Stephanopoulos: Electoral Battleground Leans Obama

You can judge a man’s character by the company he keeps…

Just go ahead and put Obama in the White House right now, since everyone is so enthralled by him and so assured that he is the man who will miraculously SPEAK, and everyone will listen and heed his advice. Gosh, this man has this country forgetting the sound advice their parents gave them as children: If it seems too good to be true, it is!

I ‘ve got a good advice for the Mccain camp.
The more negative their attacks get, the more desperate they look. Those undecideds will shift to Obama in droves and he will win in a landslide of historical proportions.
The condition of the economy at this time makes negative attacks flimsy and annoying.
Those ayers and Rev wright stories didn’t work for hillary when they were still new. Now, they are older than Mccain himself and moreover, the economy is in shambles. It is stupid to think they will work this this time.

John was in the Navy, surely he recognizes when his ship is sinking.

I think Hussein Obama is running 2 campains , the Obamabots campain and the McCain campain.

In response to Byron’s invocation of the old saying, “if it seems too good to be true, it is!” – might I add one I find particularly relevant to the McSame campaign: “If it feels like a turd, and smells like a turd, it’s a turd.”

My friend voted early in Ohio today. He has been really pessimistic about Obama chances until now. He said if you could see the excitement and momentum for Obama exhibited at the Polls in Ohio, you would be assured that Obama won’t just win…he’ll win in a landslide. Keep doing what your doing McCain, pretty soon Wyoming is going to be a battleground state.

Is this America with a “K” or a C”?
Obama is what he is. He has already chosen who his frinds are.
Can we really trust him?
Vote for an American hero, McCain who was brutally tortured in Hanoi!
http://www. obamaunveiled. com

What is Obama doing in Washington right now? My tax dollars have been paying his salary for the last 2 years and now he comes up with a plan, Looks like he just took the pay, for self gratification only, because he sure has no record to brag since he’s been there, he has no record of helping the people of Ill. much less America!! And one more thing, why does America have to listen to George Stephanopoulos’s Democratic opinions!! Is nobody at ABC News listen to the one sided ipinions?!

You can judge a man’s character by his actions when he is down.

Hussein, Its Amerika ever since the nationalists Bush and Cheney have been in power, but all thats about to change when Obama rousts them from their roosts, and sends em packin. Then and only then will we be America the beautiful again.

bhcg89
You said, “Given their academic training, a trillion dollars may look the same as a million dollars on a budget spreadsheet.”
Do you realize how stupid that sounds. McCain and Palin barely graduated. Obama finished at the top of his class in one of the best colleges in the world.
Obviously you didn’t finish at the top of your class.

Americans agree that we are headed into a depression and McCain is talking about events that happened 40 years ago.
When are McCain and Palin going to realize, we’re tired of politicians that blow smoke instead of caring about us?

AS SARAH PALIN WOULD SAY:
” I can see us losing in a landslide from MY HOUSE”
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Obama/Biden Time!!

McCain and Palin are so desperate they will say anything to win. Its really quite sad, that McCain started out with so much respect and now hes just a bitter old man. He needs to reign in his pitbull if they are going to have even a shadow of a chance of winning.

Its most unfortunate McCain sees his only strategy being character attacks, the same ones which were discounted during the Democratic Party preliminary campaign. The unfounded attacks are an insult to the American voters. Crash and burning is never a pretty sight.

Wow, Mr. Obama really has everyone in his corner. I hope he doesn’t disappoint …

At this time, it seems as though the terrorists have accomplished what they set out to do at 9/11: ruin the free world’s economics and get their man in the White House. Obama’s mentor was the late poet and member of the communist party subservient to the Soviet Union, Frank Marshall Davis. Obama wrote about Frank in his 1st book saying Davis visited with Obama in Hawaii, they read poetry and Davis was full of hard-earned knowledge and advise; they were like father/son. Obama also admitted that he attended socialist conferences. That and the fact that a radical Texas Muslim organiation & the Saudis paid for Obama’s Harvard education; I believe i govt. investigated and this Islamic group is no longer in Tecas.
For the first time in our 200+ history, we may have a president and commander in chief in the White House who is a socialist/communist. You Obamaians are making the Russians, Chinese, Cuban, Venezuelan, Vietnam government very happy and the Middle East will be singing in the streets, while our forefathers will be turning over in their graves. Hope you are ready for a large government take over of businesses, the media, what is taught in schools, anti-religion propaganda, etc. Hell, you might even be told what job you can work in as the communist did in Czech. A neighbor couple defected from there after the communist came to their home, took their business and home and told the highly educated woman with a medical degree that she would work in the fields with her hands. Well, that might get rid of some of our Mexican illegals as Americans start working in the fields and mowing lawns. Obama will ruin our military and defense of our country. I just cannot tell you how sick I feel. Why did you stupid, stupid Democrats not elect Hilliary? Your are some very naive and dumb people.

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

Someone wrote: “For the first time in our 200+ history, we may have a president and commander in chief in the White House who is a socialist/communist”.
Oh honey, are you so ignorant as to what Obama proposes that you actually believe that? If so dear, then I suggest you go look at his site, and then read some of the analysis of his plans out there.
If you are instead just trying to revive the old and tried Roveian fear and ignorance tactics, then be aware that the intelligent people out here can see right through those and will prevail.

REALITY CHECK.
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NEITHER CANDIDATE WILL FIX THE ECONOMY
IN SHORT TERM……..
DON’T FOOL YOURSELF………
THE ECONOMY IS IN BAD SHAPE BECAUSE
OF 2 PRIMARY ISSUES:
1.GLOBALIZATION
2.ENERGY.
IF WE FIX THE ENERGY PROBLEM AND REVISIT
THE GLOBAL AGREEMENTS PERHAPS WE CAN
IMPROVE THE ECONOMY…..
I’M AN EX-DEMOCRAT AND I WILL VOTE
REPUBLICAN NOT BECAUSE I LIKE THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY….
I DON’T LIKE OBAMA AND HIS TAX AND SPEND
SOCIAL POLICIES…..HE’S UN-FIT FOR
COMMANDER IN CHIEF.
McCAIN IS STRONG ON DEFENSE AND
FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES AND HE BELIEVES
IN LOW TAXES AND SMALL GOVERNMENT.

Keep up the negative fear attacks, Republicans….the polls clearly show what a bang-up job you are doing! As an Obama supporter, I just want to thank you for helping make the choice so abundantly clear for the American moderates.

Here comes the big Republican mudball attack. It’s all they have left to throw . . .

America has seen enough lies and smears from Republicans period. John Mc same sir you yourself once said that the folks who smeared you in your race against Bush were despicable then you proceeded to hire them for your campaign this time. Well John we have seen that movie and you sir live in a thing glass house Mr. Keating five, drug addicted wife, plane crasher, deregulator. You are committing political suicide and it is ugly. Go retire in one of Cindys twelve(12) houses. America will vote for Senator Obama in overwhelming numbers and then we will put our country back on track and clean up the huge mess you and your fellow Republicans leave for us. OBAMANOS! YES WE WILL BRING THE CHANGE WE NEED NOW!

Not sure why all the Repubs are so worried.. an Obama win will be better for them as well.. Just look at reality:
Tax plans: McCain is $4.2 trillion, Obama is $2.9 over 10 years. McCain would have to make some extensive cuts just to catch up to Obama without any. Plus, more americans will get bigger cuts under Obama, stimulating the economy faster. Also, Obama has a much better chance of closing the gap between spending and revenue, which we desperately need to do.
Health care: Both will cost roughly the same, but Obamas will be more efficent and cover more americans.. McCain would actually cause people to lose coverage, and be implementing yet another plan that favors the wealthy.
Foreign Policy: McCain is a military man and has advocated using the armed forces just if our ‘values’ are threatened! Obama proposes diplomacy and dialog over military force. Haven’t we all had just about enough war lately?
Gas/oil prices: Obama wants to cut gas prices immediately (enron loophole). McCain says it needs investigation (hint: it’s already been investigated, and the two bills congress passed to address the issue were vetoed by Bush). Doesn’t reducing natural gas prices to roughly pre-2000 levels sound good?
Intelligence: When did it become fashionable to make fun of ones poor grades like McCain has repeatedly done? When did people start thinking that actual intelligence is unimportant in a leader? Hopefully, Bush has changed a lot of peoples minds about that one!
Constitutional rights: Both Obama and Biden are experts and have taught Constitutional law. McCain supported FISA and it’s expansion, which trample upon them. And given the nut in office now, and his sidekick who is now claiming that the VP is not part of the excecutive branch, one would think that neither one of them have even read the Constitution.
Energy: Obama wants a faster shift towards alternative energy and renewable fuel sources. McCain is pushing more drilling and nuclear which not only take years before realizing that effort, but would simply be pouring more money into an existing infrastructure (oil) that we are trying to shift away from.
I’m amazed that the poll numbers are not much greater than they are really. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see the differences, you just have to open your eyes. I’m glad that more and more are finally doing just that.

I still can’t believe how Bush got re-elected and how real dumb are majority in this country.
Atleast after 8 years of disaster in every possible arena, The people should realise that failed Republican policy and McSame should be voted down, So history will be indicator to future evil like Karl Rove.
All those 40% or so idiots who can’t still see how terrible state is this country is should wake up.
I still can’t believe that 20% + still thinks Bush is doing great job.
Wake up people!!!
Vote for better future, Vote for Obama!

It is time for McCain to eject and open his parachute. His campaign is sinking so badly. The latest antics coming from his campaign shows he has no control over Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin questioned publicly McCain’s intelligence in pulling out of Michigan. She thinks he can turn this country around by spewing filth about Obama. It’s a been there, done that thing which clearly backfired for Clinton. Not only that Sarah Palin has not uttered a single statement that tells the women voters how her policies will help women. Without that she ain’t getting the female votes.

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Is this America with a “K” or a C”?
Obama is what he is. He has already chosen who his frinds are. Can we really trust him? Vote for an American hero, McCain who was brutally tortured in Hanoi! http://www. obamaunveiled. com
Posted by: Hussein | Oct 6, 2008 7:46:25 PM
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Well, MkKKain is certainly using the K3 tactics isn’t he. He is definitely looking for a new kind of Amerikkka. Isn’t he. Cute.
Sorry who ever you really are, your post is a flop, and so are you. You ought to do a thorough investigation of MkKKain’s connections. Telling. He may be a war hero, and the injuries he suffered in his plane crash as well as at the hands of the mob that hauled him out of the water and the torturers, but that does not qualify him for President. Look at how this man behaves. Look at his age and the damage that has been inflicted on his body and mind. Its not fair but its the facts. and if you then look at the fact his daddy and grand daddy all died before MkKKain’s current age and he looks as old as his mum who is in her 90′s, then add on to that his recurring cancer history and his non availability of medical records.
Then consider that the next oldest president was William Henry Harrison, who was the 9th President died 31 days into office.
Now consider the risk of this man, back stopped by a juvenile VP. You need to think carefully about this. It might not be polite to talk about all this and it might be ageism to table it, but facts are stubborn things. And a vote for MkKKain as President is 25% a vote for Palin, just on normal life statistics, never mind the recurring cancer, the damage from his POW experience and the shorter lives lived by his daddy and his daddy’s daddy.
If MkKKain wants to get into the gutter and throw slime, he needs to get out of his 9 to 12 glass houses. He can’t win it. Just watch.

NubTail, I agree with you. If he had Romney on the ticket it would be very different with this economic crisis. Palin has nothing to offer.

It’s probably true that neither can fix the economy in the short term, but only one candidate can restore America’s image in the rest of the world, and that’s obviously Obama. Bush destroyed our image, making our country less safe in the process, and you want another war monger in the White House? I think McCain supporters ought to leave the country some time to get a clue about how the rest of the world sees us.
It doesn’t matter whether or not you like Obama; at the very least he’s the lesser evil.

– Obama is what he is. He has already chosen who his frinds are. Can we really trust him? Vote for an American hero,–
Just because he is a hero doesn’t change his proposed policies. That is an ignorant thing to base your vote on, just as idiotic as those who are simply voting with their party or those voting on a name, or any of the other irrational reasons being spread about.
If you want to see what each really cares about, go look at the legislation they have introduced. I have, and yes, I trust Obama because he has shown where his values are in regard to this great country.

McCain has no plan for the American people. McCain has no agenda to help the regular taxpayer. Tax health care benefits. You will have less companies covering you. Most people are paying for their own healthcare plans and now they will taxed on top of it.
Obama laid out his plan to help the taxpayers. He has a plan for America.
McCain is an angry, bitter, grumpy old Man who was ignorant and ignored both the moderator and Obama and took both his turn to speak and Obama’s also to tell Once upon a time stories that do not help the American people pay any bills. I don’t need a Storyteller !!!! I need a President who has a plan to help me and my family !!!!
OBAMA for America.
Eight Years Was Too Much. America will send a message to BUSH and MCCAIN

– It’s probably true that neither can fix the economy in the short term –
Not probably, but definately true. However, Obama will at least turn us in the right direction for the uphill battle. McCain want’s to continue down the same path we are on.

It’s good to see that the part of the population who believe the Republican standard rhetoric are slowly dying out. You can no longer win the presidency by simply relying on xenophobes, gay-haters and senile retirees equating Democrats with Socialists. America is growing up, and the Republicans better start reinventing themselves because their base is seriously shrinking.

– As McCain noted, American companies “pay the second-highest business taxes in the world, 35% –
And as Obama pointed out, due to loopholes in the tax laws, business pay very little taxes in reality. The number cited is just the tax rate if they actually did pay, which they don’t.

Some fool wrote: “American companies “pay the second-highest business taxes in the world”
And if you believe that, you are an idiot. I’ve run multiple companies in my life and I can tell you that we paid zip other than the required deductions for our employees. There are so many ways to get around taxes, legally, that it is a joke.

All this nonsense about negative attack ads. Blah Blah Blah. We always hear this coming from the dems as a way to discourage the important information that the MSM refuses to research. Since when are the dems concerned about the Reps hurting their own campaign with them. Thanks for the concern dems…. No, Really. Thanks! Nice to know you care. PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE POLLS. THEY ARE FIXED AND THE INTERNALS ARE FIXED. IT’S A WAY TO DISCOURAGE THE REPS FROM SHOWING UP AT THE POLLS. ok. I’m done shouting now…;) every aspect of the Obama campaign is a “FIX”. From the MSM in the tank to Hollywood in the tank. They are all little turds at the bottom of the tank. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself with all the tank talk…Even if the tide turns for McCain ( as it is showing already at RCP)…Just watch the rallies for McCain and Palin. WOW. tens of thousands of screamers. Very Cool. McCain will win. Why? That dreaded “silent majority” Yup. We’re not big on making a scene, we just show up at the last minute and do our patriotic thing. Be afraid dems, BE VERY AFRAID…. bwaaahhhaahahahaha…

– McCain and Palin. WOW. tens of thousands of screamers. Very Cool. –
Yup, all desperately trying to find out if Palin is any more intelligent than a rock or what the GOP is hiding. Screw the personality, the issues are what drives this nation, and McCains stance on every one would take this country in the wrong (or should I say same) direction. Get past the lipstick and do what is right for this country, not your party (or ego).

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– BILL CLINTON DID NOT DELIVER UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE WHAT MAKES YOU THINK OBAMA CAN DO IT –
Different plans entirely. And here is a ‘fact’ for you, the Democrats in congress tried twice to pass legislation which would have closed the enron loophole.. guess what numnut vetoed it?
Bush has vetoed 11 bills since being in office, and only one of those was when the Republicans controlled congress.

I’m disappointed that McCain is stooping to these sleaze tactics. But it’s far more comical than it is convincing. The American people need leadership, not political sleaze tactics.
Obama continues to impress.

Character. Past associations. Let’s take a look at Charles Keating who McCain vacationed with and then bailed out for cash. Let’s look at Palin and her husband Todd with respect to the Alaska Independence Party which could possibly be characterized as seditious for its advocacy of breaking up the United States. How about Phil Gramm for that matter or George W. Bush whose been an ally of his.

Quote: ” HOW COULD HE VERE DELIVER UNIVERSSAL CARE IN THIS MESS..”
It’s simply an insurance carrier, just like the others. It will pool resources and provide an additional health insurance option in addition to existing ones. How come people don’t understand that? This is not ‘government run health care’, it’s an additional ‘government run health insurance’ that coexists with ‘private run health insurance’ companies. It also combines tax incentives to comapnies to keep their employees covered, thereby saving them money (estimated $140 billion annually), and will increase revenue to the actual health providers (of which the government is NOT one) by providing more paying customers to them (as opposed to uninsured ones which wind up costing us additionaly)!

– Terrorists hang out with other terrorists. Crooks hang out with other crooks. Racists hang out with other racists…..and look who Obama has been hanging out with. Geez, its scarrey. –
And apparently idiots hang out with other idiots.

>> I do not believe main stream polls.
Nor do I.
Please see: http://www.electoral-vote.com/
It aggregates polls from each state in a unique and highly accurate fashion, primarly from non-partisan sources.

Willy…Idiots hang out with other idiots—-you mean like at an Obama rally or how about those hanging out in Ayer’s livingroom for Obama’s official launch into politics.

“You at least know that John McCain has the computational and analytic skills to compute fuel loads, cargo weights, wind speeds, and trip distances to keep from running out of gas on missions.
How would you like it, if Joe Biden or Barack Obama would fly your Boeing 777 on your next commercial flight here in the US.”
I want the man who crashed 5 jets to be in charge of the commercial plane and the economy, please. Oh, that was John McCain. Never mind, scratch that. We’ll go with the smart desk jockeys for the economy and legislation, and leave commercial flying to the pilots who don’t crash jets. How does that suit everyone?

“Stupid is what Stupid Does”Sara Palin is as Stupid as McCain”No Doubt!!!Let me ask a Question;Has Palin ever Breast Fed the 5 months Old New Born Baby?Or Its Bristol Breast feeding her Brother?Well,it seems like Bristol is DOING the Job after all she also has Milk now.I guess Palin is S**king on McCain’s D**k,Forgot Baby Trak!!!Shame on You Palin,If you cannot care about your own Child,How about AMERICA?

Funny, but most of this subprime mess can be traced directly back to the dems passing laws that allowed banks to make killing giving loans to people who don’t pay bills, while the dems, Obama, and Obama’s thugs at Acorn basically terrorized banks into giving out bad loans. Thanks Barney Franks, thanks Obama——thanks for really socking it to us.

– Funny, but most of this subprime mess can be traced directly back to the dems passing laws that allowed banks to make killing giving loans to people who don’t pay bills, –
Goes back even further, to deregulation of banks that allowed them to package up mortgages and sell them as investments.
Crafted by none other than McCains advisor Phil Gram (same guy who gave us the enron loophole), yet passed through congress in a bi-partisan fashion so it could not be vetoed by the pres.

Barack Obama’s healthcare plan advertisements are misleading and are an outright hoax on the average American family who has to buy a non-employer sponsored healthcare plan.
Barack Obama supports a bailout of AIG, he should. His proposals on health insurance have made a major contribution to helping to undermine investors confidence in AIG’s future profitability and financial prospects.
The economic proposals of Obama dealing with healthcare display a naivete about economics of the health insurance industry. This is unusual because his wife is a hospital administrator with a major hospital in Chicago. In campaign ads and during his acceptance speech, Barack Obama mentions that his mother had to fight with insurance companies during her terminal illness. Barack vowed to eliminate discrimination by insurers and his recent ads specifically state he will ban pre-existing condition prohibitions on coverage. Obama also says that his proposals will not increase the cost of coverage for the average American family. His plan and the statement that it will not increase costs is an outright hoax. Preexisting condition provisions in insurance company health policies are the cornerstone of the entire concept of insurance. Health insurance is not like welfare that you can collect if you need it. The economic principle of health insurance is that healthy people pay into the system and only a few draw out. Over a fourth of people in the United States do not have health insurance and many do not have health insurance simply out of choice. People that are in their twenties and thirties and are healthy and may chose to self insure. They are willing to bet that they will no get sick therefore they do not want to pay any premiums. However, if these same people only decide to purchase health insurance when they want to have a baby or a special elective operation or become aware that they have a health condition such as cancer, then the system breaks down. Only sick people will pay into the system and healthy people will opt out because there is no incentive to maintain health insurance. If insurance companies can’t exclude people due to preexisting condition then the rates will become exorbitant for everyone. The rationale behind mandatory auto insurance recognizes that many people are willing to take their chances and drive without insurance. Barack Obama proposal to eliminate preexisting coverage exclusions is like someone without auto insurance having an accident and totaling their car and then going down to the insurance office and taking out a comprehensive policy and demanding the insurance pay for an accident that they had the previous week when they were uninsured.
The main beneficiary of Barack Obama’s proposals on preexisting conditions are the states and federal government who no longer have to pay under Medicaid for poor uninsured people without insurance. Under the current system hospitals also have been eating this cost and passing it onto the federal government in higher charges for Medicare and Medicaid. Barack Obama’s plan will be shifting all of these costs off the government back onto people who have private insurance which will have the direct effect of jacking the insurance costs up at least one hundred percent for everyone who has insurance. The current twenty-five percent of people who are uninsured will stay uninsured but just sign up for insurance when they are sick or need to go to the hospital. They will drop their coverage once their illness is over. The only people who will maintain insurance are those who work for large companies and have no choice but to opt in during open season once a year. Even some employees may choose to opt out until they want to have an elective operation or they become aware of a preexisting condition that Barack Obama is adamant will have no meaning once his proposals are implemented.
Maybe Barack Obama can extend his plan to car insurance. No one has to buy comprehensive insurance until after they have an accident and then they get to take out an amended policy and make the insurance company pay to fix their own car. If the principle works for health insurance it must work for car insurance.
Michele Obama the wife of Barack Obama works for a hospital and it is amazing that Barack Obama would run ads complaining about insurance company refusals to insure based on preexisting condition. Barack’s plan demonstrates Baracks lack of understanding of simple economics and insurance practices and is a hoax on the average American trying to pay for affordable insurance.

– and hey didn’t Hilliary mention it too? –
Yup, and it backfired on her, just like it’s backfiring on McCain. Remember what McCain said in his campaign against Bush in 2000:
“I just have to rely on the good judgment of the voters not to buy into these negative attack ads. Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future or you’re not ready to articulate it.”

Here is McCain on when to use Armed Forces – August 1, 2000:
LEHRER: .. when should the United States deploy its armed forces abroad, and what criteria should be used? Are you comfortable with the decision-making that would – that a Bush-Cheney- Powell triumvirate would make?
McCAIN: Yes. I’m extremely comfortable and basically it’s when American interests and values are threatened. And sometimes when our values are threatened, over time our interests can be threatened. I can’t make an argument to you that Kosovo posed an immediate threat to our national interest. But I can argue that it offended our values to a degree that if allowed to go unchecked, then unrestrained, once Milosevic started to do his ethnic cleansing, then sooner or later our interest would be threaten because that same kind of scenario would transpire in other places in Europe.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/election/july-dec00/mccain_8-1.html

McCain decision to personally attack Obama will be his last erratic move in his campaign; it will totally sink his ship. McCain has decided that the mavericky thing to do is to swift boat Obama by playing the guilt by association game. Great idea, Senator Straight Talk…but it’s no fun to play alone, so let’s add a couple of more players:
There’s McCain’s association with G. Gordon Liddy:
Liddy served four and a half years in prison in connection with his conviction for his role in the Watergate break-in and the break-in at the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers. Liddy has acknowledged preparing to kill someone during the Ellsberg break-in “if necessary”; plotting to murder journalist Jack Anderson; plotting with a “gangland figure” to murder Howard Hunt to stop him from cooperating with investigators; plotting to firebomb the Brookings Institution; and plotting to kidnap “leftist guerillas” at the 1972 Republican National Convention — a plan he outlined to the Nixon administration using terminology borrowed from the Nazis. (The murder, firebombing, and kidnapping plots were never carried out; the break-ins were.) During the 1990s, Liddy reportedly instructed his radio audience on multiple occasions on how to shoot Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents and also reportedly said he had named his shooting targets after Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Liddy has donated $5,000 to McCain’s campaigns since 1998, including $1,000 in February 2008. In addition, McCain has appeared on Liddy’s radio show during the presidential campaign, including as recently as May. An online video labeled “John McCain On The G. Gordon Liddy Show 11/8/07″ includes a discussion between Liddy and McCain, whom Liddy described as an “old friend.” During the segment, McCain praised Liddy’s “adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great,” said he was “proud” of Liddy, and said that “it’s always a pleasure for me to come on your program.”
Point: McCain
And from Paul Begala:
But John McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing organization, it was the U.S. Council for World Freedom, it was chaired by a guy named John Singlaub, who wound up involved in the Iran contra scandal. It was an ultra conservative, right-wing group. The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981 when McCain was on the board, said this about this organization. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League – the parent organization – which ADL said “has increasingly become a gathering place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites.”
Point: McCain
And we can’t forget the mini-Maverick and her close and personal relationship with an America-hating secessionist group:
So, we have Sarah Palin, actively involved with a secessionist group that professes its hatred for America, and whose husband was a card-carrying member of the group for seven years. And don’t forget, Todd Palin isn’t just the spouse of an elected official. He has been called a Shadow Governor, attending private meetings, being sent on fact finding trips, and being copied on emails that were later “prohibited from being released to the public due to executive privilege.” This man would be a 72-year old heartbeat and a pillow away from the presidency.
Point: Palin
And let’s add Palin’s pesky, but largely ignored, preacher problem. Thomas Muthee, the preacher that Palin said helped her become governor:
…founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells.
And while praying with Palin standing by his side, Muthee:
…implored Jesus to protect Palin from “the spirit of witchcraft.” The video archive of that startling sermon was scrubbed from Wasilla Assembly of God’s website, but now it has reappeared.
And during that same prayer, Muthee also said:
The second area whereby God wants us, wants to penetrate in our society is in the economic area. The Bible says that the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. It’s high time that we have top Christian businessmen, businesswomen, bankers, you know, who are men and women of integrity running the economics of our nations. That’s what we are waiting for. That’s part and parcel of transformation. If you look at the — you know — if you look at the Israelites, that’s how they work. And that’s how they are, even today.
Yes, Palin listened to him calling for God to take banking and business out of the hands of Jews and later praised him and his sermon.
Point: Palin
Oh, and one more that we can’t forget. John McCain’s association with four men…in fact, if it wasn’t for John McCain’s intimate association with them, the Savings & Loan crisis that cost the American taxpayers $2.6 billion, would have been known as the Keating 4 instead of the Keating 5 scandal:
The Keating Five became synonymous for the kind of political influence that money can buy. As the S&L failure deepened, the sheer magnitude of the losses hit the press. Billions of dollars had been squandered. The five senators were linked as the gang who shilled for an S&L bandit.
S&L “trading cards” came out. The Keating Five card showed Charles Keating holding up his hand, with a senator’s head adorning each finger. McCain was on Keating’s pinkie. McCain was the only one of the five with close social and personal ties to Keating. McCain, his family, and their baby-sitter had made nine trips at Keating’s expense, sometimes aboard Keating’s jet. Three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating’s opulent Bahamas retreat at Cat Cay. It was not until several years later, after hearing that Keating was in trouble, that he paid Keating $13,433 for some of those trips.
Point: McCain
And on the other side we have Barack Obama who served on charitable boards, along with many others, with William Ayers, who was involved with a radical group when Obama was 8 years old. Oh, and they share a zip code.
Point: Zero
And the winner is, McCain and Palin. But when you think about it, this game really isn’t fair. While Obama had no association with Ayers’ radical past and has repeatedly denounced it, both McCain and Palin were personally involved with all of their players. But let’s let them enjoy their victory here. It’s the only one they’ll get.

Notice again, all of Obama’s buds are crooks, terrorists, thugs, racists. I think he has no others.

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

It is usually when someone thinks they have it all wrapped up…it falls apart. Let them gloat and have their few hours of glory.
When people really want to know who to vote for….http://www.johnmccain.com/Undecided/WhyMcCain.htm McCain is not just happy talk and wishful thinking, Vote for McCain Palin. They have a plan and it is not just talk….Real Reform Issues….Reform our Trade market which will eventually keep more jobs here….Reform Taxes, Pro-Growth Tax Policy, Innovation Tax Policy, it is Simpler, Fair, Pro-Growth and Competitive…….Health Care Reforms: To Reduce The Rate Of Health Care Inflation, To Make Health Insurance Innovative, Portable And Affordable……Reform Energy for America, Transform Electricity, Expand Domestic Production Of Oil And Gas, Addressing Speculative Pricing Of Oil and Lord knows we need to close the doors to those speculators opinions to where they do not effect our prices at the pump. Also, Transform Transportation and Building Efficiency………Supporting Small Businesses, Lower Energy Costs to small businesses will help, also Controlling Health Care Cost for employees……. Taxes: John McCain’s plan is Simpler, Fair, Pro-Growth, And Competitive…….Opening New Markets…I only covered a few and can not give you the details on each of these mentioned, you must visit the web page. The plan is right there for you to see. You do not need to ask someone on the board who can do it, visit this page. http://www.johnmccain.com/Undecided/WhyMcCain.htm

– I still can’t believe that 20% + still thinks Bush is doing great job. –
Remember, 49% of Americans have below-average IQ’s!”
——–
IQ isn’t the problem. The problem is that 49% of Americans are evangelical, pentacostal, or revelationist end-of-days believers. They need a president like Bush, McCain, or Palin to satisfy their sick end-of-days death wish for America.

Make Believe Maverick
Current Issue – Rolling Stone
At Fort McNair, an army base located along the Potomac River in the nation’s capital, a chance reunion takes place one day between two former POWs. It’s the spring of 1974, and Navy commander John Sidney McCain III has returned home from the experience in Hanoi that, according to legend, transformed him from a callow and reckless youth into a serious man of patriotism and purpose. Walking along the grounds at Fort McNair, McCain runs into John Dramesi, an Air Force lieutenant colonel who was also imprisoned and tortured in Vietnam.
McCain is studying at the National War College, a prestigious graduate program he had to pull strings with the Secretary of the Navy to get into. Dramesi is enrolled, on his own merit, at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in the building next door.
There’s a distance between the two men that belies their shared experience in North Vietnam — call it an honor gap. Like many American POWs, McCain broke down under torture and offered a “confession” to his North Vietnamese captors. Dramesi, in contrast, attempted two daring escapes. For the second he was brutalized for a month with daily torture sessions that nearly killed him. His partner in the escape, Lt. Col. Ed Atterberry, didn’t survive the mistreatment. But Dramesi never said a disloyal word, and for his heroism was awarded two Air Force Crosses, one of the service’s highest distinctions. McCain would later hail him as “one of the toughest guys I’ve ever met.”
On the grounds between the two brick colleges, the chitchat between the scion of four-star admirals and the son of a prizefighter turns to their academic travels; both colleges sponsor a trip abroad for young officers to network with military and political leaders in a distant corner of the globe.
“I’m going to the Middle East,” Dramesi says. “Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iran.”
“Why are you going to the Middle East?” McCain asks, dismissively.
“It’s a place we’re probably going to have some problems,” Dramesi says.
“Why? Where are you going to, John?”
“Oh, I’m going to Rio.”
“What the hell are you going to Rio for?”
McCain, a married father of three, shrugs.
“I got a better chance of getting laid.”
Dramesi, who went on to serve as chief war planner for U.S. Air Forces in Europe and commander of a wing of the Strategic Air Command, was not surprised. “McCain says his life changed while he was in Vietnam, and he is now a different man,” Dramesi says today. “But he’s still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in.”
McCAIN FIRST
This is the story of the real John McCain, the one who has been hiding in plain sight. It is the story of a man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else, a man willing to say and do anything to achieve his ultimate ambition: to become commander in chief, ascending to the one position that would finally enable him to outrank his four-star father and grandfather.
In its broad strokes, McCain’s life story is oddly similar to that of the current occupant of the White House. John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At each step, with the aid of their fathers’ powerful friends, both failed upward. And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to Jesus in their wives’ evangelical churches.
In one vital respect, however, the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a much better pilot.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

Obama’s Healthcare Plan Doomed From The Start
 
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/09/23/history-proves-many-doctors-recommendations-are-disasters.aspx?source=nl

Oh no, McCain was on Liddy’s show….I’ve never heard of politicians going on talk shows..how shocking. Oh, and Liddy contributed 4 times in the last 10 years to McCain for a total $5000? Oh-boy…..and this makes Liddy what exactly? A small time contributor of Mccains?

Do you want pess and change? Do you want to live in a beautifool country fool ol pess? Vote for obama. He will give you change! I wont a pocket fool ol cage two.

Obama/Biden or Bust..Thank God most Americans aren’t the ignorant racist that despise Obama. They can see the big picture and that McCain offers nothing to help working class or elderly citizens.

Oh my main man obama is going to sue this….this…..posters………………………………..hey nu….dunt git y’self all tight in the britches o’r them cazzy people. Vote for obama! The man of a pocket fool of change.

The only question now is whether or not Obama can hold up amidst the desperate attacks from McCain-Palin. Ayers is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg…
http://www.political-buzz.com/

I am Catholic and I do not support abortion. It is NOT a question of gay rights or racism. It is the question of Presidential Candidate Obama supporting abortion. A fetus has the right of life. If you cannot support the right to life, then it is impossible to support any other rights of life. A Catholic whether liberal lay or conservative must come to realize that supporting the right to life is a sacrament of life.
Moreover, liberal lay Catholics must realize that they are not supporting the poor and other races by agreeing to consent to abortion. Abortionists are supporting
the control of the poor and the races by allowing abortion. It is necessary to see into the future and come to realize the control of certain peoples because of race and lack of wealth. Abortionists support control of the population and the destruction of a life whether the life be gay, poor, or of a selected race. No To Obama.

You can judge a may by the way he reacts in a crisis
the fundamentals of the economy or strong
errrrr
we are in a crisis
errrrr
we need to fire the sec
errrrr
we can be headed to a depression
errrrr
i am going to quit my campaign at a time when we need to look at the next president who will guide us out of this debacle.
errrrr
i am going to miss the debates at a time when we need to look at the next president who will guide us out of this debacle.
errrrr
I will go to washington and look like I am doing something…. oh it didn’t pass
errrrrr
its obama’s fault
NO WAY
NO HOW
NO MCCAIN

Again I believe it is necessary to ask supports of BHO what he is going to do about the unemployment in Michigan.
Here some numbers put together by Forbes in 2007 for the year 2006.
I quote from the Forbes article. Hourly UAW workers at Ford including cost per hour, wages and benefits are $141,020, for GM $146,520and for Chrysler $151,720
Toyota, Honda and Nissan is $96,000 and a college professor $92,973.
What type of jobs are going to be created to pay these workers this type of money with benefits.
Also probably should get away from the only problem is Bush and McCain. I am not committed at this time to either candidate. Just looking for answers on the future and just not pushing negatives.

William
Not neccessary to ask at all… NOT AT ALL….
Anything will be better than the answer McCain gave them.
Back during the primaries. he said and I quote “here’s a little straight talk…..those jobs are never coming back…..
The McCain campaign is now a zany distraction to the real issues that this country face
you choice is a no brainer sir

There is no talk that can persuade not to be a terrorist. Hitler and the Nazi party had a plan to control the world with a Pure Race. Obama would not fit into Hitler’s world plan for world domination. The Jews had no choice but to escape from Germany or be sent to death in the ovens of concentration camps. In fact, Jessie Owens was the first Afro-American Hitler every saw. Hitler never gave Jessie acknowledgement for his Olympic performance and the four gold medals at the1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Hitler thought of Jessie Owens to be an impure human, the kind of fetus that should be aborted.
Japan wanted to control their part of the world for raw materials and not to advance the human race. There were political envoys taking to Germany and to Japan prior to the start of World War II. It made no difference. Japan treated talk as a weakness. All terrorists treat talk as a weakness.

William, obama wi mak micigan beautifool and pess.

**** There are alot of issues that we believe in. Don’t just take one issue that you don’t agree in and make a decision from that. If an issue (abortion, homosexuality, race) means the decision maker in an election, you are probably actively speaking out about this issue at work, home, and the public. If this “issue” is not that important to speak out anywhere…is it a “truthful” issue for making your decision on who the next president should be. Unfortunately, the last presidency I voted for Bush because of the Same sex issue, as I’m sure many others did. I can’t cry over spilled milk, oil, gas, or this bail out. ***

When will the MSM bring the World Anti-Communist League up. McCain being a board member of its American counterpart (the U.S. Council for World Freedom) has been totally neglected so far, maybe because it concerns such an explosive scandal that involves some dirty aspects of American foreign policies under Reagan and, earlier, Nixon.
If it would be addressed by the MSM, the Keating Five scandal would be peanuts in comparison. And that for many reasons, but certainly for this one: the League carried out political assassinations and formed contra-guerrilla movements in all areas of conflict, including in Afghanistan where it was headed by….
yes, by Osama Bin Laden.
The World Anti-Communist League was founded in Taiwan by Chiang Kai-shek, reverend Moon and Axis who were (Nazi and Japanese) war criminals.
The WACL was first used by Nixon to extend counter-insurgency methods into South-East Asia and Latin America. Seven heads of State participated in its meetings at that time. Later, it was revived in the Reagan era, becoming an instrument of the U.S. military industrial complex and the CIA during the Cold War.
As said, it carried out political assassinations and formed contra-guerrilla movements in all areas of conflict, including in Afghanistan where it was headed by Osama Bin Laden.
Hugo Banzer of Bolivia, Jorge Rafael Videla of Argentina and Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay were all well-known members.
One of the most notorious criminals in Argentina and in the region was former General Guillermo Suarez Mason, an important figure in the World Anti-Communist League and a top Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent; he was influential during the Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983) and one of the “experts” in the Dirty War, counter-insurgency and repression, proceeding mercilessly in these activities while he held the post of Chief of the Army First Corps between 1976 and 1980, a period which abounded in kidnappings, torture, deaths and disappearances in the clandestine detention centres of which he was in charge.
He also played a key role as an Argentine military death-squad advisor within the Central American saga and was a partner of John Negroponte’s, the then U.S. Ambassador in Honduras, in the signing of the criminal pacts and alliances that were made in Central America in the 1980’s.
It might be time to learn some more about McCain’s work for this scandalous organisation.
“People know me,” is McCain’s mantra these days.
No, they do not.

how could i forget north carolina

–( Hourly UAW workers at Ford including cost per hour, wages and benefits are $141,020, for GM $146,520and for Chrysler $151,720
Toyota, Honda and Nissan is $96,000 and a college professor $92,973. )–
The problem with the Big 3 is largely due to it’s retirement benefit packages, increased heavily over the years due to union pressure, and reduced modernization (Toyota, Honda and Nissan have newer plants, and are more heavily modernized as a result). That coupled with a downward economy and increased fuel prices causing sales to drop, forcing layoffs and employee ‘buyouts’. Unions could play a large part in reducing costs, if they and the employees are willing. They are also trying to shift existing and future retirement plans to more economical 401(k) type plans, but that does not address the continued health care costs, which is also part of the retirement package. Of the two candidates, Obamas plan would provide health care cost savings (to the company) in the form of tax credits for employer provided health care, and addresses the gas prices by closing the enron loophole. McCain offers reduced health care costs in the form of deregulation and increased competition, but that will take time before the effects are felt.

Obama is kickin some maverick butt.
In palin stump latest speech I don’t know who more pitiful… her or the ravinous radical supporters that were there
What a sad party …. that is the most unamerican thing i have ever seen. embarassing as the rest of the world look at us.
all those countries out there witnessing this…. i apologize for the republican party. they are a bunch of inbreds who do not represent the whole country ….. we will put an end to this on november 4…. please bear with us for a few more weeks.
thanks

George is right on money.Out of 8 swing states remaining, in all likelihood 2 of them Ohio and Virginia will turn blue this election.This week there was a massive new voter registration in both these states and most of the new voters are youths which is quite encouraging for Democrats.Mcain made a big political blunder closing the campaign offices in Michigan and voters are now strongly of the belief that he cannot handle their economic plight by any means.On the top of that most of them have been watching the TV over the weekend and repetitive statements by GOP fox news contributors that any time economy hits the top of the issue list,Mcain will have far little chance to win the election helps them make a decision which way to go in this election.

McCain lost the election when he claimed the “fundamentals of the economy are strong” in September no less. He appeared out of touch. October attacks are not going to change this fact. The innuendo game McCain is playing was already discussed at length in the democratic primaries. Anyone remember the Gibson/Stephanopoulous debate. It won’t work this time either. Besides, having Palin launch such charges seems silly when her husband was a member of a separatist group.

caribou barbie?! LMAO!! Thats funny as hell….gotta use that one. Now, for McGranpa…He never supported deregulation?!? Its always the rich repubs that claim they understand the middle class issues when in truth, they don’t understand a damn thing about the middle class…I mean how can you take him at his word when he forgets how many homes he’s got? and his wife drives around in a Lexus with Ms.Bud on the license plate with 100,000,000.00 sitting in her checking account?
McGranpa and caribou barbie…LOL! what a joke. Barack Obama for President 08!!

McCain should be ashamed of himself. Even in defeat there can be dignity. I don’t think the Senator will have much of his dignity left after this campaign. The economy has left McCain behind because he aligned himself with the war and George Bush. Obama has shown he is calm and cool, and willing to fight when attacked.

Doin our best to turn TEXAS Blue!
An, Is’nt Ameri’ca an Italian name?
Gobama Go……

The more McCain attacks in the debate, the more desperate he’ll look.

Lightseeker, this is why McCain is losing. It’s the issues silly, not the fringe stuff. The economy, the war, the environment…

The more McCain attacks, the more truth will suface about Obama.
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaLatest.htm
No Obama

I love how McCain supporters like to just throw out childish things like “Obamabots”
Yeah so like it has nothing to do with the last 8 yrs under republicans, yeah that has nothing to do with it at all.
And dont bring up the congress being democratic, it has barely been 2 yrs and any fool who knows anything about the way our gov’t works it is not like you can flip a switch and WHAM all better.
Both parties make mistakes, but after 8 yrs enough is enough already…if McCain did have PLANS that were different than Bush…that would be different, but he does not.

– Rand.org is a naïve organization like those prior to World War II. That kind of sentiment almost enslaved the United States and the world. Wake up to fact and not the belief that a good talk will correct the massive differences in traditions and beliefs. Power is what separates differences. –
So I guess you didn’t even bother reading it? It wasn’t an opinion piece, it was an analysis of over 600 terrorist organizations in recent history and how they were removed. No opinion, just facts, and presented to the Senate Armed Forces Committee in September of this year. Their findings verify what was recommended in the Iraq Study Group (did you even bother reading the ISG report, or do you consider their findings naive as well). The only ‘opinions’ were their recommendations based on their findings, and those too are basically the same as the ISG recommendations. And both mirror the proposal Obama submitted to Congress in Jan 2007. You should perhaps consider changing the ‘handle’ you are using.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT314/index.html

Obama claims alternative energy is his idea. More lies and deception from Obama.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/
http://westinstenv.org/sosf/2008/02/11/bipartisan-house-coalition-introduces-legislation-to-fix-biomass-definition-in-renewable-fuels-standard/

McCain backers talk about everything but the economy.

) Voters coast-to-coast are receiving
) e-mails from the Obama campaign
) encouraging them to sign up to learn
) pre-election agitation tactics at “Camp
) Obama.
Where can I sign up??
No way, No McCain
I care too much about this country to let dumb and dumber finish off what Bush started.

The Bible says that the Antichrist will be a political power and be praised all over the world.
He will go about his business by speaking the lie. He will come with all decietableness of unrighteousness.
The armies of the world may have guns and tanks and bombs to bring people into submission, but the power of speech and ideas is a mighty power.
His speeches will be heard by millions who will hang on his persuasive rhetoric. The content as well as the form of his speech will attract. Like most false prophets, he will be sincere and passionate. But he is a liar. He adds dashes of truth to the mix, so that his lie tastes like truth. He will use all the right catch words, using the language of the church.
He will use every tool available, school teachers, politicians, news broadcasters, artist, musicians, scientist, and doctors and lawyers and businessmen. All will be pressed into service of the Antichrist to decieve men.
He will especially use those whose calling it is to persuade and to teach men who claim to be preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Antichrist will establish himself and validate his claim as God’s annoited.

Wow. The Anti-christ stuff is so beyond silly. You’ll lose every Independent voter with crazy talk. Maybe you already have.

I haven’t heard anyone who believes that the economy is good vote for Obama.

We can not stop the end from coming. If infact Obama is the Anti-Christ then we know we can’t stop him. The bible has to be played out. I don’t know the future, but it has already been told. The end will come to pass. The question is..where are you going when you die???
Start forgiving and loving each other.

McCain is going to win this election with 274 electoral votes.
I correctly predicted that Bush would win the the 2004 Election with 286 electoral votes back in Oct. 2004.
Believe me, this is exactly what will happen. You’ll see, you’ll see.

Wow, that anti-Christ stuff sounds like George w. Bush. We stll have a few months to go…Or maybe..O God, Chaney? Oh wait, He is the President. Bush’s just a stand in…

I’m sorry, that was mean. I really don’t want like it that McCain won’t give Obama enough respect to look at him in his face when they debated. McCain also wouldn’t give Obama any credit that at least one of his ideals for America was good.

Type “Bradley Effect” into Google, and you’ll realize why Obama is ahead in the polls. Sorry people, polls are not the almighty God, they simply are not
For those interested in “truth”:
type “Election 2008 in 30 seconds” into You Tube.

I want Obama to win, but I dont allow emotions to cloud my reasoning.
In October of 2004, my electoral prediction for the 2004 Presidential Election (like the one seen here) was 100% correct, predicting that Bush would win with 286 electoral votes.
My 2004 prediction, like my 2008 prediction, was not in harmony with the polls at the time. However, I was not swayed by meaningless numbers or political punditry most of which predicted a Kerry victory.
Some of you have expressed scorn for my prediction, stating that Obama is way ahead in the polls. Let me say something about polls.
#1. They convey attitudes which do not necessarily predict behavior (voting).
#2. Polls change with the weather. Even if Obama is way ahead TODAY, that doesnt he will be way ahead on ELECTION DAY.
#3. About 1 in 5 voters make up their minds in the last four weeks before Election Day. 1 in 9 voters do not make up their mind until the last week before Election Day. The undecided demographic is very significant and tends to lean conservative, when it comes to actually casting a ballot.
#4. US Presidential Elections are not won by popular opinion; they are won with electoral votes. Even if Obama got 70% of the popular vote, he could still lose the election (in theory).
#5. The Bradley Effect. It gives non-white candidates inflated poll numbers.
I am so confident about my prediction for the 2008 election that I will publicly apologize if it turns out to be inaccurate. Please exercise your 1st Amendment right and leave a comment!
For those interested in “truth”:
type “Election 2008 in 30 seconds” into You Tube.

“Just go ahead and put Obama in the White House right now, since everyone is so enthralled by him and so assured that he is the man who will miraculously SPEAK, and everyone will listen and heed his advice. Gosh, this man has this country forgetting the sound advice their parents gave them as children: If it seems too good to be true, it is!”
I think that cliche needs to be appended: If it seems too good to be true, it probably is, but if it seems to be the EXACT SAME THING that didn’t work before, then it’s definitely a loser. McCain’s (neocon) policies are all clearly losers. Obama will give us policies based on rational, intelligent, non-ideological thought that, if nothing else, are at least different.

Hey Baz,
I’m a little impressed with your research. I don’t want you to make a public apology. I want you to sit back and realize that things are happening now that didn’t happen before.
There are a lot of days left to the election.
Do you hope that you are wrong?
Or do you even care anymore? Have you thrown in the towel? Do you believe that things will never change?
Wow.

Baz,
If you are really patriotic who always puts country first before politics, please predict when will our economy get on track …will people who lost the jobs get the same back and when? We are more interested in hearing such predictions than how many electoral votes Mcain gets.Even Mcain will be more happy if he learn that he has a fortune teller on his back yard and always remember Mcain’s slogan “Country First”..So please predict us citizen’s needs first.

im amazed the media isnt condemning the associates Barack Hussein hangs out with. instead they go after mccain for pointing out the associates.

Hey Baz,
I just can’t believe that change isn’t possible. I don’t want people to constantly lose their money while the candidates talk about each other.
Are we too far in debt to turn back now? Do we have to stay on the course we have been on in order to come out at the end? Or will it be the end of America?

Good question ray,
I predicted in 2004 that the US would enter a recession by the 1st quarter of 2008. Although GDP did contract by 0.2 in that quarter, there was a 2.8% rebound in the 2nd quarter.
Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE), which make up 71% of US GDP, were on the decline in July and August indicating that the Q3 will most likely be back in negative territory.
Economics and politics have a very strong relationship. GDP growth in the quarter of a presidential election won by a Democrat averages 1.5%. In quarters in which a Republican wins the elction, GDP averages 5.5%.
The worse the economy is, the better the chance Obama has of winning.
The economic recovery will likely not begin until Q3 2009. And the housing market probably will not begin a large-scale recovery until Q1 2010. That is my forecast, but God knows best.

Hey Hey Baz,
The economy is going to get really bad in the 2009. But we have to remember that this has happened before and every time, whether we had a republican or a democrat in the White House, the economy recovered.
Here is a list of recent recessions in US history: 1973-74, 1981-82, 1989-90, 2001-02
America’s GDP plunged 6% from 1973 to 1974, but life went on. Even if we end up with an incompetent president, it’s important to remember that the Fed is the God of the US economy, not the president.
Our savior, Ben Bernanke, and his twelve apostles (the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks) will ensure that economy does not collapse. The 700-Billion Dollar “Wall Street Bailout Package” is a painful but necessary step to enusring stability in the US economy.
I know some say it is “wrong” to bail out the “big corporations” who put us in this mess in the first place, but let’s face it: these “big corporations” control the economy of the United States. If they go down, we all go down. The president of the United States is really not particularly important in regard to the economy.

It is no longer a question of whether Obama will win. I am convinced that will happen. The $700 billion question is how big a margin will it be in terms of electoral votes.

(Michael F. Scheuer, the founding head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit: Senator Obama must have left a couple zeroes off his plan for reinforcements. Two brigades — which is about 6,000 men — will not make a lick of difference in Afghanistan, which is a country the size of Texas, with the highest mountains on earth, a hostile population, and a growing Islamist insurgency. If Obama starts talking about 100 brigades — about 300,000 men — then the public might be able to assume he means business. Otherwise, he is just blowing smoke. Obama and all the other candidates in the other parties constantly say that “we have tried the military option and it does not work.” This of course is a bald lie; U.S. military power has been used most daintily in Afghanistan and Iraq. If the military power we have delivered in both places so far is the best we can do, then American taxpayers have been monumentally swindled in the amount of taxes they have paid for their military during the past 25 years. And another billion dollars for aid for Afghan reconstruction would just be another billion wasted. It appears that Obama and his fellow candidates in both parties have not learned that programs for economic recovery, internal stability, and nation-building cannot be started with any hope of effectiveness and durability until the enemy has been definitively annihilated. If Obama is right and the military option has failed, then more aid is just throwing money away because — as all can see — the enemy is growing in size and ferocity and shows no signs of being on the edge of annihilation.)
Obama’s misconceptions are like that of Democrat President Johnson. President Johnson did not listen to the expert opinions like those of General Curtis LeMay. Democrat President Johnson expended the Vietnam War killing thousands of innocent men, women, children and US military personnel. Obama’s solution to the Middle East is a change from peaceful negotiations to acts of murder. No to Obama, the constantly changing presidential candidate.

Get use to having Obama lead the evening news, you can thank Bush and that crazy VP of his. It is pay back for voting for fools the last two elections they ripped off. Shame on you who vote for another fool in Palin, god help us if she becomes Pres.

Barack Obama promises he will talk to everyone – friend and foe alike. He’s convinced himself our unwillingness to do so under the “Bush-Cheney” approach makes us look arrogant, [and] it denies us opportunities to make progress, and it makes it harder for America to rally international support for our leadership.”
Of course, we DO talk to all nations (friend and foe alike), we just don’t sit down and make nice with them – we tell them to behave themselves and take care of their people with decency and the human dignity they deserve…and until they do, we’re not going to do them any favors (or give them any cash handouts). Obama doesn’t seem to GET that part of it, but this fact goes hand in hand with all the other things he doesn’t “get” about Foreign Policy.
http://archive.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/when_obama_negotiates_with_terrorists

I am an American living in the Far East. I live next to the terrorists that kill innocent children. Until you live it, you know nothing. I am also military trained, Fort Benning GA., Harmony Church.
Obama does not know one lick about military tactics or how to use the advice of a commanding general. Obama is a wind that blows in all directions to satisfy everyone with his empty promises. No Obama

The youngest McCain was not cut from the same cloth. Even as a toddler, McCain recalls in Faith of My Fathers, his volcanic temper was on display. “At the smallest provocation,” he would hold his breath until he passed out: “I would go off in a mad frenzy, and then, suddenly, crash to the floor unconscious.” His parents cured him of this habit in a way only a CIA interrogator could appreciate: by dropping their blue-faced boy in a bathtub of ice-cold water.
Trailing his hard-charging, hard-drinking father from post to post, McCain didn’t play well with others. Indeed, he concedes, his runty physique inspired a Napoleon complex: “My small stature motivated me to . . . fight the first kid who provoked me.”

Potential Obama Counter Attacks:
For every hit a man is empowered to use self-defense.
For allegations of Obama being involved with Freddie Mac. We know Obama should use the truth in regards to Mac’s campaign manager, Slick Rick Davis receiving his latest lobbyist check from Freddie for $15,000 in August 2008.
For Reverend Wright resurrected smears, Obama can expose America via television ads to Palin’s strange church which is in the business of holding anti- witchcraft vespers and espousing the need to transform Jews into Christians.
The most extreme religious video is the one of Palin HERSELF, not her minister, standing before the congregation preaching to the congregation. So she thinks she’s a minister? That is the impression the video paints. She is standing on stage addressing the congregation and calling the Iraq war A HOLY WAR. Her actions and words tell us she DOESN’T believe in the SEPARATION of Church and State.
Then there is Troopergate/ABUSE OF POWER.
PALIN’S claim to be middle class when she has at least 1 mil. $ in assets.
INCOME TAX FRAUD?? ISN’T THERE A SUM OF MONEY UNCOUNTED FOR?
Palin’s affair. This needs to be followed up on. If an affair took Edwards down, why not Palin?
McCain’s 5 years of cheating on his former wife and applying for his marriage certificate for his current marriage before his divorce from wife #1 was finalized. Dishonesty 101
All the propaganda about Obama’s citizenship being questionable?? Mac was born in the Panama Canal zone and technically is not a true, born on US soil citizen.
Mac has opened a Pandora’s Box and he won’t be able to shut the lid on November 4, 2008.

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.”
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

I totally agree with Nevada Pundit. McCain’s latest strategy isn’t going to help him. It will probably only make him look desperater in the eyes of any remaining INDEPENDENT voters. I’m truly saddened by what McCain has done to himself. He used to be a highly respected senator. But by his own actions over the last 6 months he has totally destroyed his own reputation and legacy.

As an Independent, I give my full support to John McCain and Sarah Palin, the good people that support the American way of life through love of church and love of country.
No To Obama’s lies and deceptions.

“He’s going to be Bush on steroids,” says Johns, the retired brigadier general who has known McCain since their days at the National War College. “His hawkish views now are very dangerous. He puts military at the top of foreign policy rather than diplomacy, just like George Bush does. He and other neoconservatives are dedicated to converting the world to democracy and free markets, and they want to do it through the barrel of a gun.”
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

McCain only knows war.. that is what he lived, that is what he does in the senate. I can only imagine what he would do to our country and the world if he were elected. We don’t need another Bush, but dumber.. and his choice of Palin is nothing but an insult to Americans. i can’t believe people are afraid of obama, Mccain is the scary one!

Obama shows how desperate he is by asking people to turn the page in order to hide his frightening past. No matter how many pages are turned, Obama can not hide his past associations.
Subject: Hannity’s America: Obama and Friends
a History of Radicalism
It is imperative that anyone who has any doubts about Obama’s connection to the radical over throw of America watch this program. I watched it this evening with my husband and realized that Barack’s connection to Ayers and Acorn are a real threat to our country. I am not talking about passive change here. These are the kind of folk who go beyond forging votes. They actually threaten people who are in their way.
If any of you are upset at picking up the tab for the sub-prime mortgage fall out, Acorn and Ayers is where it all started. If you think it’s bad now, if Obama gets elected, any decent American will watch and be forced to be a part of the change to socialism where we will be paying more and more taxes to subsidize others and there will a huge government in our face…just like Russia.
If you value your freedom and really want to see the truth behind BO, watch Hannity’s program. You’ll walk away with the shakes.
http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?t=948471
and
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/31079.html

McCain shows he is a man guts and a man of change:
McCain underwent treatment for his injuries, including months of grueling physical therapy, and attended the National War College at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. during 1973–1974 Having been rehabilitated, by late 1974, McCain had his flight status reinstated, and in 1976 he became commanding officer of a training squadron stationed in Florida. He improved the unit’s flight readiness and safety records, and won the squadron its
first-ever Meritorious Unit Commendation.
No To Obama, a person of ever changing plans of doom for America.

Obama is naive and does not have a firm grasp on foreign affairs, the world economy, and executive execution. Palin is one step ahead of Obama in government knowledge. Obama makes too many promises that cannot become real. These kinds of promises are simply lies and distortions of the truth.

Truth – You apparently are a firm beliver in might makes right.. that is McCains stance, and it will be the beginning of the end if he makes it into the White House. He has already indicated that he wants to use military action against afghanistan syria, iran, north Korea, Libya and others. Should that happen, the bloodbath and cost in lives, not just Americans, would make Iraq look like a sunday picnic.
I cannot believe anyone would support that position.. anyone. I believe your true motivation is not support for McCain, but simply against Obama for whatever tenuous reason you can grasp at (and have been from what I read above). That is what got us to the position we are in today, and against what made this country great.

It sounds to me like the scheming,manipulation and the gamemanship of the McCain camp is not working after all. If the campaign remains based on issues and not personality as the republicans are trying to do now, I believe Obamania will rule the world come Nov 4. ha hahaha

Obama…….
(Michael F. Scheuer, the founding head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit: Senator Obama must have left a couple zeroes off his plan for reinforcements. Two brigades — which is about 6,000 men — will not make a lick of difference in Afghanistan, which is a country the size of Texas, with the highest mountains on earth, a hostile population, and a growing Islamist insurgency. If Obama starts talking about 100 brigades — about 300,000 men — then the public might be able to assume he means business. Otherwise, he is just blowing smoke. Obama and all the other candidates in the other parties constantly say that “we have tried the military option and it does not work.” This of course is a bald lie; U.S. military power has been used most daintily in Afghanistan and Iraq. If the military power we have delivered in both places so far is the best we can do, then American taxpayers have been monumentally swindled in the amount of taxes they have paid for their military during the past 25 years. And another billion dollars for aid for Afghan reconstruction would just be another billion wasted. It appears that Obama and his fellow candidates in both parties have not learned that programs for economic recovery, internal stability, and nation-building cannot be started with any hope of effectiveness and durability until the enemy has been definitively annihilated. If Obama is right and the military option has failed, then more aid is just throwing money away because — as all can see — the enemy is growing in size and ferocity and shows no signs of being on the edge of annihilation.)
Obama’s misconceptions are like that of Democrat President Johnson. President Johnson did not listen to the expert opinions like those of General Curtis LeMay. Democrat President Johnson expended the Vietnam War killing thousands of innocent men, women, children and US military personnel. Obama’s solution to the Middle East is a change from peaceful negotiations to acts of murder. No to Obama, the constantly changing presidential candidate.

a vote for mccain is a vote to flush the toilet that bush has put this country in. looks like the McNuTeRs here, like the ‘truth’ poser, has been watching too much o’reilley. The gop may be old, but it is no longer grand, and not only is mccain falling in the polls, but so are a lot of the house and senate seats. It’s about time the american people wised up. good for them! anyone notice how the higher educated are voting obama by a huge margin according to recent gallup polls? all mccain has left is some of the white evangelical and elderly vote. now if i could just keep them freak shows from stealing my obama signs.

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

I’m tired of the same republican solutions. Cut taxes on the rich and get out of the way of business by deregulating. The current crisis proves this theory fails. It just helps the rich (the one’s the republicans really care about) and hurts everyone else. Unregulated free enterpise doesn’t work due to greed and abuse. McCain beleives in the same tired and flawed ideas. He just mentions regulation now since saying cut taxes for the rich and deregulate won’t fly right now. But he will go back to these invalid ideas again. Trickle down never worked except for the rich.

The facts that Obama and Obama supporters keep ignoring:
Obama does not know how to understand what has caused the financial crisis and points a bogus condemning finger to John McCain. The financial crisis begins with Democrat President Carter and the Democrats forcing banks to give easy credit for getting mortgages. Democrat President Clinton and the Democrats made regulations forcing banks to make even more easy credit for person to get a mortgage.
The financial crisis is the direct cause of two Democrat Presidents forcing the banking industry to make easy credit without the need to prove repayment. In fact, the banking institutions by the Democrats prohibited redlining. Redlining is the practice of banks refusing persons with poor credit and a poor credit history. American’s poor control of buying without thought of repayment and the Democrats regulating the banks to make prim-rate mortgages is the direct cause of the financial crisis.
Obama again distorts the truth and creates confusion for the voting public. Obama is a most evil kind of candidate in the history of presidential elections. There have been lies in the past presidential elections, but Obama and his supporters get the highest marks for lies and deception.
The financial markets must be free and without strict government regulations that endorses easy credit to any person, but especially to unqualified persons. Obama does not know how to execute a proper financial plan because he does not have the credentials to be anything more than an attorney. Moreover, Obama changes his programs in so many directions it is difficult to know of a plan of any kind from Obama. Obama is a person of indecision because he does not have proper executive experience.

Election Day Voting in Ohio:
A current and valid photo identification (i.e. Ohio driver’s license, state ID card, government ID).
Photo identification must show name and address (does not need to be current address for driver’s license or state id card); or
A military identification that shows the voter’s name. (Does not need to show address); or
A copy of a current utility bill (including cell phone bill), bank statement, paycheck, government check, or other government document that shows the voter’s name and current address (including from a public college or university).
Note: Ohio law provides you cannot use as proof of identification a notice that the board of elections mailed to you. Voters who do not provide one of these documents will still be able to vote by provisional ballot.
If you are homeless, you will not have a current address.

Good article from Mark Levin National Review Online!
The Obama Fan-Dance Must End [Mark R. Levin]
As someone who has written critically of John McCain on a host of issues, including the Keating Five, none of it compares to the life that Barack Obama has led and his belief system. Obama is not merely associated with domestic terrorists, Palestinian radicals, Marxists, and black liberation ideologues — he was their favorite candidate. They groomed him. They befriended him. He befriended them. He socialized with them. In other words, these people saw Obama as representing their views and aspirations and he saw them the same way. I am not among those who raise Obama’s associations but add “of course, it doesn’t mean Obama shares their views.” Oh really? These miscreants include Obama’s former pastor, political mentors and allies, and friends. Obama attempts to downplay and distance himself from his own circle of allies now that he is running for president. But he is one of them. Obama is getting a pass that no other candidate in my memory has ever received.
I just put a clip in, the rest of the article is on National Review Online.
Good job Mr. Levin, thank you.

Awww, poor Obama getting his past reviewed on a national stage – FINALLY.
This isn’t mud slinging, the associations and dirty background of Obama are relevant.
All the Obama camp have done is convinced everyone that McCain is Bush #3 – wow, what a profound campaign.
If Obama gets elected, he’ll run this country to the ground financially.
There is no depression – but again, the democrats play on our fears and have LIED about WHO is involved in the latest scam. Experts are predicting a market rebound within the next few months – happy news the left doesn’t want you to know.
Here we have the #1 liberal in the US Senate – big do nothing Obama snowing the American People. It’s not over til it’s over folks.

If you are one of those foolish people that are afraid of Sarah Palin, then you better be more afraid of Obama’s tax hikes and trade protectionism that are a look into the past.
Under Herbert Hoover, taxes were raised, trade protectionism increased, and the money supply contracted. Sound familiar? Obama’s tax hikes and trade protectionism are Hooveresque and a reminder of the great depression of 1929.
No to Obama’s policies that doom America.

CLEVELAND – Volunteers supporting Barack Obama picked up hundreds of people at homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug-rehab centers and drove them to a polling place yesterday on the last day that Ohioans could register and vote on the same day, almost no questions asked.
The huge effort by a pro-Obama group, Vote Today Ohio, takes advantage of a quirk in the state’s elections laws that allows people to register and cast ballots at the same time without having to prove residency.
Republicans have argued that the window could lead to widespread voter fraud because officials wouldn’t have an opportunity to verify registration information before ballots were cast.
Among the volunteers were Yori Stadlin and Vivian Lehrer of the Upper West Side, who got married last week and decided to spend their honeymoon shepherding voters to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.
Early today, Stadlin’s van picked up William Woods, 59, at the soup kitchen of the Bishop Cosgrove Center.
“I never voted before,” Woods said, because of a felony conviction that previously barred him from the polls. “Without this service, I would have had no way to get here.”

Something someone left out of their post:
Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised “poor judgment”.
The rest of the post is pure deception and lies.
No to Obama’s policies that doom America.

BREAKING NEWS:
Jerome Corsi the author of Obama Nation has been arrested in Kenyan, he went to launch his smear book without letting the Kenyan authority knowing.
From investigation they recover that he had a check of $1000 in his possession written in Gorge Obama’s name.

People still do not get it; it was Democrats that wrote bills that REGULATED the banks to make loans for anyone coming through the doors. Obama was one of the senators that voted for the bank REGULATIONS that helped with the financial meltdown. It was NOT DEREGULATION. It was REGULATION by the Democrats and supported by Obama.
No to Obama’s policies that doom America

Truth, but who deregulate the bank to do what ever they want with the loan, The Republican. Is the meltdown come from people who buy house they could not afford or do the meltdown come from deregulation that allows the bank to make poor judgment. you cannot all the time blame it on the poor, it’s pathetic.

Liddy has donated $5,000 to McCain’s campaigns since 1998, including $1,000 in February 2008. In addition, McCain has appeared on Liddy’s radio show during the presidential campaign, including as recently as May. An online video labeled “John McCain On The G. Gordon Liddy Show 11/8/07″ includes a discussion between Liddy and McCain, whom Liddy described as an “old friend.” During the segment, McCain praised Liddy’s “adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great,” said he was “proud” of Liddy, and said that “it’s always a pleasure for me to come on your program.

How convenient it is that the guy who wrote Obama Nation is arrested in Kenia! Did he steal a candy or an apple?

Liddy was the fall guy. He took the rap for everyone. He served his time and that is that. I do not see John McCain not saluting the American flag. I do no know of John McCain having connections with known Anti-Americans. I do not know of John McCain’s church destroying American values. I do not know of John McCain telling people that they cannot use the Bill Of Rights. Like Obama’s truth squad of law enforcement in Missouri.
I have a long list, but I’ll stop here.
No to Obama’s policies that doom America

The best assessment of the Biden-Palin vice presidential debate came from the highly-respected NBC anchor Tom Brokaw who, right after the debate, said:
“The democrats must be happy that there is only one vice presidential debate.”
Gov. Palin has more experience than Barack Obama. By any mesaure, Gov. Palin is more knowledgeable about government and governance than Obama. That is a fact.
I don’t have any confidence in Barack Hussein Obama. Period. Especially with the type of dangerous mentors and close friends like Rev. Wright, Rezko and Ayers that Obama has, I don’t trust him at all.
If the chioice comes between a shady and an inexperienced democrat like Barack Hussein Obama and the guy on the other side, I will vote for a true American and patriotic Republican like John McCain in any election.
Being a democrat will never compel me to vote for an unqualified celebrity like Barack Hussein Obama. I need and will definitely vote for a true leader either like Hillary Clinton or John McCain.

Just visiting. You have many McNasty’s over here. Think I’ll go back to Huff! It still baffles me that so many still support rethugs after 8 years. The ones that have embraced Obama and his campaign, I commend you. It takes an open mind and courage. Thanks. Vote Obama-Biden 08!

The Real Obama
By Thomas Sowell
Critics of Senator Barack Obama make a strategic mistake when they talk about his “past associations.” That just gives his many defenders in the media an opportunity to counter-attack against “guilt by association.”
We all have associations, whether at the office, in our neighborhood or in various recreational activities. Most of us neither know nor care what our associates believe or say about politics.
Associations are very different from alliances. Allies are not just people who happen to be where you are or who happen to be doing the same things you do. You choose allies deliberately for a reason. The kind of allies you choose says something about you.
Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, William Ayers and Antoin Rezko are not just people who happened to be at the same place at the same time as Barack Obama. They are people with whom he chose to ally himself for years, and with some of whom some serious money changed hands.
Some gave political support, and some gave financial support, to Obama’s election campaigns, and Obama in turn contributed either his own money or the taxpayers’ money to some of them. That is a familiar political alliance– but an alliance is not just an “association” from being at the same place at the same time.
Obama could have allied himself with all sorts of other people. But, time and again, he allied himself with people who openly expressed their hatred of America. No amount of flags on his campaign platforms this election year can change that.
Unfortunately, all that most people know about Barack Obama is his own rhetoric and that of his critics. Moreover, some of his more irresponsible critics have made wild accusations– that he is not an American citizen or that he is a Muslim, for example.
All that such false charges do is discredit Obama’s critics in general. Fortunately, there is a documented, factual account of what Barack Obama has actually been doing over the years, as distinguished from what he has been saying during this election campaign, in a new best-selling book.
That book is titled “The Case Against Barack Obama” by David Freddoso. He starts off in the introduction by repudiating those critics of Obama who “have been content merely to slander him– to claim falsely that he refuses to salute the U.S. flag or was sworn into office on a Koran, or that he was born in a foreign country.”
This is a serious book with 35 pages of documentation in the back to support the things said in the main text. In other words, if you don’t believe what the author says, he lets you know where you can go check it out.
Barack Obama’s being the first serious black candidate for President of the United States is what most people consider remarkable but how he got there is at least equally surprising.
The story of Obama’s political career is not a pretty story. He won his first political victory by being the only candidate on the ballot– after hiring someone skilled at disqualifying the signers of opposing candidates’ petitions, on whatever technicality he could come up with.
Despite his words today about “change” and “cleaning up the mess in Washington,” Obama was not on the side of reformers who were trying to change the status quo of corrupt, machine politics in Chicago and clean up the mess there. Obama came out in favor of the Daley machine and against reform candidates.
Senator Obama is running on an image that is directly the opposite of what he has been doing for two decades. His escapes from his past have been as remarkable as the great escapes of Houdini.
Why much of the public and the media have been so mesmerized by the words and the image of Obama, and so little interested in learning about the factual reality, was perhaps best explained by an official of the Democratic Party: “People don’t come to Obama for what he’s done, they come because of what they hope he can be.”
David Freddoso’s book should be read by those people who want to know what the facts are. But neither this book nor anything else is likely to change the minds of Obama’s true believers, who have made up their minds and don’t want to be confused by the facts.

MUST SEE: – plenty of Obama’s evil ties.
http://www.antimullah.com
Michelle Obama is being kept from the media! Her Thesis is back on line. She’s a very scary racist. During the Saddleback Church Forum – Barack Obama mentioned his wife – as the first person he would seek advice from; if he becomes the President of the United States. – Check it out…
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8642.html
People better take the spin off of Obama’s campaign and think carefully what this country will turn into if he’s elected. The truth is finally being brought out about him. It has nothing to do with desperation. TWO FBI AGENTS came out – one yesterday and one today – to voice their concerns about Obama and Ayres. BE CAREFUL PEOPLE…….and Ayres isn’t the only concern. —

Why is Jerry Corsi, author of Obama Nation and reporter for World Net Daily, being held in Kenya against his will??? And the American Embassy was just informed ..If you are not an Obama supporter, don’t travel overseas, you may be held against your will..Who in their right mind would put such an individual in office of the President of USA…Something is not right with this picture….

Barack Hussein Obama actively sought and received the stamp of approval of a Marxist third party that operated briefly in Chicago between 1992 and 1998.
The New Party was a Marxist political coalition whose objective was to endorse and elect leftist public officials — most often Democrats. The New Party’s short-term objective was to move the Democratic Party leftward, thereby setting the stage for the eventual rise of new Marxist third party.
Most New Party members hailed from the Democratic Socialists of America and the militant organization ACORN. The party’s Chicago chapter also included a large contingent from the Committees of Correspondence, a Marxist coalition of former Maoists, Trotskyists, and Communist Party USA members.

GoUSA247, w. Bush’s grandfather as ties with the Nazis in the 30′s but it still was elected two times.

McCain and Palin are trying everything to make obama look bad, but we are not fools. The more i listen to McCain and Palin the more i think that they are both not very nice people. They would love to give Obama a bad name, and they know its a lie but they still say it. I was a Republican but after having eight years of Bush why would i want more of the same. McCain made a big mistake when he picked Palin, but he still would of lost anyway. By picking Palin he was thinking he would get Clinton supporters but why would he think a Clinton supporter would vote for him when Obama and Clinton were on the same page but McCain is just another Bush. i feel sorry for Palin she was picked not because she was suitable but because of the votes he was hoping she would bring but that failed and so will all the lies he is saying about Obama. Nov 4th you will see who is the best person and we all know that the next PRESIDENT OF THE USA will be BARACK OBAMA.

last year i did not know who i was going to vote for. if anyone is having this problem, think about our country what a mess it is in. Do we want it to carry on with Bush/McCain/Palin and have more of the same or do we want a change, then vote for Obama.

i am also a Republican and i know you are feeling.

I can’t believe that some people believe what McCain/Palin are saying about Obama. Don’t you think you would of heard this before if it was true. They are saying it because they know they can not win. In the polls Obama is winning and they don’t know what else they can do apart from telling lies. The people who pretend they believe these lies why are they not talking about Keating 5 and Troopergate. lets start talking about the economy, which is what we all want to hear about.

Everyone must of heard McCain/Palin and all ohters, talking about Obama and William Ayers. But have you heard about McCain. Here is some of it, pass it on to your friends. make sure you read it all.
McCain linked to group in Iran-Contra affair
PETE YOST ASSOCIATED PRESS
Originally published 01:29 p.m., October 7, 2008, updated 01:12 p.m., October 7, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) – Barack Obama has his William Ayers connection. Now John McCain may have an Iran-Contra connection. In the 1980s, McCain served on the advisory board to the U.S. chapter of an international group linked to ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America.

President Obama

President Obama

To all of the people that has wrote about not believing in Obama etc: Make sure you read about McCain being linked to group in Iran-Contra affair. McCain has said he resigned from the council in 1984 and asked in 1986 to have his name removed from the group’s letterhead. READ the full story. So to people who want to believe about Obama and Ayers what do you say about McCain?

McCain linked to group in Iran-Contra affair
You Must read the full story.

You can judge a man’s character by the company he keeps…
Posted by: socalrepub | Oct 6, 2008 7:21:58 PM
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Seems like a whole lot of “guilt by association” to me and not one bit of proof that Obama himself ever did a thing that would demonstrate disloyalty to his country. In some countries they kill people solely on “guilt by association,” so I would never endorse anything like that. I would think if you had proof Obama himself ever participated in a disloyal act, you or someone like you would have proof of it. If no proof, it’s just a baseless charge that no one with a brain would even repeat.

PLEASE READ about McCain being linked to to a group in Iran-Contra affair. its a great read. Thanks alot for posting this.

Is it not clear that the Repiblican leadership hates McCain? They found a designated loser that can take the country’s anger over the many disasters that have occurred over the last 8 years. Isn’t strange that all the other candidates in the Republican primaries dropped out so easily. Then they dumped in an incomprehensible VP nominee, so no one else in the party that may have any future in the party would get damaged by the coming election slaughter. It turns out that the Republican leaders where smart enought to pick someone stupid enough to get a clean loss so they can move on to next time. McCain is turning out to be wildly successful in being that designated loser, since the Republicans really hate him anyway.

i don’t feel the smear campaign of McCain-Barbi really outlines a clear economic plan since he lost phill Gram and charles keating,McCain really has no one to help him form a plan to take from the poor and give to the rich-(basic republican economic theory)

“Deficits don’t matter.” “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job.” “Those weapons of mass destruction must be somewhere.”
On the day before the last debate, the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan, (Not the civil war Gen., McClellan) made an urgent appeal for more troops, saying the additional “boots on the ground,” as well as more helicopters and other vital equipment, were “needed as quickly as possible. Consider this a 911 call.”
On the home front over 750,000 jobs have been lost this year alone. The credit markets are frozen.
Gems of “wisdom” from the Bush/McCain administration.

I just heard that Obama’s father is from Kenya, is that true? I thought his father was God, I feel misled.

The geezer and the skeezer are now showing who they really are and who they represent. Is this the United States of AmeriKKKa?

In the United States we have a saying that goes something like “The game is not over until the fat lady sings”. I am so tired of hearing the press tell me that the McCain/Palin ticket might as well not waste their time in making a bid for the White House. I am told who won the debates, who made a blunder and who in the opinion of “Joe Blow” whom I have never heard of and truly do not care says it going to be our next president. I seem to recall a time in history where the “Chigago Tribune” on 11/3/1948 made a huge debacle in announcing in print that Dewey had beaten Truman for the presidency. Well, if I am not mistaken and I am not, Truman brought in 303 electoral votes to Dewey’s 188 electoral votes. No one know the outcome of this presidential election except God himself and he is not telling anyone.

It almost unbelieveable that there are people in support of the McCain/Palin ticket, when we all know he supported Bush Policies 95% of the time and has every intention of continuing those policies…they also know that Obama’s is no Terrorist are Sympathizes with terrioist, he might be a liberal but he’s no Terrorist…so I beg to ask the question? what truly motivates people to vote for 4 more years of the same failed Economic and Foreign policies and to want run the same Course even with all the Evidents to prove that the policie they are promoting isn’t working..are they so drunk in this ideology and empathetic to other Americans Suffering that they have become truly blinded??

First of all: William Ayres is from Chicago and those who live in Chicago all think he is a great guy. They have made him Chicago citizen of the year. Obama served on a board for education reform with him. Who cares!
Second: Pastor Wright made a statement that some Blacks live in poverty and the government doesn’t control drugs in these poor neighborhoods and because of this, these impoverished blacks are put in prison for drug use. Wright expresses his anquish at America. Again-who cares!
Obama has so much to offer-don’t listen to Palin and McCain-they just want to encourage hatred in America-Don’t let them. It seems that they must not love America if they choose to behave like this and encourage their supporters to make statements like: “Kill him” and “he’s a terrorist.”
VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN

This is how Obama is winning by using ACORN TO DO HIS DIRTY JOB OF DOUBLE VOTING
“Tony Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada, and anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won’t be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4,” said Secretary of State Ross Miller, referring to star players on the pro football team.
State authorities raided the headquarters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a group that works to register low-income people.
Miller said the raid was part of a monthslong investigation, and he contended the group had submitted registration forms that used false information or duplicated information on multiple forms. He did not estimate how many.
Bertha Lewis, interim chief organizer for ACORN, said the group has been working with election officials to weed out fraudulent forms from those submitted by the canvassers it hires.

Obama is an inspirational, brilliant leader. Biden has the political history and the integrity to support him.
During this campaign, McCain has not shown the smarts, stability, or incorruptibility we so desperately need now in our presidency. And Palin is a narcissistic nightmare of memorized soundbites, misinformation, and fear tactics.
A Republican presidential win would be ineffective and destructive at this crucial time in history.

ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS LOOK BACK AT McCAIN RECORDS OF WHAT HE DID IN THE PAST, ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS KEATING 5!!!!
AND FOR SOME OF YOU WHO DOESN’T KNOW
WHAT KEATING 5 MEANS LOOK IT UP…
GET ALL YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT.
OBAMA IS ARE FUTURE!!!

It is clear during the debates that both Barack Obama and Joe Biden want to fight the war on terror only in a politically correct manner.
Barack Obama worries how the world may view us. John McCain understand that winning the war on terror is not a sure bet and minimizing American military lives and casualties is more important than fighting in a politically correct manner.
John McCain’s military service gives him better insights on this issue than either Barack Obama or Joe Biden. Neither Barack or Joe has worn the uniform.
Joe Biden brings his personal perspective about being knocked down and getting back up to the country. However, the country can not take being knocked down and expected to get back up as easily as Joe has done in the past.
Joe Biden has stated in his campaign repeatedly it does not matter how many times you are knocked down what counts is the number of times that you get back up.
I am sure his experiences as a teenanger with asthma contributed to his belief that you have to get back up when knocked down.
While ninety percent of asthma cases are diagnosed before most children turn six years old, Joe Biden beat the odds and fell into that unfortunately ten percent group of children who come down with asthma after age six.
Joe Biden also had to get back up and move on with his life in 1968, when the Selective Service System found that he was ineligible to serve during the peak of the Vietnam War due to his having asthma as a teenager.
Joe Biden previously had received five college student draft deferments over a six year period from 1963 to 1968 when finally his asthma condition became known to the Selective Service System and he was deemed ineligible to fight for his country in 1968.
During that period Joe Biden completed his undergraduate degree and three years of law school at Syracuse University.
Without his diagnosis of asthma and five previous student deferments, Joe Biden could have gone in and served his country honorably as a officer and a gentleman and perhaps as a Judge Advocate Law Officer similar to his son.
It was unfortunate that his asthma condition that is only diagnosed in ten percent of children after age six caused Joe Biden to not be able to serve his country during a time of war.
Although Joe Biden has move on from his teenage asthma, John McCain still presents the United States with a clear superior choice of a commander in chief to lead our country.
Vote John McCain!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mcshame says he knows how to find bin laden and he will get him if he is president. so he has all this info and knows how to get the guy who killed 3000 americans but hes not telling unless he becomes president. ya he sure is a real american hero! what a joke can we please just vote now and put this old man out of his misery?

Hope the Democrats use this in ther campaign.
- Point #1 – McCain and Palin always uses the word VICTORY on the Iraqi war … remember world history, somebody said there’s NO WINNER in a war, everybody loses – lives lost, properties gone, etc.
- Point #2 – Obama is being associated with these radicals but never put into court. What does McCain and Palin have in common???? They both love ETHICS! Seems like that’s one requirement for Republicans – to have Ethics investigation in their resume.

Obama said that His mother had a cancer .she had to strugle with health insurance to get paid for.And Obama said she got food stamps too. Why a people who has heath insurance (I suppose she was working in a company to have Insurance) can get help from government? If she got foodstamps ,she could get medicaid which would pay every thing How old he was at that time ?

TAMPA, Fla. – Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden called Republican John McCain an angry man making ugly attacks against the Democratic ticket to cover up his support for President Bush.
“You can’t call yourself a maverick when all you’ve ever been is a sidekick,” Biden said Wednesday of McCain. He credited Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey with first using the line.

Ohio vote Obama

Sympathy for McCain
Negative campaigning has destroyed the McCain brand. But it was always more fragile
than McCain had let himself believe.

Did you hear what Cindy McCain said, that Obama didn’t sign to fund the Troops but she didn’t say that so did her husband JOHN MCCAIN. LOL

If it is true that Obama is palling around Ayers then is it also true that McCain was sexually abused?

we’ve heard a lot about Obama lately but did you hear that McCain didn’t report ties to Contra group
s a freshman congressman in the early 1980s, John McCain did not disclose his connections to a controversial group that was implicated in a secretive plot to supply arms to Nicaraguan militia groups during the Iran-Contra affair.
McCain did not list his service on the board of the U.S. Council for World Freedom on mandatory congressional disclosure forms asking about positions he held outside government.
McCain’s aides said he wasn’t required to report the affiliation.
Democrats in the past several days have seized on McCain’s ties to the U.S. Council and its founder John Singlaub to push back against the McCain campaign’s increasing focus on ties of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to Bill Ayers.
McCain joined the board of the U.S. Council soon after Singlaub founded it in McCain’s adopted hometown of Phoenix in November 1981 as the U.S. branch of the World Anti-Communist League. The league billed itself as a supporter of “pro-Democratic resistance movements fighting communist totalitarianism,” but it had also been branded by critics as a haven for extremists, racists and anti-Semites.
McCain aides now say he felt comfortable affiliating with the group because Singlaub had taken steps to purge those elements. Singlaub, while a controversial figure, also boasted a storied career as a decorated veteran in World War II and the U.S. conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. He retired from the Army as a major general.
But McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers told Politico that McCain notified the group of his intent to leave the board in September 1984 because “questions were raised about its activities.”
A review of the personal financial disclosure forms McCain filed after his election to the U.S. House in 1982 show that he did not list the group in the section of his 1982, 1983 and 1984 reports in which he was required to disclose all positions he held outside of government.
The instructions on the form require filers to report “the identity of all positions held on or before the date of the filing during the current calendar year as an officer, director, trustee, partner, proprietor, representative, employee, or consultant of any corporation, firm, partnership, or other business enterprise, any nonprofit organization, any labor organization, or any educational or other institution.” And have a guess McCain wasn’t 8yrs like Obama.

I don’t believe the negative ads and the angry people help people to vote for McCain/Palin. Would you want people in the Whitehouse that are so angry. we would probably have many more wars.

Obama has 264 McCain has 174. Obama only needs one of the Toss up states and guess what Barack Obama will be the next President of the USA. Thank God.

OBAMA: I want to acknowledge that Senator McCain tried to tone down the rhetoric yesterday, and I appreciated his reminder that we can disagree while still being respectful of each other. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – Senator McCain has served this country with honor, and he deserves our thanks for that.

Panel: Palin ‘unlawfully abused’ authority
Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 8:35 PM by Carrie Dann
Filed Under: 2008, Palin
From NBC’s Carrie Dann
The panel of legislators investigating the “Troopergate” controversy in Palin’s home state has concluded that the Alaska governor “unlawfully abused her authority” in the firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, per the AP.
More: “The investigative report concludes that a family grudge wasn’t the sole reason for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan but says it likely was a contributing factor.”
*** UPDATE *** The report by investigator Stephen Branchflower found that Palin’s dismissal of Monegan was “proper and lawful” and within her executive authority, but that she violated the state’s ethical code in that she “knowingly … permitted Todd Palin to use the Governor’s office and the resources of the Governor’s office, including access to state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper [Michael] Wooten fired.”
Although Palin has said she was afraid of a safety risk posed by the trooper whom Monegan refused to fire, the investigator writes in the report that “such claims of fear were not bona fide and were offered to provide cover for the Palin’s real motivation: to get Trooper Wooten fired for personal family related reasons.”

Someone wrote that Obama and Biden were both mathematically and economically challenged earlier and that they couldn’t read a budget sheet. Well the response I have for that is.. at least they can SEE the sheet. It appears that McCain hasn’t seen anything, not even his OWN economic plans. They way he clearly stumbled over relating his views in the debate last night. We still don’t know WHAT HE WILL DO DIFFERENTLY FOR THIS COUNTRY!!
Please tell us! I would have voted for him, but now I am 100% for Obama!!

I’ve never seen george stephanopoulos so sad, if mccain were in the lead…..Would he have a different demeanor.

Filed Under: 2008, Obama
From NBC’s Chuck Todd
In the taping of Meet the Press this morning, former Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell said he was voting for Obama. Powell noted Obama’s “steadiness and an intellectual curiosity,” and he also cited the Biden VP pick versus McCain’s selection of Palin. “[Obama] has a definitive way of doing business that will do us well.”
Powell said he was disappointed by the McCain campaign and its use of Bill Ayers, as well as the robocalls. Ayers, et al have “gone too far,” he told NBC’s Tom Brokaw.
Powell: “when I look at all of this… But which is the president that we need now… I come to the conclusion … because of who he is, he has both style and substance … I think he is a transformational figure… For that reason, I will be voting for Sen. Barack Obama.”

Obama has 264 McCain has 174. Obama only needs one of the Toss up states and guess what Barack Obama will be the next President of the USA. Thank God.
Posted by: Demi | Oct 10, 2008 7:57:58 PM
No Demi, that’s not how it works, actually.
People have to vote. 40% of the registered voters did not bother to VOTE in 2004. The polls are a general guide but NO ONE KNOWS.
You have to actually vote. Roads get blocked in Florida. Trucks with ballots disappear on a side road until after the votes are counted. People mail in an absentee ballot with just one stamp and it is not delivered because it weighs nearly three ounces.
In states with computers, votes are changed before your very eyes. The polls are not the same as the election.
Some pollsters ask people if they are likely voters. Some will vote, and some wont evn though they say they will. Their cat gets in a cat fight. They have to work late. There is rain, traffic. Whatever. 70% of registered voters under age 30 did not vote in 2004. 85% of under 26 registered voters did not vote in the Texas primary!! Yep, 85%.
Since 2/3rds of under 30 prefer Obama, if the young voters continue their pattern of lethargy and defeatism, the GOP will win again.
VOTE. OBAMA in 08. End government by delusion.

Thank God Barack H. Obama won. This is the begining of all things in America