The Note: Powell Keeps McCain Off-Message

Colin Powell gave his word to John McCain that he would not make an endorsement in this election. Powell stabbed McCain in the back. This is the same Powell who kept silent for TWO YEARS while Scooter Libby was falsely accused of leaking to Bob Novak when Powell knew his own deputy, Richard ARMITAGE, had spoken to Novak.

Powell’s endorsement will eat up today’s news cycle.

It is an honor to have a President who cares about the Middle Class and really will bring Luster to our Country once again!
Obama/Biden

McCain needs to break through the queasiness in GOP camps with a bold campaign message — a final argument for the final stretch.
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How many times are you guys going to tell us this? There is no final argument, there hasn’t even been a first argument, all there has been is smear.

The guy who drug the American people along into Iraq goes for Obama. That’s it, we’lll NEVER get out of there. Damn Democrats, they’ll occupy the world saying “oh but we can’t cut off funding for the troops” Enough excuses BRING THEM HOME NOW!!!

Lee, those folks at ACORN only have one vote as well. People need to learn facts so they don’t make themselves look stupid, but maybe they just can’t help it. There have been over 270 million votes cast in the last few years. Guess how many VOTER (not registation) fraud cases have been prosecuted…24. Not 24 million, not 24 thousand, not 24 hundred…24. Get a clue.

Colin Powell is shopping for a job. If he thought McCain was going to win, he would have endorsed McCain.

http://www.diarytech.com/blog/1-general/3-powell-will-have-a-role-in-obama-administration-.html

Powell’s endorsement comes as no surprise. 95% of blacks are voting for Obama; who says race isn’t a factor when it comes to the black vote. Besides, Powell needs a job. It was so predictable.
McCain has the endorsement of FOUR Secretaries of State, and 200 Generals and Admirals. Score: 4 to 1 – McCain.

The guy who drug the American people along into Iraq goes for Obama. That’s it, we’lll NEVER get out of there. Damn Democrats, they’ll occupy the world saying “oh but we can’t cut off funding for the troops” Enough excuses BRING THEM HOME NOW!!!
Posted by: hmn | Oct 20, 2008 9:41:49 AM
** But he wasn’t the only republican that supported the war… Obama didn’t support the war and his judgment was right!

It’s an honor to have a President that will take from those evil rich people and give to the poor that don’t work.
It’s an honor to finially have a President that will help defeat Isreal.
It’s an honor to have a President that will be friends with bush’s terrorists instead of just making them mad at us and hate us.
It’s an honor to have a President that will bust up the greedy oil companies and force them to spread their wealth.
It’s an honor to finially have a President that reflects the Americans that hate the flag, hate the pledge and hate the anthem.
It’s an honor to have a President that believes in Karl Marx and his views.
Obama 08

No. Not by a longshot, not even close.
Sen. Obama, experience matters. I have made many mistakes in my short life. It is true, when I think about it, that each of those mistakes are among my greatest assets with respect to decision making, each and every one of them. This is because we all learn from our mistakes. At all times, I believe the best of my judgment is anchored in the cement that is my experience. I believe firmly that the longer I live, the more I will have experienced, and the better my judgment will be, on the balance. Sen. Obama, do you really believe that you have made enough mistakes to be the next President of the United States? Many say that what you won’t make the same mistakes that others have because of your sound judgement (ie, your choice of pastor). The only thing, Senator, is that there still remain many mistakes yet to be written into this planet’s history books. You won’t always have the benefit of others experience, you’ll have to leverage your own experience and you have too little on which to base your judgement. I respect your ambition. I respect your charisma. I embrace your place in history, but I do not believe you have sufficient experience to lead this planet, not even close.
America, since the mainstream media has failed to examine Sen. Obama’s experience and lack of experience, you will have to determine for yourselves what exactly is Sen. Obama’s experience? What did he accomplish in the Illinois legislature? He was only there for a handful of years. What did he promise he would accomplish? What did he accomplish in the U.S. Senate? He has only been on the job as a U.S. Senator for 1xx days. What did he promise he would accomplish? What has he changed in this world? This country? The Presidency of the United States is an executive position Sen. Obama. Do you have any executive experience? Have you created a budget, negotiated a budget, revised a budget or managed adherence to a budget?
Sen. Obama insists on presenting Sen. McCain’s experience as being only an puppet of the Bush administration. I saw Senator McCain stand up to President Bush’s Defense Secretary. He stood in a manner that no other did. He changed the course of the war in Iraq. What percentage of all GOP legislative votes sided with President Bush’s? What percentage of all Democrat legislative votes sided with Presidents Clinton, Carter and Johnson’s policies? I have no idea, but I’d venture to guess that, had the media presented that information to the American public, we’d find rank and file partisanship throughout our recent history. How many Americans would be surprise by that?
Well Senator Obama, you might be able to claim that you did not support the Iraq war resolution, but what can you offer as proof that it was the right decision at that moment in our history? You were after all in the small minority. Our country was after all reeling from the worst terror attack in our nation’s history. How would history have judged President Bush had he not led our troops into Iraq and then, a massive terror attack occurred yesterday, perpetrated by terrorists that lived and trained in Iraq over the past few years, with or without knowledge of Saddam Hussein? I think about it this way: history failed to present enough evidence to push the World to coalesce and intervene in 1930s Europe. But modern history is 100% clear on that point, it would have been the correct decision. History might well judge the Iraq war to be not a right decision. History will judge the Bush administration on many points. One of those may even record it, in part, as a series of lapses in the judgment of a young President, swayed by the belief and conviction of an older, seasoned Vice President and the overwhelming circumstances of a world that had changed dramatically, in an instant. I agree with you Sen. Obama that we don’t need another eight years of the Bush Administration, we dont need another eight years of an inexperienced President.
Mr. Gibson, Ms. Couric, Ms. Behar, Ms. Mitchell, Mr. Matthews … you do not get to dismantle the American vote. You and your colleagues might think you have the power to micro-filter democracy’s messages to your liking, but you do not get to dismantle the American vote. You might think you have the power to subtly, and not so subtly promote and gather others to blindly promote one candidacy, while casting another in the least flattering manner possible, but you do not get to dismantle the American vote. You do not get to dismantle America’s vote. The mainstream media bias in this election is at best described as repugnant and at worst, a slap to the face of democracy; an assault on the moral and righteous ideal that all American voters should be free to construct their vote on the basis of readily available, factually complete, accurate, relevant and unbiased fact. It is my opinion that, during this election cycle more than any other I have witnessed, the mainstream media has failed millions of American’s who rely on them, as a basis for constructing their vote. Am I wrong? I might be wrong, but I’ll ask you, the American voters to decide that for yourself, by asking yourself some questions. Questions such as why was so much time spent this election cycle mining for dirt in Alaska, why was so little time was spent tracking laundry in Illinois? Why has the mainstream media spent so little time illuminating the razor thin experience that the junior Senator from Illinois maintains as his credentials? Indeed, if the media was prepared to be fair and honest, they would have been able to report, with incontrovertible confidence, that they were reporting fact, that the candidate having the most experience directly relevant to the position of the Presidency of the United States is actually the candidate that has been relentlessly attacked by the media, both personally and professionally. The mainstream media owes an apology to American Democracy for its treatment of Gov. Palin. Why is it, that after finally deciding to give minimal airtime to the ACORN voter registration fraud issue, was it not mentioned that Sen. Obama’s campaign funded ACORN? Sen. Obama, in my mind, there is no distinction between committing voter registration fraud, serving as impetus to commit voter registration fraud or funding those serving as impetus to commit voter registration fraud. During the last debate, you did a fine job of distancing yourself from ACORN, but you failed to directly confront and condemn those that perpetrate or encourage voter registration fraud. You had a nationwide audience, and you chose not to act.
The President is the commander in chief of the United States Armed Forces. That is a serious responsibility. I question how you can expect us to believe that you will effectively maintain the morale, skill and competence of our forces after you have insulted them (I have a friend that is an Army Reservist. He is deploying, again, to Iraq. He has a wife, a son and a daughter. He does not serve so that he can kill children and raid villages Senator). What will serve as your experiential basis for leading the U.S. Military? Do you have any military experience at all? Have you ever served in ROTC? Did you at least play with the little green plastic troops when you lived in Hawaii? Do you know firsthand the horrors of war? I believe that firsthand knowledge and experience is the most critical element one can use in formulating decisions, including the determination of when to and when not to deploy U.S. Military forces. Sen. McCain has that experience. That I know. That he has shown. The media can’t take that away from him.
With regard to foreign policy experience, do you think you are qualified to navigate the most powerful democracy the world knows during a time when the fundamentals of democracy are very much under attack? Are you ready to face Mr. Putin? Mr. Chavez? Kim Jung mentally Ill? China? Iran? Are you ready to answer the 03:00 phone call? What experience do you have that I should judge gives you readiness? What is that experience? What foreign leaders have you negotiated with directly? What treaties have you signed? The media has presented none and neither have you. I have a good number of stamps in my passport Sen. Obama. I lived and worked in Germany for a brief period. Sen. Obama, I am not qualified by a longshot to make United States foreign policy, and you may only be marginally more qualified than I.
The oratorical is no substitute for judgment or experience Senator Obama. I do not believe that you have the experience to be President of our country. Experience matters Sen. Obama, and you are not ready, you have not made enough mistakes. But most glaring to me, Senator Obama is the one mistake that you seem willing to make over and over and it is the worst mistake one can make. That mistake is the action of not owning and learning from one’s mistakes. The surge worked Senator.
Sen. Obama, you claim that you will cut taxes on 95% of all Americans. Is that true? Or let me rephrase, how can that be true? You told the voters of Illinois that you would cut taxes, but you have failed to do so in the U.S. Senate. Did you even try? Did you present a bill? Were it a committee issue did you encourage your peers to present one? Have you ever voted for a tax cut? What did you mean Senator Obama when you told Plumber Joe that you wanted to spread the wealth? Do you mean that you want to take money from Joe and give it to those with less money? Your running mate, Sen. Biden has commented that you would not be taxing additionaly those making under $250,000 a year. Sen. Biden commented that he knows no plumbers that make over $250,000 a year. I think that those who claim your tax policies embody class warfare are wrong. Wrong, because the policies are class warfare policies, but they are not directed against the haves, they are directed against the have-nots. Senator Biden, you may well be correct that few plumbers earn over $250,000 a year, but some that own plumbing contracting businesses probably do. What do those that spin your message have planned to say to that one plumber out of maybe six or seven that was employed by a plumbing company, but was laid off, because business is slow, new homes weren’t being built and President Obama’s tax increase forced the owner of the plumbing business to lay her off? The owner tried every angle possible, but was forced to make a tough decision. They were faced with the prospect of either making a tough decision or risk running the entire operation into financial distress and end up having to close operations and fire all workers? I guess you’d have Mr. Burton tell her that, even though she has no job, she does at least still have access to affordable healthcare? Senator Obama what will you say to the still unemployed plumber in Ohio, father of two, that nearly had a job secured, the owner had just signed a good contract for a small building and he was ready to hire that plumber, but learned from his accountant, that President Obama’s, Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid’s tax increase has made it not possible to hire another employee? I guess you’d have Mr. Burton tell that plumber, that even though he still has no job, he does have a lower tax rate applied against his $0.00 income.
Sen. Obama, you have stated over and over that Sen. McCain supports tax breaks for corporations that send their jobs overseas. The media has not reported on this one way or another, but if you are correct, then I commend Sen. McCain for doing so. What you don’t get, Sen. Obama, or perhaps don’t want the American public to get, is that income taxes, to a for profit enterprise are expenses not much different from the costs of raw materials and salary expenses for purposes of this discussion. All else equal, ladies and gentleman, a corporation will locate itself, and its jobs, or begin to locate itself and its jobs, in areas where it is least penalized in terms of taxes. This is how for profit American corporations behave and this is how they must behave. Their competitors are operating in that manner, continually scouring expenses to search for reduction opportunities. They have to. If they do not, they will be at a cost disadvantage and if their tactical errors are sustained, they may well go out of business in which case, even those jobs which remain in the United States, could also disappear. Even if the company does not fail entirely, some jobs may be eliminated, and chances are great that the highest cost jobs would be targeted first. Sen. Obama, America is not a low cost country, in these circumstances, high cost American jobs would be targeted first, all else equal. When those jobs are cut Sen. Obama, those finding themselves newly unemployed will not have money to support the ‘under $250k’ crowd…they won’t have money to support small businesses…is it sinking in at all?
Your position of not supporting tax breaks for corporations that export jobs overseas, indeed, only encourages them, at the margin, to further export jobs, or slow their job creation in the United States or end their job creation in the United States. This is global economic reality. The media can not distort this fact for you. At the final debate, I heard you add a carrot to your plans. You pulled that same tax string attached to the back of your head and out came the message your handlers have planted in you, that message you think the voters want to hear. I was laughing a bit, but if I understand you correctly, you’ll give tax credits to corporations that create jobs in America. In case you don’t know Senator Obama, this already happens today at the state and local level all across America. Have you thought about how much additionaly, it will cost the U.S. Treasury to employ workers, in an audit fashion, in order to verify which of all the xx million jobs that corporations claim they created, were actually created or do actually exist? What are the time constraints? How long must they keep the job filled in order to receive the credit? What would happen when that timeframe passes? Let me point this out to my fellow voters. Senator Obama wants to first keep tax rates on corporations high or raise them – thereby encouraging employers large and small to export their operations and jobs – and then at the same time he wants to turnaround and give them a tax credit for jobs they create? Senator, or maybe I should be addressing your advisers, you do realize that the two are policy opposites don’t you? It looks to me that you might be trying to convince us that it would be a good idea to spend more on government for an unknown expected net job decrease/increase. If you can convince us that those are winning policies Senator Obama, then I’d suggest you save us all some trouble, sell the American voters a bridge to nowhere and retire, pen some books, give some speeches. Indeed, your tax policy is bigger government, bigger IRS, more regulatory burden on American corporations and more administrative overhead makes them less competitive in the global market and less likely to employ. It is not the right policy Senator Obama, not by a long shot.
Go back to the Senate and accomplish something Sen. Obama. Your candidacy is an insult to America.
ps, the verdict has been in for decades on the effectiveness of spreading the wealth policies. Go visit an American Indian Reservation Sen. Obama. The only thing that has changed for the past several decades is the faces of the Washington politicians that have redistributed wealth to us. Do you have any clue what the average unemployment rate is in Indian Country Sen.Obama? Illicit drug use rate? Teen pregnancy rate? Suicide rate? Pick a rate Senator.

Huh, I have to admit I don’t read the really long posts, like the one from ‘Obama’ just before my last.
Does anyone?
And I’m an Obama supporter, so presumably I’d like what that one has to say.

Paul,
What are you afraid of ACORN? Anything you wish to hide? Fraud, perhaps? Deception? Lies? By Zero.

geevill
what would you be saying about Powell if he had endorsed McCain.
You are such a meanie.
hahaha

All of the following is from Daily Kos. Back in April of 2004 Daily Kos’s love did not extend at all for General Powell. In fact, it was downright nasty:
“Uncle Tom Powell Stumps for Massah Bush
Yes suh! Yes suh! Right away suh!
Mr. Powell sir, you are a liar and an apologist for a crooked regime known as the George W. Bush administration. “

TO ALL
Would you be trashing Powell if he endorsed McCain

no suprise to me either
Who would endorse McCain and his putrid negative campaign.

By no means do I claim to be a scholar, but only a knowledgeable person can understand the concept that life is an in-transfer of knowledge and many scholars believe that over 90% of the things we learn, we learn from others. So when you have someone like Barack and Michelle Obama graduating with honors from one of our Country most prestigious College institution, this is an above average achievement to say the least. Barack often talks about how his Mom would wake him up at 4 in the morning to study his lessons, and he often expressed how upset it would make him, but let’s look at his achievements because of his mother’s love, concern and determination. Michelle also described how her parents stayed on her and her brother emphasizing the importance of an education and limiting them to just one hour a day of television viewing. As a result of their parent’s commitment to their lives, they attended Chicago’s most prestigious academic public high school, Whitney Young.
The reason I share this story is because of a few of reasons. The first being, I too had the honor of having my niece attend Whitney Young after getting chosen out of thousands of applicants of all nationalities of Chicago’s brightest kids. As a result of attending Whitney Young, she went on to get her P.H.D. from Yale and graduated with honors also. Once again, this is no average achievement. It was a result of the countless hours that my sister devoted in preparing her when she was a young child. We all know that when you devote yourself to higher learn, it prepares you to have a better understanding of power, conflict resolution skills, discernment, philosophy, theory and many more other helpful attributes that bring about a better understanding of life challenges.
Bill and Hillary Clinton was another couple that did quite well at Ivory league School, not to mention that Bill was a road scholar. Even though we may have felt embarrassed with their questionable personal shenanigans, while in the Whitehouse. Nevertheless, there is one thing I am sure we all can agree on, and that is their political achievements were very admirable. Joe Biden has a law degree, and his wife is currently an English professor in Delaware. Now let’s look at George Bush, who was an underachiever in College (C. Student) and became this nation President. Regardless if you were one of the ones that voted for him, there is no denying that his Presidency was a complete disaster, plain and simple. After witnessing an underachiever in college get elected to the Whitehouse, and almost completely destroy our Country, we find ourselves once again contemplating foolishly doing it again with John McCain who graduated fifth from the bottom. This is simply unbelievable.
This Country has always promoted the idea that we are a nation that is built by the best and the brightest. Even our military have now adapted this same slogan, now it appears that we have a difference slogan for the Presidency, which now says that we are a nation that allows underachievers to become the President, which makes no sense. In closing, Sarah Palin attended five difference Colleges, one being a Community Junior College, and the last being Idaho which has one of the nation lowest SAT and ACT entry acceptance scores (Math SAT, 549 Verbal SAT, 559 ACT, 23). Out of 210 major Colleges I surveyed, there were only 13 Colleges with a lower SAT and ACT entry acceptance score than Idaho.
So when Sarah Palin feels like knocking Barack Obama for being a community organizer, she must have forgotten that he graduated from Harvard law School with honors and taught Constitutional law. Our best law firms in the Country only hires the brightest students from College, so why should it be any different when we choose someone for our Nation top job. This Country is the land of opportunity for those who work hard. Thus, in my final analysis on this matter is in no way meant to be cynical and undermine this basis concept, when I make it known that Gov Palin husband never graduated from College and worked 20 years as a blue-collar employee in the oil fields of the North Slope of Alaska. I know he is not running for any major office, but are these truly the credentials to get you in the Whitehouse. After electing George Bush and finding out that he had problems, with completing an entire sentence should have been the final nail in the coffin for all Americans.

ABC, I will give you a bit of advice. You are beginning to look/and sound like a trashy/gossip magazine. You are relentlessly wording your headlines against McCain and for Obama.
You are in the bottom of the barrel in journalism responsibility to report the unbiased news regarding the campaign to the American people.
You should be ashamed

dO: “What are you afraid of ACORN? Anything you wish to hide? Fraud, perhaps? Deception? Lies? By Zero.”
Though I’m not sure I understand all your points here, I’m guessing you don’t like Obama and therefore think anyone who comments on McCain’s attacks must be afraid of those attacks.
Well, that doesn’t apply to me. I do support Obama, and I hope McCain does talk about ACORN for the next five days. In fact, I wish he would talk about them for the next 15.
And any breaks should only be filled with more on Ayers.
But I suppose getting that gift for the next five days even would be a stretch. That would involve sticking to a plan, and the McCain campaign has never been very good at that.

The Chicago Tribune, by its own definition a Republican-leaning newspaper, until now has never in its 161 year history endorsed a Democrat for President. Now General Powell has endorsed Sen. Obama. Both endorsements were reaffirmations of Sen. Obama’s qualifications, demeanor, knowledge, positions on issues and leadership. But both endorsements were also stinging criticisms of McCain and the nasty campaign he has waged, and his lack of judgment in selecting Palin.

You see, dO, a lot of here are simply amazed at how self destructive the McCain campaign has begun.
Forget the earlier question of whether or not it was an honorable campaign. This is something much more basic.
You see, everyone knows the negative attacks they’ve come up with so far a) haven’t pushed up Obama’s negatives, b) backfired by actually pushing up McCain’s negatives.
McCain knows it. He has to. Its on the news every friggin’ day. With a lot of different pollsters all coming to that same conclusion.
In another year, sure, the stupid negative fear stuff can work. But this year, people are already a little nervous about the something – their economic security. And they want to hear want the candidates have to say about that.
From McCain they mostly just get Ayers, Acorn, etc.
And now, even knowing this crap isn’t working, they insist on still doing it.
I remember a kids’ story about a scorpion talking a frog into giving it a ride across a river. The frog is swayed by the scorpion’s logic that if certainly won’t sting the frog, because that would mean the scorpion himself would drown. So they get halfway across the river, and the scorpion stings the frog. As they’re both going down, the frog asks, “why?”
With his dying words, the scorpion responds, “I’m a scorpion. That’s what I do.”
I’m just shaking my head in disbelief, watching the McCain campaign destroy itself with communications approaches it knows are counterproductive, and imagining I can hear McCain himself saying, “I’m a Republican. That’s what we do.”

The Chicago Tribune, by its own definition a Republican-leaning newspaper, until now has never in its 161 year history endorsed a Democrat for President. Now General Powell has endorsed Sen. Obama. Both endorsements were reaffirmations of Sen. Obama’s qualifications, demeanor, knowledge, positions on issues and leadership. But both endorsements were also stinging criticisms of McCain and the nasty campaign he has waged, and his lack of judgment in selecting Palin.
Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | Oct 20, 2008 11:10:02 AM
** Also the LA times who haven’t picked a President since 1970′s

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Powell’s endorsement comes as no surprise. 95% of blacks are voting for Obama; who says race isn’t a factor when it comes to the black vote. Besides, Powell needs a job. It was so predictable.
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What a load of crap. Blacks have been voting for dem with greater than 90% numbers for years.
The truth is, the GOP has nothing to offer the black community and is undeserving of their vote.
As for the 4 other people you cite that support McCain, no one knows who they are. Everyone knows who Powell is.
Enjoy!

ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe Reports: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in power and he will need supporters to stand by him as he makes tough, and possibly unpopular, decisions.
“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
“I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate,” Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. “And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you – not financially to help him – we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”
Isn’t this an argument for electing someone with MORE EXPERIENCE!? Why should we elect a man who will EMBOLDEN OUR ENEMIES and push us to the brink of disaster? Biden seems convinced that electing John McCain will make our enemies abroad much less sanguine about provoking us — which is one of the best arguments yet heard for electing McCain.
Even worse, Biden admits that an Obama administration will likely FUMBLE THE BALL. “It’s not going to be apparent that we’re right.” Really? Why not? I’d say that Biden admits that Obama will deviate from long-held principles of American foreign policy and diplomacy, and expects to reap a whirlwind of disapproval because of that. Where will that be most likely to occur, given Obama’s previous political alliances with people like Rashid Khalidi?
Let’s not forget the example that Biden himself uses here. John Kennedy got tested because he met with Nikita Khrushchev with “no preconditions”. Kennedy acknowledged afterwards that it was an “unmitigated DISATER.”
What resulted? The Berlin Wall and the Cuban missile crisis. Kennedy wound up trading strategic intel and missile installations in western Asia in exchange for Soviet withdrawal of the nuclear missiles from Cuba. The entire Kennedy administration turned out to be a foreign-policy DISASTER that was only overlooked because of the tragic assassination of Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.

Gosh, poor Mack is now reduced to posting about all the liars at the haed of the Republican Party. Bush, Cheney, Powell. See the trend?

My apologies to Mack. I forgot he included Donald Rumsfeld in his list of Republican liars along with Bush and Cheney.

As someone who waits on conservative posters to sway my views, I am confused.
Geevill says Powell’s endorsement of Obama is meaningless and not newsworthy because both are black. Frank L. says Powell’s endorsement is so meaningfull it will start the backlash that wins this for McCain. Is this kind of like Limbaugh saying yesterday that Powell endorsed Obama because they are black whn last week he said Obama wasn’t black but instead an Arab?

A man who does not support Obama for president found his car in Clearwater, Florida scratched, burned, and urinated on. The vandals scratched “KKK” on the car in several places and burned the car with small lighters or cigarettes.

A wealthy Democratic pornography producer has filmed a porn movie about Sarah Palin called “Nailin’ Palin.” In it, Sarah Palin is degraded with scenes of anal sex and a lesbian sex scene with Hillary Clinton and Condoleza Rice. One of the countlessscenes from the movie has been viewed 171,000 times, again with hundreds, if not thousands, of positive comments.

A popular blog owned by an Obama supporter called “I Miss My Mommy” ridicules children with Down’s Syndrome and attempts to humiliate Sarah Palin for being a bad mother. The comments are filled with messages from Democrats who find this hilarious.
The Obama Campaign is no longer about HOPE. It is now only about HATE.

Paul,
You don’t get it, do you? If it was not Zero’s Marxism socialist agendas, he would have been a runaway candidate under the present political atmosphere.

First, I am a Democratic. While I have never voted Republican I WILL NEXT MONTH!.
The reason I am not voting for Obama this year is this: The rabid Media bias, the same crap they used to bring us to WAR, they are the problem. No vetting of the inexperienced Obama being shoved down our throats.
In 2000, the American public watched passively in silence as the republicans stole the election. They did this right in front of us and no one said a thing. This year, as I watched the primary – and now this election – unfold, I see the Democrats doing the same thing. They stole the nomination from Hillary and installed BO as the nominee. By refusing to hold a fair and open roll call at the Dem Convention, the DNC violated one of the fundamental rights of Americans.
I have watched as Obama himself and those who surround him continually violate what I consider to be fundament principals of democracy – especially freedom of speech. He violated this freedom in using the courts to block certain unflattering TV ads done by 527 pacs. It seems that the Democrats are all for freedom of speech and thought – indeed, they insist they are champions of intellectual freedom. However, whenever anyone disagrees with their views, that person is scorned, reviled as reactionary – and if you dare to say that you aren’t going to vote for Obama then you are labeled a racist.
Obama blatantly lied to the American people when he said he only had a superficial involvement in ACORN, when it is a FACT that his involvement is much greater and has occurred for a longer period of time that he admits too. ACORN has admitted that it supports Obama and the Democrats, so it is not non-partisan. The voter registration fraud they’ve perpetrated has now come to light – another indisputable fact. It is clear from these dubious activities that the Democrats are attempting to steal the election this time.
The democrats have stood by and their silence has made them a party to the shameless sexism that I thought we conquered in the sixties. There are disgusting videos of violence, tinged with pornography leveled at Sarah Palin, even mocking her and her “retarded” child. It’s one thing not to agree with someone’s political policies, but that doesn’t give them the right to denigrate her in such a vile fashion. If the republicans or their supporters circulated videos on the internet depicting Obama being lynched, there would be such outrage and the FBI would be all over whoever put it out. Yet the democrats stand by and titter complicitly as videos about raping Sarah Palin circulate.
We should be outraged whenever the fundamental principles of democracy are violated, NO MATTER WHAT PARTY DOES IT. We should have been outraged in 2000 when the republicans stole that election and we should be equally outraged this year as the Democrats try to steal the election, continually suppress and intimidate free thought and speech by charges of racism and use of the courts to silence speech that is not consistent with the party line.
For these reasons I am not voting for Obama this year. Sorry to be the messenger of bad news, but this year folks, it’s the Democrats who are the bad guys…AND ask yourself this
Do you have doubts? How would you like to get up in front of a crowded theater in a mixed neighborhood and say you are going to vote for McCain? What respectable person wants to risk being considered a racist or a war monger or a fan of President Bush or an enemy of change? Many good people would like to see a black man as our president, or even a Democrat to be our president, but don’t want Barack Obama.
Yes, this race is different in a way that defies the scientific nature of polls. Do you remember the hushed admissions? Why do people feel obliged to speak quietly? Will these people agree to talk to a pollster? I don’t think so. I wouldn’t.

Republicans are moving to Obama!
In the wake of Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama, conservative critics offered some pushback on the General’s decision, with several, most notably Rush Limbaugh, suggesting that the decision was based purely on race. But this morning, CBS’ Bob Schieffer made it clear that behind the scenes, Powell’s words echoed the criticism of many Republicans, saying, “What Colin Powell said yesterday and why it was so riveting to hear him, he was saying aloud what a lot of Republicans are saying privately.”

HP,
We’ve all read your ranting tales of the unfair DNC and the “evil” Barack Obama for months now.
Fortunately, most folks think there are more important issues at stake in this election than holding a grudge because your candidate lost by the rules that were in place prior to the primary.
Notice, not ONE Pub poster has said any good reason why anyone should support McCain and Parrot.
They only know how to try and discredit Obama. THAT’S exactly why McCain and Parrot will lose. There ISN’T a good reason to vote FOR them.

The CEO of Google has announced his support of Obama.

We just had another business close up shop and Obama’s blowing $150 million?! If he spends this much on his campaign, imagine how he’ll overspend when in office. I never forgot when Obama broke his agreement to use public financing. If you can’t be trusted in little things, how can you be trusted with big things? This is the guy who said $5 a gallon gas would be good the country. I no longer think Obama is qualified to be president. We need to do the primary over again!

I am Indonesian, and like most Asian and European, if cannot understand about news like these :
McCain on Sunday renewed his condemnation of Obama’s economic policies as “socialism” … that Obama planned to “redistribute wealth” to the “more than 40 percent of Americans” who are too poor to pay income taxes.
Whats wrong with helping low income people?? Bush help the rich with 700 billion bailout which is totally blatant socialism or government control to help the rich!!
It is so strange … is it Americans? please someone help me…

Well Ron, then vote for McShame, he can use all the help he can get. Nothing like jumping on a sinking ship while all of the rats are jumping off.

If BO wins, people will have voters remorse. Why? Cause he will steal YOUR money and give it to the poor. Oh, those fat-bottomed dems make the rockin’ world go round. After he’s done punishing you for your hard work, he’d going to restrict your free speech in the guise of ‘fairness’. If anyone wants to see what America under complete Dem control looks like, just come here to Illinois. We got a corrupt Governor, a corrupt State Attorney, and we let rapists live (since the death penalty is banned). But that’s nice, because we have to show compassion to the crazed physcopath, but it gets better. The quality of life is what is important (so said MLK). Taxes are high, and the state closed down all the mental hospitals, so we got physcopaths and serial killers putting in their ‘fair’ share into society. It gets better. Citizens are denied their constitutional right to defend themselves abroad, carrying of concealed weapons, is forbidden for us slaves in Illinois, but the political class and retired commissars can be licensed to carry by the state. But BO is a nice man, because after all, free speech means suppressing the opposition via the courts and prostitute lawyers, who sell out to the highest bidder. The roads in my state are ridden with pot holes, nothing had changed. Those who vote for BO are voting for another civil war, which will be bloodier than the first. BO is a socialist, I have seen the ‘change’ he’s given to my state, nill, nothing. BO is a hooker, he’ll promise you everything and give you nothing good in return.

Andy, It amazes me that you are afraid that Obama will keep the socialistic movement going that the republicans have been running for 8 years now. The only difference is that instead of giving the welfare to corporations and the rich, he will now put our hard earned tax dollars back into projects that will create jobs for the middle class, and rebuild this country’s infra-structure.
This country has had socialism for decades, it’s just been given to the rich these past 8 years.
Fear mongering doesn’t work on americans anymore. New generations have come up, and they aren’t afraid of the boogie man anymore. I know it’s not fair when someone comes along and wants to level the playing field, but you will get used to it.
President Obama! Get used to it!

Shame on Colin Powell. He’s joined the failing finance institutions, left media and everyone else who comes out only in the time McCain is gaining in the polls. No one else sees this. This election is so manipulated I have never been so disappointed in my country as now. Well actually the left media has always been out for Obama. I still wonder why Obama remained so cool when the finacial institutions publicly failed in the same week as McCain was up in the polls. Inside knowlege I wonder. After all the donations to the democrats prove who they were supporting.

Sad, so very sad! I read through most of these posts and all I can say is Sad. This country is divided. And mostly over race. Shame on everyone that thinks one race, religion, or economic status is better than the other. This is America – the UNITED States. People literally fighting over an election. And others that are proud of it. Unbelievable. It’s the 1960s all over again. United we stand, divided we fall. Keep it up – at this rate we won’t have to worry about elections, we’ll have a dictator from a foreign country invading us at a weak moment. Pull your heads out of your butts and it smart.

–The CEO of Google has announced his support of Obama. — ???
Who cares?
The stockboy from the corner drugstore is voting for McCain.

good afternoon.
i understand united states is in decadency and may be degenerating too,but america is not the only one country in this world and america is not the only one country in this situation and that is not justification to american people to forget his past,history,traditions and identity….the white europeans christian peoples made and created america…..i am not rascist or hate people,but the true is the true…..why to vote for the esnigger obama,do not vote for obama,if you do not believe in me,look the africans blacks countries always with poverty,unequalities,violence and not common sense,that will be the future of america,like an african esnigger country, with obama….the true is the true……i understand john maccain is not the best,but maccain is white like an european,has european common sense,is christian,is serious,is honest and even is a true vietnam veteran war….so john maccain is the best for be a president of the united states….vote for john maccain…thank you.

James Bond, Jack Cafferty, Eyers. Razco,Cone, Karl Marx, and Opra also endorses Obam. but not Elvis.

COLIN POWELL:
WRONG on weapons of mass destruction…
WRONG on surge in Iraq……
WRONG on endorsement for unqualified Obama……………
COLIN POWELL: WRONG.

I’ve heard Powell might be a cabinet member in an Obama white house. Maybe he’ll have Obama go into Pakistan like he had Bush go into Iraq.

Thank you Colin Powell for taking the high ground and speaking truth to power! I had written you off due to actions during the Bush administration (although I understand that Cheney had the key role thorughout the administration), however, you took a huge step toward redeeeming yourself today. Thank you for your independent thought & especially for your condemnation of the anti-Muslim extremism and negativity pervading this campaign. We need to hear this and reflect on it as a nation. Look at this board people – for shame! Thank you Colin Powell for elevating the discourse. Think people – this mindless fear and negativity is what produced 8 years of GW – are you really asking for more of this? Republican DO need to rise up and take their party back from the haters.

Many more among the reputable thinking conservatives are moving away from John McCain. From the choice of Sarah Palin to the slanders and sleezy talking points, the McCain campaign has become repulsive. More importantly, Barack Obama’s intelligence, character and quality speaks to the American people.
Conservative Wick Allison (former publisher of National Review), says “Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history” and says today’s conservatism “has produced financial mismanagement, the waste of human lives, the loss of moral authority, and the wreckage of our economy that McCain now threatens to make worse.”
Washington Post, George Will criticized McCain’s “fact-free slander,” “substitution of vehemence for coherence” and “boiling moralism.”
New York Times, David Brooks said by picking Palin, McCain has “thrown away standards of experience and prudence”.
Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer said Palin was “not ready”.
David Frum, former Bush speechwriter and fellow at American Enterprise Institute, said Palin had “thoroughly — and probably irretrievably — proven that she is not up to the job.”
National Review, Kathleen Parker wrote Palin is “clearly out of her league”.
Former Reagan speechwriter and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan says she’s not sure now who she will vote for in November.
Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, writes: “Obama has … the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader” This is the first time, he says, that “I’ll be pulling the Democratic lever in November.”
Even Christopher Hitchens endorsed Obama, saying “the Republican Party has invited not just defeat but discredit this year, and … both its nominees for the highest offices in the land should be decisively repudiated.”
These are conservatives! Welcome aboard.

This is old news!
The new headline should read:
Biden’s latest gaffe sinks Obama
Campaign!
Between Obamas stated desire to
“spread the wealth” by taking your
hard earned dollars and giving it to
welfare recipients and Biden’s claim that Obama’s election will bring about an international crisis within the first six months of his administration,
both men have contributed to the demise
of their campaign!
The American People don’t want European
style Socialism here and we don’t
need another international crisis while
we are still fighting 2 wars!
Obama and Biden have effectively made
the case for the election of
John McCain! It’s not negative
campaigning they said it themselves!
Who would have thought that Obama and
Biden would be the “game changers” that
McCain needed!

Oh, geez, the CEO of Google! is voting Obama? That’s all I was waiting for to help me decide where to cast my vote. Now I feel complete. Thanks, liberal media, for once again doing everything you can to push Obama the illuminati socialist to the White House.