9, 2008, 10:25 am 10:25 am

I thought his name was obama ACORN obama

Posted by: jake | October 9, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am

Repug Impersonators.
I believe you guys can do better.
I had no idea you morons were such amateurs.
If even this blog is above your league, you are toast, and your candidate John Angry Oldman McCain will be crushed on Nov. 4th.

Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 9, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am

Franklin J. was never voting for Hillary, are u kidding me? Few of her supporters are that racist. Even the ones who are, arent as vile as Franklin J. who represents the bottom scrape of the scum in the world.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 10:27 am 10:27 am

True Steve_NJ
Think of how angry these bigots are now, then imagine how boinking crazy they’re going to be when Obama wins :D

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 10:29 am 10:29 am

I have been really taken aback as to how low the Mccain/Palin campaign has gone. It is quite obvious they are desperate and when people are desperate they go through drastic measures, to try and convince others they are worthy of something they themselves know they shouldn’t receive. ie:the job and title United States PRESIDENT and VICE PRESIDENT!
I mean let’s be honest here…
Mccain is out of touch and Palin…..
just listen to this idiot speak. she’s obviously trying to deceive we Americans into connecting with her by using these unnecessary punch lines such as “Joe Six pack” it’s simple rhetorical references like that, that does not allow her to connect with REAL people. REAL people, who are actually looking for solutions to these monstrous problems Bush and his whole Republican administration created…we don’t need someone to PRETEND they get it…we need someone to actually connect with me middle class Americans.
again let’s point out some known FACTS…
MCcain had absolutely no idea how many properties he owned…OUT OF TOUCH!!!
Palin is promoting this whole pro life choice yet, she’s a lifelong member of the NRA…which builds and distributes a tool that takes life…IDIOT! however this same woman (Palin’s) 17 years old daughter gets knocked up and has a child before she’s a young adult but she’s AGAINST sex education in school…..and against the promotion of distributing condoms which can actually SAVE a LIFE…..IDIOT!
now tell me, I am supposed to believe Palin who did not apply for a passport up until late last year, who has no education of foreighn policy or any other policy for that matter is supposed to be the best candidate for VP…and possible President if McCain unfortunately succombs to his cancer…..GTFOH!!
people are blinded by their hatred and hatred gets you where we are today in a financial crisis, because eight years ago the Republican party stole the elections in Florida and had the nerve to do it again in Ohio in 2004…and look at where we are today…this is a prime example of KARMA coming back to revisit you…and you are those who blindly turns the eye to wrongdoing…
I beg everyone in this forum to VOTE SENSIBLY and FAIR….it isn’t about skin color or ones given name…it is about the solutions to these problems each of us face on a day to day…going to the grocery store…the gas pump…attending school…or even looking for a job….
MCcain and Palin are not ready for the whitehouse they’ve tried everything to defame and discredit Barack Obama which is desperation on their part; going back and rehashing topics that have already been addressed in the early part of the year isn’t fair to we americans who want some real topics discussed.
that are screaming out deragatory references about Barack which is promoting this so-called “hate-mongger” attitude that Palin’s been accusing Obama of.
Just the thought that Mccain thinks we are so blind and ignorant he, whenever given the chance makes statements such as “We don’t have the time for on the job training” referencing Barack’s so-called “inexperience”…yet he’s on the ticket with a woman named Palin who we all know is receiving this on the job training he speaks of…isn’t this contradictory?!?!?!? is it because she’s a woman that we are overlooking her inexperience and inability to do the job and we don’t question how this will effect the American people? when are we going to wake up and stop letting ourselves be deceived and played with…the power is in our own hands to change the fate of this country..take this serious we are in the 21st centruy we do not need 19th and20th century policies being passed…please WAKE UP!!!!

Posted by: psychmajor | October 9, 2008, 10:32 am 10:32 am

Is it wrong to mention it?????
Come on !!!!!!
THIS ELECTION IS NOT ABOUT NAMES. BUT IT IS ABOUT ISSUES AND WHOS IS CAPABLE OF SOLVING THEM FOR THE AMERICANS PEOPLE. THAT IS THE KIND OF LEADER WE NEED AND THAT PERSON IS BARACK OBAMA NOT McBush.
OBAMA/BIDEN ’08

Posted by: I.A.T.SMITH | October 9, 2008, 10:34 am 10:34 am

VOTER FRAUD====OBAMA’S LEGISLATION!

Posted by: Obama+Biden=Losers | October 9, 2008, 10:34 am 10:34 am

Is it wrong to mention it?????
Come on !!!!!!
THIS ELECTION IS NOT ABOUT NAMES. BUT IT IS ABOUT ISSUES AND WHOS IS CAPABLE OF SOLVING THEM FOR THE AMERICANS PEOPLE. THAT IS THE KIND OF LEADER WE NEED AND THAT PERSON IS BARACK OBAMA NOT McBush.
OBAMA/BIDEN ’08

Posted by: I.A.T.SMITH | October 9, 2008, 10:35 am 10:35 am

Poodles
Wondering why I’m mentioning poodles? People make fun of poodles a lot because of their hair cut. They call them all sorts of goofy names because of the foo foo hair cuts they sometimes get.
Guess what. The poodles didn’t cut their own hair. They had no role whatever in selecting the hair cut or carrying it out.
Last time I checked, most people didn’t name themselves. For people to try and instill prejudice because of a name a child was given is absolutely ridiculous. That IS why they use it. Did they introduce their candidates by thier full names? Nope…no reason to. Can’t get any miles out of that.
Try and justify it all you want, they are using the full name to try and instill fear, doubt, whatever, BASED ON A NAME. Should we also never consider any one named Benidict (you know, because of the Arnold guy), Should we consider any one with names like Adam, Joseph, Mary, Paul, etc as absolutely Christians because afterall those names came from the Bible so anyone with that name MUST be a Christian.
Good grief people. Think a little.

Posted by: Marli | October 9, 2008, 10:36 am 10:36 am

2nd Source Confirms Obama Socialist Party Membership, Plus How They Infiltrated Democratic Party
Yesterday, we disclosed 2 documents, a archived press release from the New Party in 1996 and an archived Populist Progressive article, both confirming Barack Obama’s membership in the Socialist Affiliate of the Democratic Socialists of America. On Wednesday, I went hunting for additional sources…

Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 9, 2008, 10:36 am 10:36 am

“It was hard not to see how pleased the Vietnamese were to have captured an admiral’s son,” he writes, “and I knew that my father’s identity was directly related to my survival.” But during the course of his medical treatment, McCain followed through on his offer of military information. Only two weeks after his capture, the North Vietnamese press issued a report — picked up by The New York Times — in which McCain was quoted as saying that the war was “moving to the advantage of North Vietnam and the United States appears to be isolated.” He also provided the name of his ship, the number of raids he had flown, his squadron number and the target of his final raid.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 10:37 am 10:37 am

2nd Source Confirms Obama Socialist Party Membership, Plus How They Infiltrated Democratic Party
Yesterday, we disclosed 2 documents, a archived press release from the New Party in 1996 and an archived Populist Progressive article, both confirming Barack Obama’s membership in the Socialist Affiliate of the Democratic Socialists of America. On Wednesday, I went hunting for additional sources…

Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 9, 2008, 10:40 am 10:40 am

2nd Source Confirms Obama Socialist Party Membership, Plus How They Infiltrated Democratic Party
Yesterday, we disclosed 2 documents, a archived press release from the New Party in 1996 and an archived Populist Progressive article, both confirming Barack Obama’s membership in the Socialist Affiliate of the Democratic Socialists of America. On Wednesday, I went hunting for additional sources…

Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 9, 2008, 10:41 am 10:41 am

nhbob:
There is nothing wrong with registering poor people, homeless people, or minorities to vote,
As long as it is only done ONCE…….

Posted by: SandyB | October 9, 2008, 10:42 am 10:42 am

Stop using The One’s full name, you filthy racists! Quick, somebody call the Thought Police!
Lee County, FL Sheriff Mike Scott may have more to worry about than just the court of public opinion. Federal investigators are now looking into whether Scott broke the law by campaigning for John McCain.
Officials with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel say they have received so many phone calls from the public that they launched an investigation into Sheriff Scott on Tuesday.
The question is – did he use his position as sheriff to influence an election? If so, he could be in violation of a federal election law called the Hatch Act.
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office receives more than $1 million in federal grant money from everything from human trafficking to bullet proof vests.
But if Sheriff Scott is found in violation of the Hatch Act, the feds can pull two years salary worth of federal funding – the equivalent to $300,000 for the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.
Another possibility is removal from office.
Regarding the federal investigation, Sheriff Scott sent us this statement:
“I am on duty 24/7 and 365 whether in or out of uniform. Like every other elected official, I am aware of from President to Governor to State Representatives, etc. We engage in political activities whether for ourselves as candidates or for others. As of this writing, I am unaware of having done anything to generate all this attention other than using the senator’s full name.”
We should also point out that Bill Cameron in Charlotte County and Kevin Rambosk in Collier County were both reassigned to avoid violating the Hatch Act.
Cameron is still under investigation.
As for how long Scott’s investigation will take, the feds say they’d like to have all of the Hatch Act cases wrapped up before the November election.

Posted by: He Who Must Not Be Named | October 9, 2008, 10:49 am 10:49 am

Obama is a Marxist. He’s lied about everything. Association with Ayers made clear: they are both Marxists. Birds of a feather. No wonder Obama didn’t care that he bombed the US. No wonder.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/10/08/will-msm-report-obama-membership-socialist-new-party

Posted by: laura d | October 9, 2008, 10:51 am 10:51 am

hey let’s continue wth the dopey desperate reteric, In fact let’s ratchet it up. Admit it you all voted your pocket books all your lives, and they let you down. Ha ha you’ve been had, but whatever you do don’t change gears or admit it. Continue to vote for C students, who are cheerleaders, and old guys who pee there pants and could barely graduate without daddy pulling strings. Or how bout a half retarded broad from Alaska who raised a druggie and a teenage whore.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 10:53 am 10:53 am

Obama is not a Christian. Trinity worships a God who hates white people who is not the God of the Bible. It’s not Christianity – it’s Marxist black liberation theology. That’s not Christian… they just use the name “Christian”… but don’t believe the things that Christians believe. Obama doesn’t believe, for example, that Jesus Christ is the only Way of Salvation.
Bottom-line: Christians categorize this as a CULT – like the FDLS… NOT CHRISTIANITY!!!
It’s a CULT!! It’s not Christian. We denounce this as unChristian falsely using the name of Jesus Christ an unChristian.

Posted by: laura d | October 9, 2008, 10:54 am 10:54 am

“It was hard not to see how pleased the Vietnamese were to have captured an admiral’s son,” he writes, “and I knew that my father’s identity was directly related to my survival.” But during the course of his medical treatment, McCain followed through on his offer of military information. Only two weeks after his capture, the North Vietnamese press issued a report — picked up by The New York Times — in which McCain was quoted as saying that the war was “moving to the advantage of North Vietnam and the United States appears to be isolated.” He also provided the name of his ship, the number of raids he had flown, his squadron number and the target of his final raid.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 10:54 am 10:54 am

but Christian’s suck too right?

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 10:55 am 10:55 am

Marxist black liberation theology of Rev. Wright and Obama is NOT Christianity. It’s a CULT!! They deny Jesus Christ as the only way of Salvation and are advancing white hate nad black power.
It’s akin to Islam.
It’s NOT CHRISTIANITY!! It’s a CULT!!
They falsely use the term “Christian” to describe themselves.
It’s a cult.

Posted by: laura d | October 9, 2008, 10:56 am 10:56 am

I’m voting for John Sidney McCain III instead of Barack Hussein Obama Jr.
Deal with it. I’m no redneck, and I’m no racist. Political disagreement is not a hate crime.
(I’m Christopher John Date II, and I approve this message.)

Posted by: CJ | October 9, 2008, 10:57 am 10:57 am

TO: LeeLee07.
PUMA, my a–. I am a Hillary supporter and therefore smart enough to know McCain selected an unqualified, unvetted candidate for VP as his first decision. I also know Mccain and Most Repubs. look at women as objects to decorate their arm and make them feel more powerful. Therefore Susan B. Anthony was correct and no woman should support the Male Chauvinists Party aka Republicans.
DON’T LET YOUR MIND WANDER, IT’S FAR TOO SMALL TO BE LET OUT ON IT’S OWN.

Posted by: Mary | October 9, 2008, 10:58 am 10:58 am

When will the MSM do enough reporting to STOP referring to Obama as a “Christian” and really reveal that he’s part of a Marxist black power cult??

Posted by: laura d | October 9, 2008, 10:59 am 10:59 am

We need change in Washington, we need someone who will go in and stop the madness there and McCain has proven time and time again he is not that person.
My vote is Obama. Now with that being said I hope he stops this $300 Billion extra Bailout for AIG, tell they do what he said should be done. Fire the CEOs who are in charge and pay back the people of the United States they used for some bogus retreat. Then place a government accountant in their firm to make sure our money is being spent the way it is suppose to. I am SICK OF BEING USED BY OUR GOVERNMENT LIKE WE ARE THEIR BANKS. I am sick of seeing American families living in cars, vans and tent cities, here in the United States, while we pay for a f**king war we should not be in. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE MEDIA, WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR GOVERNMENT, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION TO ALLOW THIS?

Posted by: becky | October 9, 2008, 11:03 am 11:03 am

clifton, the reason ayers didnt go to jail is because he got off on a technicality. but his wife did to to jail. he is and was a terrorist.

Posted by: dj jones | October 9, 2008, 11:04 am 11:04 am

Laura!!!
You are playing a race card. Please stop playing race card.

Posted by: I.A.T.SMITH | October 9, 2008, 11:05 am 11:05 am

“I am sick of seeing American families living in cars, vans and tent cities, here in the United States, while we pay for a f**king war we should not be in.”
Give me a break.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 11:06 am 11:06 am

Obama is busted. He’s a socialist Marxist who has lied to America because he wanted to LIE his way into office.
Say no to communism.
Nobama.

Posted by: laura d | October 9, 2008, 11:06 am 11:06 am

Vote for Obama and vote yourself out of a job and any chance of getting one.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 11:09 am 11:09 am

I want my Government to walk up to those tent cities in GA, I want my Government to walk up to those cars and vans full of families all over this Nation and take them by the hand and place them back into homes, give them jobs, give them food, get their kids back in school. NO MORE $300 BILLION TO AIG, NO MORE. I WANT MY GOVERNMENT TO TAKE THAT $300 BILLION AND TAKE CARE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Posted by: becky | October 9, 2008, 11:09 am 11:09 am

Used by your government, becky? Do you think people living in communist nations feel used by their governments?? That’s what communism is. Obama is a Marxist.
Obama is not a Christian. He was a member of a Marxist black power cult. Deal with it. That’s the truth. He’s not Christian in any way other than a cult membership that denies Jesus Christ and is a cult. Deal with truth. He doesn’t get a “pass” on truth just because he’s black.

Posted by: laura d | October 9, 2008, 11:09 am 11:09 am

Mack: No we need a break from people like you, people like John McCain and Sarah Palin. Who who really can give a s**t.

Posted by: becky | October 9, 2008, 11:11 am 11:11 am

becky, people in communist countries are poor as dirt and the government doesn’t care. We’re teh wealthiest nation on earth. That’s cuz we’re not communist.
If you want poverty and to be under government control with no freedom – vote communist.
Me?? I’m voting Nocommunist, Nomarxist, Nobama.
I like freedom.

Posted by: laura d | October 9, 2008, 11:11 am 11:11 am

“Laura!!!
You are playing a race card. Please stop playing race card.”
Talk about race card. A quote from one of Barry’s friends:
“Dig it! First they killed those pigs and then they put a fork in their bellies. Wild!” Dohrn also charged that her fellow left-wingers showed themselves to be scared “honkies” for not burning down Chicago when Black Panther leader Fred Hampton was killed, and urged her audience to arm themselves and be “a fighting force alongside the blacks

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 11:11 am 11:11 am

“Oh my gosh! Acorn wants to register poor people”
Tony Romo and Terrell Owens aren’t poor people.

Posted by: geevill | October 9, 2008, 11:12 am 11:12 am

“Mack: No we need a break from people like you, people like John McCain and Sarah Palin. Who who really can give a s**t.’
No we need a break from radical left-wingers like yourself, who just fan the flames of hate. Your 60′s radical agenda didn’t work then and it won’t work now.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 11:13 am 11:13 am

McCain isnt a christian either. He is a devil worshipper. He held black masses with his Navy buddies. He once bit off the head of a live bat and ate it.
Bristols baby is antichrist. Didnt you see Omen?

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 11:15 am 11:15 am

laura d: you want a cult. explain this to me.
Sarah Palin association’s with the radical Alaska Independence Party that wants to secede from this great country, the United States of America.
And here is a quote from Alaskan Independence Party founder Joe Voegler:
“The fires of Hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government, and I won’t be buried under their damn flag!”
I wonder how Palin explains her husband”s verified membership in the “ALASKIAN INDEPENDENCE PARTY?” Seems she doesn”t believe in the UNITED States of America, does she??
Or this:
Mccain was the guy that was just toting that “we cant have another holocaust on our hands” when talking about the threat of Iran attacking Israel… then come to find out… he is in cahoots with Nazi-backed death squads and Palin is tied to the Alaska Independence Party which tried to pursue sponsorship from the government of IRAN…. This is absolutely bat-***** insane. Obama tied to Ayers at age 8 is the least of my ***** worries… I could give a ***** less. But McCain and Palin? There are really still people who want to hand these nut-jobs the launch codes?
EXPLAIN IT TO ME LAURA D, MACK..TELL ME WHO IS A CULT HERE… TELL ME WHO IS AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. PLEASE DO NOT COME BACK WITH LIES WE HAVE PROOF, PROOF OF ALL THIS…SARAH ON VIDEO AND JOHN MCCAINS SIGNATURE ON A LETTERHEAD.

Posted by: becky | October 9, 2008, 11:15 am 11:15 am

LightSeeker,
Have they found anything showing teenage Obama’s Communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis (Fled to Hawaii from Chicago) links to Ayers and the New Party yet?

Posted by: geevill | October 9, 2008, 11:16 am 11:16 am

You’re playing the race card. Obama doesn’t get to lie just because he’s black.
He’s a Marxist, a communist.
It doesn’t matter that he’s black. If he was white and went to a white church that was Marxist and hated black people and was Marxist white power… it would be the same thing – racist.
Obama is the racist…
He’s a radical left Marxist racist.
That’s the truth. He doesn’t get a “pass” on truth just because he’s black and his church is Marxist black power instead of him being white and attending a Marxist white power church.
You’re being racist. Obama is racist.
The truth sets you free.

Posted by: laura d | October 9, 2008, 11:16 am 11:16 am

If you look closely at the VP debate, Sarah Palin blinks exactly 666 times!

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 11:16 am 11:16 am

I AM WAITING…TWO FACED! TELL ME ABOUT YOUR CULTS.

Posted by: becky | October 9, 2008, 11:17 am 11:17 am

dj jones–Ayers got off because his father, Thomas Ayers, was CEO of Exelon, he was able to pull strings and pay offs to keep him out of jail.
Interesting note: One of Obama’s biggest donation came from Exelon. Every Road Obama has taken has led to Ayers.
Terrorist and Criminal associations=Bad judgement

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 11:17 am 11:17 am

JoeShmoe–snorting too much cocaine while listening to Ozzie Osborne? How many brain cells do you have left?

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 11:19 am 11:19 am

If Ayers was a terrorist, why isn’t he in jail?
Because Ayer’s father was rich and powerful Chariman of Commonwealth Edison and got the case thrown out on a technicality. Any other questions Obama supporter?

Posted by: geevill | October 9, 2008, 11:20 am 11:20 am

Becky, are you a communist member?? If so, I understand.
Alaska was ratified as a state in 1959. The older generation from Alaska never were Americans from birth and many did not want to be ratified as a state. No one takes your malarky seriously.
It’s not like a man lying to say he’s not a Marxist when the proof says he is. Marxist want to overthrow our government and institute a new govt.
People in Alaska didn’t want to become a state – it’s not that they wanted to destroy democracy and freedom by overthrowing democracyand replacing it with communism.
Communism would take away all our freedoms.
It’s why we had a cold war with Russia.
Obama is a Marxist socialist… and he’s a traitor wanting to overthrow the democratic freedoms and our system of government.
There’s a difference there to an educated mind who is not a communist.

Posted by: laura d | October 9, 2008, 11:20 am 11:20 am

If he is ashamed of Hussein why didn’t he drop that name before he tried to become POTUS? The dummy should have known that when Americans hear “Hussein” they think of Saddam Hussein and 9-11. Did this idiot really think we have forgotten 9-11?
I will say it DOWN WITH HUSSEIN, DOWN WITH HUSSEIN, DOWN WITH HUSSEIN, DOWN WITH HUSSEIN

Posted by: Colorado | October 9, 2008, 11:21 am 11:21 am

geevill: you are two faced also. It is ok for McCain but not Obama.
John McCain put out a list of 100 former ambassadors who are supporting his campaign. Number two is Lenore Annenberg, the wife of Ambassador William Annenberg, the founder of the Annenberg Institute of Reform, which funded the Annenberg Challenge, which once had two famous board members: former “domestic terrorist” William Ayers and Sen. Barack Obama. So either we should all be outraged that John McCain is supported by a family who funded a foundation that hired a domestic terrorist, or this whole William Ayers thing is just plain silly. I choose the latter.
STOP IT. JUST STOP IT.
THE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION ARE GOING TO BE IN DIRE TROUBLE IN A FEW WEEKS AND THIS IS WHAT THE MEDIA AND THE REPUBLICANS HAVE. THIS IS IT. WHAT A WASTE WANT A SORRY BUNCH OF WASTE WE ARE.

Posted by: becky | October 9, 2008, 11:21 am 11:21 am

Marxist black liberation theology is a CULT… I will get you documentation. It’s not Christian. I’ll get you the info in case you really do want to know truth.
God bless.

Posted by: laura d | October 9, 2008, 11:21 am 11:21 am

Obama’s misconception on terrorism:
Peter Bergen, author of “The Osama bin Laden I Know:” Overall it (Obama’s speech) was a very strong speech. Here is a minor criticism: While there is no doubt that conflict zones can breed terrorism, the 9/11 plot was actually planned in Hamburg. The idea that weak and failing states are causes of terrorism is wrong. There is in fact overwhelming academic literature that demonstrates the reverse is true. Terrorism is a sort of bourgeois endeavor. On a related point, the idea that madrassas are a big problem for violence against the United States is also wrong. Madrassas lead to problems regionally, and are a big problem in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but not in terms of terrorism against the United States.

Posted by: Truth | October 9, 2008, 11:24 am 11:24 am

It’s a hateful cult. Here’s info on Cones – mentor of Wright – same philosophy… it’s more ISLAMIC than Christian and it is a CULT (I’ll get more info). That’s just the truth becky.. and the truth needs to come out… here’s a quote.. I’ll get more info:
GOD HELP US if Obama becomes President and this disgusting racist ilk flow into national prominence on his coattails!!! Note how Cone reduces Christianity into a religion about “blackness”, i.e. EXTERNAL skin color, INSTEAD of the spiritual “blackness” of SIN and man’s rebellion against God. Isn’t it wrong to make Christianity about WHITE racism? Why not black racism? In fact, Jesus was crucified to atone for the SIN that resides in human nature regardless of skin color, not to empower the weak and the helpless according TO their skin color.
Then Cone has the gall to claim Jesus was black!!! Get a clue, CONE, Jesus was JEWISH. He descended from the tribe of Judah, the house of King David. He was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the nation of Israel, whose capital was Jerusalem. His genealogy is recorded in the gospels of Matthew and Luke, and guess what, Cone — there AREN’T any BLACKS in there AT ALL! That claim is just simply just a Lie, and you are a LIAR.
Not satisfied with redefining Christ and the cross, Cone proceeds to turn Christianity into an EXCUSE for BLACKS to GRAB POWER. Listen to how much he talks about POWER, even aligning himself with “Black Power” Muslim terrorist, Malcom X. A purported “Christian” aligned with a Muslim AGAINST other Christians? Absurd.
Where are all the PARANOID liberals who say they’re afraid of a “right wing theocracy”?? Well how about a BLACK RACIST SOCIALIST THEOCRACY in cahoots with radical islamist “Nation of Islam” thugs, whose theology justifies LYNCHING whites, after they’ve LOOTED them through “reparations”?!
All this, after so-called “liberals” championed “civil rights” for the last 40 years?! If this guy and his minions led by Obama grab power, by his own admission and justified by his “black liberal theology”, blacks will be FREE all right — LIBERATED TO ABUSE POWER and use it against us all. Oh, and won’t they feel SELF-RIGHTEOUS doing it in the name of Jesus!!
Unbelievable.
Cone’s premise for reducing Christ’s crucifixion to a first century “lynching” is rooted in Jesus’ WEAKNESS. Cone implies that Jesus couldn’t help it that they killed Him. Oh please!!! Cone sounds just like those apostate Jews who betrayed Him to the Romans to crucify Him, standing around MOCKING him as he died in exactly the same way…. “He saved others, why can’t he save himself?”. But the truth is that Jesus was BORN to DIE according to GOD’S PLAN (Acts 2:23-24), and chose to fulfill the Father’s will “for the joy set before Him”. Yet, that did not excuse the murdering vipers who killed him! In fact, by their wickedness they fulfilled the plan. Christ was not weak in death, He faced it in the STRENGTH of Almighty God.
A true man of God preaches the exaltation of Christ’s victory over SIN and DEATH, not distorting and trivializing into a gospel of weakness and defeat. God’s ministers exhort the persecuted flock of God to model Christ’s STRENGTH on the cross when He said “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do”, but without deviating from the TRUTH of His word. True disciples like Stephen, who was stoned for teaching and defending Jesus’ words, went to his death saying the exact same thing Christ said on the cross (Acts 7).
Not so James Cone who speaks with forked tongue, saying “Father, let us lynch and disempower Whitey, and loot all his property as reparations!” Any wonder then, that Cone goes on to equate Jesus’ “weakness” with that of poor, disempowered, blacks “lynched” by whites so he can PROMOTE EVIL? Does it follow that Cone is simply justifying a 21st century lynching” holocaust against whites? His own words condemn him.
Are blacks like Cone so consumed with BITTERNESS, RAGE, the pursuit of VENGEANCE and HATE, masquerading as “black liberation”, that they blaspheme the Son of God Himself in order to justify a race war? This blasphemer dares turn the cross of Christ into an excuse to grab power?! This is neither Christianity nor is it AMERICAN!!
Martin Luther King’s “dream” was to champion the realization of the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, that “all men are CREATED equal”. To built a COLOR BLIND society where all men would be judged by the “content of their character, not the color of their skin”. MLK didn’t teach the overturning of white racism with black racism. Neither does Cone’s theology, much less “the content of his character”, remotely resemble ANYTHING Martin Luther King taught or championed by the “civil rights” movement. Much less, does Cone represent one IOTA of Christianity.

Posted by: laura d | October 9, 2008, 11:26 am 11:26 am

“Interesting note: One of Obama’s biggest donation came from Exelon. Every Road Obama has taken has led to Ayers.
Terrorist and Criminal associations=Bad judgement”
True. and Obama was the guy who killed a bill to make Exelon pay for their toxic waste. Plus the road Obama took to Ayers was Frank Marshall Davis – a black Socialist from Chicago who fled to Hawaii and took young Obama under his whitey hating American hating wing. The road to Ayers also leads to Harvard, Columbia, Chicago and the Socialist New Party

Posted by: geevill | October 9, 2008, 11:26 am 11:26 am

Barack Hussein Obama shud scare any person…after all he is a Liberal Democrat. He along with Bill Ayers and Rev Wright are going to change us in the United Socialist States Republics (USSR).

Posted by: Sam Deakins | October 9, 2008, 11:27 am 11:27 am

I am a 50 year old, white woman, who’s job is going down, who just lost most of my retirement, who lost my insurance because of breast cancer. THIS IS WHY I AM MAD, THIS IS WHY I AM SICK OF YOU PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MAKE THE ISSUES OUT TO BE ON NONE ISSUES. We need a leader for us, not one for themselves and what they can gain off us.
I AM MAD TODAY, I HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE.

Posted by: becky | October 9, 2008, 11:28 am 11:28 am

becky–I sense desperation for change. But keep in mind that in 2006, that is exactly what Americans wanted so they voted in a Democratic congress. Since then our gas has gone from $2.19/gal to $4.00/gal, consumer confidence took a nosedive, unemployment rate went from 4.5% to 5.5%, 1% of homes are in forclosure, I could go on but you get the idea. If you want to blame someone for our financial crisis, look to Pelosi, Reed, Barney Franks and Obama. All were caught with their hand in the cookie jar, but pointed their fingers to Bush adm. A vote for Obama is a vote to continue the Democratic policies. (remember Congress has a 9% approval rating) Their policies do not seem to be popular right now.

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 11:30 am 11:30 am

becky,
Stop copying that blog from Time magazine that smears the Annenberg. Ayers and Obama did not serve on the Annenberg Foundation. Obama did serve on a few leftist boards.
“Obama has served as Illinois state senator since 1995. He serves on the judiciary, revenue and public health and welfare committees. He also is a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, where he teaches constitutional law and voting rights law. He serves as chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and is on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, the Joyce Foundation and Leadership for Quality Education. In 1983 Obama received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Columbia University and in 199 a juris doctorate, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, Obama served as the first Aftrican American president of the Harvard Law review and was a member of the executive board of the Black Law Students Association”

Posted by: geevill | October 9, 2008, 11:32 am 11:32 am

It just all comes down to this. 2/3rd of the Union are voting Obama, and I am very thankful for it and for them.

Posted by: becky | October 9, 2008, 11:33 am 11:33 am

Stop copying that blog from Time magazine that smears the Annenberg. Ayers and Obama did not serve on the Annenberg Foundation. Obama did serve on a few leftist boards.
——–
McCain is friends with Annenberg, Annenberg supported and controlled the Foundation that Ayers and Obama was on. So he to is guilty by association.
Oh wait. No maybe not because you people are blind when it comes to the truth. It can hit you in face and still would not admit it.

Posted by: becky | October 9, 2008, 11:37 am 11:37 am

Another interesting tidbit I found–Raila Odinga, Kenyan Prime Minister who is known for strong arm tactics in getting elected, is Obama’s cousin. New info has turned up showing correspondence between the two and Odinga giving Obama advice on how to win this election.
I looked up Odinga and found that the same things he has done to win, Obama has also done in Illinois. Having private divorce records of his opponent opened to the public and forcing him to drop out, having Alice Palmer thrown of the ballot. Obama eliminates his opponent. John McCain is the only real opponent he has had to run against. He is pulling out all the dirty tricks of the corrupt Odinga to win. And it seems the American sheep are falling for it.

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 11:37 am 11:37 am

James Cone’s book “Black Power & Black Theology” basically “spells out” the theology. Reverend Wright quotes James Cone as a “father” of his preaching just as Obama called Reverend Wright his “father”. This is what Reverend Wright was preaching. This is Trinity Church. This is Marxist black liberation theology. It’s hate for white people.
Here is a quote from James Cones book. This reveals the theology that Reverend Wright applauds and preaches… AND… Reverend Wright gives credit Cones who wrote this in his book, “Black Theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people then he is a murderer and we better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community. Black Theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy.”
There is much more. Same stuff. It calls for the genocide of white people by black people in the United States. This Cones is who Reverend Wright quotes as his mentor.
This is the truth about Barack Obama.
Did he tell you he was a Marxist?? No.
Did he tell you of his true radical embracing of Marxist black liberation theology? No.
But he was a member of the socialist party and a member for 20 years of the cult of Marxist black liberation.
It’s not Christianity. It hates the God of the Bible who loves everyone without basis of color.
The “God” of Obama’s religion (where he attended church for 20 years) hates the God of the Bible and hates all “Gods” who do not call for the genocide and extermination of.. WHITE PEOPLE.
That’s a cult.

Posted by: laura d | October 9, 2008, 11:40 am 11:40 am

Who cares!!! We need seperation of church and state, we need an atheist in the white house. Or at least an agnostic.

Posted by: ll | October 9, 2008, 11:42 am 11:42 am

S Adams: Sorry, but I will be honest here. BOTH PARTIES ARE GUILTY. They both fed into it and used it, they never stood up and said stop. It has been going on for years now. So stop pointing fingers. I want to know who has to balls and intelligence to stop it and put us back on track. I know you don’t want to hear this but McCain and Palin have proven time and time again not to be that team.

Posted by: becky | October 9, 2008, 11:42 am 11:42 am

Becky,
I’m sorry. I mean it sounds like life has been hard and you’re tired of politicians lying to you and not helping.
But Obama is something other than he presents himself to be and is like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire… and the MSM says he’s a “Christian”… and this is the reality of the cult that says it is “Christian” but is worse, imo, than the KKK – except it’s for black power rather than white power.
It calls for mass murder and destruction of the white race.

Posted by: laura d | October 9, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng45.html
A Town Meeting on Economic Insecurity:
Employment and Survival in Urban America
By Bob Roman
Over three hundred people attended the first of two Town Meetings on Economic Insecurity on February 25 in Ida Noyes Hall at the University of Chicago. Entitled “Employment and Survival in Urban America”, the meeting was sponsored by the UofC DSA Youth Section, Chicago DSA and University Democrats. The panelists were Toni Preckwinkle, Alderman of Chicago’s 4th Ward; Barack Obama, candidate for the 13th Illinois Senate District; Professor William Julius Wilson, Center for the Study of Urban Inequality at the University of Chicago; Professor Michael Dawson, University of Chicago; and Professor Joseph Schwartz, Temple University and a member of DSA’s National Political Committee.
The Jobs and Living Wage Ordinance (see January – February, 1996, New Ground, page 10) is a more ambitious attempt to require city contractors to pay a minimum living wage. The measure will be formally introduced into the Council in April or May. Alderman Preckwinkle was not optimistic about its prospects although the presence of the Democratic National Convention may provide some opportunities for better leverage.
Barack Obama observed that Martin Luther King’s March on Washington in the 1960s wasn’t simply about civil rights but demanded jobs as well. Now the issue is again coming to the front, but he wished the issue was on the Democratic agenda not just on Buchanan’s.
One of the themes that has emerged in Barack Obama’s campaign is “what does it take to create productive communities”, not just consumptive communities. It is an issue that joins some of the best instincts of the conservatives with the better instincts of the left. He felt the state government has three constructive roles to play.
The first is “human capital development”. By this he meant public education, welfare reform, and a “workforce preparation strategy”. Public education requires equality in funding. It’s not that money is the only solution to public education’s problems but it’s a start toward a solution. The current proposals for welfare reform are intended to eliminate welfare but it’s also true that the status quo is not tenable. A true welfare system would provide for medical care, child care and job training. While Barack Obama did not use this term, it sounded very much like the “social wage” approach used by many social democratic labor parties. By “workforce preparation strategy”, Barack Obama simply meant a coordinated, purposeful program of job training instead of the ad hoc, fragmented approach used by the State of Illinois today.
The state government can also play a role in redistribution, the allocation of wages and jobs. As Barack Obama noted, when someone gets paid $10 million to eliminate 4,000 jobs, the voters in his district know this is an issue of power not economics. The government can use as tools labor law reform, public works and contracts.
Finally, Illinois needs an industrial strategy. How do we create more jobs for everyone? Illinois has no strategy for encouraging high wage, high productivity jobs.
http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html
DSAis the Socialist group whose party Obama belonged to.
Obama’s economic plan. 100% Socialism. Welfare = Miminum livinng wage. Free everything on the backs of the working class.

Posted by: geevill | October 9, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

John McCain has fatal cancer.
Her name is Sarah Palin.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

2nd Source Confirms Obama Socialist Party Membership, Plus How They Infiltrated Democratic Party
Yesterday, we disclosed 2 documents, a archived press release from the New Party in 1996 and an archived Populist Progressive article, both confirming Barack Obama’s membership in the Socialist Affiliate of the Democratic Socialists of America. On Wednesday, I went hunting for additional sources…

Posted by: Becky | October 9, 2008, 11:44 am 11:44 am

Well, Obama is not your atheist. He’s a Marxist black liberation “Christian” – member of a cult that calls for genocide of white people. That’s the truth.

Posted by: laura d | October 9, 2008, 11:44 am 11:44 am

Democrats worried about the country, that is a laugh.
You have a black-power communist who was chosen by Ayers for leadership. What did Ayers see in BHO?

Posted by: Carol | October 9, 2008, 11:45 am 11:45 am

Becky,
Sometimes a person has to vote for the lesser of 2 evils. Obama is the most evil. That, to me, is very clear.
Anyway, I hope life gets better for you. I’ll pray for you to get a good job and be part of a better economy yourself no matter what happens.
God bless.

Posted by: laura d | October 9, 2008, 11:46 am 11:46 am

But laura d; John McCain worships the devil and Palin believes in witchcraft isnt that worse?

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 9, 2008, 11:47 am 11:47 am

becky wrote
“Annenberg supported and controlled the Foundation that Ayers and Obama was on. So he to is guilty by association.
Oh wait. No maybe not because you people are blind when it comes to the truth. It can hit you in face and still would not admit it.”
Sorry to hear you are blind also. Ayers and Obama sat on the Woods Fund board which controlled the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Annenberg provided grants countrywide and challeneged match donors to improve education. You are blindly parroting lies and falsehoods. Obama wasted about $160 million on that project. They accomplished nothing except funding thier socialist pals.

Posted by: geevill | October 9, 2008, 11:47 am 11:47 am

Republicans have nothing left but fear mongering.

Posted by: d | October 9, 2008, 11:48 am 11:48 am

FOOLS = Friends-of-Obama-Online = FOOLS

Posted by: HP Boston | October 9, 2008, 11:49 am 11:49 am

I’m out of here for today. I’m a 44 year old white woman… and I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth.
But I know that I know that I know Obama is promising to put a silver spoon in our mouths… but is really going to shove something else up our…
You get the picture.
It’s hard when he so demonizes others and says he’s going to give “change”. But that’s Marxist propoganda.
He’s a Marxist. That’s just how they operate. They lie.
Sorry, but that’s the truth adn the reality of Obama.
Have a great day.

Posted by: laura d | October 9, 2008, 11:50 am 11:50 am

laura d you are a true and real dippy dummy, but God Bless your pathetic existance.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 11:52 am 11:52 am

The financial crisis seems to be a conspiracy by certain persons in government wanting to destroy the United States economy. Why else would anyone vote against changing the course of the banks so the banks would NOT go into default? It is easy to point a finger at failing Wall Street and the banks and say they are at fault. What about the persons in government that refused to change things for the better and insisted that things are just fine the way they are?
Everyone is sick and tired of Barack Hussein Obama lying about the financial crisis. President Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton passed banking regulation that forced banks to give people with bad credit real estate mortgages. Banks have traditional required a person to have sufficient funds to help pay a mortgage. A person had to show a bank that they are a responsible person with good future earnings, a bank account that showed regular deposits and credit references that showed on time payments for items purchased with credit. The bank regulations made effective by Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton forbid the use of red-lining. The banks had to give a real estate mortgage to everyone or face a law suit. That is coercion of the worse kind.
President Bush had advisement of the coming problem developing with Freddie and Fannie. Democrats like Barack Hussein Obama and the controlling Democrat congress said there is nothing to concern anyone. The Democrats with Barack Hussein Obama voted NO for any control of Fannie and Freddie or any other banking concerns. Barack Hussein Obama treated the Freddie and Fannie situation as business as usual. The financial crisis is not just due to President Bush and the last eight years. That is a lie and a distortion of the truth created by Barack Hussein Obama.
Barack Hussein Obama had a chance to help head off the financial crisis and did nothing. Now, Barack Hussein Obama says he can fix that which he helped to break. He has no realistic solution to fix that which he helped to break. Barack Hussein Obama’s education did not help him understand simple mathematics. Barack Hussein Obama’s education taught him nothing about finance and banking.

Posted by: Truth | October 9, 2008, 11:54 am 11:54 am

becky–McCain and Palin have proven records to go by. Palin has an 85% approval rating in Alaska, a state population on par with Delaware. She has actual experience running something.
McCain has a 26 year senate record that you can actually see on the internet.
Obama, however, has no proven records. He has never run anything, and so we really do not have any real proof that he can do what he says. Only his word. Not good enough. He hasn’t even released his senate records so we can go by that. He just say, trust me, and you people go, Well duh, okay.
Blind fools!

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 11:55 am 11:55 am

Laura d you really are stupid. You don’t have to explain who or what you are, anyone can figure it out. Just write “I don’t matter, I’m so sad and lonely, I hate who I am, my life passed me by, I made alot of bad choices, but I’m to dumb and old to admit it” that’s the truth

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 11:58 am 11:58 am

Obama is running on character and judgment and he has neither. He lives in a nieghborhood with Ayers, Dohrn, Farrahan, Wright and Pfleger. What change is he going to bring.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 11:59 am 11:59 am

Holysmoke– You can’t defend Obama. You know all the evidence against Obama is true so you resort to 2nd grade name calling. Typical.

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm

Actually, Palin’s approval rating is dropping among Alaska independents because of Troopergate. Of course she is still popular among Republicans. But it’s the independent vote that she needs.

Posted by: annie | October 9, 2008, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm

“Laura d you really are stupid. You don’t have to explain who or what you are, anyone can figure it out. Just write “I don’t matter, I’m so sad and lonely, I hate who I am, my life passed me by, I made alot of bad choices, but I’m to dumb and old to admit it” that’s the truth”
Why attack the messenger? Go ahead and try and explain away that one’s friends, associates and mentors.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm

S Adams I only say this based on what you have posted. You should stop giving your opinion here or anywhere. Keep it to yourself, it is not acurate and you come off sounding stupid.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 12:02 pm 12:02 pm

What are you going to whine about when you go in a voting booth? They ALWAYS show the full legal name of the candidate.
Democrat – Barack Hussein Obama
Republican – John Sydney McCain
What are you going to do, ask them to change the method of voting to avoid using the full legal name?
Give me one huge break. Go New Party!
CC

Posted by: CapedConservative | October 9, 2008, 12:03 pm 12:03 pm

Laura told the truth, and you cannot handle the truth.
People like you will end the USA as we know it.
History should be stressed in school. It is obvious that we have generations who have no idea what the United States stands for.

Posted by: Carol | October 9, 2008, 12:03 pm 12:03 pm

Things are bad enough without electing “marxist light” to make matters worse. Go ahead and vote yourself out of a job. If people aren’t working who is going to pay for all of his social programs? Oprah?

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 12:04 pm 12:04 pm

Holy Smoke,
I’ve written a book on grace I am soon to release. I will begin public speaking.
When I was in university, the liberal head of the Poli Sci department singled me out and told me he wanted to see me run for US Senate to see me in Senate floor debate.
I was born the middle of 5 children. The first house we had was about 20×24 with 2 bedrooms on a crawl space.
My parents worked hard, saved their money, then built us a new 4 bedroom cape cod.
I am currently a financial advisor. I work part-time and make about $65,000 a year. I was offered a 6 figure salary to become management. I turned it down. I was told that I could be promoted to upper national management nad glean a 7 figure salary if I wanted it. I am also told if I would work full time I could make $300,000 per year.
But I’ve been working on my book.
POlitics is not my primary desire. Neither is the financial industry.
To speak about grace is – my lifelong pursuit to speak of God’s Love for all people with no discrimination at all.
My “guy friend” just called me. He wants to take me out for Chinese food Saturday nite.
I have 2 children – both adults. I had them young. I divorced their father because I just had to. My daughter is married and her and my son-in-law have given me 2 granddaughters. She is expecting again.
I am 44 years old. I have a wonderful life.
When I have been poor – I have been happy.
Money isn’t everything. I have a wonderful life for which I am very thankful.
I am proud to be an American.
Have a great day.

Posted by: laura d | October 9, 2008, 12:04 pm 12:04 pm

Troopergate is the only thing the Democrats have against Palin, and it doesn’t come close to the controversies surrounding Obama and Biden. The Democrats are desperate if they are going to defend a trooper who tasered a 10 yr old. The commissioner Sarah Palin is accused of forcing to quit, he wasn’t doing his job in other areas, not just troopergate. She reassigned him and he refused and quit. The trooper in question her former brother in law has anger issues, tasered a 10 yr old and threatened his ex-wifes family. He needs to be in jail.

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm

If – and when – Obama is sworn in as President, will they use his middle name? All other candidates use theirs. Does he really have something to hide? It certainly looks that way!
If Hussein is his middle name, why not be proud to be named after his father, or whoever, instead of trying to keep it quiet.
If his middle name was any other ethnic name, would he be so ready to hide it? I think not! What has happened to our freedom of speech in this country when we cannot even use a candidate’s middle name? Folks, it’s just the tip of the iceberg that we are heading into with Obama.

Posted by: not ashamed of my middle name | October 9, 2008, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm

“History should be stressed in school. It is obvious that we have generations who have no idea what the United States stands for. ”
Exactly.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 12:06 pm 12:06 pm

Sheriff,
You’re dead wrong to assume that the virulent reaction to your appearance at Palin rally in uniform would have received the same response if you had been in suit and tie (civilian attire). In fact, I would surmise that your appearance would have gone unnoticed if that had been the case. If you had, indeed, appeared in civilian attire you would have, at the least, shown a greater, albeit more subtle, regard for your office, your subordinates, and the community for which you have been elected to serve. There’s just not a single compelling reason why you needed to appear in uniform that, of course, suggests your office’s advocacy and endorsement, and by extension your entire community and Florida law enforcement, for the candidate at said rally. You should not have appeared in uniform anymore than I was precluded from doing, at political rallies and the like, while serving my country in the USAF for 21 years (by the way, I also resent your misappropriated salute). No matter how much we might have wanted to, as military members, we were forbidden to appear in uniform at political gatherings, rallys, et al, due to the perception of endorsment of the military of such events. It’s nothing short of mind-numbing how you could not have foreseen the risk of same perception.
Yours was a unprofessional, impulsive (impulsivity that would suggest you may not be fit to lead in other circumstances), almost immature, gesture that you likely don’t regret doing because of your inability to admit making a mistake. Truth be told, though, after all the fall out you’ve had to deal with the last few days and, more importantly, all of the unnecessary publicity you have brought down on your office and your community, if you could turn back the hands of time, would you now choose to appear at Palin rally sans uniform? As opposed to being appropriately contrite you, instead, suggest in your “comment” that you “stand by” your actions. I think that’s a shame. And it sounds like, based on the report of your office being investigated for violating the “Hatch Act”, you may regret your impulsive decision as well.
Don Jackson
USAF (Ret.)

Posted by: Don Jackson | October 9, 2008, 12:08 pm 12:08 pm

Holysmoke–In case you are wondering where you are, you’ve obviously been smoking to much of the holy stuff, this a comment forum. Everything I state is fact and can be verified. All of your posts are conjecture with no proof.
This is still a free country, unless Barry takes over and inacts the fairness doctrine, even you, unfortunately can comment no matter how shallow the substance.

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm

Is HolySmoke one of the truth squad?
http://www.truthnews.us/?p=2413

Posted by: Truth | October 9, 2008, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm

Mack, the messangers are the problem. Bush did not effect my life till the messangers voted for him. Before that he was just a dummy fing up whatever he father got him involved in, baseball, oil, etc. Now look what he’s done he f’d up My Country and I knew he would. I was right. I still am. The messangers were wrong then and still are. So shut up.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm

Mack, the messangers are the problem. Bush did not effect my life till the messangers voted for him. Before that he was just a dummy fing up whatever his father got him involved in, baseball, oil, etc. Now look what he’s done he f’d up My Country and I knew he would. I was right. I still am. The messangers were wrong then and still are. So shut up.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 12:10 pm 12:10 pm

My point is independents are the key to this election and McCain and Palin are losing them. Palin is solidifying the base but that’s about it. They can’t win without the independents.

Posted by: annie | October 9, 2008, 12:10 pm 12:10 pm

“Mack, the messangers are the problem. Bush did not effect my life till the messangers voted for him. Before that he was just a dummy fing up whatever his father got him involved in, baseball, oil, etc. Now look what he’s done he f’d up My Country and I knew he would. I was right. I still am. The messangers were wrong then and still are. So shut up.”
I’ve never voted for a Republican in my life before this election. McCain is not Bush.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 12:13 pm 12:13 pm

That’s what I said … Laura d you really are stupid. You don’t have to explain who or what you are, anyone can figure it out. Just write “I don’t matter, I’m so sad and lonely, I hate who I am, my life passed me by, I made alot of bad choices, but I’m to dumb and old to admit it” that’s the truth

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 12:13 pm 12:13 pm

I am an independent and I selected to vote for more than smoke, mirrors, and terrorists connections.
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaLatest.htm

Posted by: Truth | October 9, 2008, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm

Holysmoke-What the h*ll is a messanger? In all my years in college I missed that one. Seriously dude, lay off the weed.
The first 6 yrs of the bush adm, even through 9/11, our economy was fine.
Last 2 yrs with Democrat Congress, they have screwed us royally. It is their policies at work here and Obama is one of them voted in 2 yrs ago.
A vote for Obama is a vote to continue the failed Pelosi economics.

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 12:18 pm 12:18 pm

S Adams you are a dipstick, Here are some facts, I am right, I’ve always been right. You know that and it bothers you. You are wrong, you made some stupid choices, you fell for a whole lot of horsecrap and lost money because of it, to bad for you. I have the proof. So just admit and be honest for once in your sad life.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm

The LLLeft cannot argue with truth so they resort to ad-homenim and “shut up”.

Posted by: Carol | October 9, 2008, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm

And yes I know how to spell ad-hominem.
Typing is not my specialty.

Posted by: Carol | October 9, 2008, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm

“Senator Obama doesn’t understand the difference between tactics and strategy…
He‘s a terrorist…(Oops.. this will backfire; you stupid advisory people!!Even Paris knows the difference between tactics and strategy when it comes to self promotion)”

Posted by: Merced | October 9, 2008, 12:23 pm 12:23 pm

Holysmoke-what proof? You sound like your Messiah, all talk and no substance.
Blah Blah Blah, I’m Right I’m Right!
Right about what?

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm

carol you need to shut up you are the saddest of all

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm

How is it that so many people can be so concerned over the Alaska Independence Party, while so few are concerned about Obama’s membership in the Chicago New Party, an offshoot of the Democratic Socialists of America Party, and that he actually ran as a member of their party during one of his State Senate elections during the late ’90s?

Posted by: SandyB | October 9, 2008, 12:28 pm 12:28 pm

It is the truth and you know that. How does it feel S Adams to be so wrong and so lost and all your bad choices have helped to really screw things up. But you don’t shut up even after being wrong and making so many mistakes, no you still think what you have to say is worth something and people need to hear it. So you post it because someone will read it and you feel like you matter.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 12:29 pm 12:29 pm

I thank you for pointing out a Palin family connection to an independent group in Alaska. It proves that Todd and Sarah Palin want of separation from the business as usual crowd and the corruption in Washington, D.C. Obama supporters forget their American history of why the American colonies wanted to separate from the mother country England. The Palin family is as American as our ancestors are. The Palin family does not consort with terrorists like has been shown about Obama.
Sarah Palin will bring more change into Washington, D.C. than Obama.
Obama is showing association with Anti-Americans wanting to destroy American values. The Palin family is American in all their values and we do NOT see any Palin friends standing on the American flag. Ayers wiped his feet on the American flag. Obama has proven Anti-American ties that want to destroy America.

Posted by: Truth | October 9, 2008, 12:31 pm 12:31 pm

Holysmoke is hiding in the computer room of the Mental Institution with the door locked. As soon as the orderlies break down the door he’ll be back in his straightjacket.

Posted by: Holysmoke is retarded | October 9, 2008, 12:31 pm 12:31 pm

I think I will write something dopey..here goes…How is it that so many people can be so concerned over the Alaska Independence Party, while so few are concerned about Obama’s membership in the Chicago New Party, an offshoot of the Democratic Socialists of America Party, and that he actually ran as a member of their party during one of his State Senate elections during the late ’90s?

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 12:32 pm 12:32 pm

Holy Smoke is right and that’s what really bothers you

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 12:34 pm 12:34 pm

Right on Smoke

Posted by: Trig is Retarded | October 9, 2008, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm

this is a race election.. whites will vote along side us to vote americas 1st black into office…history will be made, reguardless of teh outcome after that.
the whitehouse for the next 4 years will be known as teh blackhouse !

Posted by: Xprisoner | October 9, 2008, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm

Talk About Reaching Into The Grave
Obama supporters talk about Todd Palin’s association with a dead man, a man that was disenchanted with the corruption in Washington, D.C. during his lifetime. Joe Vogler supported America’s freedoms under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Joe Vogler (1913-1993) was the founder of the Alaskan Independence Party and active in politics, regularly running for public office in Alaska for many years. Vogler was born April 24, 1913, on a farm outside Barnes, Kansas. Joe Vogler attended the University of Kansas on a scholarship in 1929. He graduated with a law degree in five years and was admitted to the Kansas State Bar.
Obama’s Anti-American supporters are alive and kicking. Obama’s supporters point to destroying the American way. Obama points to China and he say China is an example we can follow. I guess Obama wants communism and the controlling of the entire population of America.
http://www.truthnews.us/?p=2413

Posted by: Truth | October 9, 2008, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm

LMAO–You are hilarious. You have nothing important to say, so you copy others comments. You are truly a sad individual and need serious help. You must be ignored in life and very lonely. You seek attention, even if it’s negative. You have nothing of substance to say. You are arguing against the ” I am Right, and you are wrong” theory but are giving us nothing to judge this theory.
Seek immediate medical attention, I really feel sorry for you.

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 12:38 pm 12:38 pm

Truth read this;
In congress, Rep. John McCain quickly positioned himself as a GOP hard-liner. He voted against honoring Martin Luther King Jr. with a national holiday in 1983 — a stance he held through 1989. He backed Reagan on tax cuts for the wealthy, abortion and support for the Nicaraguan contras. He sought to slash federal spending on social programs, and he voted twice against campaign-finance reform. He cites as his “biggest” legislative victory of that era a 1989 bill that abolished catastrophic health insurance for seniors, a move he still cheers as the first-ever repeal of a federal entitlement program.
McCain voted to confirm Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. In 1993, he was the keynote speaker at a fundraiser for a group that sponsored an anti-gay-rights ballot initiative in Oregon. His anti-government fervor was renewed in the Gingrich revolution of 1994, when he called for abolishing the departments of Education and Energy. The following year, he championed a sweeping measure that would have imposed a blanket moratorium on any increase of government oversight.
In this context, McCain’s recent record — opposing the new GI Bill, voting to repeal the federal minimum wage, seeking to deprive 3.8 million kids of government health care — looks entirely consistent. “When jackasses like Rush Limbaugh say he’s not conservative, that’s just total nonsense,” says former Sen. Gary Hart, who still counts McCain as a friend.
Although a hawkish Cold Warrior, McCain did show an independent streak when it came to the use of American military power. Because of his experience in Vietnam, he said, he didn’t favor the deployment of U.S. forces unless there was a clear and attainable military objective. In 1983, McCain broke with Reagan to vote against the deployment of Marine peacekeepers to Lebanon. The unorthodox stance caught the attention of the media — including this very magazine, which praised McCain’s “enormous courage.” It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. McCain recognized early on how the game was played: The Washington press corps “tend to notice acts of political independence from unexpected quarters,” he later noted. “Now I was debating Lebanon on programs like MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and in the pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post. I was gratified by the attention and eager for more.”
When McCain became a senator in 1986, filling the seat of retiring Republican icon Barry Goldwater, he was finally in a position that a true maverick could use to battle the entrenched interests in Washington. Instead, McCain did the bidding of his major donor, Charlie Keating, whose financial empire was on the brink of collapse. Federal regulators were closing in on Keating, who had taken federally insured deposits from his Lincoln Savings and Loan and leveraged them to make wildly risky real estate ventures. If regulators restricted his investments, Keating knew, it would all be over.
In the year before his Senate run, McCain had championed legislation that would have delayed new regulations of savings and loans. Grateful, Keating contributed $54,000 to McCain’s Senate campaign. Now, when Keating tried to stack the federal regulatory bank board with cronies, McCain made a phone call seeking to push them through. In 1987, in an unprecedented display of political intimidation, McCain also attended two meetings convened by Keating to pressure federal regulators to back off. The senators who participated in the effort would come to be known as the Keating Five.
“Senate historians were unable to find any instance in U.S. history that was comparable, in terms of five U.S. senators meeting with a regulator on behalf of one institution,” says Bill Black, then deputy director of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, who attended the second meeting. “And it hasn’t happened since.”
Following the meetings with McCain and the other senators, the regulators backed off, stalling their investigation of Lincoln. By the time the S&L collapsed two years later, taxpayers were on the hook for $3.4 billion, which stood as a record for the most expensive bank failure — until the current mortgage crisis. In addition, 20,000 investors who had bought junk bonds from Keating, thinking they were federally insured, had their savings wiped out.
“McCain saw the political pressure on the regulators,” recalls Black. “He could have saved these widows from losing their life savings. But he did absolutely nothing.”

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 12:42 pm 12:42 pm

Holysmoke–picking on a downs syndrome baby is the most egregious thing anyone can do. You are despicable and because you are such an attention seeker, I am ignoring you and suggest everyone here also do so.

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 12:42 pm 12:42 pm

Obama does not know American history. Obama stated he will be the first Afro–American president. He is worse than Sarah Palin because it applies to Afro-Americans. Surprise Obama; you may not be the first Afro-American president of the United States of America. There are six ahead of you. Obama fails and cannot be a candidate for president because he never referenced the material about Afro-American presidents. He is not college oral.
Link:
http://g33klite.com/index.php/facts/general/76-general/188-6-black-american-presidents

Posted by: Truth | October 9, 2008, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm

If you want to read about the real John McCain, check out this link.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

Posted by: miles1967 | October 9, 2008, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm

His relatives in Africa have said his real name is Barack Husssein Mohammed Obama but who cares ? Those of us who will vote AGAINST him are doing so based on his associations and his excuses for them – “I didnt hear, I didnt know, I wasnt aware – see the pattern? If he didnt hear the sermons then how is going to hear the Iranian President or any of the other enemies he wishes ot engage with. He said on national tv that he “only worked 5 hours for Rezko” then we find out about the 10 year relationship, the money, the house etc … He now says he was friendly with Ayers and he worked with him but he DIDN”t KNOW about Ayers violent activites or that he told children to ” kill their parents.” Funny how months ago he said Ayers was only someone living in the neighborhod and then it was I knew and I spoke out against Ayers. Now the story changes again – the “change we obviously cannot believe in.” We know about Odinga but Obama will not talk about him. More skeletons will emerge before Halloween -stay tuned folks !!

Posted by: jimbo | October 9, 2008, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm

You don’t think I’m hilarious at all you are a liar. I touched a nerve with you didn’t I S Adams? What bothers you more being wrong, or not mattering? I don’t feel sorry for you because you are not willing to change. Keep it up look where it’s got you.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 12:47 pm 12:47 pm

S Adams: What is the matter you can’t handle the truth. The truth hurts….

Posted by: becky | October 9, 2008, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm

What baby are you talking about S Adams? You won’t ignore my coments they hurt you to much. I think Trig Palin is the smartest of all the Palins. What do you think?

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 12:51 pm 12:51 pm

Ignore everything. All your dumb choices. Your dumb life. What I have to say. Ignore it all and it might not sting so much.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm

The Rolling Stone is a rag that is always on the edge of being involved in a law suit. If you believe the Rolling Stone, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.
Besides, there is nothing to connect John McCain to terrorism. The rag supports Barack Hussein Obama.

Posted by: Truth | October 9, 2008, 12:54 pm 12:54 pm

Nicholas: I do not know what his mother was thinking when she married a man whose first name was Hussein and from Kenya not even an American born black. And to name her son Barack Hussein. Now there is nothing calling him Barack Hussein Obama. That’s his name and if he doesn’t like his middle let him go to court and change it. There is more dirt on Obama that will come out shortly because he is a man of corrupted crooked friends who taught him how to wheel and deal. And Obama and Nancy Pelosi along with Reid maniputlated the superdelegates to vote for Obama because Hillary couldn’t win. That’s the dirty democrat dogs and this is the most underhanded election ever in this country since Obama ran for the presidency.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 9, 2008, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm

Have we had enough fun? Cowards.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm

Marcus wrote: “Barack Hussein Obama has won this election. His 11%/120-electoral lead surpassess any presidential election in history.”
I guess you weren’t around in 1984 when Reagan defeated Mondale 49 states to 1. Moron.

Posted by: ObamaSux | October 9, 2008, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm

“Ignore everything.”
We’ll start by ignoring you, idiot.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm

Truth the article in that rag was filled with facts you talk out your ass

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm

Mack no you won’t don’t lie you just read this and you knew it was me.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 1:00 pm 1:00 pm

Now everyone go away, because there is to much painful honesty here, go back to your meaningless jobs

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 1:02 pm 1:02 pm

cowards

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 1:07 pm 1:07 pm

That lawyer, who makes $250K/yr IS a small business. He employs people.
The top 5% (who pay over 70% in taxes) are making about $130K, 150K/yr per IRS data.
Barack Hussein Obama is talking out two sides of his mouth – “giving tax breaks to 95%” (off the backs of the other 5%) but taxing only those making $250K or
Posted by: obamayomama | Oct 9, 2008 5:49:25 AM
=======================
idiot. NOT $250K or more… $750K or more!!!
SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND.
GOD they’re idiots.

Posted by: GIGI | October 9, 2008, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm

s. adams: I agree with you. A vote for Obama is a vote for Ayers who will be visiting the white house if Obama is elected and guess who is coming to dinner? Wright, Farrakhan, Father P, Rezko if not in jail because Obama needs more millions so he and Ayers can joined hands together in a business. All these commentors for Obama don’t know anything about the southside of Chicago if they don’t live there. Obama lived there, was not a community organizer, was organizing himself for people to get to know him because he was running for the senate only to lose to another radical Bobby Rush. Another one like Ayers without the bombing. Rush decided not to run again so Obama set his sights on it again, got acquainted with Ayers in 1995 who gave him large donations for the campaigning. A woman named Alice J. Palmer was getting signatures to run against Obama when he took her to court claiming she had fake registrations on it. He won the case even though she had been in politics and he ruined her career. He won against Alan Keyes. He was determined to be president of this country so he can get full control like they do in Kenya. We don’t need a dictator as president of this country because if that did happen it would be GOODBY OBAMA. And I don’t have to tell you.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 9, 2008, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm

what I said is that you’d have to make over $250K a year TO SEE A REAL BREAK OR TO HAVE A FAVORABLE TAX PLAN UNDER M-C-C-A-I-N-S’S PLAN.
idiot.

Posted by: GIGI | October 9, 2008, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm

i wonder if that guy used john mccain’s middle name. i wonder if he even KNOWS sarah palin’s.
i mean….if there was no incendiary intent, shouldn’t he have been rattling those off as well?

Posted by: josh | October 9, 2008, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm

what a moron..jerk,,hussien,,or hula
allAH..BULA,,OR WHAT EVER HE GOES BUY,,
HE CAN LEAVE AND TAKE ALL OF HIS
OTHER COMMIE FRIENDS WITH HIM AND RETURN
TO JAH,JA LAND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: zeus | October 9, 2008, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm

what a moron..jerk,,hussien,,or hula
allAH..BULA,,OR WHAT EVER HE GOES BUY,,
HE CAN LEAVE AND TAKE ALL OF HIS
OTHER COMMIE FRIENDS WITH HIM AND RETURN
TO JAH,JA LAND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: zeus | October 9, 2008, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm

I don’t have a problem. The IGNORANT voters will not all of a sudden develop a brain and a sentiment of independant thought in two weeks. BUT WHY IS THIS DUDE CAMPAIGNING IN UNIFORM?
in the end, this is KARL ROVE’s Campaign tactics. It’s what Got us FOUR MORE YEARS of McCain’s BFF BUSH.
I don’t care, I wish the McCain Campaign started talking (AND MEANING WHAT THEY SAY) about REAL ISSUES.
TOO MUCH OBAMA TALK, that’s al Palin does these days. DAMN the person who introduced her to news papers, it’s like she’s reading all this stuff FOR THE FIRST TIME.
idiot.

Posted by: GIGI | October 9, 2008, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm

What’s in a middle name? The more important question is what the speaker’s intent was when she or he spoke the middle name Hussein. Was the mention of the name meant to incite fear, anger and violence? How can we ever know for sure?
But we do know how word spoken everyday at rallies by John, Sarah, and Cindy are affecting many of those who are listening to John, Sarah and Cindy. Mere words, spoken by these speakers whose intents we cannot know, are inciting rally goers to accuse a candidate for the President of the United States of being a terrorist, to threaten that Presidential candidate, and perhaps his family.
Honor, honesty, character, country first, where are you?

Posted by: DMD | October 9, 2008, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm

HEY,,SCOTT,,, YOU ARE RIGHT UP THERE
THE *** DUKE ********
“AMERICAN “”"”"”"”"”"
SORRY HULA [BULA .ALLH FRALLAH BUT ::::
* GOD BLESS AMERICA AND OUR TROOPS “”

Posted by: zeus | October 9, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm

HEY,,SCOTT,,, YOU ARE RIGHT UP THERE
THE *** DUKE ********
“AMERICAN “”"”"”"”"”"
SORRY HULA [BULA .ALLH FRALLAH BUT ::::
* GOD BLESS AMERICA AND OUR TROOPS “”

Posted by: zeus | October 9, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm

Thank you Holy Smoke. I will wear your insult as a badge of honor. I am the “saddest of all”
Just what I said “shut up”. Heh heh heh

Posted by: Carol | October 9, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm

all you hula bule allah morons blow goats,!!!!!!!!

Posted by: zeus | October 9, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

all you hula bule allah morons blow goats,!!!!!!!!

Posted by: zeus | October 9, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

all you hula bule allah morons blow goats,!!!!!!!!

Posted by: zeus | October 9, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

all you hula bule allah morons blow goats,!!!!!!!!

Posted by: zeus | October 9, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

becky–your version of the truth hurts, and it hurts the American people. There is a stupidity epidemic going on in this country right now, but there is a cure. It requires reading books or legitimate websites to educate yourself so you know what you are talking about when you comment on these forums. ( Warning:Huffinton post and Daily Kos, have been responsible for the dumbing down in this country)

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 1:30 pm 1:30 pm

Wow Holysmoke knows how to cut and paste. Good for you, make they will let you use crayons next.

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm

Wat is Obama so mad about, it’s just words, just speeches.

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm

S Adams, this article mentions nothing about Obama being mad.

Posted by: d | October 9, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

And you know what to read and what’s legitimate right S Adams?
Are you including yourself and the President as part of the “stupidity epidemic”.
What could be dumber than voting for a C student to lead our nation.
And you won’t stop there you want to continue “dumbing down in this country”
How bout McCain at the bottom of his class and Sarah Palin she seems real bright.
Keep it up dopestick

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

You can’t ignore me can you Dopestick? Trig Palin the smartest Palin? Yes or no?

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm

Thanks Marianne for outlining the history Obama has for election deceit.
I believe though that the Ayers/Obama connection goes back even further than 1995. From his earliest days in Illinois, Obama’s path has been intertwined with Ayers. In 1989, Obama interned at Sidney Austin Law firm, Bill Ayers wife, Bernadine Dohrn also worked there. Later Obama worked as assoc. lawyer at Miner and Barnhill law firm. Judson Miner is a close friend of Bill Ayers.
Obama and Ayers served on the same boards:
Wood Fund, ABC lobby group, Obama chaired with Ayers at theAnnenberg Challenge, ACORN.
Exelon, where Ayers, dad was CEO has given largest donations to all of Obama’s campaigns.
Ayers has essentially kicked off Obama’s political career and you can bet, Ayers will be calling in some markers IF Obama gets in the White House.

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm

Barack Obama:
Columbia University – B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware – B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law – Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
John McCain:
United States Naval Academy – Class rank: 894 of 899
Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University – 1 semester
North Idaho College – 2 semesters – general study
University of Idaho – 2 semesters – journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College – 1 semester
University of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.A. in Journalism
Education isn’t everything, but this is about the two highest offices in
the land as well as our standing in the world.

Posted by: Just Wondering | October 9, 2008, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm

d-duh, if the Obama campaign weren’t offended or “mad” this would be a non-issue.

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm

Dopestick, what bothers you more being wrong or not mattering?

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm

S Adams, a lot of the articles on these blogs are nonissues, duh! They are here for people to discuss.

Posted by: d | October 9, 2008, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm

What I don’t understand, in the case of the Sheriff,is, I don’t know why it would be ok to campaign and show partisanship while representing the citizen’s of his county. The investigation should focus on whether or not he applies the law to all citizens of his county equally. If not, that would be clearly illegal.

Posted by: memill | October 9, 2008, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm

Just wondering–Wonder this. Biden the plagerizing liar, graduated 76 out of 85. But you wouldn’t know that by listening to Biden because he got caught lying about his education on a resume. He also failed an english class for plagerizing a paper and flunked out of ROTC. He also lied and stated that he recieved a full scholarship to Syracuse Law. This is from the guy who claims to be the “smartest guy in the room”.
Let’s not forget his shameful drop out in the 1988 presidential race for getting caught plagerizing a British law makers biography.
Oh and the VP debate question about the role of the Vice President, he got it wrong, Palin got it right. A 36 yr senator. What a joke.

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm

Dopestick this is a real dopey thing to say
“d-duh, if the Obama campaign weren’t offended or “mad” this would be a non-issue.”
You know and I know it’s a non-issue no matter what, it’s all you have though. No ones offended, but the ignorance is offensive, and no one is mad, because no one but the dopesticks give an F

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

Why did McCain refer to a crowd as “my fellow prisioners”????? What was that all about?

Posted by: Just Wondering | October 9, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

Dopestick don’t make me cut and paiste .
If the room is you, John McCain, Sarah Palin, and George Bush, Then Joe Biden is by far the smartest in it. If it’s me and Barack Obama, perhaps not. Now you should get back too your unimportant life.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm

Dopestick, what bothers you more being wrong or not mattering?

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm

I would like to know why the media has been silent on Palin’s ongoing association with the Alaskan Independence Party – a group that hates the US so much that their goal is to secede. This is beyond a double standard. Here’s the link showing video of her ties.
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/the-palins-imperfect-union/

Posted by: Kim | October 9, 2008, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm

While the economy is failing, McCain is making a call for all bigots and hate-mongers to join his parade of slime. He is desperate and it is a personal call to jihad for his campaign. And they are coming out of the woodwork, every right wing nut in the country is answering the call and coming up with the smear and fear garbage that McCain is begging them for. McCain is not a hero or a leader. He displays the same cowardice that he displayed when he ratted on his Keating Five comrades to escape prosecution. At a Florida rally where Palin called Obama a terrorist some one even yelled Kill Him! – shades of the Nazi hate rallies. McCain is bringing great shame on the electoral process and his erratic behavior makes it clear he is not qualified to be president any more than his junkyard dog running mate.

Posted by: jefflz | October 9, 2008, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm

jefflz well put. now no one respond directly

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm

Posted by: Truth
Obama does not know American history. Obama stated he will be the first Afro–American president. He is worse than Sarah Palin because it applies to Afro-Americans. Surprise Obama; you may not be the first Afro-American president of the United States of America. There are six ahead of you. Obama fails and cannot be a candidate for president because he never referenced the material about Afro-American presidents. He is not college oral.
Link:
http://g33klite.com/index.php/facts/general/76-general/188-6-black-american-presidents
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Obama is a MARXIST – he only knows the CARL MARX DOCTRINE!
When he speaks of “CHANGE WE NEED” – he gets his ideas from CARL MARX!
No way we will trust a MARXIST with our economy. This is America – not the FAILED SOVIET UNION!

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm

JO: Oh, you would rather have the name of a terrorist then the name of an American? Then go to court and change your name to Jo Hussein. Its very simple. Then take a trip to Kenya and meet your relatives.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 9, 2008, 2:36 pm 2:36 pm

Just Wondering: That’s not what he said. You must be smoking Obama’s pot. And he is still smoking it. McCain said ‘My Friends’. He always says that. Obama don’t know what to say. He has to think and he has trouble doing that. DRUGS!!

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 9, 2008, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm

The Obama-Ayers Coverup [Update]
Will the media ask questions about the Obama-Ayers relationship and its beginnings before 1995, when Ayers helped arranged the hiring of Obama as head of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and maintained a close relationship of its board for years?
Here are some questions the media should be asking and did not ask throughout the long primary season, abdicating its responsibility. Imagine what would have happened if the media had fully vetted Obama and practiced journalism as they should have done.
1.When did Barack Obama first meet Bill Ayers? Was it in New York City? Under what circumstances? Was it at Cooper Union when Ayers was a graduate student there and Obama at Columbia? Was it at Columbia when Ayers was at the teachers’ college?
2.Did Ayers play any role in Obama coming to Chicago as an organizer in 1985? Did the Ayers influence the Woods Fund in any way to subsidize through the Gamaliel Foundation Obama’s job? (The Woods Fund was created by the family of the Safari Coal Company, a major supplier of Commonwealth Edison, whose CEO was Thomas Ayers.)
3.Did Ayers introduce Obama the organizer to his family, his father Tom and brother John? Did they involve Obama in the school reform movement they led in Chicago?
4.Did the Ayers family help Obama become a summer associate at Sidley Austen, the father’s company’s law firm?
5.Did Bernardine Dohrn know Michelle Robinson when they both worked at Sidley at the same time? Did she or Ayers introduce Michelle to Barack at Sidley?
6.Did Dohrn, who attended the University of Chicago Law School with Judson Miner, play any part in helping Obama get a job at the Davis Miner law firm?
UPDATE: It was 40 years ago today that William Ayers was arrested at the Democratic national convention — just like the “Recreate68″ extreme-left protestors at this convention:
It was forty years ago today that Barack Obama friend and political ally, and unrepentant terrorists, William Ayers was arrested while protesting the DNC proceedings. William Ayers set no bombs that day, but he was only working his way up from petty criminal to domestic terrorist. And of course this was long before Barack Obama and he struck up the friendship that would lead Ayers to launch Obama’s political career at his house.
Still, the McCain campaign would take this opportunity to remind voters that those responsible for the violence in 1968 have since been incorporated into the party they once protested, and have been revered even by the likes of Barack Obama, and this despite the failure, in the case of Ayers, to ever apologize for the violence he committed against the American people. (Read all)
The media had better start asking these questions, and demanding answers.
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/28/the-obama-ayers-coverup/

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm

Lynn wrote: “Someone needs to get Palin to shut up and stop being reckless before she incites a tragedy~~~one that would send this country over the edgE”
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How convenient, hah?! You want to get Palin or Cindy, or McCain to shut up so to avoid taking the mask off the real Obama? Get real!…
YOU, left wing liberal Morons have spent weeks on personal attacks against Palin and now all of a sudden you are becoming “testy” because we are determined to get American voters to learn about the “Real Obama” and his “sweet deals” with convicted terrorists, drug dealers, and a lunatic anti-American Marxist pastor of his for 20+ years!
The real tragedy will be to elect Barack Hussein Obama President. The real tragedy will be to elect someone who refuses to place his hand over his heart during our National Anthem and refuses to wear the American flag. But off course, what do you expect from an Un-American, Non-patriot, MARXIST Barack Hussein Obama, who launched his campaign in the livingroom of convicted terrorist Ayers …
I guess this is what community organizing was all about for Mr. Barack Hussein Obama! He was “organizing the community” spreading his Marxist ideas around in perfect harmony with terorists and other criminal elements of the Chicago underground!
Oh, I know…he speaks well!
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/palin-defends-a.html?cid=133892075#comment-133892075

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm

This is a must watch for all morally sound American fellows who must know how dangerous “That One” – the Marxist Fellow – Barack Hussein Obama – will be for our country….
A VIDEO PORTRAIT OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
http://www.eyeblast.tv/Public/Video.aspx?rsrcID=2036
REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR OBAMA
http://www.donotvoteforobama.com/

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm

Just Wondering: That’s not what he said. You must be smoking Obama’s pot. And he is still smoking it. McCain said ‘My Friends’. He always says that. Obama don’t know what to say. He has to think and he has trouble doing that. DRUGS!!
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | Oct 9, 2008 2:39:43 PM
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Mariann- he must have not taken his daily dose (cocaine that is) when he spoke about having visited all our 57 States with one or two more to go!

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm

Mariann, that’s exactly what McCain said “my fellow prisoners”. Look it up and stop accusing me of smoking something just because you think I’m wrong.

Posted by: Just Wondering | October 9, 2008, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm

what has become of your country; do you not realize you look like a bunch of pre-schooler’s!
both candidates want to finish selling you out to “illegal alien’s”, china, and whom ever has the cash to buy up the infrastructure! in the mean time your credit crisis is worsening with the continuation of devaluing the dollar!
arguing about a middle name in an election year!

Posted by: get a life | October 9, 2008, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm

And btw, I heard McCain say that at his rally. Guess I was dreaming right. He’s losing it.

Posted by: Just Wondering | October 9, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm

You know that riot threat was used even when BO was running against Hillary. Sounds to me as if the BO camp is worried.
I noticed also that Zogby has said to ignore the current polls claiming BO will win by a landslide.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket will win — because I don’t think BO & cronies can continue to suppress the facts.

Posted by: HP Boston | October 9, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm

Quotes from Obama’s 2 books:
From Dreams of My Father:
‘I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.’
From Dreams of My Father :
‘I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.’
From Dreams of My Father:’There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.’
From Dreams of My Father:
‘It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.’
From Dreams of My Father:
‘I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa , that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.’
And FINALLY the Most Damning one of ALL of them!!!
From Audacity of Hope:
‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’
With all of this ‘shady’ past, are you liberals seriously really overlooking EVERYTHING? This is not about Democrats vs. Republicans.
Obama is an extremist with a Socialist Agenda… NEVER before has this country elected a President with this kind of Socialist agenda… NEVER.
Posted by: Elaine | Oct 8, 2008 4:15:17 PM
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Good job Elaine – I bet that no one of the left-wing-liberals – Marxist Morons – who are posting on rhese blogs have even bothered to read “That One’s” books…
When I read Obama’s comments in his books I get a sense of creepiness – especially when reading his comment about “standing with the Muslims”…
Barack Hussein Obama: Author – “The Audacity of Hope”:
‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’
Quote by Barack Hussein Obama….
AMERICA THINK BEFORE YOU VOTE!

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm

The link for the comment regarding the quotes from Obama’s books is:
ABC News
Cindy McCain Takes Off Her Gloves
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/cindy-mccain-ta.html?cid=133998037

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm

Natasha did you really read his books. Then you do know he never said he would stand with Muslims. I doubt you read his books. You just like to cut and paste. Look it up.

Posted by: diz | October 9, 2008, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm

Hitler was VOTED into power.
If the United States of America votes
Barak Hussein Obama in, we like others in the past have done it to ourselves
History ALWAYS repeat itself
I feel sadness for the generations to come of the future America Land of the Free
Research all that I have commented

Posted by: Lovona | October 9, 2008, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm

Go look up page 261 dear…
Of course, Obama claims that he is speaking for American Muslims…Perhaps a person running for the highest Office in our Land should have been more articulate (I thought that was his strong point) than hiding behind his own words. There is a clear message here that he would stand with the Muslims no matter how much you and others want to “sugar coat it”.
As far as the cut and paste is concerned – please mind youe own business. Besides this one, I participate in other blogs as well and since the topics are very similar I use replies that I have posted in those other blogs.
It is NOT up to you or ANYONE ELSE to tell me what to post and how to do it. In the mean-time, be careful along with some other left-wing liberals to make sure you post your sources (links) as I always do. Otherwise, there are “copyright laws” in this country to protect the authors of many comments that left-wing liberals are using in this and other blogs without disclosing their sources. It is called plagiarism my dear – but apparently many of you have taken your lessons on plagiarism from… Joe Biden!
LOL!

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm

My previous comment is a reply to:
diz
(as in “dizzy”)
LOL!

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm

How sad that Obama threw his grandma, grandpa, & mom under the bus. What an arrogant jerk! I find it interesting that many of the terrorists have stated they support Obama. God help us if he is elected. Democracy, as we know it, will be over. I think many Americans have accepted socialism and are ok with lying down and allowing the government to control them. God help us.

Posted by: Daisy | October 9, 2008, 4:10 pm 4:10 pm

He used Barack Obama’s middle name because he was no doubt told to by the McCain campaign in order to feed fresh meat to a like-minded crowd. The Sheriff is a politician and he did what his party suggested, however, somehow I doubt he gave any thought at all as to whether he should have lowered himself to that level. Note that the McCain campaign only took that risk in two states key to its campaign, and has never taken that road before Palin came on board, and they always get someone else to do it. No other vice-presidential choice would have agreed to the nasty tactics McCain is employing. I’m not sure how McCain can stand to look at himself in the mirror, nor anyone else in the eye, these days. Well, actually, he doesn’t look anyone in the eye these days. Unfortunately, Palin doesn’t think she’s doing anything wrong because she is common and ignorant.

Posted by: Sharon - NC | October 9, 2008, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm

you can put lipstick on Michelle, but it’s still a gorilla!

Posted by: GORILLAS R US! | October 9, 2008, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm

Did Hussein Obama have a sexual relation with Larry Sinclair or not?
Obama is a very weak candidate to be president. He voted 13 times as Present to avoid taking on any heavy
duties in Il. Like it was above his pay-grade. He refused to prosecute the gang wars that was destroying the city because he feared that it would be seen as discrimination against the blacks.. He has been linked to Rezko, Rev Wright, and to Larry Sinclair whom he was said to do drugs with and to have had a sexual relationship. The media don’t want to investigate this allegation because it’s like wildfire and would be seen as racist. My family and our community cannot vote in this election until that is investigated as truthful or erroneous for once and for all. Larry Sinclair had a U-tube video stating that they did drugs and had an Oral sexual contact, and he is willing to take a polygraph test to that effect. We noticed how the media went after Palin to find out all the dirt, and we want an answer on the dirt on Obama before the election is completed.
Muslins in America will rise up for him-remember they have a larger muslin population here. Obama will be their choice just for that reason alone. Acorn in OH. regstrd the homeless
To vote for him and some as 45 times, and they were forced to and given money.
If he wins, there’ll be a race-war. I cry for thee son of KENYA.

Posted by: shirley richard | October 9, 2008, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm

Talk about racists! Those Obamas and their cult following are the worst. But worse of all I won’t vote for a drug addict who has gay sex in the back of a limo.

Posted by: suzy | October 9, 2008, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm

I don’t know what’s more scary, the cover up by the MSM for Obama, or his brainwashed Nazi Youth supporters like Bethb, who typically respond to any questioning of their Messiah with an angry barrage of hate filled insults.
Guess what Obots, your candidate was never vetted at all and has run the most corrupt campaign in history.
Better get used to people like Natasha, and millions of others who will only make sure to find out about Obama especially if he does steal the Presidency.
get used to it. He will never escape the upcoming scrutiny.

Posted by: . | October 9, 2008, 5:37 pm 5:37 pm

Why did McCain refer to a crowd as “my fellow prisioners”????? What was that all about?
Posted by: Just Wondering | Oct 9, 2008 1:51:26 PM
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Because he is SENILE and whoever does not see that IS NOT AMERICAN.

Posted by: THE AMERICAN EAGLE | October 9, 2008, 5:40 pm 5:40 pm

Talk about racists! Those Obamas and their cult following are the worst. But worse of all I won’t vote for a drug addict who has gay sex in the back of a limo.
Posted by: suzy | Oct 9, 2008 5:35:43 PM
=====================
Dubya is GAY?!
no way!

Posted by: THE AMERICAN EAGLE - agree with me or you are a TERRORIST | October 9, 2008, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm

McCain had a slip of the tongue. You know, like “my muslim faith”.

Posted by: Carol | October 9, 2008, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm

Michelle Obama first lady……ROFL thats funny more like first charcter in the Planet of the Apes” NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT, SHE DOES HAVE A STRIKING RESEMBLANCE TO ZERA! BUT NOWHERE NEAR THE SCRUPLES! MICHELLE SHOULD BE BANISHED FROM THE USA.

Posted by: NO | October 9, 2008, 5:48 pm 5:48 pm

Ahh….that was him on the cover of the “Curious George” childrens book! Now I get it!
LOL !

Posted by: Lil' | October 9, 2008, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm

This may be the worst day in media history. I turned on my television this morning to find that ABC was making up stories that were not true and taking statements with obvious intention out of context. ABC, you are an embarrassment to the American people, who have a right to know the truth. Be objective. Even many Democrats I know at least try to see both sides of the story. For those fed up with ABC, CBS, NBC, etc… Watch FOX This may be the day that the liberal media died.

Posted by: a drew | October 9, 2008, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm

I DO NOT like Obama. I agree that the media did all they could to dig dirt on Palin but did not do the same for Obama/Biden. The media has been shameful. With that being said, when folks get low and ugly and refer to Michlle Obama as an ape, it damages the republicans. I strongly dislike her but grow up and go after her for her views…not her looks.

Posted by: Daisy | October 9, 2008, 6:26 pm 6:26 pm

I agree Drew. The left-wing media (MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN) has been shameful. When the ACORN story aired, I had to dig on these news sites to find anything about it. Fox News is FAR more balanced.

Posted by: Daisy | October 9, 2008, 6:30 pm 6:30 pm

Natasha is by far the dumbmest and most worthless person I have ever read. Natasha’s stupidity is wonderful. When it comes to ignorance Natasha is an artist. Continue being a moron Natasha and vote the way you did the last two times and when things don’t get any better look the other way and deny everything. Keep up the good work The best part of it is, is that you really don’t matter.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm

“The media, the media, boo f-ing hoo. I can’t find the truth. I’m to f-ing stupid. This is the worst day. All the media is wrong here except one unbiased outlet that don’t, in my little brain, seem to have an agenda, or any kind of a slant. And the chicks are really hot. Wah! I don’t like what I’m hearing. How could this be said about real Mavericks?”
shut up you sniveling dildo.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 6:39 pm 6:39 pm

My name is Daisy I couldn’t be any more of dope. I agree Drew. The left-wing media (MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN)those five, 95% of the newspapers and most magazines have been shameful. A real shame like my waisted life. When the ACORN story aired (or barely aired) I had to dig on these news sites to find anything about it. Luckily I have a lot of time to do that I am a very sad and lonely person. Fox News is FAR more balanced. They say the things that my little brain can handle!

Posted by: Daisey | October 9, 2008, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm

Why all the wining over a middle name. Who cares? Focus on the issues people. If he is so ashamed of his middle name then he should change it, like he did with his religion. Or start using all the other candidates middle names as well to make it fair.

Posted by: jrep | October 9, 2008, 6:53 pm 6:53 pm

Fellow Republicans:
See how all the hateful libs are out with the name calling. They are such a hateful bunch for being so “peace loving.” We don’t need to go to their low level.

Posted by: Diay | October 9, 2008, 7:01 pm 7:01 pm

You go Natasha! Holy Smoke and Daisey are more than likely the same person. This person can’t stand the truth.

Posted by: Daisy | October 9, 2008, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm

you are at a much lower level. Don’t call me a “lib” or “peace loving” “hateful” is fine I hate you because you are worthless and you ignorantly contributed to the destruction of this country. And you will continue to do so because you are selfish and stupid.

Posted by: Daisey | October 9, 2008, 7:12 pm 7:12 pm

‘DAMN IT, WILL YOU TELL THEM TO WAIT A MINUTE? I NEED TO FINISH MY SMOKE IN THIS HEAR BATHROOM IN THE WHITEYHOUSE, I’LL BE RIGHT UP THERE FOR THAT MEETING IN A MINUTE! OH TELL MY KIDS TO QUIT SWINGING FROM THE CHANDELIERS TOO! AND DON’T LET ANYONE IN THE LINCOLN BEDROOM, WE ARE HAVING A CRACK PARTY AND GAY SEX!

Posted by: . | October 9, 2008, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm

wow dopey Daisey you are a real F-ing Sherlock. The truth is this I am a far more worthwhile person then you are. you have been wrong your whole life and are to stupid to stop being wrong. I have always been right.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm

yep, and then we’ve got his kids swinging on the chandeliers in the White House, while he’s doing coke and sneaking cigs in the bathroom before a meeting. And the revival of affirmitive action, slave reparations and all kinds of horrors.

Posted by: pat | October 9, 2008, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm

if The Palins took office?
‘DAMN IT, WILL YOU TELL THEM TO WAIT A MINUTE? I NEED TO FINISH MY SMOKE IN THIS HEAR BATHROOM IN THE WHITEYHOUSE, I’LL BE RIGHT UP THERE FOR THAT MEETING IN A MINUTE! OH TELL MY KIDS TO QUIT SWINGING FROM THE CHANDELIERS TOO! AND DON’T LET ANYONE IN THE LINCOLN BEDROOM, WE ARE HAVING A CRACK PARTY AND GAY SEX!

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 7:19 pm 7:19 pm

obama the magic negro is going to prison.
I’m Tony Rezko, and I approve this message.

Posted by: Rezko | October 9, 2008, 7:19 pm 7:19 pm

MY WIFEY WAS JUST TRYING TO SAY, SHE WOULD ONLY BE PROUD OF AMERICA IF GOOD OLE BUCKY WAS ELECTED PREZ. NOW DON’T BOTHER ME ASKING ABOUT ISSUES ANYMORE. (yes but mister president, it’s time for the State of the Union Address). WELL, JUST RUN THAT HOPE AND CHANGE CAMPAIGN SPEECH BY THOSE SUCKERS AGAIN.

Posted by: . | October 9, 2008, 7:21 pm 7:21 pm

Tony go f yourself you ignorant turd

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 7:21 pm 7:21 pm

Oh my! I used my middle and last name. I should be easy to find so liberal nameless, faceless hatemongers can lay it on me. That level of venom is a sign of a lack of intelligence, finesse and vocabulary when one must use curses and explicatives at another human being because they disagree. So much for “Fair and Balanced.”

Posted by: Martin Alvin Petsonk | October 9, 2008, 7:21 pm 7:21 pm

starting to get good in here. I love the truth and people being true to who they really are. Everybody run away it’s getting to honest.
this is what it comes down to everyone admit it.
MY WIFEY WAS JUST TRYING TO SAY, SHE WOULD ONLY BE PROUD OF AMERICA IF GOOD OLE BUCKY WAS ELECTED PREZ. NOW DON’T BOTHER ME ASKING ABOUT ISSUES ANYMORE. (yes but mister president, it’s time for the State of the Union Address). WELL, JUST RUN THAT HOPE AND CHANGE CAMPAIGN SPEECH BY THOSE SUCKERS AGAIN.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 7:25 pm 7:25 pm

I don’t know what’s more scary, the cover up by the MSM for Obama, or his brainwashed Nazi Youth supporters like Bethb, who typically respond to any questioning of their Messiah with an angry barrage of hate filled insults.
Guess what Obots, your candidate was never vetted at all and has run the most corrupt campaign in history.
Better get used to people like Natasha, and millions of others who will only make sure to find out about Obama especially if he does steal the Presidency.
get used to it. He will never escape the upcoming scrutiny.

Posted by: tom | October 9, 2008, 7:28 pm 7:28 pm

hey! three named dipstick, who ever said life was fair and balanced? get used to it you goof

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 7:30 pm 7:30 pm

once a muslim, always a muslim

Posted by: k | October 9, 2008, 7:31 pm 7:31 pm

tom you are toad

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 7:31 pm 7:31 pm

i only like my own retarded religion.

Posted by: HolySmoke | October 9, 2008, 7:32 pm 7:32 pm

Talk about racists! Those Obamas and their cult following are the worst. But worse of all I won’t vote for a drug addict who has gay sex in the back of a limo.

Posted by: sally | October 9, 2008, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm

PUTIN IS ON THE PHONE? TELL THAT BRO TO WAIT A MINUTE, UNTIL I CAN STOP STUTTERING. WHAT? NUCLEAR MISSLES HEADED THIS WAY? TELL HIM I HAVE A PLAN FOR HOPE AND CHANGE, AND I’LL GET BACK TO HIM AS SOON AS I FIGURE IT OUT!

Posted by: HUSSEIN BLOBAMA | October 9, 2008, 7:35 pm 7:35 pm

Thank you HolySmoke. I’m now enlightened and able to function in a not-so-friendly world!

Posted by: Martin Alvin Petsonk | October 9, 2008, 8:05 pm 8:05 pm

Let me get this straight: first the left complains that McCain used “that one”, “The man has a name. Why didn’t he use the man’s name?” Now when Barack Hussein Obama, the Senator’s full name, is used they’re not happy with that either? Give me a break!

Posted by: Patricia | October 9, 2008, 8:12 pm 8:12 pm

Why aren’t they invoking John Sidney McCain the third?
Well, because it effective in this day and age with all the fear that some non-traditional name especially one that sounds like an arab name is somehow bad.
Intelligent folks know that’s not the case, but I have to ask, why are those folks so offended at that name..I suspect they are the same type of folks who are offended at Jewish names, Asian names, Latin Names, Polish Names, Cuban Names..and at one time Irish names or German names.
McCain and Palin feel that these folks are Americans and not YOU or I – who are the rest of this nation very diversed, very large, and very tired of this kind of stuff. We also vote in large numbers.

Posted by: conservative Not NeoCon | October 9, 2008, 8:16 pm 8:16 pm

I don’t care what his middle name is, I care that his ideology is socialist and that his friends include devout Marxists like Bill Ayers and Black nationalists like Rev. Wright.

Posted by: Joanne600 | October 9, 2008, 8:52 pm 8:52 pm

Here comes the race card again. Hussein IS the guy’s middle name. Get off it! If Obama gets elected, will he drop his middle name at his inauguration?

Posted by: philphat | October 9, 2008, 11:27 pm 11:27 pm

This is so stupid. Barack Hussein Obama is his name and if Barack does not like his middle name then he could have changed it when he changed his last name a long time ago.
Obama and his campaign behave like some kind of third world dictator. Don’t mention his ears he says, don’t call him a liberal he has said,don’t talk about Ayers, Wright, Rezko he says, and don’t use his middle name.
Anyone can see what he is doing and as long as people cave in to this jerk Obama they will be even more sorry IF he wins this election and see the horrors he will do to this country. It will be a lot more then just not letting people use his middle name.

Posted by: Wild Thing | October 10, 2008, 6:01 am 6:01 am

“Hussein, Hussein Hussein” the crowds will shout from the burning streets.
“Bring forth our New King.” Barry “Himself” The Chosen One. Praise be to the clean negro. Praise be to Allah. God Bless Bill Ayers for giving us our man. We love Bill Maher he’s funny. Our man is a smiling man you can trust a smiling face. “Hussein, Hussein, Hussein”

Posted by: Devote D of "HimSelf" | October 10, 2008, 7:10 am 7:10 am

Let us make donations to our new government when Our Man is placed in Office. Let us give contributions to the poor and those who do not work. Let us re-educate those who do not vote for our man.

Posted by: Marxist | October 10, 2008, 7:17 am 7:17 am

It sure does seem that Obama supporters are one angry group of people! Sheesh!

Posted by: LongT | October 14, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

Obama the magic negro is going to prison.
I’m Tony Rezko and I approve this message

Posted by: Rezko | October 17, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

I’m voting Democrat because my bro Obaamy is going to give me more free stuff!
I’m a lazy ass black, and I hate whitey!
I want more free stuff!

Posted by: bobo | October 17, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm

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