By Nitya

Oct 10, 2008 8:54am

Stephanopoulos: McCain Needs a Plan

ABC News George Stephanopoulos Reports: With just a few weeks left in the cycle, Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s biggest problem has almost nothing to do with him and everything to do with the economy. The campaign dialogue can’t break through the tremendous noise and pain brought on by financial woes that so many Americans have been feeling.

McCain has to figure out a way to tie into anger over the economy and convince voters he’s got the better plan to solve the financial crisis — it’s his only real hope for victory.

McCain’s latest ad goes about as far as you can go in an ad — it’s the second in two days that hits Democratic candidate Barack Obama for lying about his connection to 1960s radical Bill Ayers, though it wasn’t a line of attack McCain chose to use against Obama during this week’s debate.

Obama will spend the next five days in Ohio at a critical point in his presidential campaign: if he locks in the lead in Ohio, he’s that much closer to locking up the race.

No single state is more important to Obama’s prospects than Ohio is and no Republican has ever won the White House without winning Ohio. Right now, Obama has a small but solid lead of a few points in the state and while he’s outspent Republican candidate John McCain there by about $500,000 a week, he hasn’t spent much time on the ground.

By going there, hitting the ground and saturating the state with campaign efforts for the next five days, Obama’s looking to lock in the lead.

Later today, the McCain campaign will also be dealing the release of a potentially damaging report by the legislative panel investigating whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused power by trying to get the state commission fired — the investigation shows that Palin and her husband were far more involved in the incident that they have previously said.

McCain’s camp tried to get ahead of the report last night by releasing their own report saying Palin broke no law.

User Comments

I just think this headline on CNNs political ticker is HILLARIOUS:
“AP: Palin pre-empts state report, clears self in probe”

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 10, 2008, 9:04 am 9:04 am

FROM THE BELLY OF THE BEAST:
A few Republican operatives, who declined to be named, offered blunt criticism regarding the McCain campaign.
The McCain campaign is “a joke,” one said. “There’s not a campaign in Nevada. A couple of guys, running around, being incompetent. Or even worse, arrogantly incompetent.”
The consultant said there was no discernible McCain ground game, which is political jargon for the massive effort needed to find likely supporters and get them to the polls.
He did hedge a bit, saying that if some earth-shattering event were to occur, McCain could still win in Nevada. Otherwise: “There’s not one single positive note for Republicans. I couldn’t be more pessimistic.”
The gloom is not surprising, given national polls showing Obama opening a lead and McCain playing defense in traditionally Republican states, which had included Nevada until Democratic registration drives have given the party an advantage of 80,000 voters.
THIS IS GOING TO BE A LANDSLIDE
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK!
You betcha!!! (Said Palin the parrot)

Posted by: Nat Turner | October 10, 2008, 9:04 am 9:04 am

*McCain’s chance to have won the election passed when he voted for the Bailout. He could’ve been a maverick and voted against it until all the pork was taken out.
*Then he double downed on his lost by introducing a horrible plan tuesday night. By all the mortages. With what money?
It’s over. I’m not voting. It’s pointless.

Posted by: Diana | October 10, 2008, 9:04 am 9:04 am

McCain made a new video with his plan for the economy but in case you missed it on TV -
http://therealmccain.com/blog/?p=97

Posted by: clifton | October 10, 2008, 9:04 am 9:04 am

The ads by McCain are really over the top. Obama was 8 years old when this happened. I am so tired of this slam.. There’s enough garbage on both sides to make all of America not vote for either of them.
I was going to vote for McCain until he started blasting Obama. He has enough in his own past..Adultery…very important issue for me…When Cindy McCain said she got a good one, my thoughts were: Why didn’t you choose one who was single?
I want a president that I can respect. Please stop these horrible ads.

Posted by: sue Wright | October 10, 2008, 9:05 am 9:05 am

Deep Release: McCain Needs a Clue

Posted by: Deep Release | October 10, 2008, 9:07 am 9:07 am

PLAN the American people need more then a plan.They need answers and leadership these two can not give it.

Posted by: NH voter | October 10, 2008, 9:09 am 9:09 am

30 states have early voting. It’s too little too late for a “plan”. America needs a President with vision and a steady hand. McCain has proven time and time again during this campaign, he is as unsteady, inconsistent and ill-equipped for the White House.

Posted by: Paige | October 10, 2008, 9:10 am 9:10 am

MCain needs to connect his reformer record and leadership to the ability to understand and correct this crisis.Of course media will overplay the gloom and doom news so it will dominate coverage till the election day.Also he needs to connect Obama’s tissue paper thin resume of accomplishments and his lack of candor on a whole host of issues to a pattern that will be on display as president and someone in charge of solving the economic crisis.
In any event both of them have a very tough task come January.Obama supporters need to tealize this is not a popularity contest with a ticker tape finale on Nov 4,the tough work actually just begins in January.
Mr Independent

Posted by: Mr Independent | October 10, 2008, 9:11 am 9:11 am

MCain needs to connect his reformer record and leadership to the ability to understand and correct this crisis.Of course media will overplay the gloom and doom news so it will dominate coverage till the election day.Also he needs to connect Obama’s tissue paper thin resume of accomplishments and his lack of candor on a whole host of issues to a pattern that will be on display as president and someone in charge of solving the economic crisis.
In any event both of them have a very tough task come January.Obama supporters need to tealize this is not a popularity contest with a ticker tape finale on Nov 4,the tough work actually just begins in January.
Mr Independent

Posted by: Mr Independent | October 10, 2008, 9:11 am 9:11 am

Oh Joe say it aint so. Boy I will be thinkg about that all day long when I need a laugh. Thanks CNN.

Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 10, 2008, 9:11 am 9:11 am

Guaranteed LANDSLIDE:
McCain is losing in ALL of the battleground states at a time when he needs to run the table on 8 of 10 of them to keep it close.
To top it off, he’s losing Red states like Virginia, North Carolina, Indiana and now Georgia.
My Fellow Enemies: “THAT ONE” is going to put a classic example of a Chicago Whoop A** on me and the GOP that I will never forget.
ELECTORAL VOTES:
Obama – 363
McCain – 184
BLOWOUT

Posted by: Nat Turner | October 10, 2008, 9:12 am 9:12 am

Great Post!
FROM THE BELLY OF THE BEAST:
A few Republican operatives, who declined to be named, offered blunt criticism regarding the McCain campaign.
The McCain campaign is “a joke,” one said. “There’s not a campaign in Nevada. A couple of guys, running around, being incompetent. Or even worse, arrogantly incompetent.”
The consultant said there was no discernible McCain ground game, which is political jargon for the massive effort needed to find likely supporters and get them to the polls.
He did hedge a bit, saying that if some earth-shattering event were to occur, McCain could still win in Nevada. Otherwise: “There’s not one single positive note for Republicans. I couldn’t be more pessimistic.”
The gloom is not surprising, given national polls showing Obama opening a lead and McCain playing defense in traditionally Republican states, which had included Nevada until Democratic registration drives have given the party an advantage of 80,000 voters.
THIS IS GOING TO BE A LANDSLIDE
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK!
You betcha!!! (Said Palin the parrot)

Posted by: Denmark Vessey | October 10, 2008, 9:14 am 9:14 am

McCain = DISHONORABLE; Palin = SCARY!!!

Posted by: Howard Gallas | October 10, 2008, 9:16 am 9:16 am

same team
same tactics
9th year
and mccain needs to come up with a plan and be honest about his VP nominee…
Vogler a murdered domestic terrorist who wants to secede from the US…founds AIP in the 70′s
to fight for secession…
in 1993 he is killed trying to buy plastic explosives for domestic terrorism for said party’s beliefs
in the wake of his being murdered…
1994 – AIP draws up the constitution to secede from the US
Todd and Sarah Palin attend.
1995 – Todd Palin officially joins AIP to become a 7-9 year active member…
2000 – Palin attends again.
2006 – Palin is still so “inspired” and supportive of this secessionist group, she gives the keynote speech.
2008 – Palin video tapes her support for this party.
this party was founded on the beliefs of secession and the same values that Vogler was willing to kill people over.
unrepentantly.
values and beliefs that in the year they were mourning his death adn drawing up a constitution Todd Palin was inspired to join… and Sarah Palin obviously found their values compelling enough to support and attend their conventions.
ugh

Posted by: dl | October 10, 2008, 9:18 am 9:18 am

It seems to me that McCains plan changes every week. I don’t think his campaign has a clue. They are running around like chickems with their heads cut off. Kind of reminds me of Hillary.

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

we got here through lies cover ups and distractions over the issues and manipulation of policies…
what is the mcCain/Palin campaign doing…
continuing that tradition.
throw these bums out.

Posted by: dl | October 10, 2008, 9:21 am 9:21 am

John McCain,
OUR RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS ARE EVAPORATING. And all you can talk about is how Barack Obama sat on some education reform panels with another University of Chicago Professor?
Are you out of your mind?

Posted by: John McCain's conscience | October 10, 2008, 9:21 am 9:21 am

Dove – Real simple. Sydney is not as scary as Hussain. Since the Republicans are using scare tactics to garner votes it is more effective. Just another reason why you should keep your childs name simple and easy to spell like Paul and Chris.

Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 10, 2008, 9:21 am 9:21 am

I have here an advice for McCain:
If a problem can be solved, no need
to worry about it. AND
If a problem can not be solved what
is the use of worrying!

Posted by: FM | October 10, 2008, 9:22 am 9:22 am

We voters have a plan for McCain. He has sealed the deal on the GOP legacy and it is time to brand the old man and put him out to pasture. ………..
http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/10/09/the-gop-legacy-wars-death-hatred-socialism/

Posted by: Ohg Rea Tone | October 10, 2008, 9:22 am 9:22 am

dl…no one seems to want to tlak about this weird cinncetion or the connection of McCain to a domestic terrorist who bombed abortion clinic and shot a docter.

Posted by: thetruth | October 10, 2008, 9:22 am 9:22 am

FM – You sound like George Bush II

Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 10, 2008, 9:23 am 9:23 am

MCain needs to connect his reformer record and leadership to the ability to understand and correct this crisis.
__________________________________________________
McCain threw away his life-long creed of duty and honor for the Presidency when he became undignified, unsteady and inconsistent.
McCain threw away his “reformer record” when he cowered to the far right wing of his party.

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

One of the most hideous, repugnant and gruesome accounts that I remember reading about while growing up was the Charles Manson murders. They strung up 8 months pregnant Sharon Tate and eight others because they were wealthy and brutally stabbed and cut them open. Bernardine Dohrn the wife of William Ayers was quoted as saying “”Dig it,” “first they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork in a victim’s stomach. Wild!” Dohrn, of course, was Ayers’ comrade-in-arms, just as responsible as he for the bombings and the insurrection which landed her in prison while he walked on a technicality.
So what is all the talk about Barack Obama being close friends with these people? Obama made a statement to the public that he was only 8 years old when this occurred, and that this man is just a man in his neighborhood. However we now know that Barack Obama has lied to us. Barack Obama was hand-chosen by Ayers to serve as board chair on Ayers’ radical, $140 million educational initiative, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge where Barack Obama served as Chairman for years (this was not when he was 8 years old, this was just a few years ago). Barack Obama also served with Ayers on the Wood Fund, which channeled $75,000 in grant money to the Arab-American Action Network, a group founded by Rashid Khalidi.
In fact, Barack Obama’s very first political fundraiser was at the home and in the living room of none other than William Ayers and wife Bernardine Dohrn.
Obama said this man was just a man in my neighborhood. The public better take a closer look and quick—-the American people are being swindled and deceived.

Posted by: Mike | October 10, 2008, 9:24 am 9:24 am

This election will turn in the last 72 hours. Banter and preach all you want about the lead Obama has but the combonation of shady associations, extreme liberal views, and the “Clinton factor” (Hillary doesnt want to wait 8 years to run again, McCain will pull this race out. Always happens, democrats poll well but dont show up to vote, that is unless dead people disgracefully registered make it to the booth.

Posted by: JD | October 10, 2008, 9:24 am 9:24 am

why do thingThis election has me very worried. So many things to consider. About a year ago I would have voted for Obama. I have changed my mind three times since than. I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another. I must say this drives my husband crazy. But, I feel if you view MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, you might get some middle ground to work with. About six months ago, I started thinking ‘where did the money come from for Obama’. I have four daughters who went to College, and we were middle class, and money was tight. We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans.
I started looking into Obama’s life.
Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California. He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. ‘Barry’ (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan. During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a ’round the world’ trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia, next Hyderabad in India, three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate’s family, then off to Africa to visit his father’s family.
My question – Where did he get the money for this trip?
Nether I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they were in college. When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York. It is at this time he wants everyone to call him Barack – not Barry. Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia? It’s not cheap to say the least! Where did he get money for tuition? Student Loans? Maybe. After Columbia, he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000 a year. Why Chicago? Why not New York? He was already living in New York.
By ‘chance’ he met Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko, born in Aleppo Syria, and a real estate developer in Chicago. Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year. Rezko, was named ‘Entrepreneur of the Decade’ by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association’. About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School. Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School? Where did he get the money for Law School? More student loans? After Law school, he went back to Chicago. Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what? They represented ‘Rezar’ which is Rezko’s firm. Rezko was one of Obama’s first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago. In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with ‘seed money’ for his U.S. Senate race. In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price). With ALL those Student Loans – Where did he get the money for the property? On the same day Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price. The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama’s new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.
Now, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett, was Michele Obama’s boss. She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first.
Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz, Iran! Do we see a pattern here? Or am I going crazy?
On May 10, 2008 The Times reported, Robert Malley, advisor to Obama, was ‘sacked’ after the press found out he was having regular contacts with ‘Hamas’, which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran. This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama’s visit to Iraq, he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will ‘Take care of things’.
Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that were born in Pakistan? They are in charge of all those ‘small’ Internet campaign contributions for Obama.
Where is that money coming from? The poor and middle class in this country? Or could it be from the Middle East?
And the final bit of news. On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on ‘This Week’ with George Stephanapoulos. Obama on talking about his religion said, ‘My Muslim faith’. When questioned, ‘he made a mistake’.
Some mistake!
Now the BIG question – If I found out all this information on my own, Why haven’t all of our ‘intelligent’ members of the press been reporting this?
A phrase that keeps ringing in my ear – ‘Beware of the enemy from within’!!!
s like this never come out

Posted by: Mary B | October 10, 2008, 9:25 am 9:25 am

Oil plummets below $83 on global slowdown fears
You can’t tell me that the investment banks weren’t bidding up the price of oil to cover their bad investments in housing and derivatives . . . and helped push us to global recesssion.
- Saudis said no reason for price rise
- Investment money in oil zoomed over the past couple of years until this summer

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

Mike – Sorry buddy. People are more scared by their depleating bank accounts, savings accounts and retirement plans than the name Ayers or Hussain.

Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 10, 2008, 9:28 am 9:28 am

America would have a better standing in the world with a President Barack Obama. It would show that our country has matured in race relations.Barack has a plan that WILL stimulate our economy by releiving pressure on middle and low income Americans.I mean who do you think makes the majority of purchases?Obama is common sense and amazingly intelligent for our economy.He understands complex issues and has surrounded himself with experts to keep his policy sharp and effective for the American people.He is not a one liner politician.

Posted by: TV | October 10, 2008, 9:31 am 9:31 am

MAry – I will say it again. People are more scared by their depleating bank accounts and retirement plans than they are by the names, Rezko, Ayers or even Hussain. Sorry honey at this point these things just do not matter.

Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 10, 2008, 9:31 am 9:31 am

Mary B
Scholarships and student loans. The loans were finally paid off last year with proceeds his second book.
Work hard, get ahead. That is Obama’s life. John McCain, not so much (grauduated 4th from the bottom in his class).
Now, I would like to ask YOU a question. What kind of example do you think John McCain set with regards to how he GOT HIS MONEY?
Cheated ON HIS DISFIGURED WIFE with a hundred million dollar heiress. That is the John McCain formula for financial success.
IS THIS THE STORY YOU WANT TO SEND TO YOUR DAUGHTER???
Think.

Posted by: John McCain's conscience | October 10, 2008, 9:32 am 9:32 am

Mary B, I am a hillary supporter and I am very worried too. I am reluctantly thinking about supporting Obama, but stuff like this makes me sick. Obama is lucky he is running against the weakest canidate to run for president my life time.

Posted by: rachel | October 10, 2008, 9:33 am 9:33 am

McCain has no plan.except carrying out irresposible racist and stupid campaign.
he is getting sick and out of mind as his mindless vice-president.US Government/Justice will not let a terrorist to be University teacher where he can influence many young Americans and the reason why Ayers is teaching is because he is not a terrorist; not a treat to the security of America and no longer belongs to the” terrorist “group that carried out bad things back in 60’s. He may have had some though views in the past but today it‘s McCain who has bad views. He can’t stand the fact that an African American is more popular/intelligent/smart than him and can become the next US President.

Posted by: fred Maton | October 10, 2008, 9:34 am 9:34 am

“At this point, if you still support Obama, you are OK with his very close relationship with a racist, anti-American pastor and priest. You are OK with his long-term friendship with an unrepentant terrorist. You are OK with his close friendship with a convicted felon. You are OK with the fact that he is complicit in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac boondoggle. And you are OK with his attempts to steal the election through ACORN and voter intimidation. All of this has been reported by the MSM and is no longer a secret.
That said, in my opinion, if you still support Obama knowing all this, I have to question your patriotism. There is no political party or ideology which could coerce me into backing such a reprehensible individual to become the President of the United States. I just refuse to believe there are that many Americans out there who hate this country.”

Posted by: HP Boston | October 10, 2008, 9:35 am 9:35 am

isn’t it funnyb that as the economy dumps and our country goes down the tubes
Mccain Palin whose domestic terrorist “pals” all bombed people or attemted bombing people in the 90′s
want to distract the American people by pointing to a guy who was named citizen of the year in the countries third largest city… and who was honored by prominent national republicans with 50 million dollars funding…
who committed such acts during Vietnam…
Mccain palin the worst ticket our nation has EVER seen.

Posted by: dl | October 10, 2008, 9:35 am 9:35 am

you all need to go look at the eevents around Vogler and AIP …
as Todd palin was inspired at the convention where they drew up and their seperatist constitution and mourned their founders death as he was murdered trying to commit terrorism and killing people.
same inspiration that lead Sarah Palin to be their keynote speaker and attend numerous of their conventions…

Posted by: dl | October 10, 2008, 9:38 am 9:38 am

posted by Diana,
It’s over. I’m not voting. It’s pointless.
—————————————-
Diana,
You should vote! But are you so full of hatred that you would harm yourself? Or maybe you will not be affected by any of the economic woes being thrown on us, but if you think that then you had better TUNE IN!!! Those with the most to lose, lose the most. Senator Obama is merely trying to restore balance, and he has the best plans..

Posted by: fempharoh08 | October 10, 2008, 9:47 am 9:47 am

Barack Obama’s membership in the Socialist Affiliate of the Democratic Socialists of America. On Wednesday, I went hunting for additional sources…
1996 Election Update From The Columbus Free Post
“The first NP member heads to Congress, as Danny Davis wins an overwhelming 85% victory yesterday (he got a higher percentage of the vote in that district than the President). NP member and State Senate candidate Barack Obama won uncontested. Interestingly, it appears that the local Democratic machine is trying to distance itself from our folks.”
This revelation has left many people wondering how this could be since Obama ran under the Democratic Party banner during the 1996 Election. As a result, we want to shed insider light on how the New Party planned their takeover of the Democratic Party.
From The Happy Birthday Update Published By The New Party in 1997:
” the New Party would remain independent of the Democratic Party — but without undermining the Democrats. The New Party’s program for a new majority would, as Todd Gutlin puts it, center around an “old fashioned” concern for issues like living wages.
…the New Party’s founders suggest, the left needs an organization that straddles the inside-outside fence. If the U.S. left is ever to make a meaningful decision on the third-party-vs.-Dems question, they propose, it must first take on the task of grassroots power-building.
Thus, most of the New Party’s work has been in local politics, where its candidates need no party label — just the activist energy it takes to win office. The party’s strategy has been to build political organizations in a few targeted cities, working closely with labor and community organizations. Chapters run candidates only where they have a real chance of winning, combine campaign work with organizing and education, and refuse to spoil elections by stealing votes from the better of two major party candidates.
But to grow past the local level, something more is needed…
…Until major changes in the legal structure of the U.S. politics happen, we’re stuck with a two-party system, and progressives — if they want to win many elections — will have to run, and vote, Democrat.
But without fusion, the New Party is not likely to have the capacity to swing higher level elections any time soon, inside or outside the Democratic Party. For now the New Party is nothing more — and nothing less — than a network of local labor-community political organizations. These organizations can, from time to time, move their political muscle and know-how into Democratic primaries to back progressive candidates for state legislature and even Congress, but do not have the size or clout to field their own candidates for the Senate, the Governor’s office, or the White House.”
Now you’re beginning to understand how Obama, The New Party and ACORN have hijacked the Democratic Party.

Posted by: HP Boston | October 10, 2008, 9:51 am 9:51 am

Georgie S. is now a political strategist and he’s oh, so smart and wise. You should let him run for office because we already know how ‘experienced’ he is at kissing a$$.
Laughing at you from the other side of the pond.
P.S. Try to keep your great black leader on your own turf.

Posted by: liz | October 10, 2008, 9:52 am 9:52 am

McCain needs a conscience.
McCain needs a sense of honor.
McCain needs a large dose of civility.
He’s not only losing this election, he lost himself by selling his soul to the angry and uneducated and evil mob.

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

Mary–
Frankly, your conspiracy theories make you sound just like the right-wing wackos who used to smear John McCain, claiming that he had been brainwashed during his captivity and was actually a Manchurian candidate and secret Communist tool. I have no idea as to where Barack got the money to go on a trip during college, but honestly–does it matter? Do you really think there’s some grand world conspiracy here? Don’t you think if the radical Muslim terrorists you seem to think control his brain were aiming for the presidency, they might have chosen some nice blond guy named Bill Jones and not a mixed-race guy from Hawaii named Barack Obama? C’mon.
Obama and Michelle have both spoken numerous times about how their student loans were not paid off until several years ago until Barack wrote one, then another best-selling book. I think that if you actually do some research, you’ll find that his income jumped right about them–it’s really not a big mystery.
And btw, if you want to read what a great fella John McCain is, read the article in this month’s Rolling Stone. ( http://www.rollingstone.com ) He’s an arrogant, spoiled, hot-headed jerk and always has been. And the womanizing and misogyny is truly repulsive–yet another subject the so-called ‘liberal media hasn’t been brave enough to touch. The guy’s a whore-monger and a documented adulterer and no one in the Republican camp seems to care. When was the last time anyone heard from Vicki Iseman–the lobbyist he was allegedly canoodling with last year? Where’s the “candor” there? She’s disappeared completely–no appearances, no denials–nothing.

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

Reasons women (and all Americans) should vote for Barack Obama, off the top of my head:
1. Barack Obama supported the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. McCain to Lilly Ledbetter: Tough Luck!
Background on Lilly Ledbetter:
Amount the most appalling decisions the Roberts Court issued last year, one of the worst was the 5-4 ruling in Ledbetter v. Goodyear, which gutted the equal-pay provisions of the Civil Rights Act and overturned a decades-old employment-law precedent.
The plaintiff, Lilly Ledbetter, worked for nearly two decades at a Goodyear Tire plant in Gadsden, Alabama. She brought an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint against Goodyear after she discovered that for years she had been paid less than male co-workers with the same job. The justices ruled that employees can only file a wage-discrimination complaint within 180 days of when the payroll decision was made.
After the Supreme Court issued its decision, which leaves women and minorities in Ledbetter’s situation with no recourse, congressional Democrats pledged to pass legislation that would give employees two years to file a complaint, in accordance with the law before the Supreme Court issued its decision.
2. Obama wants to subsidize the cost of catastrophic care insurance paid by employers, allowing MORE EMPLOYERS to offer insurance to their employees and lower the cost to all businesses that provide insurance to their employees.
Background: Currently, if a small employer has one worker get an expensive disease like leukemia, they typically face a HUGE increase in their health insurance rates. Their choice is to fire the sick worker or drop insurance for everyone else! Catastrophic care insurance pays for these random, but very expensive situations.
3. John McCain, in the THIRD HAIL MARY pass in a row, has rolled out a half thought out idea that calls for paying 100% of the FACE value on bad mortgages. This means that the banker absorbs NONE of the loss and the TAXPAYER absorbs 100% of the loss. Do you think that a program that pays $500,000 on a home that is currently worth $250,000 is going to work when applied to millions of homes with mortgages in trouble?
4. McCain wants some workers to be able to divert their Social Security contributions (taxes) to private accounts on the stock market so people can get rich! Trouble is that this is the money paying for the social security check for your retired Mother or Grandmother.
5. McCain wants to tax employer supplied health insurance in an effort to force employers to STOP providing the health insurance your currently receive.
6. McCain doesn’t bother to think about his proposals before betting the country on them. If you let insurance companies to be regulated by any state THEY CHOOSE by simply reincorporating there, then they are going to choose to reincorporate in a state where there EVERY DISPUTE is routed to mandatory, industry sponsored ‘arbitration’ that just happens to go with the insurance company 100% of the time!

Posted by: John McCain's conscience | October 10, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

Ive got some news for you Obama supporters. Look at the root cause of this financial problem, fannie and freddie. Who was behind, forcing the bank’s to make the sub-prime loans that have broken the system. When you wake up and understand that when government stick’s their nose into the system of buisness they tend to screw it up. And BTW the people that support the democrats who supported the sub prime loan’s to people who had no buisness receiving them should get punished for the way they vote. Thank your socialist leader’s, Frank, Dodd, Pelousy, reid, Clinton and Carter for your finacial problem’s.
And remember, if you beleive people are going to let Obama steal their money in the name of higher taxes, Then I bet you would,nt beleive the rich people will pull their money out of the stock market to keep him from Taxing it to the highest level ever , That’s why the economy keep’s sinking and sinking everyday

Posted by: Eagle Eye | October 10, 2008, 9:56 am 9:56 am

Ive got some news for you Obama supporters. Look at the root cause of this financial problem, fannie and freddie. Who was behind, forcing the bank’s to make the sub-prime loans that have broken the system. When you wake up and understand that when government stick’s their nose into the system of buisness they tend to screw it up. And BTW the people that support the democrats who supported the sub prime loan’s to people who had no buisness receiving them should get punished for the way they vote. Thank your socialist leader’s, Frank, Dodd, Pelousy, reid, Clinton and Carter for your finacial problem’s.
And remember, if you beleive people are going to let Obama steal their money in the name of higher taxes, Then I bet you would,nt beleive the rich people will pull their money out of the stock market to keep him from Taxing it to the highest level ever , That’s why the economy keep’s sinking and sinking everyday

Posted by: Eagle Eye | October 10, 2008, 9:56 am 9:56 am

No, George, the media needs a plan….on how to stop being so in the tank for Obama…look at the stock market..people are scared to death that Obama will be POTUS and his capital gains taxes among others that they are drawing whatever money they have left right out and quick…including me…I did that long before the bailout along with others to avoid Obama’s MASTER PLAN. Like Hitler, Obama has convinced his followers like mice and see what happened there! Businesses also hate Obama’s master plan, so on election day you will see that the vote, of course, if they pull all ACORN registrations out, will be for McCain!

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

Obama is being called a “lock” is what’s causing world wide economic panic. A Socialist may be elected.
So what is Obama’s plan Georgie? Socialism. Free living wage to everyone, free health care, free everything.

Posted by: geevill | October 10, 2008, 10:06 am 10:06 am

The problem with McCain’s campaign is that his goal has always been about the news cycle and not the issues. Well, the issues are enormous in this election. Barack Obama’s campaign has kept with a strategy of speaking to the issues. All the other talk is nonsense.

Posted by: Issues Not Smears | October 10, 2008, 10:06 am 10:06 am

Look at that smirk on Georgie boy’s face.

Posted by: geevill | October 10, 2008, 10:06 am 10:06 am

geevill, wow. you’ve outdone yourself with that analysis. No wonder McCain loses.

Posted by: wow? | October 10, 2008, 10:07 am 10:07 am

Eagle Eye,
I’m so sorry about your recent blindness. The investment banks took bundles of mortgages, good and bad, bundled them together like sausage and sold them as AAA grade securities (should have been B grade junk status) to banks all around the world.
These securities are very important to understanding what happened here because the loans would have stopped LONG before we got where we are if there was no one to sell the junk mortgages too.
BTW if you think that loans to poor people were the majority of the junk mortgages, you would be dead wrong. People with good incomes bought McMansions that were twice what they could really afford, thinking they could always sell it later at a tremendous profit. You have people buying up multiple properties to flip them at 25% instant profit. You have appraisers basically forced to over appraise home values.
Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac started buying these now toxic securities late in the game. They are not innocent, but are guilty of jumping on the band wagon, not getting it started.

Posted by: John McCain's conscience | October 10, 2008, 10:09 am 10:09 am

I think the facts are clear people have no F&^%(ng idea how the real world works.I guess I will be punished for being a hard worker 60+ hours per week.
This way some lazy a$$ people will get the fruits of my labor.While I have no problem helping my fellow americans,I am tired of the excuses of deadbeats always looking to blame someone or make someone fix there mistakes.I am tired of people saying you dont know what it is like to struggle and not meet my bills,I do.I have not even graduated from high school and in this country I love I started with nothing and worked and worked and made it to a point where I own My own Buissness that employs 10 people.Under Obamas plans I would have been stuck in the mud.Life is about rolling the dice,taking a chance without failure there is no such thing as success.It saddens me to see Americans not wanting to live the American dream rather having it handed to them as some sort of right!!!!

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

Did you guys hear about Obama’s upcoming tv show? Don’t miss it!
On the day of his prime time show, Barack Hussein Obama will officially drop “Hussein” from his legal name.
Also, he will officially denounce and reject Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, ACORN, and his own father (and possibly, Michelle).
There will be other rejections as well…..including, but not limited to, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, NAACP, and the nation of Kenya.
It will be a prime time show of Obama’s super “throw’em-under-the-bus” talents.
Get your popcorn.

Posted by: Rocky Mountain Dude | October 10, 2008, 10:11 am 10:11 am

Obama’s other uncle “Frank”= Frank Marshall Davis. check it out.

Posted by: geevill | October 10, 2008, 10:12 am 10:12 am

John Sidney McCain III or should it be John Racist McCain KKK!!!!
The news media are doing a great job by informing the public at large of both CANDIDATES!!!!
GREAT JOB MEDIA!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN08 = HOME RUN TO THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!!

Posted by: sisterdearest09 | October 10, 2008, 10:13 am 10:13 am

Eagle – GEe thanks I thought a lot of the problem were those pesky regulations Mccain fought long and hard to loose. Then two years ago realizing his stupidy and CEO’s greed changed his mind and treid to put the genie back in the bottle. Too little too late. True Freddy and Fannie did not help. There is enough blame to go around ten times at elast. Personally I think it is those Spas/ Resort get aways AIG took right after the bail out on our dimes. I WANT MY MASSAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 10, 2008, 10:15 am 10:15 am

Gee–so what do you call McCain’s plain for the government to buy up all of those screwy mortgages? That’s your idea of free-market capitalism? AIG execs getting their “socialist” bailout them jetting off to a $400,000 weekend retreat? Puh-leeze? The desperate attempt of Wall-Street-de-regulating Repubs. to spin this into “ohhhh–it’s all because of Fannie and Freddie!!” is pa-the-tic.
The notion of Republicans being “fiscally conservative” has become a joke. For eight years they’ve acted like a teenager with mom’s credit card–like “bill? what bill?” Please explain to me how any of the fiscal policies of the last eight years have helped anyone but the super-rich in this country–yeah–the ones whose tax cuts McCain was against before he was for them. From what I can gather from Sarah Palin’s speeches, going to war is patriotic but finding a way to pay for it is NOT. Getting Federal money for your state’s earmark projects is cool, but paying Federal taxes is just like, a total bummer. Grow up…

Posted by: Sarah | October 10, 2008, 10:16 am 10:16 am

In Letter to ‘NYT,’ Man Who Prosecuted Weather Underground Hits Linking Ayers to Obama
By E&P STaff
Published: October 10, 2008 9:00 AM ET
NEW YORK In a surprising a letter to the editor published in the New York Times today, the chief prosecutor of the Weather Underground in the 1970s expressed outrage over the linking of Barack Obama to Bill Ayers by the McCain campaign, adding, “Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen.”
William C. Ibershof also corrects a charge in the Times: “I do take issue with the statement in your news article that the Weathermen indictment was dismissed because of ‘prosecutorial misconduct.’ It was dismissed because of illegal activities, including wiretaps, break-ins and mail interceptions, initiated by John N. Mitchell, attorney general at that time, and W. Mark Felt, an F.B.I. assistant director.”
Felt, of course (you may have already forgotten) was also known as a guy called “Deep Throat.”
The full letters follows.
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As the lead federal prosecutor of the Weathermen in the 1970s (I was then chief of the criminal division in the Eastern District of Michigan and took over the Weathermen prosecution in 1972), I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers’s terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child.
Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen.
Because Senator Obama recently served on a board of a charitable organization with Mr. Ayers cannot possibly link the senator to acts perpetrated by Mr. Ayers so many years ago.
I do take issue with the statement in your news article that the Weathermen indictment was dismissed because of “prosecutorial misconduct.” It was dismissed because of illegal activities, including wiretaps, break-ins and mail interceptions, initiated by John N. Mitchell, attorney general at that time, and W. Mark Felt, an F.B.I. assistant director.
William C. Ibershof
Mill Valley, Calif., Oct. 8, 2008

Posted by: Rodger | October 10, 2008, 10:18 am 10:18 am

Eagle Eye,
What do you think of the government buying troubled mortgages at 100% FACE VALUE and reselling them at the market price?
Write down for the banker: ZERO PERCENT
Write down for the tax payer: In some cases 50%!
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Imagine if you will if Barack Obama, in a desperate stunt, offered to buy everyone a new house, courtesy the American tax payer of course. Good idea?
Now suppose he just offered to pay off 20/30/40/70% of people’s troubled mortgages, again courtesy the American Taxpayer. How is that different from buying everyone a house?
Of course you and I know it is John McCain with the desperate half-thought out stunt. He is the one who is willing to give people $100,000 or more cash for their vote. To be paid for by the Taxpayer, of course.
Are you for sale?

Posted by: John McCain's conscience | October 10, 2008, 10:18 am 10:18 am

reddog, why is everyone who disagrees with you lazy and looking for handouts? that’s absurd.

Posted by: hmm | October 10, 2008, 10:24 am 10:24 am

~ McSenile is not the Underdog” He is more like what the dog left on my lawn ~ & Funtime Nanook stands around to sniff it & Growl ~ You-Betcha!

Posted by: Mike | October 10, 2008, 10:25 am 10:25 am

I RATHER HAVE MY MONEY (TAXES) GO TO HELP PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY RATHER THAN GO AND START A WAR OR HELP SOME BIG COMPANY LIKE AIG!!!!
REPUBLICANS, YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!
“THAT ONE”, MCCAIN/PALIN SHOULD JUST BAIL-OUT OF THIS ELECTION!!!!!
THAT WOULD BE SO, FUNDAMENTALLY HONORABLE!!!!!
ALL ABOARD!!! THE REPUBLICAN PARTY’S TITANIC IS SINKING!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN08

Posted by: sisterdearest09 | October 10, 2008, 10:27 am 10:27 am

What do you think of the government buying troubled mortgages at 100% FACE VALUE and reselling them at the market price?
Write down for the banker: ZERO PERCENT
Write down for the tax payer: In some cases 50%!
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We cannot afford John McCain’s SOCIALIST policies!
(I’ll never get tired of that line.)
Hahahaa

Posted by: Oh, the irony | October 10, 2008, 10:27 am 10:27 am

If McCain were really putting Country First he wouldn’t try to win this based on smears. Either way half the country is going to be pissed as a result of the tone of this campaign. These rallies McCain is holding are making both sides take note. Issues please.

Posted by: Issues Matter | October 10, 2008, 10:28 am 10:28 am

Stephanopoulos: McCain Needs a Plan
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McCain needs an exit strategy

Posted by: Truth Hurts the GOP | October 10, 2008, 10:29 am 10:29 am

To Mary and other conspiracy theorists – Obama has been in the public eye at least for 4 years – plenty of time to investigate his past and present life. Can you give me a reason why the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency or even Homeland Security has not investigated Obama’s “links” to these nefarious characters you claim he has associated with most of his adult life? Could it be because there is nothing “insidious” about the relationships, nothing dangerous or illegal or suspicious enough to warrant investigation – or are these agencies in on the “conspiracy” too? Answer me that!

Posted by: geecee | October 10, 2008, 10:29 am 10:29 am

I think McCain has lost sight of the big picture. The win at all costs thing will not be good for this country.

Posted by: my friends no more | October 10, 2008, 10:31 am 10:31 am

McCain couldn’t spout off with his crazy rhetoric to Obama’s face. That says a lot about the old geezer.

Posted by: Lee-Usa | October 10, 2008, 10:32 am 10:32 am

ABC News should be ashamed with calling George Stephanopoulos a political analyst as he is simply a political hack for the Lord Barrack Obama.
He states everyone is more worried about the stock market, and not the anger about the political system as quoted by a town home Rally for McCain.
While there are certainly many that are worried most of my BUSINESS and personal contact realize while this certainly hurts their retirement portfolios, the most direct of this problem is felt by just a majority of persons.
All the while many I know ARE worried about a lying socialist, one who is far to the left of Bill Clinton and is propped up by the likes of lying media types such as the political and morally corrupt George Stephanopoulos becoming president all the while an admittedly weak republican presidential candidate only weakly responds to his lies, including as to why we were in Iraq, all the while the Lord Barrack Obama speaks of using our troops for humanitarian missions, was not Saddam Hussein a mass murderer?
What has many outraged across this great country is not that the Lord Barrack Obama is who he is, but that the Press with morally deprived persons such as George Stephanopoulos are doing all they can to pass around the Kool Aid from the Lord Barrack Obama.
May God have mercy on all those that drink this Kool Aid.

Posted by: Carl Strohmeyer | October 10, 2008, 10:34 am 10:34 am

McCain is losing it. He is obsessed with Obama personally and is on a negative attack campaign directed at the person, not his policies. People care more about the issues, which McCain has no answer for. I can be for McCain if he picked the right VP, but the thought of another dummy being in the WH scares the hell out of me.

Posted by: AE | October 10, 2008, 10:35 am 10:35 am

All I can say is we’re all screwed. The reports coming in about McCain supporters riling themselves up to such a fever pitch that it seemed like they were an inch from going on a lynch hunt is beyond distressing. No matter who wins, at least half of the population is going to be pissed. God only knows what’s going to happen then. Civil War Part II? This country is beyond reconciliation at this point. Partisanship is tearing us all apart.
Oh yeah…vote for Obama!!!

Posted by: ewoh24 | October 10, 2008, 10:36 am 10:36 am

POLLS:
Why does ABCNEWS still have the poll reading as Obama 50 and McCain 46?
Is it not Obama 52 and McCain 41?
It’s time for ABCNEWS to report accurately…..

Posted by: shalom | October 10, 2008, 10:38 am 10:38 am

Farrakhan on Obama: ‘The Messiah is absolutely speaking’
‘Barack has captured the youth,’ will bring about ‘universal change’
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Posted: October 09, 2008
8:03 pm Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, another powerful Chicago-based political figure associated with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and other long-time associates of Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama, is leaving no doubt about what he thinks of the leader in the campaign for the White House.
He says when Obama talks “the Messiah is absolutely speaking.”

Posted by: AE | October 10, 2008, 10:38 am 10:38 am

Is McCain showing the sort of leadership our country needs at this time, or is he using our worst fears to divide us?
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself”.
We need to remember our nation’s history, so that we don’t repeat our mistakes.

Posted by: wake up | October 10, 2008, 10:40 am 10:40 am

reddog, why is everyone who disagrees with you lazy and looking for handouts? that’s absurd.
Posted by: hmm | Oct 10, 2008 10:24:49 AM
I never said that dont twist my words.I am talking about people who look for handouts as opposed to working hard.The system is set up to reward you if you work hard.I find that alot more appealing than being handed this or that

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 10, 2008, 10:40 am 10:40 am

reddog, and so do many people who will vote for Obama.

Posted by: hmm | October 10, 2008, 10:42 am 10:42 am

George Stephanopoulos, keep up the good work. I will be watching you this Sunday!!!
I want a drink of intelligent reporting!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN08

Posted by: sisterdearest09 | October 10, 2008, 10:42 am 10:42 am

Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Chris Dodd = ACRON, Franny, Freddy = Corruption
Time to throw out all the democrats

Posted by: Jill | October 10, 2008, 10:44 am 10:44 am

reddog0216: Yeah sure, all those Wall Street whiz kids and CEOs who walked away with millions while their companies went down the tubes worked real hard for those millions.

Posted by: samurai | October 10, 2008, 10:44 am 10:44 am

I’ve got to laugh at all of the posts which have suddenly appeared which slam BOTH candidates. The scumbag Republicant’s finally know they’ve lost. Now they’re just trying to convince folks not to vote at all. You guys should really get your heads out of your asses. Obama has kicked the crap out of you. Show some dignity in defeat, for Christ’s sake!

Posted by: TL | October 10, 2008, 10:44 am 10:44 am

When will McCain and Palin stand up to their hate filled rallies?
If they don’t stop this, it’s likely riots will break out.

Posted by: Dan | October 10, 2008, 10:46 am 10:46 am

TL
not so fast because ACORN will screw you to the proverbial wall

Posted by: staniam | October 10, 2008, 10:47 am 10:47 am

McCain first, country second.

Posted by: samurai | October 10, 2008, 10:47 am 10:47 am

sisterfirst
youre gonna need a drink after ACORN is fingered as the culprit in the mortgage crisis

Posted by: staniam | October 10, 2008, 10:48 am 10:48 am

I hope the leftwing media and print are happy with this financial mess. They have been feeding and spinning negative financial news to the public for a year now. Their agenda crush the economy so Obama can look good. As a Realtor I am not alone we have all been complaining over a year now how the press downplayed any good news in the R.E. market and scared any Buyers away. My Sellers also recognize this. Of course now it is beyond logic and the press has caused a full blown panic and manipulated the news and spun us into a full blow recession. Good job guys and keep smiling George.But Obama still won’t win.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 10, 2008, 10:49 am 10:49 am

McCain: You want to sling mud and lies? OK, I want to know more about that black child that you fathered out of wedlock.

Posted by: samurai | October 10, 2008, 10:51 am 10:51 am

IT’S NEVER TOO LATE FOR ALL REPUBLICANS TO VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN = COMMON SENSE!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN08 = THEY ARE “HOT”!!!

Posted by: sisterdearest09 | October 10, 2008, 10:52 am 10:52 am

George, take care of those herpes sores on your lip.

Posted by: geevill | October 10, 2008, 10:52 am 10:52 am

Let’s see. We have had six years of war with W which ruined us financially, this war was a lie. Now because of the republican controlled congress for the last 16 years, and McCain bragging about how he is a degegulator, we have a financial nightmare.
You diehard republicans want four more years of this? Especially watching how erattically McCain is acting, with his sidekick Palin, inciting hatred and vague racial baiting it must just make you so proud to be Republican.

Posted by: Mike Harrington | October 10, 2008, 10:52 am 10:52 am

After days I finally get it. Sarah Palin stated the other day that in the Vice Presidential debate Obama seemed less “candid” than usual. This confused me as well as a lot of other people. so far, noone has seemed to figuire out exactly what she meant by that statement. After all, anyone that watched the debate could plainly see that if anything Obama was slightly more “candid” than usual. WHile watching CNN news this morning, I think I finaly see what she was implying. The Mccain campaign”s strategy has been to paint Obama as a foreigner, an outsider that doesnt represent the American people and to re-enforce this with the underlying theme : “WHo is the real Barak Obama?”
There must have been a meeting in the Mccain campaign where someone said: “We need to make people think he has something to hide, after all, “Who is the REAL Barack Obama?” So this bimbo Palin runs with it, and the first thing she blurts out of her mouth to a reporter is… ” He (Obama)seemed a lot less candid than usual which I was kinda surprised”. ( suggesting that Barack was talking as if he was hiding something rather than actual talking like he always does).Palin is someone who thinks and reacts on the level of a 5th grader. It reminds me the kid that plays hide and seek and tells you that he wont hide under the sink beforehand.
What the hell was Mccain thinking?. This woman has neither the depth of knowledge nor the level of understanding to step in as president.

Posted by: ben vereen | October 10, 2008, 10:54 am 10:54 am

conf1689, Please, the housing markets has been a house of cards for years. The greed of the mortgage companies, consumers, and Realtors who sold clients homes they coudn’t afford are contributors this mess.

Posted by: the train leaves not the station | October 10, 2008, 10:55 am 10:55 am

So, if all he has for solutions now is Negative attack ads, then what can we expect when he gets into office? Nothing I guess except speeches that start with “My Friends….” Remind you of anyone. They must think we’re ignorant….

Posted by: shannon | October 10, 2008, 10:55 am 10:55 am

John McCain is a creep. Here is a good example:
Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit.
‘When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it.
‘Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better.
‘This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.’
One old friend of the McCains said: ‘Carol always insists she is not bitter, but I think that’s a defence mechanism. She also feels deeply in his debt because in return for her agreement to a divorce, he promised to pay for her medical care for the rest of her life.’
Carol remained resolutely loyal as McCain’s political star rose. She says she agreed to talk to The Mail on Sunday only because she wanted to publicise her support for the man who abandoned her.
Indeed, the old Mercedes that she uses to run errands displays both a disabled badge and a sticker encouraging people to vote for her ex-husband. ‘He’s a good guy,’ she assured us. ‘We are still good friends. He is the best man for president.’
But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel – even by the standards of modern politics.
‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said.
‘After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.’
The Obama camp has not been throwing this in his face; McCain is making a complete fool of himself along with his lap dogette, Palin, who also has that pesky investigation going on in Alaska. Hum, we don’t hear much about that either from the Obama camp.

Posted by: nasamom24 | October 10, 2008, 10:56 am 10:56 am

The trouble with McCain/Palin is that most Republicans have no sence of humor and don’t know how to have a good time. Maybe they should just sit back, have a couple of burbons play some Hot Tuna and mellow a little.
Remembe: If you don’t know Jorma then you don’t know Jack!!!!
Later

Posted by: Jim/Hot Tuna | October 10, 2008, 10:57 am 10:57 am

John McCain is a racist. Like all racists, he opposed MLK day. He has associated with known racists and KKK members.
John McCain does not belong to this civilized world.

Posted by: Jonny | October 10, 2008, 11:00 am 11:00 am

McCain: You want to sling mud and lies? OK, I want to know more about that black child you fathered out of wedlock.
What’s her name?
Where is she living now?
Who took her in after you abandoned her?

Posted by: samurai | October 10, 2008, 11:01 am 11:01 am

Oh well, Sen. McCain could pick a better candidate (from so many qulified Republican candidates) instead he choose the one with an experience of doing the dirty work even as a governor! This will tell you his judgment and character. America, we are in big trouble if they are elected to run this country.

Posted by: Yalem | October 10, 2008, 11:02 am 11:02 am

Don’t you people get it? I am registered independent and have chosen McCain partly because of the astounding coverage of this election from the media. They have become so dangerous to all of us. Also the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issue has so much to do with democrats and none of you will face this. Barney Frank is from my state of Massachusetts and believe me I hope we can send him to jail somehow. This election and desperation for all of you to get Obama elected has killed our economy and country. And you bet I’m angry.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 10, 2008, 11:03 am 11:03 am

YOU AND YOUR FELLOW REPUBLICANS ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO CARES ABOUT ACORN, WRIGHT AND AYERS!!!
I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH YOU, PEOPLE THAT ENDORES A RACIST, MCCAIN WHO HELPED HIS DEAR FRIEND, CHARLES KEATING IN THE S&L SCANDAL WHICH DEFAUDED 23,000 ELDERLY SENIORS OUT OF THEIR LIFE SAVING!!!!
OH, DON’T FORGET PALIN WHO USED HER OFFICE FOR THE FAMILY!!!!
REPUBLICAN PARTY = CORRUPTION, LIARS, AND RACIST A-HOLE!!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN08

Posted by: sisterdearest09 | October 10, 2008, 11:04 am 11:04 am

Forget about American not wanting Mccain/Palin THEIR OWN PARTY DONT! the Gop are embaressed by Mccain and Palin the way they are running that campaign disgusting,They say look at the way one runs a campaign thats the way they govern. well Mccain if this is the way you will run the House I say NO WAY NO HOW NO MCCAIN!

Posted by: angie | October 10, 2008, 11:04 am 11:04 am

Meet Sarah Palin’s radical right-wing pals
Extremists Mark Chryson, chairman of the Alaska Independence Party, and Steve Stoll helped launch Palin’s political career in Alaska, and in return
had influence over policy. Her door was open, says Chryson and still is.

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 11:05 am 11:05 am

Meet John McCain radical right-wing pals
Gordon 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
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.

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 11:06 am 11:06 am

Meet other McCain radical right-wing pals.
This guilt by association path is going to be trouble ultimately for the McCain campaign. You know, you can go back, I have written a book about
McCain, I had a dozen researchers go through him, I didn’t even put this in the book. But John McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing
organization, it was the U.S. Council for World Freedom, it was chaired by a guy named John Singlaub, who wound up involved in the Iran contra
scandal. It was an ultra conservative, right-wing group. The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981 when McCain was on the board, said this about this
organization. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League – the parent organization – which ADL said “has increasingly become a gathering
place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites.”

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 11:06 am 11:06 am

AE,
Nobody gives a rats behind what praises Minister Farakan gives to Senator Obama.Im sure that there are plenty of well known fanatacs on the other end of the spectrum that offer praises for Senator McCain. If we all paid attention to what these idiots had to say and use it as a basis for choosing a candidate, we wouldn’t ever have a candidate fit to run for public office. This kind of nonsense makes Americans look stupid and weak minded to the eyes of the world. If you have an issue with Senator Obama, then get somthing thats legitimate to debate about, because otherwise, your giving ALL Americans a blackeye with that kind of bull!

Posted by: Sparky3272 | October 10, 2008, 11:08 am 11:08 am

I urge all undecided voters to GOOGLE AIG ALASKIN INDEPENDENT PARTY! interesting things about the govenor UNAMERICAN!

Posted by: angie | October 10, 2008, 11:08 am 11:08 am

Any party can solve current problems: the war in Iraq and the economy crisis. Don’t let the democromats tell you that no one else can do it but them. Now the question is who is more experienced and honest? I think Mccain and Palin have more experience and are more honest. Democrats are good at lying to get votes, go McCain-Palin!

Posted by: Kevin | October 10, 2008, 11:09 am 11:09 am

And please–NO ONE has gotten a bigger free ride from the media than John McCain. He was every liberal’s favorite Republican–fawned over by everyone including the New York Times, the guys at MSNBC. NO one has taken unfair shots at McCain or delved into his truly unsavory personal life–meantime the “liberal media” spends six weeks on Reverend Wright. Can you imagine if Barack Obama had left his crippled first wife for a beer heiress or chased tail from Saigon to D.C. or taken 100 trips with the likes of Charles Keating? Please…instead they have to dig up the unsavory past of a guy who Obama served on two boards with (alongside numerous Republicans, btw–guess they’re all radical terrorists too…)

Posted by: Sarah | October 10, 2008, 11:10 am 11:10 am

KEVIN -Too much koolaid in your coffee?

Posted by: angie | October 10, 2008, 11:10 am 11:10 am

Speaking of paling around with terriost remember BUSH HAVING BIN LADENS FAMILY AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR TEA?

Posted by: angie | October 10, 2008, 11:11 am 11:11 am

Herbert Hoover’s campaign slogan: “A chicken in every pot.” John McCain’s campaign slogan: “A chick and a crackpot.”

Posted by: hamishdad | October 10, 2008, 11:12 am 11:12 am

Barack Hussein Obama. this sounds like someone from the Middle East. Watch out! Muslims are coming!

Posted by: serious voter | October 10, 2008, 11:13 am 11:13 am

Meet other McCain radical right-wing pals.
This guilt by association path is going to be trouble ultimately for the McCain campaign. You know, you can go back, I have written a book about
McCain, I had a dozen researchers go through him, I didn’t even put this in the book. But John McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing
organization, it was the U.S. Council for World Freedom, it was chaired by a guy named John Singlaub, who wound up involved in the Iran contra
scandal. It was an ultra conservative, right-wing group. The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981 when McCain was on the board, said this about this
organization. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League – the parent organization – which ADL said “has increasingly become a gathering
place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites.”

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 11:13 am 11:13 am

MCRACIST/PITBULL SUSPEND YOUR CAMPAIGN FOR THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY!!!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN08

Posted by: sisterdearest09 | October 10, 2008, 11:14 am 11:14 am

Train leaves the station. I agree with you there were alot of greedy mortgage lender and Realtors who helped with this mess. I even saw it coming two years ago too many people got mortgages they couldn’ afford And I can honestly say I did not participate in any of it. If my Buyer was told they couldn’t buy a home I told them to save and wait not run around and find a lender who would give them a mortgage. But all this aside the fact remains Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were allowing this GO ON and Congress knew it and did NOTHING to stop it. And for this I blame them. Most foreclosuers going on in my state are homes Purchased in the PAST TWO YEARS.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 10, 2008, 11:15 am 11:15 am

and Carol Strohmeyer–have you been sleeping? Stephanopoulos was the one who asked surely the dumbest, least answerable, least relevant question of the entire campaign to Obama–”Does Reverend Wright love his country as much as you do?” If I’d been in Obama’s shoes (and thank God I’m not) I probably would’ve blurted out “George–what the h*ll does that mean, you idiot?”

Posted by: Sarah | October 10, 2008, 11:16 am 11:16 am

Name one bad thing that Obama has done? He met with radicals.
Name good one thing that McCain has done? He fought in the Vietnam war.
Name one bad thing that Biden has done?
He contributed to corruptions in DC.
Name one good thing that Palin has done?
She championed oil drilling projects in Alaska.

Posted by: Dr Spike | October 10, 2008, 11:22 am 11:22 am

“At this point, if you still support Obama, you are OK with his very close relationship with a racist, anti-American pastor and priest. You are OK with his long-term friendship with an unrepentant terrorist. You are OK with his close friendship with a convicted felon. You are OK with the fact that he is complicit in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac boondoggle. And you are OK with his attempts to steal the election through ACORN and voter intimidation. All of this has been reported by the MSM and is no longer a secret.
That said, in my opinion, if you still support Obama knowing all this, I have to question your patriotism. There is no political party or ideology which could coerce me into backing such a reprehensible individual to become the President of the United States. I just refuse to believe there are that many Americans out there who hate this country.”

Posted by: HP Boston | October 10, 2008, 11:23 am 11:23 am

George Bush has been in office for 7 1/2 years. The first six the economy was fine.
A little over one year ago :
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) the unemployment rate was 4.5%.
4) the DOW JONES hit a record high–14,000 +
5) American’s were buying new cars, taking cruises, vacations overseas, living large!…
But American’s wanted ‘CHANGE’! So, in 2006 they voted in a Democratic Congress and yes–we got ‘CHANGE’ all right. In the PAST YEAR:
1) Consumer confidence has plummeted ;
2) Gasoline is now over $4 a gallon & climbing!;
3) Unemployment is up to 5.5% (a 10% increas e);
4) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $12 TRILLION DOLLARS and prices still dropping;
5) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure, with no indication that the trend will reverse any time soon. In fact, many sub-prime ARMs are just getting to their “re-set” point…the carnage will continue.
6) THE DOW is probing another low~~ $2.5 TRILLION DOLLARS HAS EVAPORATED FROM THEIR STOCKS, BONDS & MUTUAL FUNDS INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS!
7) Do we need to be reminded that the roots of the sub-prime debacle can be traced BACK to the Clinton Administration?
8) Do we need to be reminded that it was during the Carter and Clinton Administrations that we began to turn our backs on Israel?
YES, IN 2006 AMERICA VOTED FOR CHANGE…AND WE SURE GOT IT! …
REMEMBER THE PRESIDENT HAS NO CONTROL OVER ANY OF THESE ISSUES, ONLY CONGRESS.
AND WHAT HAS CONGRESS DONE IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
NOW THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT CLAIMS HE IS GOING TO REALLY GIVE US CHANGE ALONG WITH A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS!!!!
JUST HOW MUCH MORE ‘CHANGE’ DO YOU THINK YOU CAN STAND?

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 11:24 am 11:24 am

I’ve voted both democrat and republican over the years. Hell, I voted for Perot!
I was a McCain supporter, even giving Pailn some slack. But now… he’s just gone off the deep end. He’s essentially using Nazi strategies stategies at this point. It’s sad.
Who is the real John McCain? The story below changed my mind about him.
Make-Believe Maverick
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

Posted by: Robert K. | October 10, 2008, 11:25 am 11:25 am

Dr Spike: I also fought in Vietnam, and you know what? It was a bullsh*t war, just like Iraq.

Posted by: veteran | October 10, 2008, 11:25 am 11:25 am

Yes HP, believe it, millions support Obama.

Posted by: d | October 10, 2008, 11:26 am 11:26 am

Any party can solve current problems: the war in Iraq and the economy crisis. Don’t let the democromats tell you that no one else can do it but them. Now the question is who is more experienced and honest? I think Mccain and Palin have more experience and are more honest. Democrats are good at lying to get votes, go McCain-Palin!
Posted by: Kevin | Oct 10, 2008 11:09:22 AM
——————————–
Without a doubt..McCain is the experienced person to do a mans job!
THAT ONE is a POVERTY PIMP AKA as SLICK RICK……………..

Posted by: HP Boston | October 10, 2008, 11:26 am 11:26 am

conf1689, I agree there is blame to be shared between the two parties. However, I think the overall issue here revolves around deregulation. A completely free market is great as theory, but it doesn’t factor in greed nor human nature. We need government oversight. The Democrats should have stepped up when the writing was on the wall, but the Republicans should not have deregulated the financial services sector in 1999 (See Phil Gramm’s infamous bill). Deregulation is fundamentally a Republican ideology. Less government is not always a good thing. I will not support John McCain.

Posted by: the train leaves not the station | October 10, 2008, 11:26 am 11:26 am

Palin cleared herself in Troopergate -…I KNEW she would find herself not guilty of wrongdoing. Wow! What a relief! NOT! (The Alaska Legislature speaks today – might not have the same view! Considering Todd “Secessionist” Palin made calls from the Governor’s office trying to get the Trooper fired, might not be quick to clear her.)
Now, if Gov. Palin (or anyone) would just explain why she hung out with the secessionists for all those years.
The ALASKA INDEPENDENCE PARTY – WANTS ALASKA TO SECEDE FROM THE US.
ISN’T THAT UNAMERICAN??????
BUT Gov. Palin did more than “pal around” – TODD PALIN,her husband, was a REGISTERED MEMBER of the ALASKA INDEPENDENCE PARTY (1995-2002) – TODD PALIN is now registered as “UNDECLARED” with HIS WIFE RUNNING FOR V.P. – One has to wonder.
Gov. Palin a videotape to the ALASKA INDEPENDENCE PARTY wishing them well AS GOVERNOR OF ALASKA IN 2008.
SO, you think she might be “pallin around” with persons who don’t like America???
“The fires of Hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government and I won’t be buried under their flag.” Joe Volger, FOUNDER of the Alaska Independence Party (Mr. Volger died in 1993 – according to the New York Times, Volger is believed to have been murdered in a “PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES DEAL GONE BAD” (if you are doing things legally, why would you be involved in any deal for plastic explosives that could “go bad”???)

Posted by: RT | October 10, 2008, 11:29 am 11:29 am

Yeah, he certainly need sa plan to exit, atleast gracefully.

Posted by: Sunny | October 10, 2008, 11:31 am 11:31 am

WHAT’S IN A NAME???
His mother, who is white named him Barack Hussein Obama!!! He were raised by his white christian grandparents!!!!!
Is that all you, RACIST REPUBLICAN PEOPLE can come up with??????
On the other hand, John Sidney McCain III represents KKK RACIST STEREOTYPE!!!!
Take a deep breath!!!!
AMERICA IS NOT GOING BACKWARDS!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN08

Posted by: sisterdearest09 | October 10, 2008, 11:32 am 11:32 am

Amazing that with a handful of highly edited ten-second video clips, people think they understand Reverend Wright’s entire world view and then somehow Obama’s, as if everyone who goes to church is supposed to agree with every word their pastor says. It’s simply bizarre to me. I’d remind HP Boston that the guy was a Marine for six years–does that strike you as un-American? Boy–what a dilemma for you military-worshipping types, eh? Is he a “proud veteran” or an “America-hating traitor.” Try to get your simple, sound-bite-loving brain around that conundrum.

Posted by: Sarah | October 10, 2008, 11:32 am 11:32 am

Listen to Obama in Ohio Now, “Now is not the time for fear. Now is not the time for panic,”
The time to panic will be if you’re elected! Talk about losing paradise…… he has not shown he cares about America…. his votes have been against the people, his link at great http://justsaynodeal.com/acorn.html
Michelle, was only proud of America recently…. her links go back 20 yrs to Ayers wife…. on the 10 most wanted list in America?????? NO NO to Obama

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 11:33 am 11:33 am

I think it is too late for McCain. As someone else noted, voting is already underway in some places.
I just sat around my kitchen table with several friends and filled out our absentee ballots here in Florida. I had them bring their ballots and served them coffee and snacks.
Although we had agreed that people could keep their votes to themselves, one friend said “I dont care! I’m voting for Obama! McCain’s gone crazy! And he’s going to cut Medicare!”
In the end, we all voted for Obama.
We all voted for Bush in 2004.
We are white women in our late 50s/early 60s. I will say that at least one person voted for Obama because they refused to vote for Palin.
(By the way, did you know that Florida had an anti-gay marriage state constitution initiative on its ballot this year? We were surprised!)

Posted by: Annabelle | October 10, 2008, 11:33 am 11:33 am

Oh, and yes, there is videotap of Gov. Palin wishing the Alaska Independence Party well. There are records of Todd Palin’s membership for almost 8 years and his switching to “undeclared” in 2002 (about the same time Gov. Palin would have been moving into Statewide politics). This stuff IS documented. Why is this not getting play?

Posted by: RT | October 10, 2008, 11:34 am 11:34 am

John McCain is the solution to the economic crisis, not the problem. If you think things are bad now, wait until Obama gets in with his socialist income-redistribution plans and radical thoughts on taking capitalism & the free market away from America. Wake up people! Wake up!

Posted by: LFforMcCain | October 10, 2008, 11:35 am 11:35 am

Nicolas127, When I read the Obama quote I thought. “Wow, Obama is acting more presidential than the actual President. who has done very little to quell fears in this crisis.”
My glass is half full I guess.

Posted by: wow? | October 10, 2008, 11:35 am 11:35 am

Good for Florida, I would vote for it!

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 11:35 am 11:35 am

Nicolas127, I don’t think anyone here is surprised.

Posted by: wow? | October 10, 2008, 11:37 am 11:37 am

Learn something and get a clue. A usury based economic system is the problem. You can’t fix doodoo. Who’s really holding the purse strings / puppet strings?

Posted by: boohoo | October 10, 2008, 11:37 am 11:37 am

As to Sen. McCain,
Are we to overlook Keating?
Are we to overlook the cariety of positions you have taken on a weekly basis?
Are we to overlook the Middle East “strategy” that Gen. Petraeus said yesterday “wouldnt work”?

Posted by: RT | October 10, 2008, 11:38 am 11:38 am

Nicolas127, the econoly was fine!? Oh brother.

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 11:38 am 11:38 am

One last thing -
McCain claimed to know so many answers to our problems in the Debate and on the stump. Why would he hoard all this wisdom and not share it with us?
Claimed to know how to capture Bin Laden.
Claimed to know how to fix the financial crisis.
Why would he keep these critical solutions from us and keep giving us so many wrong answers?
I mean why did he suspend his campaign to give us the wrong answer?
Ya’ think he might just be sellin’ “snake oil”?

Posted by: RT | October 10, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

Maybe Palin can call that witch hunter pastor from Africa to do an exorcism on the economy? But then again the exorcism didnt help on Palin…she’s still possessed.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 10, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

RT, here you go palin wishing the independent party well.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/4231/18477/878/581881

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

the train leaves not the station You can support Obama this is America. But I can not. I do not Trust him in the least. And for democrats to gain total control really terrifies me. And as I stated before this whole election coverage has scared me. If Obama gets in and things aren’t going so great is the media and the press going to continue to pick and choose what they report to us and continue to twist and manipulate the reporting to favor their candidate Obama? Please don’t tell me you don’t think the media has been fair in this election. My opinion they have gone to far and caused huge problems.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 10, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

Meet Sarah Palin’s radical right-wing pals
Extremists Mark Chryson, chairman of the Alaska Independence Party, and Steve Stoll helped launch Palin’s political career in Alaska, and in return
had influence over policy. Her door was open, says Chryson and still is.

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

Annabelle–bravo! What a cool post–I love the picture of you all sitting around the kitchen table with your ballots.
And Nicolas sorry, but what on earth would you expect Obama to say? “Be afraid! Be very afraid! And yeah–panic! Go ahead! Aaaaaggghhh!!”

Posted by: Sarah | October 10, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

Meet John McCain radical right-wing pals
Gordon 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
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.

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

Meet other McCain radical right-wing pals.
This guilt by association path is going to be trouble ultimately for the McCain campaign. You know, you can go back, I have written a book about
McCain, I had a dozen researchers go through him, I didn’t even put this in the book. But John McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing
organization, it was the U.S. Council for World Freedom, it was chaired by a guy named John Singlaub, who wound up involved in the Iran contra
scandal. It was an ultra conservative, right-wing group. The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981 when McCain was on the board, said this about this
organization. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League the parent organization which ADL said has increasingly become a gathering
place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites.

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 11:44 am 11:44 am

The problem is he DID agree with those folks, or at least accept them, until his agreement cast a negative light on his presidential endeavor…
If he can backtrack on his personal acquaintances, who’s to say he won’t do the same with any (or all) of the issues on his platform?
McCain was chastised for picking a nobody but a nobody is better than someone with a complete lack of morals and ethics (AKA Captain defamer himself, Biden).
Ditto with the Muslim background. Obama was raised in a family in which some were Muslims and some were Christians. Obama says he’s not a Muslim, and I’m not sure how you prove it.

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 11:44 am 11:44 am

Obama has, up until this year, voted in line with very hard-left politics and has associated himself with far-left radical groups and people. Michelle Obama worked with Ayers’ wife, please dont tell me you dont think there is anything in this. Obama has donated $800,000 this year to ACORN to register people to vote(democrat only of course) . This is all wrong and the public needs to know everything about this.

Posted by: Louise | October 10, 2008, 11:44 am 11:44 am

Conf1689: “This election and desperation for all of you to get Obama elected has killed our economy and country.” Umm.. our economy has been going down the tubes before Barack even starting his campaign for Pres. What the heck are you talking about?

Posted by: Michelle | October 10, 2008, 11:45 am 11:45 am

Nicolas127 im not sure YOU can prove you’re not a muslim. Can you?

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 10, 2008, 11:46 am 11:46 am

The economy went down a few month after Bush was elected height years ago. this is fact that gaz price was below a dollar and that the dollar was strong before W. Bush.

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 11:47 am 11:47 am

McCain and Palin are working to enrage angry white America into a frenzy. Why, instead of discussing how they will make the US a better place, they resort to weapons of fear and lies to alienate Obama supporters and smear Obama is beyond me. Now, more than EVER, we need a president whose campaign is based on his own political credentials in the given political environment, not one who is only trying to win by default. Ayers and Wright have already been out there for a year, and Obama is still in the lead! Angry (and largely racist) white Americans do not need any more incentives or encouragement from the GOP to act on their hate for Obama. What they do need, like the rest of us, are solutions for the multitude of problems we face domestically and internationally. I guess addressing the issues facing Americans has all but been omitted from the McCain campaign. What a disgusting disgrace this is turning out to be.

Posted by: Erin | October 10, 2008, 11:47 am 11:47 am

Louise,
I totally agree with you……check out this link,
http://justsaynodeal.com/acorn.html

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 11:48 am 11:48 am

Now some people say oh the economy was good under bush $2.5 a gallon of gas and 4.5 unemployment. First of a all $2.5 for a gallon of gas was not that good and the 4.5 unemployment was cooked.

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 11:49 am 11:49 am

Ask yourself this where were you financially 3 years ago??When the stock market soared people were upselling there home I know it was horrible.How bad were you off three years ago please tell me

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 10, 2008, 11:49 am 11:49 am

Obama can afford to lose Ohio, but McCain can’t.
If Obama locks in a lead, as the article suggests he could, its over. But the same can be said of an Obama lead in Florida, or probably even true for an Obama lead in Virginia, Colorado, Nevada, or Missouri.
He’s got multiple paths at this point, while McCain has just two; win all the toss-up states, or win most of them and Pennsylvania.

Posted by: Paul | October 10, 2008, 11:49 am 11:49 am

McCain is an old fart & needs to just go home. Really, he’s stupid & Obama is gonna win :D

Posted by: Poopie. | October 10, 2008, 11:50 am 11:50 am

Obama has donated $800,000 this year to ACORN to register people to vote(democrat only of course) . This is all wrong and the public needs to know everything about this.
———————
The NY POST, not exactly a bastion of liberalism, stated YESTERDAY that 40% of voters registered by ACORN are Republicans.
But don’t let facts get in the way of your attacks ok?

Posted by: Oh, the irony | October 10, 2008, 11:51 am 11:51 am

McCain really looks like a walking zombie most of the time. He is stiff and going through the motions of running for president. So, now all he has to put out there are attacks against Obama. He has no real substance to his campaign. Sarah Palin has been a convenient side show to boost his popularity. What it appears to be is that she’s popular and he’s STILL NOT. A pretty face isn’t enough for his tired campaign. I think he knows he has no chance of winning and I think that came through with this last debate. He knows he’s losing and he doesn’t have a leg to stand on as far as swaying voters unless it’s to try to find dirt on his opponent.

Posted by: Mitsy | October 10, 2008, 11:52 am 11:52 am

Farrakhan on Obama: ‘The Messiah is absolutely speaking’
‘Barack has captured the youth,’ will bring about ‘universal change’
——————————————————————————–
Posted: October 09, 2008
8:03 pm Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, another powerful Chicago-based political figure associated with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and other long-time associates of Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama, is leaving no doubt about what he thinks of the leader in the campaign for the White House.
He says when Obama talks “the Messiah is absolutely speaking.”

Posted by: Poopie | October 10, 2008, 11:53 am 11:53 am

Btw the reason McCain is lagging in polls is that the conservatives sees him for what he is: a socialist sell out. McCains additional 300 billion mortgage bailout at FACE VALUE is the last straw.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/10/mccain.mortgages/index.html
McCain = out of touch. With all the conservative base failing him, no wonder he has to pander to the fringe extremist and racists. Obama is gaining lead in all battleground states now.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 10, 2008, 11:54 am 11:54 am

The faulty causal crap that’s echoed by both sides is really kind of comical.
Hey, back when Reagan was president, I broke my arm. That’s why I hate that SOB!
And then by the time Clinton was president, I was married, and like most married guys stopped getting… well, you know… the thing Clinton was getting. So I hate that SOB, too!

Posted by: Paul | October 10, 2008, 11:54 am 11:54 am

The faulty causal crap that’s echoed by both sides is really kind of comical.
Hey, back when Reagan was president, I broke my arm. That’s why I hate that SOB!
And then by the time Clinton was president, I was married, and like most married guys stopped getting… well, you know… the thing Clinton was getting. So I hate that SOB, too!
Posted by: Paul | Oct 10, 2008 11:54:22 AM
How true Paul!

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 10, 2008, 11:55 am 11:55 am

McCain and Parrot = The new Nazi Party
Have you seen their rallies lately?
Zeig Hiel! Achtung baby!

Posted by: Desperation - Pathetic and Disgusting | October 10, 2008, 11:55 am 11:55 am

Oh, the irony, you are so right of putting the fact in their face.
let me add some.
Meet other McCain radical right-wing pals.
This guilt by association path is going to be trouble ultimately for the McCain campaign. You know, you can go back, I have written a book about
McCain, I had a dozen researchers go through him, I didn’t even put this in the book. But John McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing
organization, it was the U.S. Council for World Freedom, it was chaired by a guy named John Singlaub, who wound up involved in the Iran contra
scandal. It was an ultra conservative, right-wing group. The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981 when McCain was on the board, said this about this
organization. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League the parent organization which ADL said has increasingly become a gathering
place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites.

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 11:56 am 11:56 am

LOUSE posted: Obama has, up until this year, voted in line with very hard-left politics and has associated himself with far-left radical groups and people. Michelle Obama worked with Ayers’ wife, please dont tell me you dont think there is anything in this. Obama has donated $800,000 this year to ACORN to register people to vote(democrat only of course) . This is all wrong and the public needs to know everything about this.
TO LOUISE: maybe, instead of focusing on unproven and exaggerated negative associations from decades ago, you should be worried about your health care coverage, your kids future and education, America’s energy independence, our ECONOMY, your stocks, your mortgage, etc. This is what you should be basing your opinions on and thinking about in this election. Obama addresses the issues and offers up his solutions. McCain only smears Obama. Who do you think will help YOU most?

Posted by: duh | October 10, 2008, 11:57 am 11:57 am

Oh, the Irony: “The NY POST, not exactly a bastion of liberalism, stated YESTERDAY that 40% of voters registered by ACORN are Republicans. But don’t let facts get in the way of your attacks ok?”
The problem is one of business models. ACORN, like many of these voter registration groups, hires people on a temporary basis and then pays them by the number of registration forms they turn in.
Remember it isn’t voter fraud unless someone claiming to be “Indiana Jones” actually shows up and tries to vote.
Its more a case of employee fraud against ACORN.

Posted by: Paul | October 10, 2008, 11:58 am 11:58 am

Now some people say oh the economy was good under bush $2.5 a gallon of gas and 4.5 unemployment. First of a all $2.5 for a gallon of gas was not that good and the 4.5 unemployment was cooked.
Posted by: kawasaki | Oct 10, 2008 11:49:03 AM
You can spin anyway you want… these are facts…..
What has Pelosi, Dodd, or Schumer done for you?

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 11:59 am 11:59 am

revenge of the nerd, Former President Jimmy Carter said on Friday the “atrocious economic policies” of the Bush administration had caused the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 11:59 am 11:59 am

McCain and Palin are looking more and more like the KKK, Nazis, and other hate groups known in history. Those background blurbs by supporters at their rallies sure show this.

Posted by: GWP | October 10, 2008, 12:02 pm 12:02 pm

TO LOUISE: maybe, instead of focusing on unproven and exaggerated negative associations from decades ago, you should be worried about your health care coverage, your kids future and education, America’s energy independence, our ECONOMY, your stocks, your mortgage, etc. This is what you should be basing your opinions on and thinking about in this election. Obama addresses the issues and offers up his solutions. McCain only smears Obama. Who do you think will help YOU most?
Posted by: duh | Oct 10, 2008 11:57:57 AM
What health care? socialized medicine, education reform Ayers style? energy independence..ride your bicycle? We will lose all our freedom, once you lose economic freedon there is on democracy!

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 12:04 pm 12:04 pm

MORE BAD NEWS FOR THE “MAVERICK”
At a time when McCain can’t afford to worry about a lack of support from his party’s base, several conservatives are openly criticizing the plan as a flagrant reward for reckless behavior among lenders.
In a sharply worded editorial on its Web site Thursday, the editors of The National Review — an influential bastion of conservative thought — derided the plan as “creating a level of moral hazard that is unacceptable” and called it a “gift to lenders who abandoned any sense of prudence during the boom years.” Watch the candidates’ plans get the ‘no bull’ test »
Prominent conservative blogger Michelle Malkin went one step further, calling the plan “rotten” and declaring on her blog, “We’re Screwed ’08.”

Posted by: Desperation - Pathetic and Disgusting | October 10, 2008, 12:04 pm 12:04 pm

TO LOUISE: maybe, instead of focusing on unproven and exaggerated negative associations from decades ago, you should be worried about your health care coverage, your kids future and education, America’s energy independence, our ECONOMY, your stocks, your mortgage, etc. This is what you should be basing your opinions on and thinking about in this election. Obama addresses the issues and offers up his solutions. McCain only smears Obama. Who do you think will help YOU most?
Posted by: duh | Oct 10, 2008 11:57:57 AM
Lets see Obama addresses the issue okay I can see what you are saying.I dont want free or forced healthcare.Obama does not want to drill we need to do it and do it now Obama does not want new refiniries we need them now,Our economy is mostly the fault of the democrats they have been controlling the congress for 2 years now what have they done what bill has been presented that Bush vetoed????That would of helped the economy.The only reason the ban on off shore drilling has been dropped is because of the election!The mortgage problem caused by give give give to unworthy credit risks

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 10, 2008, 12:04 pm 12:04 pm

Mccain sure needs a plan HE NEEDS TO DROP THAT AMERICAN HATING RACISIT PROMOTING WITCH OF A VP THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS PLEASE PLEASE GOOGLE AIP(ALASK INDEPENDENT PARTY) learn about the real SARA PALIN!~

Posted by: angie | October 10, 2008, 12:08 pm 12:08 pm

You can spin anyway you want… these are facts…..
What has Pelosi, Dodd, or Schumer done for you?
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They’ve done nothing thus far.
But the Pubs screwed us for 6 years plus!
Out of the two, I’ll take nothing over getting screwed.

Posted by: Easy choice | October 10, 2008, 12:10 pm 12:10 pm

Why would America REWARD complete Republican failure ?
We wont.
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And George – We still don’t need to hear from you ! We -remember- your biases.

Posted by: PulSamsara | October 10, 2008, 12:11 pm 12:11 pm

‘McCain needs a Plan’
Well George as usual, you and the Democratic elite, just do not get it. it must be that it is worded so simple you cannot under stand it.
In June `08 Maccain sat down his hopes and plans in the Lexington Project and has added to these and altered them as was needed to fit the situation then and the future.
Obama plies his ‘I wil Change’, yet he remains affixed to thieves, liars, ant American connections, disgraces to America’s rights to freedom and free speech.
When facts and figures are presented that link Obama to these ‘Wall Street eo’s’ and the problems they have created. You and the Demonic spawn rise up an yell, scream and change it with massive anti truths.
McCain/Palin are the best hope for America and if you took off your hateful blinders you would see that. But your hatred for the current administration and everything not Democrat, is what is killing your party and this election.
Obama is loosing daily ground and states, last poll on the Internet had the GOP winning 41 out of 50 States and 356 total votes and popular vote.
What Obama says first is I will lower taxes for blah blah lie, then Spend 6 trillion more??? How????
We need jobs we need income and the DNC does not want you to have either. They want 1850 slavery again.

Posted by: Butcher | October 10, 2008, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm

No matter how pundits try to spin it, it is the DEMOCRATS responsible for our chaotic economic condition. One can give away something for nothing only so long through their socialist agenda before it come back home to roast. Now Obama wants to do the same thing with health care, forcing insurance companies to provide care to anyone and everyone regardless of their health or costs. Socialism is evil and Obama and his fellow supporters are socialists.
McCain needs to get the top economic people on the stump and have them give the American people a lesson in economics about socialist’s ideas and it terrible effect on society.
The Democrats refuse to tell the truth, Obama refuses to tell the truth and America and the world suffers.

Posted by: Marla | October 10, 2008, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm

All of you spouting off the hate of Obabma and his middle name, are doing exactly what Mr. Wright said.
You hate anyone who is dofferent from you. Hello America is made up of different people.
And for the gentlemen who wants to question your patriotism, I say go ahead. This is America. Your allowed to question thing. Not blindly follow.
THINK-It’s Patriotic!

Posted by: AB | October 10, 2008, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm

George,
Why don’t you call McCain’s allegations for what they are, debunked desperate attempts to change the topic from the messy economy on which McCain has not figured out a plan how to go ahead and start solving it. He even admitted once that he does not really understand economy, of course he said that 2 years ago when focus was on foreign policy where he thought he had an advantage. I just don’t understand why you and a lot of your colleagues are so biased for John McCain that you even start writing about what the only way for McCain to win would be. I never hear you talk about what Obama needs to do to win. At least try to appear neutral, that’s what true journalists do.

Posted by: Patrick | October 10, 2008, 12:17 pm 12:17 pm

reddog: “The mortgage problem caused by give give give to unworthy credit risks.”
I don’t agree. The mortgage problem started with the blurring of lines between banks and investment banks.
This first got investors thinking about new and creative ways they could profit from the realestate boom and then infused the realestate lending industry with a new, previously unseen level of profit motive.
The result – extend as many loans as possible, while diminishing cash reserves. Sell loans on the basis of rates being cheap, and also on the basis of using all sorts of new products tied to varying indices (i.e., an explosion of adjustable products) with the final pitch of:
“Hey, don’t worry about the balloon payment, because as the value of the house goes up, you can just refinance again in three years.”
But much like the dot-com thing, it works fine as long as you aren’t the guy holding the hot potato when the music stops and home properties stop going up.
And because of the explosion of mortgage backed securities, the collapse threatens to pull down much more than just the industries traditionally associated.
I’m not sure out of all of this, we can really differentiate any class distinction in blame – there’s a lot of middle class and even upper class folks who suddenly find themselves with properties they can’t afford to sell and can’t afford to keep.

Posted by: Paul | October 10, 2008, 12:17 pm 12:17 pm

Maybe he can just use lies and trickery:
“To kick off our show tonight, Mr. Obama will give 95% of American working families a tax cut, even though 40% of Americans today don’t pay income taxes! How can our star enact such mathemagic? How can he “cut” zero? Abracadabra! It’s called a “refundable tax credit.” It involves the federal government taking money from those who do pay taxes, and writing checks to those who don’t. Yes, yes, in the real world this is known as “welfare,” but please try not to ruin the show.”

Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 12:18 pm 12:18 pm

“All of you spouting off the hate of Obabma and his middle name, are doing exactly what Mr. Wright said.”
“God bless America…nah..nah..nah..God Damm America!” ??

Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm

McCain is the angry old man throwing all kinds of crap to see if it sticks. But the media and the majority of the people have drunk the kool-aid. John should go back to Arizona. He’s stuck in the Senate in perpetuity.

Posted by: hmn | October 10, 2008, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm

FROM CNN and FOX:
Palin Pre-empts ‘Troopergate’ Report, Clears Self
Uh, ok… I guess if the McCain campaign says she’s innocent, it’s true. Why bother waiting until the investigation findings are released? Obviously, the McCain campaign would never lie right?
Watching Republicans spin stories is like watching Days of Our Lives – you just have to suspend all sense of reality.

Posted by: Lemmings Will Believe the Parrot | October 10, 2008, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm

McCain thought he would easily beat Obama and he can not for the life of him figure out why it has not happened for him. I have an easy answer–> TIMES HAVE CHANGED!! Americans have real problems to deal with. That is why McCain is so angry.

Posted by: Francheska | October 10, 2008, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm

Regarding McCain’s involvement with Keating:
http://washingtontimes.com/weblogs/trail-times/2008/Oct/09/mccain-and-keating-till-death-do-us-part-1/
Is McCain a closet homosexual?

Posted by: Arrecho | October 10, 2008, 12:20 pm 12:20 pm

Lemmings Will Believe… – I have to agree there. That is such a stupid story for the McCain campaign to get into.
“Palin clears self?”
All that accomplishes is the further eye-rolling of independents.

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

Socialists don’t let you have a 401K. It’s not fair.

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

McCain = Republican Economics + Bush + Nasty Persona + Ignorant&racist supporters = LOSER
What a pathetic person McCain turns out to be…. I pity him

Posted by: thegwoe | October 10, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm

When Obama wins the Demo controlled congress will vote away his term limit, Obama forever dude.

Posted by: boohoo | October 10, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm

I really need to find a better ip than Aol.
Well as usual those that have little real input are out in force vocallizing their hatred and slander all across America.
Whay, you all spent this months welfare or unemployment check. Tisk tisk, and you still want to be slaves to the wealthy Democrats, like George, and Teddy K, Nancy P, Reid, Barney Frankly I dont under Franks, and all the others.
Why don’t you just read a little and get the true insight on what is happening to America. Your party is every bit as much to blame for this mess as the current administration. But you would rather deny it and allow this great nation be turned into a third or fourth world economy than say we need jobs, we need affordable housing not $250K Estates homes that cost you $1500 a month for 30 years.
McCain/Palin ’08 and it is a landslide but for the GOP

Posted by: Butcher | October 10, 2008, 12:25 pm 12:25 pm

McSame’s campaign is not only ugly and dishonest, it is also hilariously inept. When our nation’s economy is collapsing, our retirement funds are disappearing, and health care costs are exploding, who gives a rat’s behind about some non-connection between Obama and an educator in Chicago? Keep it up McCrankypants! The more time you waste blathering on about something no one cares about (for good reason) the less time you have to actually say something that people might listen to.

Posted by: balthus | October 10, 2008, 12:26 pm 12:26 pm

geevill: “Socialists don’t let you have a 401K. It’s not fair.”
Gee, I better hide mine from McCain, then. Anybody who wants the federal government to start directly buying troubled mortgages must be a Socialist, right?
Actually you want to see true socialism at work? Try building a strip mall next to a Republican neighborhood. Then you’ll see some real governmental control of the economy.

Posted by: Paul | October 10, 2008, 12:26 pm 12:26 pm

“Palin clears self?”
That’s just the title of a story that the MSM has planted in your feeble mind.

Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 12:27 pm 12:27 pm

ACORN IS BUSTED AGAIN!. NObama as ALWAYS is in denialonce again!
CROWN POINT, Indiana (CNN) — More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana’s Lake County by a liberal activist group this week have turned out to be bogus, election officials said Thursday.
An official enters the Las Vegas, Nevada, ACORN office, which is under investigation for alleged voter fraud.
The group — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN — already faces allegations of filing fraudulent voter registrations in Nevada and faces investigations in other states.
And in Lake County, home to the long-depressed steel town of Gary, the bipartisan Elections Board has stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.
“All the signatures looked exactly the same,” Ruthann Hoagland, a Republican on the board. “Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same.”
The forms included registrations submitted in the names of the dead — and in one case, the name of a fast-food restaurant, Jimmy Johns. Sally LaSota, a Democrat on the board, called the forms fraudulent and said whoever filed them broke the law. Watch how dead people are turning up on voter registration forms »
“ACORN, with its intent, perhaps was good in the beginning, but went awry somewhere,” LaSota said.
Over the past four years, a dozen states have investigated complaints of fraudulent registrations filed by ACORN. On Tuesday, Nevada authorities raided an ACORN office in Las Vegas, Nevada, where workers are accused of registering members of the Dallas Cowboys football team. And the group has become the target of Republican attacks on voter fraud, a perennial GOP issue.
A subsidiary of the group was paid $800,000 by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign to register voters for the 2008 primaries, and ACORN’s political wing endorsed Obama back in February. But Obama’s campaign told CNN that it “is committed to protecting the integrity of the voting process,” and said it has not worked with ACORN during the general election.
Brian Mellor, an ACORN attorney in Boston, said the group has its own quality-control process and has fired workers in the past — including workers in Gary. But he said allegations that his organization committed fraud is a government attempt to keep people disenfranchised. Watch more about this investigation »
“We believe their purpose is to attack ACORN and suppress votes,” Mellor said. “We believe that by attacking ACORN, they are going to discourage people that have registered to vote with ACORN from voting.”
CNN was unable to reach ACORN officials in Gary and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the group’s Indiana operation is based. Offices in both cities were empty when reporters visited.
Lake County elections officials have set aside all 5,000 of the ACORN-submitted applications in what Hoagland called the “fake pile” for later review. But she said every one will be reviewed before the election to make sure no legitimate voters are skipped.
There has been no evidence of voter fraud yet, because voters have yet to go to the polls. But elections officials say they will be sending their information to prosecutors, who will determine whether any investigation will begin.
“We have no idea what the motive behind it is,” she said. “It’s just overwhelming to us.”
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NOBAMA IS CORRUPT! A CHEAT! A FREAKING CROOK!
I have to paste the whole text in case CNN will hide it again.

Posted by: HP Boston | October 10, 2008, 12:28 pm 12:28 pm

OMG!!! Obama is a closet “socialist”. Do you idiots really believe that we live in a free market economy? If McCain is such a believer in “the market” then he needs to start telling us which existing socialist Federal programs he intends to terminate. I suggest he start with agriculture. Let’s end tariffs on imported agricultural products like sugar. How about ending price supports on dairy products and ending the ridiculous Federal subsidies to make corn-based Ethanol competitive? Then we can end the Payment in Kind program that pays farmers NOT to grow crops. How about ending Federal crop insurance and subsidized loans for farm equipment purchases? If farmers in “small town America” can’t turn a profit from farming without Federal support then they deserve to fail. Why are they different than any other for-profit organization? That’s the market at work right? I’d like to hear McCain stand up in front of one of his famous “town hall meetings” in the “heartland” and tell the farmers in the audience that he intends to take away their cherished Federal subsidies and make agriculture subject to the whims of a free market economy. Said farmers would stick a pole up his rear and use him as a scarecrow.

Posted by: Chris in Texas | October 10, 2008, 12:29 pm 12:29 pm

Any party can solve current problems: the war in Iraq and the economy crisis. Don’t let the democromats tell you that no one else can do it but them. Now the question is who is more experienced and honest? I think Mccain and Palin have more experience and are more honest. Democrats are good at lying to get votes, go McCain-Palin!
Posted by: Kevin | Oct 10, 2008 11:09:22 AM
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Without a doubt..McCain is the experienced person to do a mans job!
THAT ONE is a POVERTY PIMP AKA as SLICK RICK……………..

Posted by: HP Boston | October 10, 2008, 12:32 pm 12:32 pm

“At this point, if you still support Obama, you are OK with his very close relationship with a racist, anti-American pastor and priest. You are OK with his long-term friendship with an unrepentant terrorist. You are OK with his close friendship with a convicted felon. You are OK with the fact that he is complicit in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac boondoggle. And you are OK with his attempts to steal the election through ACORN and voter intimidation. All of this has been reported by the MSM and is no longer a secret.
That said, in my opinion, if you still support Obama knowing all this, I have to question your patriotism. There is no political party or ideology which could coerce me into backing such a reprehensible individual to become the President of the United States. I just refuse to believe there are that many Americans out there who hate this country.”

Posted by: HP Boston | October 10, 2008, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm

Mccain is the biggest dissapointment I’ve witnessed in quite awhile. So much for honor in politics. Mccain is just a loser.

Posted by: Pablo | October 10, 2008, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm

If we were in a strong economy, the Ayers connection might have more traction, but people by and large don’t care. When they are losing their jobs, losing tons of money out of their 401(k), losing healthcare, paying high gasoline prices, and are in fear of their local bank will be in danger of going under, the priorities will become clear. I could care less. McCain was not the best Republican candidate to come out the primaries, and his campaign is a disaster. Then, when McCain chose Palin, that was the last straw. No coherence, no analysis, no organization, and clearly no plan. A complete and total disaster of a campaign. Voting Obama.

Posted by: Laura Brown | October 10, 2008, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm

Said farmers would stick a pole up his rear and use him as a scarecrow.
Posted by: Chris in Texas | Oct 10, 2008 12:29:50 PM
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Yep THAT ONE better be real careful when he goes in the farmers field.
They do not like SLICK RICK THE POVERTY PIMP! They do have their bitterness, bibles and GUNS!!!

Posted by: HP Boston | October 10, 2008, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm

Man up McCain!
You need to have the guts to look at your opponent and say whatever you believe to his face. Otherwise, we will all continue to laugh at you.
What a wimp.

Posted by: billy smith | October 10, 2008, 12:40 pm 12:40 pm

HP Boston – intelligent, thoughtful post there HP. I’m voting for Obama and I actually read the bible and own LOTS of guns too. Remember, I live in Texas. Funny thing, lots of farmers and ranchers here are voting for Obama too.

Posted by: Chris in Texas | October 10, 2008, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm

Funny thing, lots of farmers and ranchers here are voting for Obama too.
Posted by: Chris in Texas | Oct 10, 2008 12:43:10
——————————–Many more will not…no caucus voting in the GE sorry………..

Posted by: HP Boston | October 10, 2008, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm

If McCain wants to push professor Ayers as a dangerous terrorist on the loose why not look for associations that McCain had with terrorists: You don’t need to look any further than Strom Thurmond! A member of the KKK, the worst terrorist group in the history of the US, Strom Thurmond and McCain worked regularly together for years. McCain is totally unrepentant for working with this well known domestic terrorist, part of a group that actually murdered and terrorized hundreds possibly even thousands of Americans in its long history of militant hate.

Posted by: Loki | October 10, 2008, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm

Shamelessly, McCain and Palin exhibit their racism and xenophobia when they ask, “Who is Barack Obama?” “What do we really know about him?”
In reality, these aren’t questions at all, but masked statements: “Someone who’s black (and therefore ‘dangerous’) can’t be qualified to be president.” “Someone with the middle name of Hussein (who therefore must be supportive of terrorism) is un-American and can’t be trusted to be the president.”
Voters must be alert to understand the subliminal message behind McCain and Palin’s ugly rhetoric. Let’s be vigilant, so that we won’t be susceptible to being misled by it.

Posted by: Mike, Philadelphia | October 10, 2008, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm

HP – Texas is historically a Democratic state, ESPECIALLY the farmers and ranchers. Do you remember Sam Rayburn and LBJ? And voters in Texas are a religious bunch who don’t really like unrepentant adulterers and people who marry their money rather than earn it like McCain. And a funny thing happened in the midterm elections in 2006. The voters in Dallas county threw out every Republican in office. Every. Single. One. From district attorney to dog catcher. Up until 2006 Dallas County had voted Republican. Don’t count on winning Texas.

Posted by: Chris in Texas | October 10, 2008, 12:51 pm 12:51 pm

Cindy McCain,
The chill down your spine that you felt when Obama voted on a war bill but you somehow didn’t experience when your husband John did the same….I think maybe that was you withdrawing from your Rx drugs. I think you should take a lesson from Michele Obama and just take the high road. You have too much of a hx to be throwing stones!

Posted by: hwd | October 10, 2008, 12:54 pm 12:54 pm

“Regarding McCain’s involvement with Keating:
http://washingtontimes.com/weblogs/trail-times/2008/Oct/09/mccain-and-keating-till-death-do-us-part-1/
Is McCain a closet homosexual?
Posted by: Arrecho | Oct 10, 2008 12:20:37 PM”
Yeah, that’s sound kind of guy really close to each other to me. Hummm, but this is private life, OK?

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm

boycott all McCain that is Cindy McCain’s family business products. Maybe this will give her even a colder chill down her back. At least temporarily
BOYCOTT BUSCH BEER AND DRINK their competitors products which are: Molson, Miller, Heineken and Coors.

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm

Shamelessly, McCain and Palin exhibit their racism and xenophobia when they ask, “Who is Barack Obama?” “What do we really know about him?”
If you are friends with radicals and terrorists then you must sympathize with them and their causes?

Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 12:59 pm 12:59 pm

Hey George…..stop supporting the
chicago street organizer…….
Be neutral George….you’re a news
repotrer……

Posted by: Nicholas | October 10, 2008, 1:02 pm 1:02 pm

Chris from Texas–you rock.

Posted by: Sarah | October 10, 2008, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm

poor McCain, he miss the election in 2000 because of South Carolina and the Bush/Rove machiavelic plan linking him to have adopted a colored child and know he is missing the presidency because a black guy that nobody knows five years ago. Darn!

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm

Lets face it, McCain has a clue. He doesn’t want the job!! picking an unknown for VP, pulling out of Michigan, stopping his campain to work on a budget deal… the list is endless.

Posted by: Face it | October 10, 2008, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm

Mack, your retort lacks logic. First, it is McCain’s ASSUMPTION (a self-serving one) that Obama is “friends with terrorists.” Second, even if he were, McCain and Palin’s baiting is still a racist and xenophobic ploy. Lucky for them, this country is home to a lot of emotion-driven, prejudiced, gullible, and stupid citizens.

Posted by: Mike, Philadelphia | October 10, 2008, 1:07 pm 1:07 pm

” Said farmers would stick a pole up his rear and use him as a scarecrow”
No bird would be afraid of an Obama scarecrow. They eat more than girlie man does.

Posted by: geevill | October 10, 2008, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm

Did you know: the names Bristol and Piper and the modern-day equivalents of BamBam and Pebbles. Yep, and they lived with dinosaurs. Yep, and dumb Sarah believes that.

Posted by: Barney Rubble | October 10, 2008, 1:11 pm 1:11 pm

I know you liberals hate Sarah Palin. But look at the bright side. If she wins, we’ll finally have a vice president who’s edible.

Posted by: Alaskan Trooper | October 10, 2008, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm

science, this true, were is Bridget in the picture.

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm

Face it–except that McCain’s bizarre gesture of “stopping” his campaign to work on the bailout deal was a farce from start to finish. He claims now that discussions were at a standstill until he stepped in–completely, provably untrue. He came back to Washington and apparently made some phone calls and then sat at the meetings and said virtually nothing. End result? Zero. The Republicans bailed on the bill. A day later he was back on the campaign–debating despite his vow NOT to debate until the bill had passed. And now he’s claiming to somehow have saved the day. Ridiculous showboating and silly lies, all from someone who loves deregulation the way his wife loves Vicodin and who claims not to know much about economics. That’s the kind of phony, useless “leadership” we don’t need.

Posted by: Sarah | October 10, 2008, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm

hwd – I agree with you. Cindy McCain should not throw darts at Obama. Dirty shots…If Obama switch place with you for one day…he’d liquidate all your assets, keep one house, one car and help bail out the economy and end the war so you’ll have your son back home.

Posted by: Aurora Fam | October 10, 2008, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm

‘I know you liberals hate Sarah Palin. But look at the bright side. If she wins, we’ll finally have a vice president who’s edible.
Posted by: Alaskan Trooper | Oct 10, 2008 1:14:14 PM”
The big problem is that we cannot look at the bright side when listening to her. :-[]

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm

Evidently for Senator McCain
The end justifies the mean. (left the s off on purpose)
I don’t want to know what happened 40 years ago when 1000′s were protesting the war (and Obama was a child).
Obama has been in the senate for quite some time now. If McCain really thought he was some sort of true terrorist threat, what was McCain doing all those years? Why wasn’t he stepping up to protect us all from this “threat” and “danger” Why did he let us be exposed to such a dangerous person and do nothing???
Because there wasn’t any danger and there isn’t any danger, and its all a bunch of hoo hah
This isn’t any way to run a campaign.
It won’t be any way to run a country.
Don’t ya just wish you could say “stop” and all the lies and gargage would stop>

Posted by: Marli | October 10, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm

Corruption Alert!
Acorn offices have been found vacant in many states as voter fraudulent registrations are being uncovered each day. No comments to the press and no explanations to the thousands of fraudulant registrations.
Obama contributed 800,000 in funds to Acorn during the primary to help drive voter registration and Pelosi and Harry Reid funneled over 400 million as pork added to the 700 billion dollar bailout plan to Acorn just weeks ago. Why are Obama, Pelosi and Reid funding this corrupt organization so much money in the past year for voter registrations?
I fear we are looking at the most dangerous type of corruption unfolding in front of our eyes. Each fraudulant vote cancels out a legitimate vote. This corruption could proved to be orchestrated from the very top as big dollars have been poured into Acorn by Obama, Pelosi and Reid.
The whole democratic voting rights we have in this country is at stake. Corrupt politicians are aiming not to only score party points but are willing to rip the very integrity fabric of the voting process apart in their hunger for power!
Open your eyes! save yourselves! we are witnessing an incredible coup of our governement even as we speak!

Posted by: James | October 10, 2008, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm

Sarah Palin lecturing Joe Biden on patriotism? Your son enlisted to avoid jail time. How’s that for patriotism.

Posted by: Aurora Fam | October 10, 2008, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm

Have you realized that the bailout hasn’t wotked…. the marketis reacting to a possible Obama win….. tax increases?????? Everyone is selling before they get hit by BIG TAXES…
LOOK OUT AMERICA!

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm

Trooper–a lot of conservatives are embarassed beyond belief at the thought of Sarah Palin in the White House and unfortunately for John McCain, it’s not just the “Georgetown cocktail party” folks (again, as if he’s some man of the people and not the king of the Georgetown cocktail party). William F. Buckley must be spinning in his grave–I think even Reagan would have a hard time accepting that someone with such a limited world-view and dim intellect. We liberals just assumed somehow that GWB was the bottom of the barrel, but hey–congrats. You found someone even more simple-minded, with a weathergirl smile and a sly, fascinating mean streak. Granted, she is a purty lady and Piper Palin is surely the cutest kid ever to grace a TV screen. But sorry–she’s just not presidential material.

Posted by: Sarah | October 10, 2008, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm

Biden’s colossal lie. You know, the one where he went on multi-national TV (various times, REPEATEDLY) and accused someone of killing his wife and daughter when the truth was his wife was distracted by all the kids in the car and was driving recklessly when she crossed the center lines into the path of a SEMI?
Remember that?
Biden throws around the term “the bottom line is…”
The bottom line, Biden, is that you purposefully ruined another man and his whole family’s lives just because a)you wanted to further your career; b) you couldn’t deal with your grief and decided to throw someone else under the bus so you could feel better about yourself and your loss(es); or, c) you didn’t want your boys to think badly of their dead mother so you decided to have someone else(s) wrongly, think badly of their father instead.
I don’t care what his reasoning was, someone like that has no business being the face, be it #2 face, of this country.
Tears, tears, tears…yes, losing someone is tough. Ask my mom who watched her 6 yr old sister get run over by a REAL drunk driver in front of her house. Ask my grandma who ran out into the street to find her 12 and 10 yr old daughters, bloody, carrying the dead body of her 6 yr old.
Better yet, if you want to know about loss and tears, ask the family of Curtis Dunn. He was the driver. Ask his daughter how her father could NEVER celebrate Christmas after that accident. Ask her how he would cry at the memory. Ask her how it feels to see someone of (supposed) distinction attacking her dead father.
Maybe Curtis Dunn’s daughter should run for office and go on TV with tears in her eyes and accuse Biden’s dead wife of being careless when she decided to jump in front of her dad…she should then turn on some more tears and use some emotive words to garner some sympathy…worked for Biden, but at least Dunn’s daughter’s story would be LEGIT.
I can’t, in good conscience, vote for a ticket bearing the name of someone without a conscience.

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm

WHERE’S HILLARY? SHE TRIED TO ASSOCIATES OBAMA WITH AYERS!
You listened to her then?

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

McShame needs to put his country first and retire before senility completely sets in.
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm

Why did McCain address a crowd as my fellow prisoners???

Posted by: erin | October 10, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

That is the first sign of senility. Dementia is setting in.
That happens with old people.
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm

I TRULY THOUGHT AMERICANS WERE SMARTER!
How can you be so guliable, don’t you see socialized medicine, education reform Ayers style, energy reform… ride your bike! If we loose our economic freedom we have no demcracy!

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm

Is McCain endangering Obama? A sensible blogger on swamppolitics.com had this to say regarding the turn of McCain’s campaign now that he is losing in the polls. “There was always going to be a point of revolt and panic for a core group of Americans who believe that Obama simply cannot be president — because he’s black or liberal or young or relatively new. This is that point. As the polls suggest a strong victory, the Hannity-Limbaugh-Steyn-O’Reilly base are going into shock and extreme rage. McCain and Palin have decided to stoke this rage, to foment it, to encourage paranoid notions that somehow Obama is a “secret” terrorist or Islamist or foreigner. These are base emotions in both sense of the word. But they are also very very dangerous. This is a moment of maximal physical danger for the young Democratic nominee. And McCain is playing with fire. If he really wants to put country first, he will attack Obama on his policies — not on these inflammatory, personal, creepy grounds. This is getting close to the atmosphere stoked by the Israeli far right before the assassination of Rabin. For God’s sake, McCain, stop it. For once in this campaign, put your country first. ” I couldn’t agree more.

Posted by: UnConvinced | October 10, 2008, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm

I too thought americans were smarter 8 years ago, but instead they voted for bush and the republicans, and now the country is hanging by a thread.
We aren’t falling for the scare tactics that you and the republicans push. The country is going to move forward by pushing the republicans out of the way.
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm

Nicolas127, you had better get your investments and go to Germany or something. Obama is going to win and then he is going to take all the money out of your bank account and give it to street bums and come after you and terrorize you. He’s a dangerous black terrorist you know. Just ask John and Sarah. And those poor people who might get health care should realize that health care is only useful if it’s provided in an extreme, over the top, greed-driven, capitalist country with no regulation. If they understood that, I’m sure they would be happy to suffer and die young.

Posted by: ScaredofMyShadow | October 10, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

Nicolas127, you should listen to ScaerdofMyShadow, and grab what ever investments that you have left and go to Germany. This country is going to change for the better, and we do not need doomsayers like yourself in the way.
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 1:54 pm 1:54 pm

science – your an idiot. Bridget is at school in arizona, the ‘blonde’ daughter is Megan and she works on the mccain campaign and has her own blog. why arent you also horrified that the other 2 mccain sons dont follow him around. You libs try to invoke race into everything.

Posted by: Louise | October 10, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

You DO deserve….. Nancy, Dodd, Schumer and Obama all wrapped in one!I will take my money and go to Burundi! get ready to be taxed to the max!

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

I just learned that Obama has a secret plan to take over the banks (kind of like what Bush just did) and elecronically take all the money out of all accounts (brokerage accounts too) and transfer it to Bin Laden with help from Ayers, so this entire country will be bankrupt and destitute, and the terrorists will have all the money. Also, he’s going to kill all the doctors (yes, not the lawyers) so we will all have equal health care: NONE. He’s scary. He’s the devil. Haven’t you noticed? HE’S BLACK!!!!!! His middle name is HUSSEIN! There! That’s proof. We can’t let this happen! I am SERIOUS! THE SKY IS FALLING!

Posted by: Chicken Little | October 10, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

My friend, John McCain says he has a plan to fix the economy, fix health care and get Osama. My friend, I would say to John “Quit holding out on us” we need your plan now!! If it works you have my vote, otherwise I consider what you are feeding us is just a bunch of BS. John, my friend, get off this mud wagon and on what is important to all of us!!

Posted by: LANNY EDWARDS | October 10, 2008, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm

For all of you who voted for bush, you got the government that you deserved! Only an idiot could have voted for that moron, and now you want to vote for more of the same. If you voted for bush, your right to vote should be taken away. You obviously are either motivated by fear, or greed.
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm

The problem is he DID agree with those folks, or at least accept them, until his agreement cast a negative light on his presidential endeavor…
If he can backtrack on his personal acquaintances, who’s to say he won’t do the same with any (or all) of the issues on his platform?
McCain was chastised for picking a nobody but a nobody is better than someone with a complete lack of morals and ethics (AKA Captain defamer himself, Biden).

Posted by: n | October 10, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm

All the pieces are falling into place, Ayers, Rezko, Rev. Wright and now on the front page of the Washingtimes
Obama tried to sway Iraqis on Bush deal
In private conversations on troop presence, candidate pitched delay
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/10/obama-sought-to-sway-iraqis-on-bush-deal/

Posted by: emma | October 10, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm

For all of you who voted for bush, you got the government that you deserved! Only an idiot could have voted for that moron, and now you want to vote for more of the same. If you voted for bush, your right to vote should be taken away. You obviously are either motivated by fear, or greed.
President Obama! Get used to it!
Posted by: Independent realist | Oct 10, 2008 2:00:58 PM
George Bush has been in office for 7 1/2 years. The first six the economy was fine.
A little over one year ago :
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) the unemployment rate was 4.5%.
4) the DOW JONES hit a record high–14,000 +
5) American’s were buying new cars, taking cruises, vacations overseas, living large!…
But American’s wanted ‘CHANGE’! So, in 2006 they voted in a Democratic Congress and yes–we got ‘CHANGE’ all right. In the PAST YEAR:
1) Consumer confidence has plummeted ;
2) Gasoline is now over $4 a gallon & climbing!;
3) Unemployment is up to 5.5% (a 10% increas e);
4) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $12 TRILLION DOLLARS and prices still dropping;
5) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure, with no indication that the trend will reverse any time soon. In fact, many sub-prime ARMs are just getting to their “re-set” point…the carnage will continue.
6) THE DOW is probing another low~~ $2.5 TRILLION DOLLARS HAS EVAPORATED FROM THEIR STOCKS, BONDS & MUTUAL FUNDS INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS!
7) Do we need to be reminded that the roots of the sub-prime debacle can be traced BACK to the Clinton Administration?
8) Do we need to be reminded that it was during the Carter and Clinton Administrations that we began to turn our backs on Israel?
YES, IN 2006 AMERICA VOTED FOR CHANGE…AND WE SURE GOT IT! …
REMEMBER THE PRESIDENT HAS NO CONTROL OVER ANY OF THESE ISSUES, ONLY CONGRESS.
AND WHAT HAS CONGRESS DONE IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
NOW THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT CLAIMS HE IS GOING TO REALLY GIVE US CHANGE ALONG WITH A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS!!!!
WHAT HAS NANCY, DODD, SCHUMER DONE FOR YOU!
JUST HOW MUCH MORE ‘CHANGE’ DO YOU THINK YOU CAN STAND?

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm

n:Morals?
McCain who cheated on his wife with millionare bimbo Cindy, now theres a real proof of ‘moral fibre’.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 10, 2008, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm

Sen. Obama Proposes Draining Great Lakes! *wink* Sen. Obama Once Played With Child Who Ate Worm! *wink* Sen. Obama Showers Naked! Folks, that’s all Sen. McCain has…trying to stir up fake hysteria. Sen. McCain…the real, true, financial calamity is what’s on our collective mind. We don’t need more of your grandstanding, hysteria or publicity stunts.

Posted by: Leslie M | October 10, 2008, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm

HE DIDN’T CHEAT! YOU LOVE TO SPIN THAT LIE…… HE DID ADMIT THOUGHT TO LEAVING HIS WIFE! HW HAS OWNED UP TO HIS MISTAKES.

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 2:07 pm 2:07 pm

Sen. Obama Proposes Draining Great Lakes! *wink* Sen. Obama Once Played With Child Who Ate Worm! *wink* Sen. Obama Showers Naked! Folks, that’s all Sen. McCain has…trying to stir up fake hysteria. Sen. McCain…the real, true, financial calamity is what’s on our collective mind. We don’t need more of your grandstanding, hysteria or publicity stunts.
Posted by: Leslie M | Oct 10, 2008 2:06:55 PM
Leslie,
here’s fake histeria for you;
http://justsaynodeal.com/acorn.html

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm

What a bunch of Republican Baloney! The Democratic controlled congress could get nothing done because of Bush vetoes and Republican senate filibusters. We got NO change. The fault of this economic disaster lies totally with the Republicans. Bush vetoed EVERYTHING the congress tried to do to help us. This is one of the big myths that the Republicans want to push to cover their tracks, but most Americans AREN’T BUYING IT THIS TIME.

Posted by: Loki | October 10, 2008, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm

Nicholas127, I just have one response: 5,000 boys dead for no reason other than to assuage the ego of the biggest dolt the world has ever seen at the head of a free country. 5,000 dead. No reason. Would they say, “it was worth it to sacrifice “for my country?” We’ll never know cuz they’r fuuckin’ DEAD. For no reason. George and his Christian buddies might recognize that Jesus is about to throw the moneychangers out of the temple. They have defiled “my father’s house.” They have defiled “our fathers’ country.” Good riddance to to that gutter scum, and with a little luck his cowardly follower (McCain) (yes, coward. Don’t give me any POW shiit. He has his girls (Cindy and Sarah) do the real dirty work) can go await death in one of his 7 houses. If he can find them (unlike his inability to find his way back to his debate chair becuase of his alzheimer’s-like dottering around).

Posted by: CanYouTellIHateBush&McCain? | October 10, 2008, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm

sisterdearest09 You don’t care Acorn is commiting fraud and stealing votes? Must be a sad day for you to accept.Don’t you know this is a right and privilege we all have and deserve no matter who our choice is. But we all expect the Presidential election process to be fair, accurate and honest.And not for Acorn to falsify records and steal votes for their candidate. No matter who is running. Why doesn’t Obama announce in his speeches he opposes this and tell his followers this is not the AMERICAN WAY.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 10, 2008, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm

Loki, Don’t blame Bush! The Staock market is reacting NO OBAMA…..no more taxes…..

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 2:16 pm 2:16 pm

Btw personally I believe McCain who already has one foot in the grave wont make it to election day. He’ll have a stroke leaving him a drewling vegetable. Havent you noticed in recent photos he has this wierd stare and confused look?

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 10, 2008, 2:17 pm 2:17 pm

Nicholas127, do you think maybe he boinked Cindy while he was married to his wife? That’s cheating. If he says he didn’t, he can join the Bill Clinton “I didn’t inhale” club and the Sarah Palin “I watched the Saturday Night Live comedy show with the sound off” club. Ha! Now he’s after Sarah’s skirt.

Posted by: DirtyOldManMcCain | October 10, 2008, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm

CanYouTellIHateBush&McCain?, it is unfortunate that we have lost Brave Men and Women… not “boys” and it has cost 700B as stated in the last debate by Obama.
But we now had to commit to 700B too to bailout all those cheaters, liars, thieves… in the Mortage Industry. Including OBAMA….the 2nd largest recipient of Freddy &
Fannie cash,

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm

“McCain needs a plan”??? McCain needs a shot of Geritol and a good nursing home.

Posted by: Lily Bell | October 10, 2008, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm

Nicolas127 if you want no more taxes how can you approve of McCains 300 billion dollar bailout plan to buy mortgages at FACE VALUE? Banks make the profits while tax payers picks up the bill.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 10, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

You bush voters keep trying to tell us that President Obama will be raising our taxes, but you never talk about the 477 times MsShame has voted to raise our taxes. 106 times in 2005 alone!
Why are you not speaking about this?
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

The first largest recipient was McCain

Posted by: Loki | October 10, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

I love how yall change your user name to women! You really want folks to believe Obama is going to win…. HE”S NOT FOLKS SEE THE LIGHT. Bubba bubba

Posted by: n | October 10, 2008, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm

You have the nerve to bring up cash from Freddy and Fannie, but yet McShame’s closest aid has been on their payroll for years up to a month ago. I bet you have some crazy excuse for that too.

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm

Loki, In fact the first was Schumers gay lover! Which is now home scrapbooking.

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm

Speaking of gay lovers, how many republicans have been caught with their pants down while picking up young men?

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm

Independent realist, No he’s owned up to it! NOT OBAMA…. he onws up to nothing, he’s done nothing.

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm

It’s not safe going into an airport restroom any more. There might be a republican in the next stall!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm

Michelle I don’ know up until Two Years ago all my friends and neighbors were smiling, buying cars, remodeling their homes, going on vacations stock market was doing fine. Just seems to me things were better before Obama announced his candidacy. And if you want to deny y everybody wasn’t better off financially TWO YEARS ago, you go right ahead. I know I was much better off. H… I was better off two weeks ago before Obama got so ahead in the polls.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 10, 2008, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm

McShame has not owned up to anything. He just throws mud and lies like a rug.

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm

reddog: “The mortgage problem caused by give give give to unworthy credit risks.”
I don’t agree. The mortgage problem started with the blurring of lines between banks and investment banks.
This first got investors thinking about new and creative ways they could profit from the realestate boom and then infused the realestate lending industry with a new, previously unseen level of profit motive.
The result – extend as many loans as possible, while diminishing cash reserves. Sell loans on the basis of rates being cheap, and also on the basis of using all sorts of new products tied to varying indices (i.e., an explosion of adjustable products) with the final pitch of:
“Hey, don’t worry about the balloon payment, because as the value of the house goes up, you can just refinance again in three years.”
But much like the dot-com thing, it works fine as long as you aren’t the guy holding the hot potato when the music stops and home properties stop going up.
And because of the explosion of mortgage backed securities, the collapse threatens to pull down much more than just the industries traditionally associated.
I’m not sure out of all of this, we can really differentiate any class distinction in blame – there’s a lot of middle class and even upper class folks who suddenly find themselves with properties they can’t afford to sell and can’t afford to keep.
Posted by: Paul | Oct 10, 2008 12:17:24 PM
Yes the creative financing was done but I kinda look at it like this and maybe it is way to simplistic the ones who supplied the loans were fannie and freddie they were willing to push the finnancing to people which then caused the increase in home valuation because the market had a ton of new buyers.When the new buyers came along they drove the prices up Supply and demand right?I am not blaming the poor or the middle class. I am blaming the fact that these products were made available to people who did not deserve them.Where in all of this is personal responsibilty do you live in a home that you can not afford ,drive a car that you can not afford.I work in an area where people drive bmws,caddilacs,infinitis,lexus then when its time for there car to be serviced they cant afford to even buy a tire on the car.People with car steros and rims that out vaule the car that live in trailers crying how unfair life is. That they cant get somewhere in life
It is sad that people feel the goverment owes them something.We were given the right to pursue happiness not guarnateed anything more than that

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 10, 2008, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm

2 years ago people were yanking money out of their home equity, and now they are paying for it. You can always tell a republican, they will blame everyone else.
President Obama! Getused to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm

Independent realist, spin baby spin…. I hope he pays well!

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm

Nicolas–get the facts. Obama got more money from Fannie and Freddie EMPLOYEES–$126K to McCain’s $21K. When you factor in contributions from Fannie and Freddie directors and lobbyists, McCain blows him out of the water–$169K to Obama’s $16K. And who do you think controls the decision-making–the employees, or the directors and lobbyists?
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/19/fact-check-did-obama-profit-from-fannie-and-freddie/

Posted by: Sarah | October 10, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm

Nicholas127, therein may lie a fundamental difference b/t the candidates. The loss of 5,000 young men and women is not just “unfortunate.” It is an outrageous and infuriating scandal that cannot be defended or justified by any reason whatsoever, and if Bush et al truly believe that God is just they should be quaking in their boots because justice will be meted out to them. To me, I don’t give a god-damn what your economic policies are. If you decide that God wants you to start a war (that’s what Bush said, and that’s what Palin said), then you lack any judgment or trustworthiness whatsoever, and you don’t deserve to be elected to the White House. I would gladly trade in my investments if it would bring those 5,000 young people back, who died in vain even though their parents could not be expected to accept that characterization because it is too painful. Sadly, it is accurate. While Obama is espousing certain economic policies (good or bad, it will always be debated) the fact is that, unlike McCain and Palin, he and Biden truly give a shiit about PEOPLE more than they care about MONEY. And for that reason, he’s the best candidate. And, unlike McCain, Obama offers the only chance of restoring this defiled country and its trashed constitution to respectability so that we will have some hope of getting along with others in the world to the end that peace might one day prevail, impossible as that seems now and impossible as it was with Bush and would be with McCain.

Posted by: CanYouTellIHateBush&McCain? | October 10, 2008, 2:36 pm 2:36 pm

Nicolas–get the facts. Obama got more money from Fannie and Freddie EMPLOYEES–$126K to McCain’s $21K. When you factor in contributions from Fannie and Freddie directors and lobbyists, McCain blows him out of the water–$169K to Obama’s $16K. And who do you think controls the decision-making–the employees, or the directors and lobbyists?
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/19/fact-check-did-obama-profit-from-fannie-and-freddie/
Posted by: Sarah | Oct 10, 2008 2:35:36 PM
How about the fact McCain tried to regulate and even co-sponsored a bill on fannie and freddie and was blocked by DEMOCRATS oh and barney frank who was having a realationship with a top official at fannie mae

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 10, 2008, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm

Posted by: quirky shirts | October 10, 2008, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm

Democrats with out a doubt caused the fannie and freddie bail out!!!!!Which caused a domino effect

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 10, 2008, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm

And this is surely the funniest post I’ve read all day–are you for real?
“Michelle I don’ know up until Two Years ago all my friends and neighbors were smiling, buying cars, remodeling their homes, going on vacations stock market was doing fine. Just seems to me things were better before Obama announced his candidacy. And if you want to deny y everybody wasn’t better off financially TWO YEARS ago, you go right ahead. I know I was much better off. H… I was better off two weeks ago before Obama got so ahead in the polls.”
Wow–you’re right! It’s all Obama’s fault! And here I thought that things started going downhill when Lindsay Lohan decided that she was gay. That was really when the economic bubble burst as far as I can tell. Hmmm–didn’t “The Office” start airing two years ago? Maybe that’s it!
Get real. I don’t think your smiley friends were paying cash for those houses and cars. Borrow, borrow, borrow or heck–just put it on the credit card.

Posted by: Sarah | October 10, 2008, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm

joeshmoe Fixed rate 30 year mortgages to good credit, income verified, job verified, living in the house and have hd to put down payment. Lets do it get these hoes settled give an affordable fixed rate and sit back and collect thirty years of interest on these mortgages. The financial institutions aren’t doing a thing but manipulating and holding us all hostage. We can’t afford to wait to see what there actual plan is.And they are not cooperating. So lets move on and then bring them all into court and prosecute. Along with Chris Dodd and Barney Frank.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 10, 2008, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm

CanYouTellIHateBush&McCain, please don’t tell me about Biden….
Biden’s colossal lie. You know, the one where he went on multi-national TV (various times, REPEATEDLY) and accused someone of killing his wife and daughter when the truth was his wife was distracted by all the kids in the car and was driving recklessly when she crossed the center lines into the path of a SEMI?
Remember that?
Biden throws around the term “the bottom line is…”
The bottom line, Biden, is that you purposefully ruined another man and his whole family’s lives just because a)you wanted to further your career; b) you couldn’t deal with your grief and decided to throw someone else under the bus so you could feel better about yourself and your loss(es); or, c) you didn’t want your boys to think badly of their dead mother so you decided to have someone else(s) wrongly, think badly of their father instead.
I don’t care what his reasoning was, someone like that has no business being the face, be it #2 face, of this country.
Tears, tears, tears…yes, losing someone is tough. Ask my mom who watched her 6 yr old sister get run over by a REAL drunk driver in front of her house. Ask my grandma who ran out into the street to find her 12 and 10 yr old daughters, bloody, carrying the dead body of her 6 yr old.
Better yet, if you want to know about loss and tears, ask the family of Curtis Dunn. He was the driver. Ask his daughter how her father could NEVER celebrate Christmas after that accident. Ask her how he would cry at the memory. Ask her how it feels to see someone of (supposed) distinction attacking her dead father.
Maybe Curtis Dunn’s daughter should run for office and go on TV with tears in her eyes and accuse Biden’s dead wife of being careless when she decided to jump in front of her dad…she should then turn on some more tears and use some emotive words to garner some sympathy…worked for Biden, but at least Dunn’s daughter’s story would be LEGIT.
I can’t, in good conscience, vote for a ticket bearing the name of someone without a conscience.

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm

Nicolas127, I’m sure none of theme have the honesty of a boy scout. You avoid my actual point, which is that Obama and Biden care about the working class and poor, whereas McCain and Palin don’t. I not going to waste my time debating people who can’t stick to the actual points but rather need to pounce on subsidiary issues ad nauseum. I am signing off.

Posted by: CanYouTellIHateBush&McCain? | October 10, 2008, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm

Sarah Glad i could give you agood laugh. Gee for 5 years now I have paid cash for two cars, paid $38,000. to my sons Hofstra tuition last year (probably so your kid could get government loans) And so far $21,000. cash to Hofstra for this semester. And very little credit card debt. And a 780 credit score. Now how did I do this?I sold stock I owned and paid my 15% capital gain tax(soon to go up with Obama) And I am not rich just middle class who knows it is my responsbility to provide for my family. And I don’t mind making sacrifices along the way.I even gave $2,000.00 to chaarited.(unlike Bidens $300.00) And yes I was smiling the past 5 years till Obama got elected.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 10, 2008, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm

Posted by: miles1967 | October 10, 2008, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm

conf1689, why would you pay that kind of money to a private university? In my experience, having to pay full tuition at a private school means the applicant’s academics weren’t strong enough to get any real scholarships. I had the same situation with my son, so we sent him to a state university, a very good one. I actually could have paid the private school tuition, but what’s the point?

Posted by: PubSchoolParent | October 10, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm

What is “Republican Logic”? It must be an oxy-moron.

Posted by: Larry Linn | October 10, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm

Sarah things also started going wrong when she endorsed Obama along with Paris Hilton and Madonna.
Also a better fact check for candidate donations is Opensecrets.org
Even the non profit organizations donate to the democrats.Guess my donations to non profit organizations will be zero. if they have money to donate to a political party they don’t need my CASH.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 10, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm

John and Cindy McCain’s Organized Crime Connections: John McCain’s personal fortune traces back to organized crime in Arizona, through his father-in-law, according to a report published by a multi-news agency team called Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. IRE reporters Amy Silverman and John Doherty, writing in the Phoenix New Times, noted that the father of McCain’s wife, James Hensley, was convicted by a federal jury in U.S. District Court of Arizona in March 1948 on seven counts of filing false liquor records. Hensley also was charged with conspiracy to hide from federal authorities the names of persons involved in a liquor industry racket with two companies he managed, United Sales Company in Phoenix and United Distributors in Tucson. The umbrella company, United Liquor, at that time held a monopoly in Arizona, organized and managed by Kemper Marley, who was accused of mob ties by a reporter who was murdered in 1977.Silverman and Doherty report that by 1955, Hensley had launched a Budweiser distributorship in Phoenix, “a franchise reportedly bestowed upon him by Marley, who was never indicted in the 1948 liquor-law-violation case – or a subsequent one – despite his controlling role in the liquor distribution businesses. “According to Marley’s longtime public relations man, Al Lizanetz, the Marley liquor empire was founded by the Bronfman family dynasty of Canada which operated Allied Finance Company, Northern Export Company and Distillers Corporation – the Seagrams, Ltd. empire.As chronicled by the “Rumrunners and Prohibition” video shown popularly on the History Channel, during the 1920s, the Bronfman family made millions in bootlegging, accounting for half the illegal liquor crossing the border, working in a profitable distribution deal with the infamous mobster Meyer Lansky, who later moved on to establish the crime syndicates in the casinos of Havana, Cuba, in the 1940s and 50s. Arizona in the 1970s drew a “who’s who” of organized crime figures seeking to retire in the sun, including Rochester, N.Y., mob boss Joe Bonanno, who spent his last days along the Lake Havasu shores and in a quiet home in Tucson.In 1977, after Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles was killed when his car was blown up by the mob in a parking lot, a team of 36 journalists from 27 news organizations, known as IRE, published an 80,000 word 23-part series on organized crime in Arizona. Dan Nowicki and Bill Muller, reporting in the Arizona Republic March 1, 2007, documented that in 1953, Hensley was again charged with falsifying records at Marley’s liquor firms. Hensley was found not guilty after being defended by William Rehnquist, the future chief justice of the Supreme Court, Nowicki and Muller wrote.In 2000, Hensley, then 80 years old, still controlled the Budweiser distributorship valued as a $200 million-a-year business, with annual sales of more than 20 million cases of beer. On Feb. 17, 2000, Pat Flannery reported in the Arizona Republic that Hensley’s beer-distribution empire was the fifth largest in the nation, “a Budweiser franchise whose bigwigs hold the No. 2 spot on Sen. John McCain’s all-time career list of corporate donors. “Since 1982, according to the Center for Public Integrity, Hensley & Co. officials have pumped $80,000 into the campaigns of McCain, Flannery wrote. More than a quarter of that has been donated since 1997. Flannery further reported that in 2000, Cindy Hensley McCain, the senator’s wife, held a 37.18 percent financial interest in her father’s Budweiser distributorship, although she was not involved in day-to-day operations. The McCain’s four children held a combined 23.55 percent interest, though their interests were at that time held in trust. Arizona crime connections again surfaced in the 1980s when McCain was implicated as one of the five U.S. senators named in the “Keating Five” scandal.Charles Keating Jr. and his associates paid McCain some $112,000 in political campaign contributions between 1982 and 1987, while Keating was organizing a massive real estate fraud in the then FDIC federally insured Lincoln Savings and Loan Association. In April 1986, McCain’s wife and father-in-law also invested $359,000 in a Keating shopping center, before the savings and loan scandal broke. Keating was sent to prison under civil racketeering and fraud charges for the $1.1 billion loss the investment scheme cost the public, although McCain and the other U.S. senators involved managed to avoid charges in the Senate, with McCain receiving only an Ethics Committee rebuke for exercising “poor judgment. “Even today, McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign staff includes several prominent lobbyists, despite the senator’s claim to be a campaign reform crusader whose goal is to take money out of politics. WND previously reported McCain’s 2000 and 2008 campaign manager Rick Davis took a six-figure salary as president of the Soros-funded Reform Institute in the intervening years and managed his own lobby firm of Davis, Manafort & Freeman in Alexandria, Va., operating at the same building in a suite down the hall from the Reform Institute.In 2003 and 2004, Davis apparently solicited CSC Holdings, a subsidiary of the Cablevision Systems Corporation, headed by Charles F. Dolan, to make two separate $100,000 contributions to the Reform Institute.In between the two separate $100,000 contributions Cablevision made to the Reform Institute, McCain, then chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, wrote a letter to the Federal Communications Commission supporting Cablevision’s desire to continue packaging customer TV programming in a manner more profitable to Cablevision.In this period of time, McCain worked with Vicki Iseman, a lobbyist representing telecommunications companies, including Cablevision.WND also reported Davis arranged a 2006 meeting with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska in Davos, Switzerland, a close supporter of Russian president Vladimir Putin.McCain repeatedly has voiced opposition to Putin, even calling on President Bush to suspend Russia’s membership in the Group of Eight. In 2007, the U.S. State Department cancelled Deripaska’s visa over continuing concerns he remained connected with the Russian mafia.

Posted by: Jane Sixpack | October 10, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm

Pubschoolparent To be honest and quick my son applied to Emmanuel, Salve Regina, Arcadia and Umass Amherst (our stste Colege)Guess which was the only one he didn’t get accepted at.His academics were very strong not amazing but good enough for 4 out of 5. And he did get a small merit scholarship from Hofstra.Don’t even get me started on the theory I have about Umass not accepting him, but I think it may have something to do with he was coming out of a Catholic school not Public.Just one more unfair thing for the middle class in the state of Massachusetts. And I paid cash because the loan offerings were ridiculous. Why pay all that interest? If Umass accepted him I would have been as smart as you and sent him.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 10, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm

McCain’s problems have everything to do with McCain’s history: His connections with organized crime, his wife Cindy’s criminal past as a drug addict, and his connections with domestic terrorists like Gordon Liddy.
How close are John McCain and Gordon Liddy (a convicted criminal and an advocate of domestic terrorism)? Far closer than Obama and Ayers ever were or will be. In 1998, Liddy’s home was the site of a McCain fundraiser. Over the years, he has made at least four contributions totaling $5,000 to the senator’s campaigns — including $1,000 this year.Last November, McCain went on Gordon Liddy’s radio show. Liddy greeted him as “an old friend,” and McCain sounded like one. “I’m proud of you, I’m proud of your family,” he gushed. “It’s always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great.”Which principles would those be? The ones that told Liddy it was fine to break into the office of the Democratic National Committee to plant bugs and photograph documents? The ones that made him propose to kidnap anti-war activists so they couldn’t disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention? The ones that inspired him to plan the murder (fortunately never carried out) of an unfriendly newspaper columnist?Liddy was in the thick of the biggest political scandal in American history — and one of the greatest threats to the rule of law. He has said he has no regrets about what he did, insisting that he went to jail as “a prisoner of war.”All this may sound like ancient history. But it’s from the same era as the bombings Ayers helped carry out as a member of the Weather Underground. And Liddy’s penchant for extreme solutions has not abated.In 1994, after the disastrous federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, he gave some advice to his listeners: “Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they’re going to be wearing bulletproof vests. … Kill the sons of ####.”He later backed off, saying he meant merely that people should defend themselves if federal agents came with guns blazing. But his amended guidance was not exactly conciliatory: Liddy also said he should have recommended shots to the groin instead of the head. If that wasn’t enough to inflame any nut cases, he mentioned labeling targets “Bill” and “Hillary” when he practiced shooting.Given Liddy’s record, it’s hard to see why McCain would touch him with a 10-foot pole. On the contrary, he should be returning his donations and shunning his show. Yet the senator shows no qualms about associating with Liddy — or celebrating his service to their common cause.How does McCain explain his howling hypocrisy on the subject? And what about McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin with her own connections to domestic terrorism?

Posted by: Jane Sixpack | October 10, 2008, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm

I just learned that Obama … His middle name is HUSSEIN! There! That’s proof. We can’t let this happen! I am SERIOUS! THE SKY IS FALLING!
Posted by: Chicken Little | Oct 10, 2008 1:57:31 PM
They don’t say “That’s a proof” but they say “That’s a fact” sometime “THAT’S A FACT. :-[]
President Obama

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm

conf1689, that’s a tough situation. We’re in PA, and in my case it was Pitt. Expensive for a state school, but nothing like Hofstra. Anyway, it’s only MONEY! Hofstra’s a great school, so it will probably put him well on the road to success. So don’t look back. And just think, so what if you have to work til you’re 85. Your kids might have it easy!

Posted by: PubSchoolParent | October 10, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

kawasaki, yes “facts” can be dangerous things!

Posted by: Chicken Little | October 10, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm

Lets Talk about the McCain health plan (tax increase) that gives you a $5000 tax credit but what he does not mention which is clever is that the 5000 will be counted into your earned income which for many will push them into a higher tax bracket but no increase in their wages. Essentially someone who makes 45000 a year can be paying as much taxes as someone who makes 85000 a year. Very clever indeed from some one who promises no new taxes. John McCain should realize America is a bit smarter than we were in 2000

Posted by: C Micheal | October 10, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm

McCain needs a plan? If past is any indicator of the future, as he gets more and more desperate, one should not be surprised if McCain-Palin campaign relies on McCain’s his bosom buddy Gordon Liddy (convicted Watergate felon and advocate of domestic terrorism) as well as his own wife Cindy McCain’s family connections with organized crime.

Posted by: Jane Sixpack | October 10, 2008, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm

Stop McCain/Palin’s hatred camp that threatens Sen. Obama’s safety!!! Go to all news media websites and click (often on the bottom of the page) “contact us” or “feedbacks”. Let them know how you feel or simply say” stop McCain/Palin’s hatred camp!”. Let’s all do our part before it’s too late.
McCain/Palin know exactly what they are doing, but don’t care destroying the country for a chance to get the white house.

Posted by: leighg1 | October 10, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm

Why are you Obama supporters so angry…are you afraid you boy will lose? And spending a million on tv time …what for ..if he was so convinced that he has the election in the bag….?? This will be his big downfall…how egostistic that he thinks the rest of us will even tune it…I have better things to do that listen to “The Lies of My Life” chapter 4……I have boycotted all mainstream media tv in our house….you can fool some of the people some of the time,but not all the people all the time!

Posted by: mfmros | October 10, 2008, 3:46 pm 3:46 pm

mfmros?
Obama supporter, angry?!? lol
President Obama

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm

Wow, Republicans these days…. so what if his name is Barack Hussein Obama? Does it REALLY matter?! Does it matter if he is or isn’t Muslim? THIS IS AMERICA. AMERICA IS DIVERSITY. WAKE THE HELL UP!
Jesus Christ!
I think you racist Republicans are just SO afraid of change & absolutely terrified of the possibility of a MIXED male becoming president of this country. GET OVER IT DAMNIT!
This is the first time I’m actually old enough to vote, and I couldn’t be more excited. McCain and his little puppet Palin have NO idea as to what they’re doing. It’s my first year in college & idk about you, but I happen to care about my future, as well as my family’s. McCain is obssessed in slaming Obama, yet he has no actual answers as to what to do with this country!
McCain looks like he’s about to croak any second, & I’ll be damed if Sarah Palin is left to run this country. It’s not only America that’s affected by all these problems, a lot of other countries are too -think about it.
I’m a Latina Muslim, and TRUST me, religion has nothing to do with any of this. You people really need to wake the hell up and smell the coffee. We’ve had enough of Bush and this absurd unecessary war that’s left a big hole in EVERYONES pocket. We don’t need 4 more!!!

Posted by: Lissa | October 10, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm

pubschoolpar Thanks for the kind words. It is tuff. Actually Arcadia is in Philadelphia. They actually offered my son alot of money. But he really didn’t like it, too small. So I guess I’ll be working till eighty. And I do hope this country can get back on track and these kids will have it easy and appreciate all this country can offer if you are willing to work for it. Inmy opinion work and responsibility is the answer.Good Luck to us all.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 10, 2008, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm

why haven’t they debated about immigration…… the stock market fall is reacting to Obama…. they don’t want more taxes……..

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm

My eyes widened after I saw how the Democrats pushed so hard for O’Bama over Hillary, so I had to find out why this was happening to her, and what I found out wasn’t pretty. O’Bama, Pelosi, Dodd, Frank are the nastiest thing to ever hit this country.

Posted by: Nicolas127 | October 10, 2008, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm

McCain’s “plan” should be to re-balance his medication. This is not a man fit for the office of president. I can’t believe I ever respected him.

Posted by: nina | October 10, 2008, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm

This morning I watched a clip from one of John McCain’s “town hall” campaign meetings. An angry Republican voter stood up, ranted about the Democratic control of Congress and asked John McCain, “How did we come to this?” I did not hear McCain’s answer, but I think 8 years of Rove-Hannity-O’Reilly-Rush divisiveness and hate has created a backlash of voters who remember America whole and united. Until conservatives move away from failed separatism, the Republican party will continue to isolate itself down to religious extremists and the lower end of the IQ bell curve. Intelligent voters don’t care about Obama’s middle name. They don’t believe he’s a terrorist. McCain’s fear and loathing tactics are driving voters away from the Republican ticket.

Posted by: LetUsLeaf | October 10, 2008, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm

The plan should be to go after the media for being so biased.
If the media would go after Obama’s faults and Bidens…like they do McCain’s and Palin…this would be a different race.
Just try to find a negative article about Obama or Biden in the main stream media…they don’t exist.

Posted by: Mike | October 10, 2008, 5:36 pm 5:36 pm

What McCain really needs is a retirement plan. He’s mentally unfit to handle the complex task of getting the US out of this economic turmoil.
To those of you who kept referring to Obama’s middle name “Hussein” as a way to insinuate that he is a “Muslim/terrorist” to incite fear and racism:
1) Obama is a Christain
2) Raised in a White household (his mother is White, I bet you didn’t know)
3) Grew up in Hawaii, in a diversed and culturally rich environment
4) Graduated from Harvard at the top of his class
So again, to those racist/religious intollerant biggots: Nice try!
Oh and since some of you who like to use scare tactics and spread fears and racism and religious intollerance, here are something I thought you’d like to know:
1) The Constitution protects RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
What does this means? It means that the radical rightwing extremists who like to spread fear against a religion (in this case, Muslim) in order to accomplish their selfish political agendas are pissing on the Founding Father’s Constitution!
2) Thomas Jefferson bought a copy of the Qur’an, translated and published in London in 1764 by George Sale.
Jefferson sold his Qur’an in 1815 (51 years later) to the Library of Congress.
Sarcasm: OH NO! JEFFERSON owned and read the Muslim Qur’an! He’s a TERRORIST! Our Founding Father/main author of the Constitution is a Terrorist!!!
Obama studied Constitution Law at Harvard, and his middle name is “Hussein”, so therefore ===> Obama = Terrorist?
*** NEWS FLASH ***
If that radical-rightwing-extremist logic were valid, then:
Adolf Hitler is a Christain, so therefore, all Christain = Nazis?
NOT!
You guys need to stop being herded around by Rush Limbaugh and start using your God given brains.

Posted by: Bryan T | October 10, 2008, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm

My college son has informed me he doesn’t care who is President. Sad but true. So I did something I would never normally do and said if you don’t care then will you vote for McCain for me because I do care. He said he would. And guess what two months ago he was all Obama and I didn’t object that was his right. Don’t know what happened but I also told him to ask his friends if they don’t care either to vote for McCain. Some of his friends already are.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 10, 2008, 6:09 pm 6:09 pm

What’s In A Name
Hussein is a very rare male first name and a popular surname (source: 1990 U.S. Census

Posted by: fempharoh08 | October 10, 2008, 6:18 pm 6:18 pm

Shame on the Palin-McBush campaign! By encouraing hate-mongering and racist baiting, these bigots have taken the Republican party down a dangerous path. Why don’t more people of good faith condemn this incitement to violence? Should good people, white and otherwise, remain silent while Palin and McCain repeat outlandish falsehoods that make their supporters tell “Kill him!” and “Sit down, boy!” What kind of country do we live in?

Posted by: USAfuture | October 10, 2008, 6:53 pm 6:53 pm

from Washington Independent.
What a hypocrite……..
PHOENIX—Sen. John McCain’s wife and father-in-law continued a lucrative business partnership with disgraced financier Charles H. Keating Jr. for 11 years after the GOP presidential nominee said he ended his close friendship with Keating in March 1987.
Cindy McCain’s business partnership with Keating in a real-estate development between 1986 and 1998 netted her a tidy profit, in addition to years of significant tax benefits. Her father, who died in 2000, earned similar returns.
Illustration by: Matt Mahurin
McCain’s campaign and his Senate office did not respond to repeated phone calls and emails concerning Cindy McCain’s investment with Keating. McCain and his wife file separate tax returns and signed a pre-nuptial agreement before their marriage in May 1980. Cindy McCain owns one of the nation’s largest beer distributorships, Hensley & Company.
On Monday, McCain’s attorney, John Dowd, said in a conference call with reporters that McCain was not aware of his wife’s and father-in-law’s investment with Keating at the time it was made. “John was unconnected to that and unaware of it at the time and did not participate in it,” Dowd said.
However, during the Keating Five Senate Ethics Committee hearings in 1990-91, McCain testified that he was aware of the family investment with Keating in early 1986.
Under questioning from Dowd, McCain said he learned of the investment from a Hensley & Co. executive.
“I was told …they were going to invest in a shopping center and that the investment –- the project — was being put together by a subsidiary of American Continental,” McCain told the ethics committee. “He [the executive] later told me that had happened. And I had no interest in it and just noted in passing that this investment took place.”
The GOP presidential candidate writes in one memoir that a turbulent 30-minute verbal altercation in his Senate office on March 24, 1987, ended his six-year friendship with Keating. The argument began after McCain heard from another senator that Keating had called him “a wimp.”
“We never met again,” McCain wrote in his 2002 memoir, “Worth the Fighting For.” “I never had another conversation with him.”
The rupture in their personal relationship, however, didn’t stop McCain from attending two meetings the next month with federal banking regulators at Keating’s insistence. McCain’s attendance at the April meetings nearly halted his political career. The Senate Ethics Committee, which investigated McCain’s actions on behalf of Keating, who was seeking regulatory relief for his savings and loan business, found that McCain used “poor judgment” in his dealings with Keating.
Nor did the end of McCain’s relationship with Keating affect his immediate family’s business relationship with the financier. Cindy McCain and her father, James Hensley, remained investors in the Keating real-estate partnership that included a north Phoenix shopping center. The center sold in July 1998 for $15.4 million.
Their business relationship with Keating began April 15, 1986, when the two bought an 8 percent stake in Fountain Square Associates Ltd. Partnership. Cindy McCain and her father made the $359,100 investment through Western Leasing Co., a partnership they jointly owned.
Fountain Square Associates was structured as a tax shelter for wealthy investors. Its only asset was the Phoenix shopping center, which was built by another Keating-controlled company. The shelter allowed investors to use real-estate depreciation as a tax deduction, a provision later banned by Congress.
The Fountain Square Associates’ prospectus promised investors a 37 percent annual return on their investment. Cindy McCain and Hensley were among 54 investors in the partnership, most of whom were Keating employees and associates. Western Leasing purchased six shares in the partnership, Keating bought two and most of the remaining investors one share or less. Each share sold for $59,850.
Fountain Square Associates’ general partner, which oversaw daily operations, was American Continental Resources Corp., a subsidiary of Keating’s Phoenix-based American Continental Corp. American Continental also owned Lincoln Savings & Loan, the thrift that Keating asked McCain and the four other senators to protect from regulators.
In 1989, American Continental filed for bankruptcy, leaving more than 23,000 investors holding worthless bonds. Many bondholders were elderly and thought thought their investments were insured because Keating had sold them at federally insured Lincoln Savings branches.
Keating was convicted on 73 counts of bankruptcy and wire fraud in 1993, and sentenced to 12 years in federal prison. Four years later, his conviction was overturned on a technicality. In 1999, Keating pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud and was sentenced to time served.
Despite the bankruptcy, American Continental Resources managed to keep control of the shopping center owned by Fountain Square Associates, which allowed Cindy McCain and Hensley to take advantage of its tax breaks. After the shopping center sold, McCain’s 1998 Senate financial disclosure statement reported under “unearned income” that his wife made between $100,001 and $1 million on the sale of the property. In previous years, McCain’s financial statements had valued the Fountain Square partnership at less than $1,000, generating income of less than $200.
In 1998, Cindy McCain held millions of dollars worth of assets in stocks, municipal bonds and other securities, including a partnership share worth at least $1 million in the Arizona Diamondbacks. She also had investments in two other real estate projects, each worth at least $1 million, including a master planned community in Yuma, Ariz., and 160 acres of undeveloped property in Mesa, Ariz.
The same year, Cindy McCain also owed more than $1 million to a Phoenix bank, and had more than $200,000 in loans from the family’s beer distributorship.
Sen. McCain’s only income in 1998, besides his Senate salary, was his $49,688 Navy pension. He also listed three bank accounts totaling less than $31,000. He reported no liabilities.
The Fountain Square sale generated the second largest amount of income from Cindy McCain’s array of investments in 1998, according to Sen. McCain’s financial disclosure statement. Only dividends from Cindy McCain’s investment in Hensley & Company stock, which exceeded $1 million, generated more income.
Cindy McCain’s and Hensley’s 1986 investment in Fountain Square earned the father and daughter team a nice return. Its greater value to the family, however, may have had more to do with politics than money. Their investment was made the same year that McCain was running for the Senate seat held by the retiring Barry M. Goldwater. Keating and his employees contributed more than $50,000 to McCain’s campaign, bringing their total contributions to McCain since 1982 to at least $112,000.

Posted by: JOE | October 10, 2008, 6:55 pm 6:55 pm

George What’s Obamas plan? Could you please find out for us?

Posted by: Conf1689 | October 10, 2008, 6:58 pm 6:58 pm

The list of what McCain NEEDS is a long one.

Posted by: Lily Bell | October 10, 2008, 7:34 pm 7:34 pm

All you Republican supporters are Idiots. McCain has and will continue to follow bush’s policy’s.McCain is just as guilty as anyone else for the failing economy.All the Republicans were to busy stuffing their Pork-Belly’s with oil money to even worry about the Economy.We need to Vote out all Republicans that are on the upcomming ballots, during this Election.

Posted by: Demo Rules | October 10, 2008, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm

Republicans need to shut up and accept that they have screwed up this country and even the world. They need to accept that they will be punished severly for their misdeeds. I’m not there will even be a Republican party after this. They are flopping around like a condemned prisoner strapped to the gurney about to receive a lethal injection. Goodbye.

Posted by: Rich | October 10, 2008, 8:45 pm 8:45 pm

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope… and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
~Robert F. Kennedy
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~Mahatma Ghandi
When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders. ~Veterans Fast for Life
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.
Past
Auchincloss, Kenneth
Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don t count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!
Past
Bliss, Edwin C.
American Author
There is a point to why I put these quotes in this message. I want all Republicans to read and think about these quotes.
I first want you to listen to what Kennedy was saying. Barack is the democrats ray of hope, not because of his race, but because he is breaking down that mighty wall. Barack and Hillary were our leaders and since Hillary only got half of the wall down, Barack has to finish it.
Since Mrs. McCain said that Barack and Joe were running a dirty campaign, I especially want her to read Ghandi’s quote. If she felt that they were running a dirty campaign, then she should have told her husband and his running mate not to go the same route.
The next quote is for you John McCain: if you are trying to tell people to learn from the past about the other candidate and listen to how he and his running mate have old ideals then maybe you shouldn’t live in the past either. I mean how many times must you quote old republicans such as Nixon and so on.
My last quote is address to all Americans.

Posted by: BRITT | October 10, 2008, 9:23 pm 9:23 pm

the mccain/palin plan is wait for the rapture. jesus will fix everything.

Posted by: sk8boardgrind | October 10, 2008, 9:27 pm 9:27 pm

Obama has a plan to continue to lie. If caught only admit what we think they know. Obama’s talking points will fix economy. He can fix economy when he redistributes taxpayer money to 45% of tax takers. Obama is buying votes with my tax money.

Posted by: ubu1991 | October 10, 2008, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm

Obama invoked FDR today with the quote, “All we have to fear is fear itself.”
If Obama is the new FDR, does American really need a FDR style ‘New Deal’?
FDR’s socialist reforms held us in a depression until we were pulled out by WWII.
What we really need is more ‘Reaganomics’.
Reagan pulled us out of a deep recession and stagflation, with conservative supply side economics.
Republicans understand this, a democratic ‘New Deal’ will not.

Posted by: lee | October 10, 2008, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm

all the obamabots can crow all they need to but the palin investigation pales in comparison for swapping money for votes in the ACORN thing…Mccain is the only person that can do the job at this point because if it comes to light that Obama won the primaries by supressing Clinton votes that is a felony… it might work in Kenya… matter of fact thats probably why he campaigned there with a relative to learn the ropes

Posted by: staniam | October 10, 2008, 11:36 pm 11:36 pm

OK you guys, cut McCain a little slack. The poor guy has gone thru a lot in the last month or two. I was getting really riled up and felt really negatively against him, but today, I admit I softened when I saw how he corrected a manic supporter who called Obama an Arab. Now, that’s more like the decent guy I thought McCain was before the craziness since Palin got in the picture. I still wouldn’t vote for McCain, but at least, he can hold his head high in defeat if he continues to get back the integrity, honor and decency that seemed to have deserted him recently. A good start would be for McCain to get his pitbull under control … that woman is dangerously stupid and doesn’t even know it.

Posted by: annaloh | October 11, 2008, 1:50 am 1:50 am

annaloh: You will be eat your words come election night. Americans are not stupid and they are not buying the elitist-leftis propaganda nor the lies and deceit of Obama. Americans will vote in huge numbers and will vote for McCain.
McCain-Palin, the leaders we NEED.

Posted by: speedy_453 | October 11, 2008, 2:11 am 2:11 am

I’d say whatever plan McCain can come up with will simply be about 2 months too late. He never solidified his stance on anything other than telling people he’s a “maverick” or overblowing his role in advising Reagan on Lebanon.
On another note, I see all of these make-shift patriots with some serious mis-placed rage, and I have to laugh. They know that McCain is going down in flames, and they can’t do a thing about it. Enjoy the spotlight for the next 3 weeks, because it’s going to end quicker than you thought…

Posted by: H | October 11, 2008, 2:30 am 2:30 am

“By their deeds you shall know them.”
This a true and tested way of knowing the true character of a person. To Obama talk is cheap; he is good at it. So Obama disowned Rev Wright or so he says? Who in their right mind can belief this? There is only one way we can know who the true Obama is. You have to be honest with yourself and look at the deeds of this man. He sat for 20 years listening to Rev Wright spew hatred against America. Why did Obama stay there so long? Because Obama SHARES the same views. Also, Obama launched his political career in the house of a terrorist. Why? Because Obama share the beliefs of Ayers, who only wished he had blown up more buildings. Obama is NOT the man we want in the White House.
Rev Wright = Obama = Ayers = Hatred for America!
Vote McCain-Palin 2008!

Posted by: speedy_453 | October 11, 2008, 2:38 am 2:38 am

Obama loves terrorists and racists as long as they don’t stand in the way of his career.

Posted by: HawkTheSlayer | October 11, 2008, 3:57 am 3:57 am

“Let’s wet down the fire, call the dogs out and let the house.” I laughed so loud when Mr. Carville made that comment, my sides hurt from laughing.
Poor old man McCain is struggling and floundering as the distance between him and the White House widens. He will stop at nothing, bar nothing, to close the gap. The gap is too wide old man.

Posted by: exatlantic | October 11, 2008, 8:53 am 8:53 am

mccain not only needs a plan…. he needs another running mate and another party.

Posted by: sk8boardgrind | October 11, 2008, 8:59 am 8:59 am

The GOP campaign is taking America back to the forties, fifties and sixties, forgetting that since those decade, education has uplifted the country and the people. Inciting riots by injecting hate slurs and racial innuendo is not going to work. If anything, it will work against the old man.
The world is following this campaign and today, the world is sickened by the nasty slurs that McCain, his running mate and his wife are all injecting into the campaign.
The old man did not think it necessary to have a plan. His advisers did not see any reason to have a plan, because 1940, 1950, 1960, a black man who dared to have the audacity to run against a white man was unheard of, preposterous, laughable.
The old man doesn’t get it! This is 2008!

Posted by: exatlantic | October 11, 2008, 9:04 am 9:04 am

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I watched the debate the other night too, and I have to confess I had a very mixed reaction. I was very impressed by Senator McCain’s opening remarks about what he would do regarding the housing crisis, but I was disappointed when he did not expand on his full economic plan. I’ve noticed in the recent Obama ads that he very clearly outlines his entire economic plan. I would like to see Senator McCain get off the usual rhetoric, and counter with more of the same. I agree with hockey mom and young conservative, who state that the time is past for the usual political mudslinging, and SPECIFICS as to what Senator MCain plans to do if we trust him with the Presidency. My husband James says it reminds him of the scenario in the American President, where the President’s opponent in the campaign was essentially the only voice being heard, even when the President’s advisors were begging him to respond forcefully. It was not until he did that things began to turn around. I think the same principle applies here. I greatly respect Senator MCain’s record as a veteran and a war hero, and his years of experience in Washington. I also respect his willingness to stand firmly for what he believes is right, even if it costs his position among members of his own party. However, I do not think that these factors alone are enough to get him elected. His opponent is considerably younger, and very articulate. I think that this can put the Senator at a great disadvantage. It’s all well and good to “speak softly and carry a big stick”, but sometimes just as Our Lord overturned the moneychangers in the Temple, it’s necessary to swing the stick! To me, this does not mean attacking his opponent’s character, or questioning his past associations! Chances are we have all done or said things in our past that we later regret. To me it does mean standing up to Obama’s attacks the way he stands up to opponents on the Senate floor! It means emphasizing his experience with the workings of government and foreign policy. It means coming up with a specific step by step plan for the country! I think the Senator was wrong to say that he could handle three major objectives like Social Security, health care, and the housing crisis all at once! While that’s ambitious and commendable, to handle any one or even two of those at one time would be a daunting task! I think the Senator must speak in terms of SPECIFICS and PRIORITIES, and he must do so ASAP! I know for our family we must prioritize what gets paid every month. We are facing having to sell your house to avoid foreclosure, and a move across the country so that my husband can get promoted for his job. Either of which we are fully in favor of! But I don’t think the debate was all bad. I think that while Senator Obama was talking to the camera, Senator MCain talked to the people, and was not afraid to touch them! I noticed that Senator Obama by contrast hung back, and made little or no contact with anyone! Now all Senator McCain needs to do is tell people in very SPECIFIC and uncertain terms what he intends to do, and he has the election won! By the way, Gov. Palin, you rock! FINALLY a woman who has not been brainwashed by all the feminist rhetoric, but is definitely strong and is not afraid to stand up for GOD and FAMILY! Thank you for choosing life for your son and your soon to be grandchild! I am a disabled mother of two beautiful, healthy young women and I wouldn’t trade them for the world!

Posted by: Elizabeth Forsyth | October 11, 2008, 10:23 am 10:23 am

OBAMA MISJUDGEMENT CONTINUES–more info George Steph and ABC won’t report
http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/09/1525564.aspx

Posted by: George Steph of ABC Loves OBAMA | October 11, 2008, 11:04 am 11:04 am

Even more corruption George Steph and ABC won’t report:
Obama fundraiser, convicted of fraud, spills beans
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081011/D93O5M100.html

Posted by: George Steph of ABC Loves Obama | October 11, 2008, 12:47 pm 12:47 pm

So Palin is ethically challenged! I wonder where her witch doctor is; maybe with a few good spells and a hex or two, he could have prevented this. Just goes to show you, when the going gets tough, the witches get going.
And poor, old McComa got caught in a box of his own making. When confronted by one of his “fans” he could not continue the charade that Obama is a Muslim and a terrorist. Why, because the proof would have come out and shown him for the liar he is.

Posted by: rhbate | October 11, 2008, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm

Don’t be quite so convinced of a landslide for Obama. Not everyone has fallen for the snake oil salesman’s line. The MSM wants everyone to think he’s winning so they’ll jump on the zombie bandwagon but many of us aren’t sold. Obama still has little experience, creepy associates and has flip flopped on every stance. Nobody can tell what he stands for. McCain may not be perfect but we do know he is an American hero like JFK. Ironically people refer to Obama as JFK-like but other than being a young senator, there is no similarity. JFK and McCain were both military heroes. JFK was a conservative democrat while McCain is a liberal republican. Those two animals look very much the same.

Posted by: JKIR | October 11, 2008, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm

John McCain Consorted with Domestic Anti-Abortion Terrorists
Raw Story reports that John McCain, against the advice of wiser heads, addressed a conference of the far right Oregon Citizens Alliance in the early 90s. He should have listened.
The speaker just prior to McCain publicly expressed sympathy for Shelly Shannon, who then stood accused (and was eventually convicted) of the attempted murder of Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas — as well as carrying out a multi-state spree of clinic arsons across the West.
Shelly Shannon also considered herself a soldier in the underground terror organization, Army of God, which views Shannon as a “hero of the faith” and a “Warrior Soldier in the Army of God.” The group devotes a section of its web site to celebrating her exploits and her martyrdom.

Posted by: rhbate | October 11, 2008, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm

Come on people because someone say your palling around with Terrorist, Williams Ayers had a fund raiser for Sen. Obama in his living room does not necessarily mean it’s true, because Palin and McCain said it. These individual have ran a smear campaign laced with Hate, and for reasons to divide a Nation in Black and White, and White America has responded by believe the heretics spew by these supposed to be up standing Americans. Sarah Palin is scary! when she came on the scene instead of leading an honest structure campaign she began in smear and bullying tatics. Sounds familiar? It’s what Bush did, no other country wants to deal with the U.S. he told you their was weapons of mass destruction, You people believe it, Our attention should have been on Osama Bin Laden who penetrated AMERICA. My point! you’ll believe anything someone tells you whether if it’s true or not. Now you want to blame the Democratics for this mess we are in now when ever the democrats want to pass a measure the Republicans did nothing but turn it down, Chris Cox, has been name as one of the most wanted in this Financial Mess who was pointed by none other than YOU GUESS IT BUSH. So to those who want to keep living the Republican process makes me think that your thought process is like J-E-L-L-O too!! That what McCain said about Sen. Obama proposals.

Posted by: Denise | October 11, 2008, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm

McCain should call his dogs off, this Ayers subect has been beatin to the ground. So what. Maybe we should talk about his wife’ Cindy stealing pain killers from her own charity! How bout that? How about his wifes refusal to file any sort of income report? hillary did, Obama did.If Johny can fly on her jets she can report too. How bout friendship with the neo-con terrorist and felon G Gordon Liddy of Watergate infamy? YEA ANOTHER SUPER SECRET GOVERNMENT IN THE WORKS! NO WAY!
http://www.squidoo.com/McCain_and_Gordon_Liddy

Posted by: lou | October 12, 2008, 2:12 am 2:12 am

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