The Obama-mercial

Thank goodness we have dozens of channels that won’t have his infomercial on them!

I bet the ratings will be fairly decent in the big cities. I have a life outside of politics. I for one will not be watching the messiah tonight. I will be in church worshiping the real messiah, that would be Jesus to those who are not sure?

Thank God they aren’t pre-empting “Pushing Daisies!” Much more entertaining than any of the election garbage. Excellent choice, ABC!

I think if you are not sure yet, then, people should watch, find out what Obama wants to offer this country, there is a lot of bad info out there, you need to hear it from the candidate himself…

Todd, While you are in church, please pray for forgiveness because you are judging.

I was going to watch the last half of the world series game, but I may take my wife out. Politics is getting very old. Obama has been saying the same thing for the last two years. For a man who preaches changes, he has done a lot of changing in the last few years. He changed his church, the source for funding for his race, changed philosophy on earmarking.

I thought tonights infomercial was going to follow the them of American’s most wanted. Kilpatrick will be speaking from his jail cell. The Mass. senator will have her lawyer speak.

As the LA Times sits on the tape of Obama and domestic terrorist bomber Ayars and international PLO terrorist Khalidi, refusing to release it, Obama spends tons of questionable money in an attempt to buy the election. I wish the media would have been honest and I wish Obama had honored his promise to use public funds and not have the stigma of suspected Palestinian/Foreign donations.

I guess it’s easy to have the money to pay for this stuff when you take pre paid untraceable credit cards.

Where is the Joe the Blunder? Americans are getting more stupid these years or have learned becoming these years and now a bit smarter? John McLair is bigger liar because he now trying show his profound experiences in economy and combat skills.

Chuck…I can’t wait for this commercial….lol…But I thought Ayers would be showing McCain how to make a bomb. Since Obama is going to tax the hexl out of us I guess we are going to sell off all the stocks and mutual funds by year end…..I rather take my chances with our money under the mattress that giving it to the gov’t to SPREAD THE WEALTH program….Obama is going to tax capital gains by 50%, tax dividends by 40% (we already pay taxes on dividends when we declare the income on our income tax) I guess OBama & the Dems never heard of douple taxation before….then OBAMA & DEM’s are going to put a 50% tax on what your inheranced from your parents..Just think when sell their home for 100,000, 50,000 will go to the gov’t to SPREAD THE WEALTH. My dad never earned over 60,000 a year, he purchase his home for $40,000 and the house is worth 250,000. I guess the smart people will start pulling their money out of the market, which means that the company will have less capital to expand. I am wondering since the Gov’t just game GM money…did OUR gov’t put a few strings attached like…a pay scale freeze, and not BONUSES???

Here is an example of a brilliant ad attack!…OB uses McCRage’s own words….!..Brilliant!

A lot of us do not understand how so many people could be fooled by Obama. But all good con men know they are not going to change their critics, but just want to instill a comfort level with their real targets, the gullible. This is one of the best cons I have ever seen.

This borders on propaganda TV. Welcome the USSA. If he wins and he puts his photo on every street corner in this country, citizens will revolt.

I am sure the Obama supporters think this is great, but I think it just reminds the world that he broke his promise regarding public financing. He comes across as an egomaniac that will do anything to win an election.

I’m so confused. What would McCain be saying about Sarah Palin if she was running against him????? Most of the people who are concerned about wealth redistribution barely have three quarters to rub together. They are listening to a rich man tell them not to want more for themselves “today”. TODAY people! Check your bank accounts. Do you have the recommended three months salary in the bank? At the handle of trickle-down economics, the middle class is dying. Do you honestly think that George Bush and John McCain are concerned for the poor and middle income Americans. Both BOTH candidates have had very questionable associations. You just don’t understand that if we don’t move toward the one supported by one of the economically savvy people in the world “Warren Buffet”, who by the way will be advising him, along with Colin Powell, one of the most knowledgeable, decorated Military experts of our time (in recent years), we are going to miss it. Get smart people, it’s not Kool-aid its simple math. We need someone who has been one of us to help us go where we want to go. I want my money back. Barack Obama is the American story. He came from humble beginnings and did what most Republicans believe that we as Americans should do. America worked for him and now he wants to return the favor, by helping all of us.

ROC
Democrats voted with BUSH 90% of the time, as
they control congress and pretty much the Senate.

If it’s staged, choreographed, and scripted, it’s not real! My husband has a rare evening off from his second-shift job, and I can assure you we will will not be wasting it watching this bozo.

Hey ABC, why are you not running the story about the MA State Senator taking bribes on prime time? I guess you didn’t want the majority of America to know that the State Democrate Female Senator was caught by the FBI in a sting operation, stuffing bribe money in her BRA….Did you not want the rest of your readers to know that there is a corrupt Dem. out there? I say send her with Stevens along with the CEO’s on Wall Street to Guantanamo Bay….Only problem ABC, you gave Stevens story top billing yesterday…but what about the MA State Democrate Senator taking over $20,000 in bribes?????

I applaud ABC for not airing this garbage. This is rediculous. I would have campaigned against Obama if he cut into “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” last night on ABC. Charlie Brown is such a classic. Obama, however, is such a joke.

grumpyoldmanintown
I’m trying. I just want the democrats who seem to only want to hear the current words from Obama and totally believe to know with just a few keystrokes they could go behind the man and see for themselves the true Obama. I know McCain has faults, just like everyone has faults. I still believe his character and honor and sincere love of his country is enough for me to believe he will do his best for the right of the people. Democrats have always been tax and spend. That won’t change under Obama.

Are you Obama worshippers so blind that you don’t care that he is buying this election? Mostly on the backs of untraceable donations. You think you have seen greed and arrogance on Wall St, wait until St Obama is elected. Look at where he’s from and who he has associated with: the corrupt Democratic machine in Chicago, Ayers, Rezko, Khalidi, Emil Jones. Win at any cost. Look at his own words in his books. Open your eyes and really look before it’s too late.

Way to go, Barack!!! Talk about the economy, they are clueless. (Actually it’s rather entertaining when they try) but it’s too serious to joke about. Keep talking about tax cuts for 95% of us, they don’t know how to respond intelligently so they yell “Socialist”. Where do they think our roads, bridges, police force, firemen and schools come from? Keep talking about Health Care, how can a man who has 3 health care policies understand what we who are without it go through when we or our children get sick? Keep talking about a solution to the Mortgage crisis. What does he who has 7 houses know about losing a home? He can can lose 6 of them and still have a place to live. Keep on doing what you’re doing and I will continue to make calls, canvass my neighborhood and send my letters to the editors.

deanbob
It based on households. I am assuming especially inn the lower income level, two people working. It was the latest I could find. It does show that there aren’t many in the 200,000 and higher range. Is this truly the middle class?

One name…Sarah Palin (WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!)

No Jane,
Democrats DID NOT vote with Bush 90% of the time. They were in the minority for 3/4 of his term.
The voted against him on everything from wiretapping Americans to banking laws and bankruptcy laws to his radical judicial nominees to his tax cuts.
In the last 2 years, they have voted against him numerous times, but they can’t override his veto.
Americans are smart enough to figure all this out.
And lest the Republicans forget, you can’t spend 20 years being the party of tax cuts for the wealthy and then try to shift blame when you oversee 8 years in which the wages of the average American fell, but the net worth of the top 1% grew (exponentially) because those are the policies you advocated.
You can’t try to shift the blame when you are the party of deregulation and you let banks and credit card companies write the bankruptcy laws and set their own rules about how to conduct themselves and then you see an economic crisis brought about by banks writing their own rules and a lack of regulation.

Bigger Government begins tonite!
I for one and I hope millions of other intelligent people who can filter all this and see how wrong Obama will be for America for so many reasons will boycott this blantant one-sided PROPAGANDA.

The ill-fated, dishonest, unintelligent, arrogant, biased, ungodly, divisive, and capriciously and unilaterally imposed policies of this historically worst administration, have been ruining the image of this great nation, inside and outside. They definitely destroyed the economy here and abroad, with the lost of too many soldiers and hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, the mortgaging of our children for future generations, and the bonus trillion dollar deficit.
With the unconditional support of the ultra-conservative well intentioned Christians, the greedy minority but powerful controlling riches, and the super lobbying-corrupting special interests, the Bush’s gang also destroyed the core/basis and reputation of the Republican Party for many years to come.
Those are a too high prices to pay. They are the tragic legacy of the big mistake of this century: the election of incompetents just because they are in the same (GOP) party or because they call themselves “new born Christians.”
Being a Republican, I’ll never will vote for a GOP candidate anymore in my life. I love Jesus and his teachings. I hate dishonesty, corruption, vicious unfunded attacks to honorable citizens, racism and discrimination of any kind.
Mr. McCain is the champion of the unethical wave of the “say anything and do whatever it takes to win” secular approach. Unfortunately, the Grand Old Party is not grand anymore because it has been contaminated with too many members like Bush and Co., of course his clone Mr McCain and his heavy load Sarah Pallin.
They have no regrets, they are spiritually dead and intellectually short. Their evilest selfishness do not allow them find solutions to the real problems of the nation. They only want power to destroy with wars, misinformation, money, personal attacks, and lies. They are indifferent to the suffering of all our fellow citizens underestimating the intellectual capacities of most informed Americans.
Another sincere ans honest Christian voting for Obama.

The fact is right now the top 25% of the earners in this country account for 85% of the payroll taxes collected.

Dee Dee Lynn | Oct 29, 2008 9:03:09 AM……..How much is exponentially in “the net worth of the top 1% grew …” ??????

His REAL NAME is “JOE THE UNLICENSED PLUMBER WHO JOHN MCCAIN WOULD TAX MORE THAN OBAMA WOULD.” See, Joe only makes $40,000 a year. (For you right wing math majors out there, 40,000 is less than 250,000.) The company he works for ALSO makes less than $250,000 a year.
Joe was LYING. Get it? LYING. And so are McCain and Palin.
When you give tax breaks to working Americans who will spend it on stuff they need, instead of to billionaires who will just stash it in offshore bank accounts, you are stimulating the economy, increasing corporate earnings, and yes, “spreading the wealth”. That’s not socialism, that’s CAPITALISM. That’s not anti-American, that’s PRO-AMERICAN.

Well, if you need to know why the Mcainiacs are nastier than ever (maybe they are chanelling their candidate) here are the latest composite poll numbers from RCP:
Colorado 51.3 43.0 Obama +8.3
Ohio 49.3 43.0 Obama +6.3
Florida 48.2 44.8 Obama +3.4
Nevada 50.0 42.5 Obama +7.5
Missouri 47.4 46.8 Obama +0.6
North Carolina 48.3 47.0 Obama +1.3
Virginia 50.7 43.3 Obama +7.4
McCain has also been losing ground IN ARIZONA. There is a poll about today that shows Arizona a DEAD HEAT.
Obama on the other hand is up 21 points in Illinois. The people from their states know them best.
McCain may lose Arizona. Enough said.

By using private finacing Obama gamble and won big. He did go against the original promise, but if McCain had seen an oppurtunity to raise more money he would have done it. McCain just did not have the ability to raise that sort of money.
Even Bill O’Rielly admitted on Latterman that Obama has run one of the best campaigns he has seen in a long time.
There is not need to hate a job well done.

WHICH CANDIDATE WAS BORN IN THE USA? OBAMA (Hawaii)
WHICH CANDIDATE WAS NOT BORN IN THE USA? McCain (Panama)
WHICH CANDIDATE VOTED FOR THE NEW GI BILL? OBAMA
WHICH CANDIDATE VOTED NO ON THE NEW GI BILL? MCCAIN
WHICH CANDIDATE GOT AN 80% RATING FROM DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS? OBAMA
WHICH CANDIDATE GOT A 20% RATING FROM DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS? MCCAIN
WHICH CANDIDATE’S TAX PLAN GIVES THE LARGEST TAX CUT TO THE MIDDLE CLASS? OBAMA
WHICH CANDIDATE’S TAX PLAN GIVES A MASSIVE TAX CUT TO OIL COMPANIES? MCCAIN
WHICH CANDIDATE IS A REGULAR CHURCH-GOING CHRISTIAN? OBAMA
WHICH CANDIDATE NEVER GOES TO CHURCH? MCCAIN

Jewish people please do not vote like you normally vote(democrat). You can turn this election around, and show the haters like the reverend wright that we all stand for the survival of Israel.

CW,
Don’t you love how the Republicans thought it was great to spend unlimited soft money in campaigns, how they fought all forms of campaign finance regulation when they had more money than the Democrats?
They outspent the Democrats by huge amounts in the last two presidential elections. Now that the financial advantage is to the Democrats, suddenly they have changed their tune.
If they concede that they “bought” or rigged the last couple of elections, ONLY then could they make the case Obama is buying this one.

This cheesy infomercial reminds me of something straight out of North Korea.
Obama has to force his message down peoples throats just like a dictator.
No one care but those illiterate enough to embrace change as the answer to all our problems.

I wonder if those who put down Obama will be willing to give him credit once he turns this horrible country around?

NICE TO SEE ALL THESE GOOD CHRISTIAN REPUBLICANS WHO HAPPILY VOTED FOR A CANDIDATE WHO HAS BLOWN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES TO BITS IN A LIE-BASED WAR THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN LAUNCHED.

This is the ultimate act of self agrandisement! Very selfish, nasty, and brutish. Obama talks about liberating people from poverty, but his ad buys shows a man desperate for recognition and personal promotion. How else can one justify an Obama asking people (mostly poor people) to sacrifice and promote his cause for change, when that change only involves expensive commercials and self-indulgence. This is absolutely bizzare and ridiculous.
Here are the facts:
Americans (decent Americans) are increasingly losing their jobs, life savings, insurance, and investments.
Many have lost their credit and the advantage and protection linked to this.
Many have become despondent because the future looks bleak.
This nation is fighting a war in Iraq with thousands of young men and women in arms way fighting to keep their beloved nation safe.
And yet, we have a presidential campaign on the brink of making history as the most expensive political campaign in world history. Everytime i see an Obama commercial, i cannot help but think how many desperately poor people contributed to making that commercial. They have become poorer so Obama can become more popular. They contribute to a cause that holds no promise to uplift them. The Obama family lives in affluence and opulence. He went to Harvard and his kids will follow his footsteps and go to Harvard or Princeton or Yale. But where will the kids of the thousands of poor people who fund his commercials go? – poorly funded, understaffed, and ill-equiped public schools that cannot positively engage these kids.
I weep for America. 600 million dollars to run commercials that do not put food on the table of people is absolutely ridiculous. It is shameful. Very shameful.
Americans are losing

hahahah, You Mccanians are just upset because the old man doesn’t have that kind of money to spend. Maybe if the old man used his money more wisely (ie, not spending $150K in clothes) the he would be further in the polls.

NICE TO SEE ALL THESE GOOD CHRISTIAN REPUBLICANS WHO HAPPILY VOTED FOR A CANDIDATE WHO HAS BLOWN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES TO BITS IN A LIE-BASED WAR THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN LAUNCHED.
Posted by: Edna the Baptist | Oct 29, 2008 9:14:27 AM
Old Hippie!
You have no idea of the magnitue of what was going on over there…it was our duty to end it.

Liberals get easily offended because they don’t have anything intelligent to say. They also don’t know how to back their candidate. I’m not a fan of Bush, but I will stand by someone who will fight for this country like McCain. Go ahead and call him Bush all you want. I rather have another Bush than a run, duck and hide, lying, racist, radical sympathizer, elitist, Acorn loving, vote hogging, vote stealing traitor to the US anytime!

Well to actually comment on the subject of the article: A freakin’ 30min commercial??? How annoying. If I were voting for him this would be a huge turn off, but since I am not voting for him its strictly annoying and bothers me. I do not want to watch 30 min of his BS. I do not beleive 90% of what he says, I have totally different opionins then him so this bothers me. I am one of those people who only have a tv w/ four channels and of those ABC will be the only one NOT airing this crap. No abc will be airing the crappy “pushing daisies” Oh well, I have other things to do, but you can guarantee that non of the TV’s in my house will tune into his BS!!

Benjamin Okonofua | Oct 29, 2008 9:15:31 AM………A M E N

Barack Obama is spending the money that we as Americans gave to him. Those of you that claim you don’t believe in redistribution and that the government shouldn’t have a say in what the “rich” do with their money, should be fine with how Barack is spending the money that we give for him to campaign harder. When I give my money to institutions, stores, organizations I would like to see how it’s being used. I gave it to Barack Obama, for Barack Obama’s campaign ONLY!!!! People that are hating on him because he’s getting the support financially to mirror the level of obvious support, should wise up and see that he has a gift for rallying people to work toward a common goal. Maybe, just maybe, we all will get to benefit from that gift if he becomes president.

This campaigning has gone too far, in my opinion. Most of us would’ve been happy to just get it over with months ago. At this point, most minds are made up. However, if Obama really wants to drop money on an infomercial, good for him…just remember this unnecessary expense when he’s president.
Who knows where he’ll feel the need to drop our tax dollars (you know, the increasing amount he plans to take from hard-working Americans if elected).
With the thousands of Americans starving in the streets (yes, Americans who also have the right to vote, but often don’t vote), he choses to go on TV like a celebrity rather than use the money to make a difference off-camera in the lives of many who would likely vote for him if they could…not a smart choice, not a choice I want my future president making.
It’s true that the presidential election is a bit of a popularity contest, but an infomercial is going too far. It’s clearly going to be scripted (whether it’s obvious or not, it will be…don’t fool yourselves). Every person on there will have been given lines to say, nothing negative of course. I don’t want someone who throws away money that liberally running my country…do you?

Loyal,
So is it not our duty to end the violence in Darfur? Yet we do next to nothing.

If he is president, will we have to get use to these infomercials? Especially, if he starts blocking media outlets that ask tough questions and do not support / protect him.

America must be proud of this man, brilliant, articulate and smart. Just look at this strategy leave alone how well he has run his campaign isn’t it mesmerizing? This guy has surrounded himself with the smartest brains there is, delivering plans and visions stretching beyond tommorrow and the only candidate at that who has a vision of how to face the challenges of the 21st century.
Listening to the dinasaurus policies of his opponent one could easily predict the extinction of this great nation that his predecessor Bush has already put into motion. Now we are all affected world wide BUT HOPE that the
Americans vote for CHANGE and make America great again!! Is this so hard to comprehend?

LIFE | Oct 29, 2008 9:16:48 AM…..My TV has a few more channels – half are Spanish language. But I am in full agreement with you. I have not watched any MSM news since I signed a pledge a month ago.

It seems that most democrats here seem to be in the me first position. Take it from them and give it to me.
I guess you forgot on of your former democratic leaders. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Bush administration to talk to Taliban.
Geez I guess Obama had something when he said we should talk with our enemies and use the tool of deplomacy. Obama also called for a time frame in Iraq months before Bush pushed for it. McCain has been against both. Sounds like Bush has smartened up and is taking Obama’s suggestions.

Pushing Daisies will be the #1 rated show of the week.
All McCain needs to do is run an ad showing Obama belonged to the Socialist New Party.

Kennedy was terrible president. I am a democrat and I know that.

Obama’s tax plan sounds much less socialist than bailing out the banking industry. Everyone loves to reap the rewards of the free market, but then spread the debt around when greed leads to their own failure.

If he is president, will we have to get use to these infomercials? Especially, if he starts blocking media outlets that ask tough questions and do not support / protect him.
Posted by: Larry
***********************
You must be talking about McCain. Oh thats
right, he can’t answer the questions because
of his lack of knowledge in economics.

Bottom line is if McCain had had enough campaign donations, he would be doing the same thin Obama is doing. Note to LIFE: The great thing about America is no one will force you to watch the infomercial. You can pick up a book and read!

Obama is spending 1mil per network for this 30 min slot. That isnt a lot considering how much these canidates take in. If the GOP wasnt buying 150k dresses and thousands in hair and makeup , maybe they would have some money left. But the GOP is now going in dept running their campaine. Maybe they should borrow money from China since that is their norm.

This infomercial will be Obama’s demise. OVEREXPOSURE turns people off.
He should have taken that money and sent it somewhere for better use.
Obama is a phony and America will see how phony all the Polls were when McCain is elected.

I HAVE VOTED for McCain/Palin and my Republican Senator and Representative. I do not want Obama in the whitehouse nor the democrats to gain any seats in either chamber of Congress.

Nichole
I am a veteran of the USN, part of the dedicated, honorable people who dedicate themselves and are willing to give their all to protect everyone, including hateful people like you from those who would try to harm you and this country. On enlistment our oath is to protect and defend the constitution. Your welcome, by the way.

National Security and Pro-Life are the two most important issues in this election. If you need a third issue to discuss, lets talk about the right to keep and bear arms. Obama wants to ban all handguns and does not support the right to defend your home and family with a firearm.
Obama + Biden = NO Military experience
Compare experience: Obama to McCain
and Biden to Palin
Most Americans are smart enough to look past the Obama Media blitz. Never before has anyone spent so much money on advertising. Television, radio, billboards, newspaper, internet, Emails, door to door, flyers, direct mailing and yes telephone calls.
Trying to convince the American voter that John McCain IS George W. Bush.
How about an advertisement that trys to portray Barack Obama as Jimmy Carter?
Americans, think and do some real soul searching before you vote this election.
Your national security is worth more than an empty TAX CUT promise.
DO NOT VOTE BIG-BROTHER.
VOTE: – McCain – Palin

drjohn…Democrats may be buying the election with millions of contributions, but it’s more honest than Republicans and Bush stealing the election in 2000!! FACT: There are still over 100,000 unopened, uncertified ballots in Ohio from 2000 election. Bush supposedly won by 53,000 votes there.

WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP. We are entering the worst recession you have seen in DECADES. Democrats, Liberals & Independents, if the last decade of conservative Republican, right-wing deceit, manipulation, hate, fear mongering, immorality and corruption doesn’t make you angry, how about the fact that YOU ARE ABOUT TO LOSE YOUR JOB, YOUR SAVINGS, AND YOUR LIVELIHOODS?? GET ANGRY, GET ANGRY AT WHAT THESE PEOPLE HAVE DONE TO YOU. Vote and, beyond voting, tell these people to go to H***!!

Oh and by the way, couldn’t he provide lunches and such to the troops we’re sending out to Afghanistan for 8 months etc??? Or more visits to our soldiers to gain the American people’s support?
No no no no no, he want more time on TV.
Epic fail.

Now this was funny!

My wife and I are both in the military. She is serving her 26th year and Im on my 29th. One year to go for me. We have always voted fot the Republican ticket in the past even though we are Independent. After keeping up with this campaine and researching everything we could, we will be supporting Obama. McCain served his country with honor, but that in itself doesnt mean he will be a good President. What really sent us over the edge was the pick of Palin. The thought that she could be our Commander in Chief one day is scarey. Both Kennedy and Reagan were great at deplomacy and the Berlin Wall came down and we prevented a war with the Soviets during the Cuban missle crisis due to having brains in the White House that believed in deplomacy first.At one point Kennedy’s four Generals and Chief of Staff were pressuring Kennedy to attack. Kennedy didnt fall to the pressure and used is brains and deplomacy to possibly stop a war and it worked. Does anyone acually believe, if McCain and Palin had been in office that they would have gone against their Generals and used deplomacy. I think not. If something were to happen to McCain, Palin would be in charge of the most powerful military in the world. I know about the Alaska National Guard but I also know she as never given them one single command. My Wife and I are sure in our beliefs that if McCain and Palin are elected, at the least, we would just continue with Bush policies or even worse. Obama believes not only in deplomacy first, before conflict, and has the brains to make it work. He will keep our military strong and country safe and will help fix the the worlds view of us. Remember the days when the international community respected and looked up to us. Please support the troops and God Bless America.

YR – just in your statement, in questioning my Christianity, I can say that there is not presence of the woman at the well in your statement. Even if I was not a Christian, wouldn’t a Christian want me to be be a Christian. Wouldn’t a Christian want to forgive a person for wrongs of the past and restore them? Wouldn’t a Christian seek out the good in people and not assume the worst in people because of our own self-righteousness. I believe both men are good men, just different. Give me some solid scripture that Jesus would use for your position YR. I’d be glad to read it and study the surround scripture and context. After all that’s what my church and my belief system has prepared me to do in every area of my life. Help me to understand your position and anger.

Obama is the worst extremist leftist in the Senate, worse than John Kerry and Jimmy Carter, and he is a big spender. So, he will punish or tax all those who work hard hard to pay for his big spending and well-fare system. When Barack Obama cancels the tax-cut program by George Bush he automatically raises our taxes, for all.

Obama has more skeletons in his closet than a Halloween Costume retailer.
Oh my God. I just cant imagine him in the Whitehouse. Please, anyone but Obama!!!
Go McCain. Go get all those undecided voters and show thw American People how phony htose Polls are!!

Well, I can hardly stand this board anymore. The more clear it becomes that Obama will win, the nastier and more untrue the McCainiac posts become.
Deal with it guys. We lived under your court-appointed President and his congressional sidekicks for nearly 8 years.
We had to suffer while we watched him ruin this country’s good name and run the economy into the ground.
We are all ready for someone else, and if Obama wins you had all better take the advice that you dished out for 8 years, which was to respect the President, whether you like or him not.
In fact, I am sure Republicans said on many many many occassions that it was un-American to disrespect the President but of course, you will throw that out the window when it suits you, just like McCain threw out his principles when it suited him.

All I’m going to ask is, where is all the money, this guy Obama is spending, coming from? Do you think its coming from the middle-east, you know who? Or is it coming from that dictator in South America or both? Or is it coming from the war lords in this country who see just another way to make more money off the masses. I’m talking drugs. You start giving people money for no reason and before you know it, they are spending it on all the wrong things. This is no way to change the culture, all we do is add to the problems. What Obama is doing is buying the election by telling 55% of the masses they are going to be getting something for nothing. Most people don’t know what is happening regarding this country, this election, and the future. WE BETTER WAKE UP!

YR – just in your statement, in questioning my Christianity, I can say that there is not presence of the woman at the well in your statement. Even if I was not a Christian, wouldn’t a Christian want me to be be a Christian. Wouldn’t a Christian want to forgive a person for wrongs of the past and restore them? Wouldn’t a Christian seek out the good in people and not assume the worst in people because of our own self-righteousness. I believe both men are good men, just different. Give me some solid scripture that Jesus would use for your position YR. I’d be glad to read it and study the surround scripture and context. After all that’s what my church and my belief system has prepared me to do in every area of my life. Help me to understand your position and anger.
Posted by: Smear Police | Oct 29, 2008 9:32:58 AM
I forgive you

Just An American – And, just think what $10 billion per month could do? Just think that McCain wishes to continue deficit spending on an unnecessary war. Just think how deep in debt this country is to China, Russia and other nations. McCain says he “freeze federal spending” except for the military. All I can say is good luck believing that. Many expenditures are build in by law and the president does not have that power. Would he stop Medicare or Social Security checks? Would he stop payments on the debt that the Republicans ran up? Would he stop maintenance on federal roads or bridges?
How about cutting maintenance of national parks and forests? Security?Emergencies and natural disasters? McCain’s notion of maintaining Bush’s tax scheme while continuing to spend on war and on domestic programs will not pencil out. It just means greater debt for the nation and pushing the payment for these on to future generations. Basically, it undermines the economy in the long run.

So trinityusa,
I am guessing you think its better to concentrate wealth in the hands of a very small percentage of the population, because that is what capitalism (by definition) is.
Gee, that has worked so well.

Spacerook I didn’t say that – some evil person said that. I know that Barack Obama is getting the money from the 100,000s of people who support him in each state. It’s not rocket science.

CW | Oct 29, 2008 9:32:51 AM……Thank you and your wife for your many years of service, no matter how you vote.

If you still have questions about Obama, then watch the show. Don’t believe what McCain tells you, it’s mostly lies. Do some independent research.

Come November 4th, the wise people of this country will be sending McCain his “Dear John” letter by way of a vote. Then the Republicans will have to re-create their party in order to appeal to the electorate and not just those who are frothing at the mouth conservatives. The demographics of this country are shifting and all the praying or shooting guns in the air can stop it.

Sounds to me that he is so worried that what the press has been saying about his lead is absolutely “FALSE”. Why would you blow Millions more on a 30 minute infomercial if he isn’t so worried? For once I wish either candidate would tell the truth about what they are truly going to do if they are elected instead of what they think the people want to hear.

The headline reads “unprecedented” when Reagan did the same thing in 84.

ANYONE WHO CAN RAISE 600 MIL+ AND ENTHUSED THOUSANDS OF VOLUNTEERS DID SOMETHING RIGHT. SHOWS GOOD LEADERSHIP AND CONSISTENCY. OBAMA MAY BE UNTESTED BUT HE IS UNTAINTED BY THE DIRTY POLITICS AND I’LL SLEEP BETTER KNOWING BIDEN IS 2ND IN COMMAND.
TIME TO UNITE THIS COUNTRY FOR GENERATIONAL CHANGE.

Obama broke his promise regarding public financing. That’s the key decision which defines the man’s character. He lied. Now, with millions of dollars from bogus donors, Obama is going to give us a show totally disregarding his broken promise. His “in your face” attitude will cost him this election. He is one celebrity who, despite his close associations with anti-American and anti-white elements, has succeeded in fooling millions. Within the next few days, however, millions will wake up and see how fake this guy is. I was disgusted by the manner in which the democratic party and the media deprived us off the most qualified candidate –Hillary Clinton. I swithced my support to John McCain as soon as I discovered how shady and fake Obama is. I will never let this great nation to become a victim of Barack Hussein Obama and his anti-American group of people.

All the Republicans do is create fear, tell lies and create a negative atmosphere. Just look at the mess created by Bush and his corrupt cronies!

Wow, drjohn! That’s freaking amazing!!! Sadam Hussein managed to donate money FROM THE GRAVE 2 years after he died!!! And now we should be able to trace the money trail back to Bin Laden’s remote cave in the mountains where ever he is hiding.

Dee Dee Lynn | Oct 29, 2008 9:38:27 AM…….Would you throw out the baby with the bath water? Capitalism has functioned well for over 225 years, with some ups and downs. Bush and the Congress has gone on a spending spree. But, Obama’s plans will make the recession worse; maybe even a depression. Unemployment is over 6% now. In the great depression it was over 22%. Are you financially prepared for your family to loose its source of income?

I’d rather watch Family Guy on TBS. You all can watch your messiah make all of his promises as he buys his way into the White House.

I guess I’ll tune in to the Barack show, and stay if it’s any good.
I have been semi-retired since January due to health issues; I am 59 years old, male. The very plus side has been the time to dig into the candidates in this election. My job as a director of research was in keeping with my natural curiosity to get to the ground-truth bottom of things.
My first choice was Hillary Clinton, who I had long thought to be one of our nation’s finest minds, with a work ethic beyond belief, the kind of person I looked up to in my profession. A few missteps and bad bounces left her out of the running; she still was as gracious as ever.
The torch was passed to Barack Obama. Delving into his record, his life reads at the same time like a line of tragedies most of us would not wish on anyone, while his intellect, grit, judgement, people skills (“emotional intelligence” they call that), with energies and courage to surge into difficult arenas and be successful.
- He is a devoted family man
- He has fast-twitch analytical reasoning—a fast, and deep, ability to learn
- He is articulate and can explain complexity in terms that reach out to everyone in society
- He has a perhaps exaggerated sense of the goodness of America, and has demonstrated the willingness and character to lift us back to the moral, civil, and peaceful world stage
- That he can deal equally effectively, honestly, and purposefully with the full diversity of our population—racial, gender, age, rich and poor—is contrasted against rivals who’s party line has been to divide the nation
- He is a person who’s hardships and opportunities taken have allowed him inner calmness, which, thankfully, he has shared with us in this campaign and its many long and unexpected turns
In short, I am casting my vote for a person like my favorite mentors, like my favorite uncle, like my idols in all walks of professional and private life.
I am casting my vote for Barack Obama.

Tad,
Things reported by far-right wing blogs are not “unbiased facts.”
Facts are things that coincide with reality and that can be confirmed by independent sources.
The “facts” on those right-wing blogs have been discredited by independent sources.
When they don’t tell outright lies, they do things like formulate a quote by taking the first 3 words and the last 3 words from an entire page in a book and putting them together as if they made a sentence.
You should take your own advice and get some “unbiased facts.”
“Unbiased” by the way, does not mean that it coincides with your ideology.
Let’s start with a fact. It is a FACT that George W. Bush was appointed by the Supreme Court in 2000.
Hopefully, this time, the president will actually be elected…

The “Hillary Supporter for McCain” is a fraud. She is just a part of Rush Limbaugh’s ‘Operation Hillary’ which was nothing more than Republican woman switching parties in the Demcocratic primaries in order to cause mischief and try to influence the primary elections. They are all Republicans and still trying to mix things up. Sorry, you’re busted. Get used to hearing President Obama.

Littlevoice – extracting from the context of a message is soooooo Republican Karl Rove smear. Would it surprise you that there are a LOT (the operative word is LOT) of U.S. citizens who are concered about Palestine. There are a lot of Israelians concerned about Palestine and the conditions they have lived in. There are a lot of Palestinians who are concerned for Israel – one dimensional thinking is what this Administration was and is all about – and you reflect that. Thank heavens responsible journalists see the broad spectrum – suggest you turn in Frontline, PBS and turn of FOX for a little while.

Dave,
Let’s start with the “most liberal senator” thing.
Have you ever noticed that the right-wing group who ranks these things ALWAYS ranks any senator who is the front runner as “the most liberal senator” in the Senate?
Obama more liberal than say Russ Feingold or Barbara Boxer, I think not.
Secondly, McCain repeats lots of lies himself. But the worst lies he lets people like Limbaugh spew and that’s what you all like to post on here. The lies that are so outrageous that even McCain won’t tell them, although they circulate all over the right-wing blogs.

matt- If Obama is so great then why doesn’t he do a press conference instead of an infomercial? He won’t do press conferences because he’s scared to face the questions.

You know, Obama has spent 600 million on this campaign and that is not including what the others have spent. HC was 20 Million in the hole when she ended her race and I can garentee the money did not come out of her pocket. All that money would have been better spend putting it back into the economy so the taxpayers didn’t have to spring for a bail out.
It seems to me that everyone is thinking they are going to get healthcare for nothing under Obama. I hate to tell you but that isn’t going to happen. Nothing in this life is free and you’ll have to pay for his polices somewhere. I’m not buying the bull that he is shoveling.
As for redistrabution of wealth – why should I work hard so some lazy butt head can sit on their A@@ all day and whatch Oprah and Judge Judy.

mm
Kenya is not a muslim nation and Obama’s father was not a devout muslim. However, even if he were, what difference does it make? I’m a lot more worried about the Christian theocrats in America subverting the Constitution, than the American Muslims, whom we haven’t heard a peep from on the subject.

mm – Yes Senator Obama’s father was Muslim. Senator Obama is a Christian, has professed his faith and has had his daughters baptized in the faith. Now want to ask your neighbor who is a Christian – “are you really a Christian?” The pathetic spin and attempeted characterizations of the GOP, John McCain and Sarah Palin against Senator Obama are just that – pathetic. Kind of like when Senator McCain was running in 2000 and the “baby” Karl Rove ad. When you wallow enough with pigs, you forget what clean earth looks like.

wow!
Obama will be not only the 1st black presedent/ but also he will change the way politices made in this country for the last ….decades/based on money more than humanbeing/ people wake up and compare your country with others/ our media stracture and foucus make us more isolated and ignorant.stop demonize the other side because they are differnt.
true politices is a solution for any problem.
macain and Palin in this case are part of the problem and it is time to cleanup them with Washington and Wall street.
mulu

“Democrats for McCain-Palin” LOL. That’s s good one. Like, “Hmm, if I say this THIS way, maybe they’ll think it’s meaningful.” ANYONE who would consider John McCain and Sarah Palin as nominees obviously has no problem endangering America AND REAL Liberty, i.e. liberty for more than just heterosexual-WASP-Christians. ABC-TV is garbage anyway. Talk about pandering… Desperate Housewives? Dirty Sexy Money? More like PukeTV. Brought to you courtesy The Disney Co. Walt’s rolling in his grave.

trinityusa,
Please, go to a reliable source (not a right-wing blog) and find us a definition of capitalism and one of socialism.
Please, I can’t wait. If you can’t define them, you should not use them.
MOST people in this country do not really UNDERSTAND what capitalism or socialism is.
Capitalism is, as I said, a market system that holds that the most effective way to run an economy IS TO CONCENTRATE THE WEALTH IN THE HANDS OF A SMALL ELITE–CALLED CAPITALISTS
It is AN OWNERSHIP SOCIETY (remember Ws term) in which OWNERSHIP IS LIMITED TO WEALTHY ELITES.
The robber barons of the 19th century were capitalists, pure and simple.
SOCIALISM is also A MARKET SYSTEM (not the same as COMMUNISM) which believe that the most effective way to run an economy is to have the wealth shared by as many people as possible.
NEITHER is a political theory. CHINA IS CAPITALIST and AUTHORITARIAN. GREAT BRITAIN is SOCIALIST AND DEMOCRATIC.
Contradict my facts, I dare you.

kuty, Obama did not use public money. His money came from donations from everyday people, so he could very well spend it any way that he wanted to. Unlike the RNC who used taxpayer financing to purchase 150,000 worth of clothes for Palin. How is that for elitist?

Look at the “neighborhoods” of Chicago where Obama did his “organizing” and where his “leadership” served the “people”. Would you walk down any street, alone, there today? America will be one big soup kitchen with Obama for President… and the people won’t be deciding on the soup being served.

Loyal- I apologize- I get a little crazy when i see the word hippie.

Spudhut :Trying to convince the American voter that John McCain IS George W. Bush.
Spudhut, your getting confused, Bush can’t stand McCain and visa versa. The problem is their policies
are virtually identical
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How about an advertisement that trys to portray Barack Obama as Jimmy Carter?
Too bad Bush will be portrayed as Hoover and
McCain is on his coat tail.
At Least Carter is a Nobel Peace prize recipient,
the chances are null for Bush.
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Spudhut :Americans, think and do some real soul searching before you vote this election.
Your national security is worth more than an empty TAX CUT promise.
National Security? Its a joke, going to airports,
having everyone do almost everything except
a cavity search. This is exactly what Bin Laden
wanted. We are spending time and resources on
fruitless projects
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Spudhut :DO NOT VOTE BIG-BROTHER.
Yeh, eight years is enough!
Posted by: Spudhut

Look at the “neighborhoods” of Chicago where Obama did his “organizing” and where his “leadership” served the “people”. Would you walk down any street, alone, there today? America will be one big soup kitchen with Obama for President… and the people won’t be deciding on the soup being served.

Dave…I completely understand

I already voted for Obama and am excited at the prospects of him becoming President of the United States of America. Let’s face it; most of us aren’t rich enough for the Republicans to truly advocate for us. It’s time we hired someone who will.

Linda, how many times are you gonna copy and paste your post? How many times have you been to Chicago? You are probably one of the very people who would benefit most from the kinds of tax cuts that Obama is proposing.

Dee Dee Lynn: How right you are..
Stop the nasty comments McCain…you are going to lose, don’t be such a poor loser.
I’m so tired of the mudslinging…It’s the same old, same old. We have had eight years of these republicans ruinging our country and people still want them in? WAKE UP!
Obama/Biden 2008

Stump: It’s not HATE – it’s IGNORANCE – And there are going to be a lot of SAD, IGNORANT people hangin’ ’round next Wednesday.
I guess they will know what the Dems felt like 8 years ago

I am so glad that you are not part of the half hour ad time tonight. I think the money he is paying for the ad time should be going to people who need the money – sick, homeless, people who need food on their table. In all my years we have never seen anything like this. Where is all his money coming from that no one else has. If he feels spending 3 millon on ads is inportant now what happens when he is in the white house.
Also why has the LA newspaper not put the articile out about him.

‘TO ALL: This actually is a very common practice – prior to 1984, most candidates did half hour shows detailing their plans…Kennedy, Nixon, Johnson, Eisenhower – ALL of them did this. What’s better? Spending some money to tell the American people what you stand for or spending $150,000 on some ‘pump me’ pumps?” And Ross Perot did it in 1992.

o’brien
Livni was elected head of Israel’s ruling party.
Prime ministers are never directly elected.
If you are the head of the ruling party, you become prime minister.

Aaron
And you actually believe that if the polls were reversed that Obama wouldn’t be doing the same thing?

Hey Absolute Power Corrupts,
You, McCain, Palin and republicans around the country are saying the same thing. Beware of a democrat white house and congress. But, what you DON’T say is that “absolute power corrupts” has already been perpetrated. Remember the years of 2001 to 2007? Yes, the Bush/Cheney white house was supported by a republican lead congress, house and senate. They voted in every budget, gave him the keys to the invasion of Iraq, supported his tax cuts that helped to increase the budget and paid no attention to the housing crisis and the financial institutions. Yes sir, you are correct, “absolute power corrupts” especially in the hands of a party that caters to the most influential, the power brokers of society. Get off your high horse.

For you republicans always complaining becasue the rest of the world wants to see Barack Obama elected as POTUS…
If you haven’t heard there is a foreign group that wants to see Sen. McShame elected. Unfortunately though it is the endorsement he wasn’t asking for…
It’s from Al Qaeda
“The core reason why Al Qaeda militants prefer a McCain presidency: four more years of blindness to nuance in the Muslim world would be a tragedy for Americans and virtually everyone else, but a boon for radical groups trying to recruit suicide bombers.”

CitizenAJ – you are partially correct. I am 83 years old and from Appalachia. WVa split their vote and elected Dem Senator and voted for Bush. The election of 2000 and 2004 in Appalachia was 1) guns and 2) abortion – PURE AND SIMPLE. Gore nor Kerry could get the message across that hunting rifles are not AK47′s – the Republicans used the “gun control” message well to their advantage. When fundamentalism is 80% of the population attending church congregation few pastors know the difference between “Missionary Position” and “Catholic Public Schools” – are fundamentalist preachers less worldly? Absolutely – and the Republicans knew how to play that Ace at the game. JFK in his Domestic Peace Corps pinpointed Appalachia first – to the surprise of many in this nation that thought the poverty of the South was far more important – with two new major federal prisons and a slew of pork Senator Byrd has protected the flock well. Like Robert Mitchum said, the people are good, they are just wasted. Let me clearly state, that the people of my neck of the woods are so decent and so hard workign and family loving – they were just left behind. I personally (my opinion and I respect everyone who differs) think the Church, educators and LOCAL politicians are to blame.

Quoting the NY Times? Now THAT is desperate. LOL!!

yay Jen – well said…
what you people on here that are complaing about him spending the $ for his campaign dont realize is that he raised all this money from donations, not taxpayer$. and for the ones saying he should give the $ to the poor, well isn’t that the dreaded “socialism” that the right has been preaching about? wouldnt that be “spreading the wealth”?

rookie_63
You actually think the 700 million + all came form people in the US. Read the post. Obama refuses to tell where it all came from.

==Guess which State promotes redistribution of wealth more than any other State? The answer is Sarah Palin’s Alaska.
Pure spin. The core tenet of socialism is that that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital and creates an unequal society. Socialists advocate for the creation of an egalitarian society, in which wealth and power are distributed more evenly.
Sarah Palin taxed oil companies that were using Alaskan resources and gave the proceeds to all Alaskans regardless of socio-economic class.
This argument is like the other ridiculous argument that “all taxes are socialism”.
From the US Constitution – The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.
Where does that suggest that the Federal Government has the power to tax certain citizens that it deems “wealthy” based on arbitrary criteria and give the proceeds to other citizens it deems “need it”. That is the textbook definition of socialism.

Let see, so far McCain has Palin on the team to garner the evengelicals, then he added Joe the Plumber for the idiot vote, what are we going to see today…
How about bringing the Tennessee/Arkansas skinheads out to lock up the psychopathic crackpot vote?

Since ABC won’t be airing the Obama-mercial, I guess I’ll be watching ABC that night.

I will absolutely watch Obama bring an honorable campaign to an honorable close. It’s quite amazing how some, even here on this comment site, believe the McCain lies. I’m an independent voter – I saw myself voting for McCain; but then he chose palin – reckless decision to put our country and it’s people at such risk to gain a few poll points in the short term – from there I sat on the fence. But when McCain went negative, the lies, the smirks, the unprofessionalism in which he handled himself and his campaign, which by the way is imploding; if he can’t even run a campaign without erractic behavior and decisions – well I don’t want him in our white house. Vote – ! Obama!

In case anyone has forgotten McCain’s economics and values, view
keatingeconomics.com

Rob, Well woth a vacation day! In fact I’m using two, one on Monday and another on Tuesday! Lots of us are.

Veteran,
Its not my idea of socialism. I am dealing in facts here.
Socialism is a market system. Its just not an unregulated market system.
Your question is either a red herring or it shows your own ignorance. There are plenty of small businesses in Great Britain.
But the laws governing wages, paid vacation, weekends off, health care coverage for all, those are socialist policies designed to “spread the wealth.”
Employee stock options are also socialist, because workers owning a part of the profits generated is a socialist, not a capitalist idea.
China right now is probably the best example of a purely capitalist market–NO REGULATION, no workers protections.
I guess if you like that sort of thing you could go live in China.
By the way, the particular form of capitalism advocated by Republicans is “neo-liberalism” (really, how ironic).
Look that up and see if that’s the kind of thing that you think benefits you.

For those of you wondering what Obama could do with the $2Million instead of of the 30 minutes on TV …. well, he could pay for about 10 minutes of the Bush/Cheney/GOP war in Iraq.

Obama ran an honorable campaign? Talk about having blinders on! I suppose that you believe that the media has been fair and balanced too. That “associations” don’t matter. That Obama is far removed from “The Chicago Way”.
Geez…do a little research would you.

You people kill me with this socialism thing..just unbelievable. please educate yourself before you throw the word socialism around – McCain has made you afraid – stop being afraid and stand up – do you call social security socialism. do you call medicare and medicaid socialism? No. But these are government social programs for which we do not want to lose and which we will under John McCain.

This fundraising advantage comes directly as a result of Obama’s abandonment of his pledge to enter into the public financing system, a system creating to squelch the influence of money in presidential politics.
And while Obama’s campaign can rightly claim an unprecedented number of donors, and myriad small donations, it has also refused to abide by principles of full disclosure — it does not provide the public with the names of any donors who have given less than $200, for instance.
And amidst legitimate inquiries about some of that money coming (illegally) from non -U.S. citizens, and some of that money being given — in aggregate — in excess of individual contribution limits, one wonders why it is that the Obama campaign feels this refusal to inform the public where all its money is coming from in any way squares with Obama’s claim to be a reformer.
Just as it’s tough to envision a world where it’s the Obamas who have an unmarried pregnant teenage daughter and conservative pundits are celebrating that fact and demanding that the girl be given privacy, it’s tough to imagine a scenario where the media allows McCain to tiptoe away from his campaign finance pledge, untrammeled, and then drown his opponent in cash, the donors for much of which are undisclosed.

Travis – I don’t think you’ll vote at all. When it’s late October and you’re still undecided…I’m betting that on Nov. 5th you’ll still be looking in your closet trying to decide what to wear to the polls.

Indie, I have done intensive research perhaps you should take your own advice.

JMackin- The infomercial is offensive? Why because he realizes that 50% of the voting public think he is a terrorist, think he is the Antichrist (the true Antichrist live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave). He has to do what he has to do – he is like a surgeon with a patient whose brain has become disconnected with the brain and he must do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to reattach it in the next 6 days. That’s an daunting task even for a skilled surgeon making the 250K threshold of Obama’s tax plan.
I realize that my thoughts are falling on deaf ears, but somethings are worth repeating – The voting public will never be insulted, because 80% of them wouldn’t know an insult if it hit them in the face – The voting public is full of hate and discontent and don’t know where to vent their anger.
Narrow minded voters will vote for McCain/Palin who can’t articulate anything on their own.
God Save the Queen – God Bless the USA

==The only reason people are mentioning socialism is because they think it will steal the election. Here’s the truth, 20% of the American people have 84% of the wealth, that leaves 80% of the people to grovel for the 16% that remains.
Robert, thanks for making the case for socialism. While your statistics may or may not be true, the Constitution does not empower Senator Government to step in and level the playing field.

hahaha!
And if Obama is elected what will you be expecting from him. What will the black race be expecting??

why is everyone complaining that Obama isnt using public funds. i for one am glad that he decided to raise his own$ instead of using taxpayer$. i was also one of the many who made several small donations to his campaign

McCain was an honorable man. Now he is just an old man who is fighting to live out his life ambition. You don’t believe me? Read his book.

This is weird. I know a lot of people like to call him a socialist, but doesn’t this idea of flooding the air-waves with his message seem fascist? It’s like his trying rally the entire nation behind one unified way of thinking….scary.

Nobody is asking for ONE class!! What Obama wants to do is not to level the classes. Come on! He is just bringing back the gap between the middle class and the very rich back when Bush was starting out his presidency. There is still a gap, but it is not one class. Are you kidding me?
Obama could have retained the Bush taxes for the middle class and then increase it for the rich. But the middle class is ailing now — losing homes, retirement, savings — because of what BUSH did. So Obama offered a tax cut, because it’s a crisis! Worst economic crisis in almost 100 years!
Listen if Obama retains the Bux taxes, which McCain wants to do, the richer get richer and the poorer get poorer. In other words, the money you work for today will be worth considerably less for the same work you do 4, 8 years from now.

rafraf – good, don’t watch it. Confirms what most sensible people know – ignorance is best fostered in those that chose to remain ignorant.
Posted by: OnTheGloryRoad ————————As a Obama supporter, I would watch if McCain was doing the same thing. As a Ind. I have tried to listen and watch anything put out by both parties so I can make an educated decision. One or the other is going to be President and I want to know what their plans are. Reb refusing to watch are just not open to anything good or bad unless it is out of the Rep canidates mouth. Very close minded and not what I would call putting the country first. Im sure they listen to Hennedy and Rush with no problem.

Well Veteran,
I guess since you did not respond to me we’ll assume you concede my point, or that you think China is a better place to be than Great Britain, and just don’t want to say so.
And yes, whoever said it, socialism is a left-wing idea. You can thank it for paid vacation, the 40 hour work week, the minimum wage. All those ideas are socialist.
By the way, Marx was writing more than a hundred years ago. There have been hundreds of people who moved this thing beyond his ideas since then. His ideas in their pure form have been discredited.
By the way, left wing and right wing come from the days of Revolutionary France. They have to do with where in the legislative assembly people of different political philosophies.
The DEMOCRATIC parties (those who believed in government by the people) sat on the LEFT. The MONARCHISTS sat on the RIGHT.

As an independent voter I don’t really think this Obamamercial is a good thing to help me decide.
It is in all reality his propaganda show. I am sure it is very well put together to come across as the most sincere thing anyone has ever seen.
Will I watch it? I don’t think so. Just because a candidate somehow has tons more money than the other and makes a half hour tv show of himself. That is not the greatest way to find out anything about that candidate.
I’ll bet that Saddam used to put out similar things before he was “elected” president.
It just doesn’t feel right.

Another Dem For McCain – I wonder who you are talking about. I kicked in an additional donation specifically for tonight’s broadcast. – Lots of us did.

The Rep not willing to watch this tonight are just afraid they might hear something they like. Or maybe find out something that goes against the slime coming out of Hennedy’s and Rush’s mouth. Put your hands over your hears and close your eyes and it will go away is their attitude.

Obama is on record for years and years of wanting to create a nanay state of proving a goodie basket of free welfare, health care, transportation, and whatever for the “working poor”.

Michael H.
No Michael, if you don’t know, Fascism is the Extreme-Right ideology. Nazis were fascists because they were extremely “patriotic”, extremely proud of their Aryan nation.
Michael, it’s called advertisement. Are the corporations fascist? McCain also issues repetetive ads, is he fascist?
And don’t tell me about the money issue. If McCain had the money, he’ll blitz the airwaves with advertisements as well.
At least Obama’s ads aren’t so scary.

To all those who object to “spreading the wealth” may I point out that the opposite would be concentrating the wealth in the hands of a few.
Well, we had that for 8 years.
How’s that working for you?
And if you “spread joy” are you taking it from one person and giving it to another, or are you allowing lots of people to share in it?

Hennidy? I believe that is Hannity. Instead of demonizing Fox news, try spending a day watching it. I once thought it was so right wing. I believed what the liberals fed to me. My channel of choice for news used to be MSNBC. Because of what occurred during the Dem Primary, I managed to become more of an independent thinker.

TO ALL: This actually is a very common practice – prior to 1984, most candidates did half hour shows detailing their plans…Kennedy, Nixon, Johnson, Eisenhower – ALL of them did this. What’s better? Spending some money to tell the American people what you stand for or spending $150,000 on some ‘pump me’ pumps?

trinityusa. you challenged me and posted: “On the Glory Road: Please educate yourself before posting here. From Karl Marx himself: “WORKERS OF ALL LANDS UNITE“ “THE PHILOSOPHERS HAVE ONLY INTERPRETED THE WORLD IN VARIOUS WAYS – THE POINT HOWEVER IS TO CHANGE”. Where have you heard the word “CHANGE” used lately?”……kiddo I was born in 1925 and lived through it all and FIRST – the word change I do believe has been the mantra of John McCain as well as Obama. I do not believe Senator Obama has ever stated “workers of all lands” – I do believe he has clearly identified with the workers in this nation who have suffered greatly under this Administration and fights against McCain who voted against raising minimum wage 17 times in this Senate career (last year most recently). I do believe that the GOP, McCain and YOU are guilty of McCarthism – believe me I know. I was a Business Agent for a small AFL-CIO local union making vaccuum tubes for the Navy (Sylvania Electric) and I was (the word “vetted” comes to mind) as a Communist sympathizer – that same year I made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for workers on the picket line. When my baby son was killed in Viet Nam I became active in Mothers Against the War – and I was called traitor as I marched. May I suggest to you that extractions from writings designed to fit mud pie you are making are dangerous – they are dangerous to liberty and to this nation. Disgraceful, absolutely disgraceful. Senator McCain served his nation and his state – but he is not the man needed for the task ahead. It is absolutely pathetic that YOU result to your attempted vile insinuations against someone who very well may be the next President of this nation. YOU are part of this nation’s problems – you at this time are NOT part of the solution.

Joe Biden announced yesterday that the tax increases will go all the way down to people making 150k. A family making 150K is NOT rich.

Senator Government: “While your statistics may or may not be true, the Constitution does not empower Senator Government to step in and level the playing field.”
Please re-read the Constitution and take note of what the polls are saying about the upcoming composition of Congress.
Senator Obama taught the Constitution for over a decade at the graduate level (turning down a tenure offer to pursue politics). I think he has a vague clue what it says.

When is Palin going to release her medical records. Wasn’t it supposed to be done by now? Is she covering something up? Is there any truth to the rumor that she is hiding an abortion?

CW–Thank you and your wife for your years of service to this country. I don’t know where the numbers are coming from that 905 of service men and women are voting for McCain, among the many military folks that I work with and know, all but probably 2 that I’ve come across are for Obama, they don’t voice it loudly, just in passing because of their jobs but its still a presense.————-Please undertsand a lot of men and women serving have always votes Rep, as myself have except for once. They are remaining very hush this year but my peers have been very vocal about the concern about Palin. If I had to guess it is about evenly devided as to whom they will vote for. Very different than the normal 4-1 past for Rep.

Whoever makes decisions at ABC needs to be replaced. You’ll be airing Pushing Daisies instead of Obama’s historic speech??? Three cheers to the other competitor channels, I’m going to be switching to them!

OnTheGloryRoad..”you have missed the issue so far it defies imagination….The largest distribution of wealth in this nation’s history was GWB’s tax cuts for the wealthy”
Question for you Glory..how is cutting someone’s taxes a redistribution of wealth? Your argument is that if a person is allowed to keep more of THEIR OWN MONEY THAT THEY’VE EARNED through hard word, that it is a redistribution? I thought a redistribution was when you take what belongs to one person and give it to someone else, specifically someone who neither earned it nor deserves it.

Well, there you go again Tapper! We know who you and the rest of the gossip and tabloid “columnists” there at ABC are obviously for!!! How come nothing like this is shown for McCain? You people are pathetic! Tapper, go work for The Enquirer; you’re perfect for it. Jounalist? Hah! Thats a joke!!!

Obama is NOT trustworthy and this is yet another example why. This 30 minute infomercial is a stark reminder that Obama broke his promise to America that he would accept public funds for his presidential campaign.
Amazing that he will stop at nothing to buy votes for this election!

Rev Wrights comments can be justified because our government & GWBush let 9/11 happen!!! its proven. there have been many books written about it, even Scott McCllenan, Bush’s own press secretary, wrote that 9/11 could of been avoided. Rev Wright was angry that our government let this happen, 3000+ people died on his watch and he didnt even catch the guy who did it….and he had every right to be angry and say that, we live in a free country, we have “freedom of speech”, which is something that seems most Republicans want to take away from us.

Talk about spreading the propaganda. Google the numbers as far as the military votes go. The average for all branches is 75% for McCain, 25% for Obama.
I grew up in SC and live in NC. My family is multi-generational military. I know a thing or two about this subject. Not to mention that I know how to look up statistics.

Really what I meant to say was first an infomercial, next the radio, TV and all the internet, and I will be controlled by this freak. If he’s so far behind in the race, why does he need to spend his money for this? Doesn’t he have a party he want’s to go to? You McCainiacks are useful idiots. BTW – Obama is measuring the drapes, because the BUSH administration will leave the White House broom swept.

Please stop the player hating. In the eyes of most republicans, Obama can’t do anything right. When he tries to look presidential, they say he is being “presumptous”. When he tries to communicate to the “average” person, he is being “elite”. A lot of Americans claim they do not know him, even though he has been on the campaign trail over 22 months, held almost 25 debates and campainged in every state except Alaska. Now that he is presenting himself again to the American people for the final time before the election, he is being criticised for that. Well, to hell with you republicans that only sees negative. Vote for another 4 years of GW if that is what you want. I hope your 401-k tanks.

Posted by: Kristie | Oct 29, 2008 10:34:06 AM
The revenues Sarah Palin gave back to taxpayers was from Alaska’s natural resources. It was not taxpayers money spread around.
Again, the money taxpayers get yearly is from the money oil companies makes off of Alaska’s natural resources, it is not taxpayer money being spread around.
Everyone, if your going to try to argue a point, do the research first.
OBAMA IS A POLITICAN HE IS NOT THIS COUNTRY’S SAVIOR!!!!
H

What a hippocrite Obama is. What ever happened to “I will work with McCain and accept public funding.”? Easy for him to go back on when he finds something more advantageous to himself. Watch his purchased television time and remind yourself when you do that it is all based on a lie, much like most of his campaign is.

Dee Dee Lynn
Actually I just found your post. No I wouldn’t want to live in either. Just here in the USA. What is going on now isn’t really any different than it has been for decades. It isn’t something new. Obama wants to link McCain and Bush because the media has helped so much in discrediting everything Bush has done or tried to do. All I am saying is the rich have always created the most jobs. People complain about minimum wage, and I agree it has always been below a poverty level. No one forces anyone to take the job they are in. There are others. You can go to school and learn something else. You can better yourself by your own hard work and dedication. To believe it is better to sit back, complain and have the government hand you more doesn’t strengthen our country it weakens it. I would love for everyone to be better off. The trouble is being wealthy seems to be the first thing on peoples minds. You can’t take it with you. I truly own want enought to have my bills paid and be comfortable. We are that now with a household income of 50,000. We don’t buy stuff we don’t need with money we don’t have. It doesn’t take 250,000 a year to be happy or contented.

J Wilson…noticed you knocked ABC for not airing Obamas infommercial and praised the “competitor” channels. Sounds to me that part of being a “competitor” is “competing.” competing is about giving people a choice. Obama would rather flood our air-waves with only his face, effectively eliminating choice and, by extension, competition…sounds like a communist to me.

Plausible Injustice: “The single most important job in our country for sale to the highest bidder? This is sad. Without obama’s billions; McCain would be our next President.”
Your naivete rings a bit hollow – look up the pile of cash that was used by Republicans in their races. President Bush won in 2004 through the brilliant tactic of delaying his convention to a month after the Democrats. Federal funding limits kick in after the convention, so after Kerry was locked into the limits Bush hit him hard, with no spending limits, for a month. Kerry’s polls tanked and he never recovered. This is reality and easily verified historical fact, look it up.
The only difference? The Republicans are NOT funded by small donations as Obama is to an unprecedented magnitude.

Indie—your missing the point…it doesnt matter they own the land, im making the point she spread the wealth….you just restated what socialism is…..see, you guys dont get it…..and not everyone got a check, only tax payers. 8 year old Johnny from Juno, Alaska didnt get the check, his tax paying parents did….by definition its Socialism…..you guys are masters of trying to twist the facts!!!!

Here are my top 3 reasons for voting John McCain this year.

Guess again Plausible Injustice……without Obama, the election would have gone to Hillary. Who would have belived that dems could bring this much talent and depth to a single elction cycle. It almost seems unfair to the GOP…six days out and I can’t stop smiling!

First, let me tell you I’m from Socialist Canada!
What does that mean? Nothing. There are no absolutes in either Capitalism or Socialism. Most countries of the G-20 are known as social-democrat countries, i.e. there is a limited redistribution of wealth to make sure every citizen is provided basic necessities, such as healthcare and education, and a fair chance at succeding in life. Such is not the case of the current brand of Capitalism practiced in the US where the ‘every man for himself’ approach and ruthless pursuit of individual wealth have met their Waterloo recently, and then begs for the government, i.e. You Joe Taxpayer, to bail them out with no tangible benefit for the individual citizen, and on the contrary, reducing Federal spending in Healthcare and Education.
What many uneducated people, including McCain-Palin, refer to as Socialism is Communism, whose number 1 tenet is that all wealth generated by the country is funneled to the government who takes care of all the needs for all the people.
This misleading way of painting one as the other is a vile attempt to associate an Obama White House to a Marxist-Leninist Soviet Union type dictatorship.
We, here in Canada, are allowed to make money and get rich, but have to participate in a society that views inequality, poverty and ignorance as causes of crime and hardship.
BTW, our rate crime is 1/5th the US, and our High School diplomation rate is 3 times as high. No one ever loses their house because they suffer from a sudden illness or is denied healthcare because they are out of a job.
Socialism? maybe, but for the time being I’m staying put here. I hope you look to the North before you let your Country go (even more)south…

The Obama-mercial is what you get when you mix Obama’s ego with lots of money.

Drew Hoffman
Not really. Alaska has some of the highest gasoline prices. Just shows the effect of windfall profit tax. You would be paying much more for gasoline with that approach.

I feel sorry for people who contribute to ANY polictal campaign. What a waste.
I guess its true, there is always someone willing to buy swamp land in Florida.
Take your money and spend it on some classes to educate yourself.

I will definitely watch the Obama-merical. Obama has been the target of an endless hate, lie, and smear campaign. KFOX news, and other corporate owned media outlets have given McCain and the GOP a free ride, so Obama has the right to set the record straight. For those hysterical souls who are complaining about the money, I too don’t like the cash involved in this campaign. But bear in mind that Obama gets his money from grass-roots donors like me. Corporations and right wing megachurches
donate millions of dollars to Repubican ccampaigns. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if megachurches used the grant money they get from tax-payer funded faith-based charities for political campaigns. (An audit of faith-0based charities is long overdue.) The Republicans have a real racket going on. And the McCain-Palin campaign is one endless string of lies. Starting with “drill,baby,drill.” (At best off-shore drilling will provide only about 1.2% of our future energy needs.) So Obama needs to set the record straight.

You’re wrong Micheal.
It is the John McCain, George Bush and the Republicans who have misunderstood wealth creation.
We have been told that cutting taxes on the rich will reward those who create jobs and trickle down to the rest of us.
It didn’t trickle.
Ironically, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq is the pefect illustration of the why Supply Side Economics failed.
Giving every thing to smallest, most powerful segment in the economy ignores the truth that business investment and job creation is a function of consumer spending.
Republican outsourcing of the great American class consumer base is the primary reason for the delcine in wealth and job creation in this country.

Ellen said it well. Please stop the hating. McCain and Palin have been so divisive – I cannot vote for them, and I don’t think they are the best choice to lead our country. Obama shows incredible class and dignity despite the continuing hateful and untruthful comments by M&P. Together we can reunite our great country and move forward to better serve and care for all of our citizens, and regain our strength to compete in the world market.
Obama Biden 08 (and 12!)

Is the economy in the Tank? You wouldn’t think so the way Obama is raising and spending money. I have a feeling when the election is over, and someone decides to really look into all those little donations, their going to find a lot of funds that they can’t trace. What about the Obama-mercial? I would rather have seen him spend his time on T.V. doing another debate. The Obama-mercial will be one sided and not give viewers the same chance to make an honest comparison of the candidates views. Obama is showing that he can spend, spend, spend. Will he spend, spend, spend if he gets elected? If you are an independent, and you want to make your decisions on honest views from both candidates, then you shouldn’t watch it. If your a McCain supporter, your not going to watch it. I think a message has to be sent to the media so they will think twice before they repeat the Candidate-mercial in the future. DON’T WATCH ANYTHING ON ANY OF THE CHANNELS THAT BROADCAST THIS OBAMA-MERCIAL. LET THEIR RATINGS PLUNGE FOR THE EVENING (THAT INCLUDES MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL WHO WILL DELAY THE GAME BECAUSE OF THIS). MAKE THE MEDIA PRESS FOR DEBATES, NOT PROPAGANDA.

Ahhhh…when people begin bringing out the famous “smear” smear. Everything against Obama is a smear. What a crock! Low information voters won it for George W. It will be a shame if they win it for Obama as well.
If it is at Fight the Smears then it must be true because “That One” says so! LOL

GK_1972: “…toasting his Palestinian bomber buddy at the kitchen table tonight on this infomercial.”
You mean the one who McCain funded his foundation, the one that is now a professor at a prestigious university?
For all the folks who only heard of McCarthyism from books, take a good whiff now. This guilt by association, demonization of law abiding American citizens, hinted slander, mocking of people for having Arabic names (like those engraved upon hundreds of markers in Arlington) – this is exactly what it smelled like. And this reek is coming directly from the desperate McCain campaign.
Disgraceful.

Obama’s openness is a breath of fresh air. He is laying it all out there on the table. For me, I consider Supreme court nomination potential to be the most important. We need some liberal judges to get out freedoms back. And if McCain wins, women can kiss thier right to choice goodbye forever.

GK_1972: “Did you donate your $ under Mickey Mouse or Godzilla? Oh wait.”
As opposed to Mr. Anonymous who is a dedicated donor to the Republican National Committee, second only to No Name of Nowhere, America.
The Republican Party is so clueless they don’t know when they should put down the rocks and step away from their own glass house.

your still not understanding what SOCIALISM is…it has nothing to do with taxes….the definition is: social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and the creation of an egalitarian society……..and this is what MsAlaska did, they produced the oil, and shared the wealth….im not saying what she did was wrong, what im saying its a form of SOCIALISM!!!! Repubs, read a dictionary!!!!

QBAMA ,SUGGESTED THAT HE HAVE LIED TO THE NATION AND THE HIS SUPPORTERS. A SHOT GLANCE OVER , TONY REZKO ,MONEY AND FINANCES, AYERS AND REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT,AND RADICAL FOLLOWERS IS VERY WOEFUL,. NEWSPAPERS, RADIO AND TV ,NOW ARE VERY CAUTIONED. THE WQRLD PRESS ARE MENTIONING ABOUT THE FATE OF ISRAEL AND THE U,S.A. FATE./////////////

Ken-
A liberal Supreme Justice, just what we need. NOT!
I bet you tivo Ellen.

It appears that Obama needs to flood the air waves about what he has said against those in the Jewish Community-you know, the tape that the LA Times refuses to release; the One with the following quote from Obama:
Saw a clip from the tape. Reason we can’t release it is because statements Obama said to rile audience up during toast. He congratulates Khalidi for his work saying “Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine” plus there’s been “genocide against the Palestinian people by Israelis.”…plus there’s been “genocide against the Palestinian people by Israelis.”
Hmmmmmm……but he will make a great leader and not divide a country, right? Oh well, this just goes right along the lines of EVERYTHING else he refuses to release or have released!

His money IS coming from the little guy. I donated twice this week, and several times over the last couple of months.

The Obama-mercial is what you get when you mix Obama’s ego with lots of money.
Posted by: Mike
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Exactly! Where is the proof that he has ever done anything except tell lies and promote himself. He just wants desperately to be the first AA president because he has the biggest ego. If he had a backbone, he would not have voted present 143 times and he would have a record regardless of how short a period of time served. He chose to be associated with the most radical people and if you don’t think he has the same views, I have a bridge in Alaska I would like to sell everyone here that supports this fraud. The media is a bunch of people that aren’t experts on anything. They read a teleprompter for a living so why would anyone vote for who they want you to.
Regardless of your thoughts on McCain, he is tested and he is a patriot. He may not be perfect but he will have to do for the next four years until we can get someone else.

This is for all.
It seems we have so much misguided faith inn our government to take the intrests and needs of the people and act accordingly. We complain to them about prices, taxes etc. when we have more power that we realize. Take Gas. With a concentrated united effort you could boycott the big two, exxon, Mobil as a start. Just buy from any one else but them. You would see their price go down. Take you money out of the banks. Personally I think it is an insult to give 1/4 of 1 percent interest on the money we let them use, then be able to charge as much as 30% interest on some credit cards. We could bring more change than our government will.

Palestinians gave $2M to Obama and no one seems to care. Sad.

This whole dialogue about taxes is absurd. First, have you Republicans looked at Palin’s record on taxes? Just in case you haven’t, here it is in a nutshell: it’s more “socialist” than any other tax policy in the nation! Check the record! She proposed higher taxes on oil companies and took the surplus from those taxes and “spread the wealth” in the form of a rebate to every Alaskan resident. Remember folks, the people of Alaska do not pay property taxes nor do they pay income taxes. Social services are provided curtesy of the big oil companies that taxed! Is that not socialist? In terms of McCain, he basically agreed with Obama’s tax plan when he disapproved of Bush’s tax cut on the wealthy six years ago. All Obama’s plan is doing is eliminating the Bush tax cuts. And although I am blessed to be in that +250k tax bracket, I would rather pay slightly more in taxes than have McCain/Palin in the White House!

ABC needs to work harder. ABC was left out to host the debate. Now no Obama-mercial. This can be good and bad. However ABC is still my favoritest station among all.

The McCain campaign has said from the outset that their campaign would not be about issues. Sadly because of their smear campaigns this populance is very divided as illustrated by comments here. The campaign slogan has been “Country First”, but there is no indication to show that they really meant it.

I have to laugh at some of the comments here. They go from from childish to ridiculous. Of course there are some that stand out from the racists and bigots as well. McCain cut his own throat. He chose his funding and Obama chose his. Of course this shows that Obama makes smart decisions. McCain chose his VP and Obama chose his. Again proof that Obama makes smart decisions while McCain seems to be as random and out of touch as Bush. The white supremacists are fuming. The big oil companies along with Wall Street are doing everything they can to help McCain. Somehow it just isn’t enough. Yes, I’m sure the GOP is ready with lawyers in every state to contest the election results when the votes don’t go their way. 95% of Americans earn less than $250,000.00 a year. McCain wants to continue giving the top 5% tax breaks while Obama wants them to pay their fare share. They earn the most they can afford to pay the most. Sounds smart to me. Take the other 95% of America, subtract two percent for the skinheads and bigots and you still have better than 90% likely to vote for Obama. Obama is a smart man and will be a smart president. Something we haven’t seen in 8 years.

Laced with subliminal messages, the great “O” hypnotises the masses. Suckers!

You Republicans never stop whinning and complaining. In all the other elections, you Republicans had all the money in the world to spend and didn’t complain then. Now because McCain decided to take TAXPAYER MONEY to finance his campaign and now that he’s a day late and a dollar short, he wants to complain. The fact that he took TAXPAYER MONEY tells you what his economics are all about, let someone else pay may way through life like they have been doing all along. This guy has never paid for health insurance in all his life, said so himself when asked. He talks alot of BS, but when it comes to the real deal, he does something different.

When is the Obama TV spot airing?

Joe the Plumber is the perfect specimen to show how much of a failure the Republican party has been to Middle Class America.
To bad old Joe once again is going to vote against his own financial interest.
As bad as things are now the Dems will turn around the economy like they always do and Joe can go back to thinking he is a success all by himself.
Even though he voted twice for the people who put him in his current situation.
Dave wrote “I just don’t know how people were fooled by the marketing strategy of David Axelrod.”
It’s simple Dave. Most Americans are tired of the hate, division and lies the Republicans continue to spit at us.

Think about this: $10 billion a month we spend in Iraq. Do any of you think that money spent didn’t hurt our own country? Don’t you think we could use that money for a better purpose?
The waste of all the soldiers who were permanently disabled. And how about all the soldiers who died? They all had moms, and dads, brothers and sisters, wives, and children. These are real people!

Drew Hoffman.
Robin Hood called it taking from the rich and giving it to the poor. It is redistribution of the wealth.

Dont drink the Kool-aid….
That’s exactly what I was thinking, if anyone offers anyone any kool-aid, don’t drink it!

Let me give you a scenario that is all too possible. Imagine a container ship with a hidden mobile missle launcher such as a scud with a nuclear warhead sailing to with range and being launched at our country. They could even try to target washington but it wouldn’t really matter. Just one hitting anyhere would be enough. Sure we would sink it and kill them after the fact, but they are prepared to die anyway. Imagine that and then tell me we shouldn’t be trying to stop terrorism wherevere it is. I understand Dan the vet and his relative bitterness. We all want an end to war, none more than those who have served in one. I believe McCain would try to end it as soon as possible. and with honor for our troops. To pull them out prematurely would be a grave mistake. It would only foster more belief that we are weak and have no stomach for it and would embolden them more. Radical Islam wants us off the face of the earth.

I found this on another post and thought it to be most informative:
This is Marxism made simple: BAR STOOL ECONOMICS
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. The seventh would pay $7. The eighth would pay $12. The ninth would pay $18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59. So, that’s what they decided to do.
The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. “Since you are all such good customers,” he said, “I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20.”Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men – the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his ‘fair share?’
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings). The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings). The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings). The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings). The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings). The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings). Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings. “I only got a dollar out of the $20,”declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,” but he got $10!” “Yeah, that’s right,” exclaimed the fifth man. “I only saved a dollar, too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I!” “That’s true!!” shouted the seventh man. “Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!” “Wait a minute,” yelled the first four men in unison. “We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!”
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill! And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

Boycott the Obama-mercial. Watch Daisies!
Posted by: Concerned__2 | Oct 29, 2008 10:47:00 AM
GREAT IDEA!!!!!

A Veteran +++++ This is for all.
It seems we have so much misguided faith inn our government to take the intrests and needs of the people and act accordingly. We complain to them about prices, taxes etc. when we have more power that we realize. Take Gas. With a concentrated united effort you could boycott the big two, exxon, Mobil as a start. Just buy from any one else but them. You would see their price go down. Take you money out of the banks. Personally I think it is an insult to give 1/4 of 1 percent interest on the money we let them use, then be able to charge as much as 30% interest on some credit cards. We could bring more change than our government will. ____________________________________ YOU COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT BETTER, IT IS WORTH REPEATING. IF ONLY IT WOULD CATCH ON.

McCain and his cronies say that Obama lacks the experience to be President. I say that McCain lacks the decision-making skills to be President. Look at his history:
- Supported the repeal of Glass-Steagal Act
- Chose an ignorant, inexperienced extremist as his Number 2 (a.k.a. Palin)
- Not delivering a consistent message
- Changing his previously moderate views to appease ultra-right-wing religious conservative
- Rushing back to Washington without being able to have any effect on the economic bailout
- Getting overtly angry under pressure at the debates
Obama / Biden ’08

I was at a local parade a while ago and Obama volunteers were handing out information and talking with people. McCain doesn’t have a local office here. So, in front of me someone starts to yell at the Obama supporter. Now I’m thinking “how rude!” Here this guy is donating his time for something he believes in and this other fellow gets in his face for it. We need a change in politics. We need RESPECT. I can disagree and vote my conscience; I don’t need to shred people with opposing views. I voted Obama and I hope he wins. Others will vote McCain and I hope McCain loses. But I won’t be attacking any McCain supporters for their decision or for their respectful opposition to Obama’s positions. However, I certainly don’t respect political attack mentality at a time of national crisis. That isn’t putting country first.

Last I looked, our military is all voluntary. I am from a proud military family who heed their call to duty. But I guess all those military families are voting for McCain by 75% because they like that McCain will extend the war for another hundred years. Come on people, our proud military have it right. They know what the world sees in Obama. Just look at what Sarkozy said about Obama. Scary stuff!
FYI…Those posters who are always calling those that blog here Republicans if their viewpoints are different from your own need to wake up and smell the dissent. Many life-long Dems and Independents question Obama as well. I suppose that by labeling those with alternate viewpoints as nasty republicans somehow makes you feel better. Do refrain, seems to be a little stereotypical to me.
I have noticed that the first ones to attack are the Dems. I have seen it against Hillary, then Palin and then Joe. Disgusting.

Well I donated to the Obama campaign and think this is a GREAT way to spend it. Maybe if the McCain camp didn’t waste all their money trying to make Palin look Presidential like (cough cough ) he could do the same thing!! Cant wait to watch !!

kristie
I for one would like and end to the part system and make one part. The American Party. Then whoever is running would be judged on his or her own merits, not the beliefs that they automatically adhere to the views their party stand for. Then the congress could work together better. Maybe then some good things would be done.

A Veteran…not belittling the troops,i’m calling Dan the vet out because he’s making stuff up. he’s on these boards all the time and his story always changes so that he can try and make a point. he has never served this country.

Dan-vet
One question. Do you believe and other soldier that we should be pulled out an brought home right now? Do you believe that most troops believe that way?? Being you are one that was there putting it on the line, I would respect your views much more than any government or non military view.

Indie Here———-I dont care what your polls and google searches say. I am the real deal and have been in the military over 29yrs. Atleast on my ship,it isnt 75 percent for McCain. It might have been if McCain had not of picked Palin. I live in pretty darned close quarters with these guys and gals and I assure you that there is more support for Obama that you realize and a big part of that is the non-support of Palin. Also their families are living with the same economy as most are.

Joe-painter | Oct 29, 2008 11:05:57 AM…..I’ve read that 80% of that amount would still be spent if they we in the US.

UnPoliticallyCorrect2008
Your assertion that Bush should not be held accountable for 9-11 is absurd. He was briefed in August 2001 by CIA Director Tenant in his Presidential Daily Briefing. That report stated that the United States was under imminent threat of an attack by terroritsts using hijacked planes to fly into buildings. This is all public information that was revealed in the non-partisan 9-11 commission report. What did Bush do after reading this report? He went on vacation to his Crawford ranch. 9-11 falls directly on the shoulders of George W Bush!
I wish you RepubliCons would quit trying to re-write history!

Why not spend 30 minutes answering live questions from the citizens of this nation. Not scripted.

One of the biggest military media outlets in fact did a poll just a few weeks ago and it did in fact show that of the 4300 active soldiers polled,
72% were for McCain.
72% males were fore McCain
53% females were for McCain
76% White males were for McCain
63% Hispanis were for McCain
8-out-of 10 blacks were for Obama

There are many countries in the world still using money to buy votes. Our country should be better than that. Shame on you, Obama. You ruin our reputation.

I’d rather watch grass grow.

Hypothesis +++++++++ I guess Obama supporters have been angels. The problem here is when something bad that an Obama supporter does only stays on the internet media blogs for a very short time. When a McCain supporter does something bad, the media keeps it going, does analysis on it, and reports it over and over. As far as money available, I suggest you read why Obama has been allowed to raise the money he has, and why McCain can’t. If Obama didn’t back out of his agreement in accepting public financing, then we wouldn’t have this lopsided spending.

UnPoliticallyCorrect2008
Please name the ‘military media outlets’ who did the polls.

Kristie
I agree. One think I don’t think that will fix is more money. I don’t know what will but it won’t be more money.I remember school in the “old days” Teachers were dressed like teachers, students had rules to follow. I guess I am saying there seems to be a lack of respect in our youth as well as our country. I can see it here on full display. We need respect for each other regardless of what your opinion is.

This lack of experience argument is nonsense. One of our greatest Presidents was Abraham Lincoln and he failed at everything he did up until he became president. Some people are just smarter and made for the Job. “Fancy language”, how can that be a criticism? One of the biggest most important jobs of a president is the ability to articulate and communicate well thought out positions.

Phil…..then we will play your game.
If 9/11 if ALL Bush’s fault because he knew it was going ot happen, then this whole economic collapse is the fault of the Democratically Controlled Congress spear headed by Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
They refused to do ANYTHING to stop the collapse and therefore they need to be booted out of office.

UnPoliticallyCorrect: “JHW….read what I typed…Bush has done some pretty stupid crap, but to blame him for 9/11 simply because it took place less than 9 months into his presidency is ingornat at best. ”
I NEVER “blamed” Bush for 9/11. I did blame the Republican’s “Monica Missiles” partisan posturing for discouraging attacks on Bin Laden. If you wish to respond to the facts of what I wrote, feel free, but don’t make up strawman arguments because reality doesn’t support you.

So you say “Obama broke his promise” to accept public financing (a form of socialism by the way). Remember, McCain promised that there would be “no negative campaigning”… So there you have it: we’re even! Barack needed over $650 million to combat McCain’s negativity. I’m glad Barack acted like a pure “capitalist” and raised his own money instead of relying on a socialist government hand-out to pay for his campaign (like McCain)!

michael h.
Actually I don’t need to ask a question. By his demeanor here I am already questioning it. One thing the military gives you is honor and a respect for others. It is something that stays with most, even some that carry bitterness like I do. Even with that bitterness I love my country and feel shame at what she is becoming. People should start getting away from the me attitude and back to the attitude of WW2, the us attitude.

Are you kidding?! I WILL NOT be watching! What a waste of time, money and energy!!! We have people losing their houses and their jobs and HE (Obama) is spending 3million dollars on air time! Are the same people that complained about Palins clothes budget complaining about this? Double standard maybe?….And Why does he need more air time? Isn’t he (obama) the 1st presidential runner that has raised the most money ever?! Doesn’t that say something about his priorities when he is willing to spend 3million dollars on air time? Where is he working for middle class?….This is a digrace!!!!!

Will: “The problem here is when something bad that an Obama supporter does only stays on the internet media blogs for a very short time.”
Like the time an Obama supporting mugger carved a B in the face of an innocent McCain campaign worker – that was only on the blogs for days! Then it was totally covered up because, like so many Republican claims, it was found to be a complete lie. But by refusing to continue giving coverage to false slander, the media is clearly being biased towards Obama, the candidate running a reality based campaign on the issues.

Karri:” HE (Obama) is spending 3million dollars on air time! Are the same people that complained about Palins clothes budget complaining about this? Double standard maybe?”
You really don’t see a difference between a candidate presenting their proposed agenda to the people they are interviewing with and buying a $100k in clothes? Really? Try hard – one is the fundamental basis of a freely elected leadership and the other is a kick’n red jacket.

A gnawing question that will be answered tonight: Will the Obama infomercial feature that strange mock Presidential seal favored by his campaign?
A gnawing question that will be answered after the election: Where does one candidate get three quarters of a billion dollars to fund extravagances like near-monopolization of the airwaves? (It could take years to track down the Illegal contributions from overseas — if ever, with Reed and Pelosi blocking any potential investigations).

Please don’t vote for either one of them. What kind of democracy is this where we only have these two people to visibly choose from? There are many other candidates from different political parties. I voted for the Libertarian candidate, Bob Barr, and Ron Paul is originally and essentially a Libertarian, and then there’s Ralph Nader. If you don’t take the time to do your own research into which candidate would be best, and start voting for candidates other than Reps and Dems, then you’ll keep getting monopolyizing vampires to choose from, and they’ll continue to degrade our country. The electors are going to choose the candidates based on voter history and polls. If enough people start voting for candidates other than Reps and Dems then eventually we could really change Washington back to the way it was intended to be.

Let’s say what have Obama ever done:
-vote present more than 129 times in state senator
-become US senator by elimination opposition
-vote for raising tax 95 time even for people made $42000
-the second largest recipient of money from Fannie Mae so he refused to regulate them and crashed our economic
-Running for president for 2 years
-Teach ACORN how to register democrats, say fraud
-represented ACORN in court to force banks to lend money to the people who could not afford it.
- communist community organizer with terrorist Ayes and Racist Wright and spread money to these radicals.
- Praise anti-jew terrorist at the dinner party
- Demand Iraq stop US troop withdraw at this summer’s Iraq visit
- Call America Nazi and said that US constitution did not do enough to redistribute wealth to black community in his 2001 radio interview
What an experience Obama has. Independent for McCain/Palin!
God Bles America!

Republican Socialism at its worst.
Socialism is where the government owns business. Socialism is where the wealth and power is shifted from the middle class and working poor to the rich. In our country big business has taken over our government. It’s still called Socialism. Supply-Side Economics (Trickle down theory of economics or Reagonomics) is the Economics of Socialism and Bush-McCain-Palin. What we now call Supply-Side Economics is Socialist Economics and has been throughout history. Every time in history when Supply-Side Economics has been adopted by a government, the government has fallen into ruin. Socialism is Big Business, wealth, assets, and power over the masses and government that are in the hands of a few. We live in a socialist country. Thanks to the Reagan-Bush-McCain-Palin Socialist Supply-Side Economics and Patriot Acts 1 and 2. The Constitution is basically null and void.
History is repeating right now what the Republican’s did in the 1920′s and it led to the great depression of the 1930′s. The same Socialist Economics, the same types of investments now called derivatives and hedge funds (leveraged gambling). Commercial Banks and Investment Banks are again intermingling financial activities, monopolistic big business and now monopolistic big media all controlled by a few very rich people all these things led to the great depression and our current financial crisis.
We fought the American Revolution with England to get away from Socialist Imperialism and taxation with out representation.
The Democrat’s led us out of the great depression. It’s time for The Democrat’s to lead us out of this financial crisis. God and the rest of us know the Republican’s won’t restore our Democratic Republic.
Yesterday McCain-Palin both said they embrace the great economic strategies of President Ronald Reagan. This is the same old Socialist Supply-Side Economics of Reagan-Bush Sr. and Jr.-McCain-Palin. This is not real positive change people for the middle class and working poor. It is more of the same shifting of wealth from the middle class and working poor to the rich. McCain-Palin will destroy the middle class and our country. We will become slaves of the very rich if McCain becomes our next resident. Vote Obama-Biden 08.

Kristie-
You paint a picture much worse than reality. Granted, it’s not the best climate right now, but its not Somalia either. So cheer up some.
Obama has brainwashed good people like yourself to beleive this is Armageddon and we are all doomed….UNLESS he is elected.
McCain will get us “rolling” again.
I bet you are really a nice girl.
Have you heard of James Carvel and Mary Matalin? Its ok to agree to disagree.
No hard feelings?

James321
Would you answer a question in your own words and beliefs. How exactly to you see Obama changing government.

OK… let me understand the Republican argument: Obama is the socialist, yet it is McCain who is using tax money to finance his campaign. Palin is the reformer, yet she used tax payer money to pay her a per diem while at home, she used tax payer money to pay 22k in her children’s travel, and both democratic and republican legislators in Alaska determined that she “abused power.” Obama “doesn’t have the “executive” experience to lead”, but yet McCain doesn’t have executive experience (Palin has executive experience, but she lacks a brain making her completely ineligible to be president). And P.S. I don’t think John or Cindy McCain would allow an unlicensed plumber work on any of their seven houses, so why are they acting like “Joe the plumber” is anything more than a con-artist?

Obama and money is getting out of hand – and I think this will continue in the White House for 4 LOOOOOOOONG YEARS!

jhw539:”You really don’t see a difference between a candidate presenting their proposed agenda to the people they are interviewing with and buying a $100k in clothes? Really? Try hard – one is the fundamental basis of a freely elected leadership and the other is a kick’n red jacket.”
I agree with you their is a difference…However, how is spending 3 MILLION DOLLARS working for the middle class? Why can’t that money go towards something meaningful, especially if your going to be judging how other people (Palin) spend their money?

‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE ELECTIONS
‘Twas the night before elections
And all through the town
Tempers were flaring
Emotions all up and down!
I, in my bathrobe
With a cat in my lap
Had cut off the TV
Tired of political crap.
When all of a sudden
There arose such a noise
I peered out of my window
Saw Obama and his boys
They had come for my wallet
They wanted my pay
To give to the others
Who had not worked a day!
He snatched up my money
and quick as a wink
Jumped back on his bandwagon
As I gagged from the stink
He then rallied his henchmen
Who were pulling his cart
I could tell they were out
To tear my country apart!
“On Fannie, on Freddie,
On Biden and Ayers!
On Acorn, On Pelosi”
He screamed at the pairs!
They took off for his cause
And as he flew out of sight
I heard him laugh at the nation
Who wouldn’t stand up and fight!
So I leave you to think
On this one final note-
IF YOU DONT WANT SOCIALISM
GET OUT AND VOTE!!!!
McCain/Palin ’08

STOP WITH THE $150,000 clothes thing….no one cares…..i care more about that she cut funding in Alaska for special needs kids….that is costs rape victims in Alaska to get a rape kit done…..why is that MsAlaska?? Why would you let that happen?? Your all Mavericky, why not change that law??? I dont understand???

UnPoliticallyCorrect2008
You wrote,….”These acts stem back to the Clinton era and it is sad that you guys are quick to dismiss this.”
Well then, let’s look back to the Clinton era. You are right, the World Trade Center was attacked on Clintons watch in 1992 with a truck bomb in the basement. However, there is one big difference between that attack and the 9-11 attack that happenned on Bush’s watch. The Clinton adminstration actually apprehended those responsible and they are now serving life in the Super Max Facility in Florence Colordado. Bush and the then Republican controlled House and Senate failed to apprehend Bin Laden.
Hey, this has been fun but I have a Doctor’s appointment to get to. Maybe we can pick it up again when I get back in a couple of hours.

Campaign financing…
It needs to be reformed if one party is side-stepping the rules and spending millions in advertising through a third-party entity.
Obama could have followed the not-so-legal path that the Republicans have taken in past election spending, but he didn’t. He stood up to the system and said no.
That is leadership.

I keep asking this question which is now fo all democrats here. In your own words tell us the republicans how you believe Obama will actually change government.
Maybe you really don’t have a clue, or want to keep it a secret. If you are so much for Obama winning tell us how it will change.

jhw539: The Obama camapaign has many tens of thousands, and counting, of contribution in odd amounts like $1.428.67.
How do such unround figures come about? It is called foreign currency coversion (with the contributors using very difficult to track Swiss issued credit cards).

When is Palin going to release her medical records? Why the delay? What is she hiding? Any truth to the rumor that she is trying to cover up an abortion?

Phil….I said nothing about going my way. I am a registered Independent and vote how I see the issues and their resolutions to these issues, not how the media spins issues or how political adds sping issues.
What I do see is an extremly unqualified person who could not even get security clearance into most places within the goverment because of his past, a person who refuses to release his college transcripts, refuses to release his VAULT copy of his birth certificate, a person who refuses to show he is no longer an Indonesian citizen, a person who refuses to release his college thesis or any reviews he did while he was president of the Harvard Law review.
The above may sound trivial, even stupid to you, but circumventing the Constitution all in the name of Political Correctness is, well just stupid. Refusing to show America who you are and what you are about leaves MANY to question who you really are.
I see videos and audio tapes of Obama speaking and yes it is him speaking with out cut-and-paste spins from media outlest,just now coming to light of his intentions as well as his books that outline his intentions, which in my mind are not for the betterment of the vast majority of Americans.
Hawaii did away with the Universal Health Care plan because he cost too much money and did not work. Hmmmmm….again, who is going to pay for that system if it is implemented? The very tax payers he is claiming he is going to cut taxes for? LOL, okay!
But all we have to do is look what Michele Obama did while she was hauling in an over $300,000 income from a hospital she works at. She started turning away low income and homeless minorities sending them to other facilities because they were clogging up their system.
Right….for the little guy huh?
Education? All we have to do is look what he did with the millions of dollars he gave out to not help with math and science in public schools, but rather the money was given to radicalize charter schools. Yes, there is proof of this so lay-off your Republican name calling…….
How can he cut taxes or 95% of Americans when approx. 40% do not pay taxes? So, 95-40=55%. Of that 55%, how many only pay pay roll taxes? Remember, they will receive at most $500 and that is pending they do not owe any taxes before the check is cut to them.
Do you get where I am going?
Most importantly, I do not want a First lady who is just now happy with America for the first time in her adult life, a country that is just down right nasty, going around speaking to children.
Again, read what little of her Thesis is out there and then read Obama’s books and then come back and preach how he is only interested in the good of this country.

A Veteran
-Wants to End war, McCain doesnt
-Wants to give middle class tax cuts, McCain doesnt
-Want to invest in education much more than McCain
-gives incentives to college students, McCain doesnt
-End Bush tax cuts, mcCain wont
-Has better energy plan, McCain drilling for oil does not solve anything, infact more oil means more global warming.

Maybe the republicans prefer the Bush way of communicating with the public. Executive Privilege! Maybe we can say goodbye to Rove for good next Tuesday. McCain/Palin/Rove = Reform. Yea Right.

This infomercial is supposed to be costing Obama $14 million!!! It is $1 million per channel. That is what ABC said this morning on GMA. There is a big difference between $3 million and $14 million. And they had so much to say about $150,000! What hypocrites!

“This infomercial is supposed to be costing Obama $14 million!!! It is $1 million per channel. That is what ABC said this morning on GMA. There is a big difference between $3 million and $14 million. And they had so much to say about $150,000! What hypocrites!”
We Obama supporters paid for the infomercials. We gave him money to advertise and he is using that money as we requested.
McCain supporters are paying for Palin’s wardrobe.

kristie
Actually McCain does want to end the war, with honor instead of running away. We leave now and the country will not survive as a democracy. A new radical leader will take over and those who died there will once againn have died for nothing. Regardless of who sends us, once sent we need to finish the job we were sent to do. Why not pull all our forces home. From Korea. From Germany. From Afghanistan??

TO ALL:
Just something to think about:
How many years have the GOP raised more money than the DEMS, overspending them with money raised by their rich buddies and putting the DEMS at a distinct diadvantage? I guess if the shoe was on the other foot it would be ok with the GOPers.
If it were not for the economy, how many swift boat ads would we be seeing? Money spent on the McCain campaign through the circumvented route of not being done by the RNC?
We all know how the GOP likes to suppress voters or get their GOP buddies to help them steal elections. If Obama had taken election funds like they tried to sucker him into to doing, then he would not have been able to fight back.
Has it not sunk into all the so called “Christian” brain cells, that all the GOP knows how to do is spread fear and hate. Their message is never positive. It doesn’t even have to be another party that they’re fighting against, they eat their own.
The bottom line is, the GOP has been in power for 8 years and where are we? What has McCain done that makes anyone think we won’t continue on the same path were’re on right now. If the way he’s handling his campaign is anything to go by, Lord help us all if he should win. If Iraq wants us to leave, are we going to stay there no matter what that say if according to McCain “we haven’t won”?
If anyone thinks by any stretch of the imagination that Palin can handle anything beyond one-liners, well – God Bless you. Has it crossed anyone’s mind that if you set youself up as having expertise about special needs such as autism, you might want to read up on the research – like fruit flies. Palin may be ready someday, but I’d rather it not be while I’m steal able to vote. Talk about research on Obama, have you done the research on her. She can give the folks in Washington a run for their money on cronyism and you better not turn you back if you don’t want a knife in it. If they win, is Todd going to have his own desk and phone in her office? Is he going to attend all meetings with her or be cc’d on all emails? Just wondering.
Well, I think we can more accurately project where we would go with McCain and that’s a continued downward spiral. I say give Obama a chance. I don’t think he can do any worse and we may better than we hope for.

MCCAIN WAS FRIENDS WITH KHALIDI FOR YEARS! And he admits it and yet now McCain wants to slam Obama for Khalidi. What a joke. McCain also says Palin is ready to lead the country from day one. And Im supposed think his opinions mean something and have merit?
Posted by: CW | Oct 29, 2008 12:03:51 PM
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Doesn’t the fact that McCain admits this have any credence with you? I have not heard today, but bet “Ogona take our money” is denying…he denies any film that proves him saying something. This guy is a liar and a cheat.
He said that his mother was on Food Stamps and now he says she was arguing with the insurance company on her death bead…shouldn’t she have been on Medicade? He thinks so much of his grandmother..he spends 2 hours with her and she is supposed to be soooooo ill.
What will he do for you if you are sick?
Nothing!!!

150k wardrobe on Palin, $500 italian leather shoes on McCain, 20+cars, 9 houses on 7 properties, yeah these guys are just like Joe the Plumber aren’t they?

Ok, if you think you can end Iraq war with honor, we will be there 10,000 years….there is no way, whatever we do there, that Iraq will ever be safe Democratic society…thousands of years of war and hate, and now that we have been there 7+ years, they hate us even more….Im for pulling out and seeing what happens instead of staying there and letting hate for us grow even more….either way we lose….Its not the soldiers fault by any means, they were put there to do an impossible task……i feel really bad for them and their families….But no matter what, Iraq will never be a war we can win….all we can hope for is that it doesnt escalate…staying there or coming home wont change anything.

McCain and Obama both supported the $700 billion bailout and it was full of earmarks… they did not display one ounce of strength in changing anything

I am a working mother, about 50 hrs a week. I don’t have time or resources to go to rallys. I don’t even have much time off to watch prime time t.v. I have had to do alot of google searching just to get the text of some of the speeches out there and had to take time off from work just to hear the vp debate and the last presidential debate.
Republicans don’t seem to care if people like me hear what they are saying unless I am waiving their banner. They just want the cattle to show up and mark R down the ticket.
Obama really cares that I hear what he has to say and has made it easy for me to do that. Now he is giving a speech on t.v. so I don’t have to go to a rally to hear it and you are knocking him because he is spending too much money on television ads?
What about the $150k the republicans spent on Palin and her family for clothes and hairspray? That was ludicrous! But you think there was nothing wrong with that?
So let’s see…the republicans spent their money to dress up Politician Barbie and friends. The democrats spent their money to bring their campaign into my living room and let me know what they stand for and what they will do for the country…..pretty obvious who really gives a damn about what I think.
Where did Obama get his campaign money? All I am going to say to you people who like to quote rumor instead of fact—it is on the internet, I spent HOURS checking out the campaign money for BOTH PARTIES– if you want to know the truth– DO IT YOURSELF AND STOP QUOTING RUMOR LIKE IT WAS FACT. Just because you repeat DETAILED RUMOR does not change the FACT THAT IT IS JUST A RUMOR! You people are supposed to be Americans; start acting like it instead of being sheep!!!!

Tom M – I agree 100% I voted democratic not because I’m a democrat, but because I am anti “right wing” republican! I think that those of us who voted democratic this year need to hold the Congress and the president 100% responsible for pushing through a responsible agenda that will be good for the American people.
You already don’t want to hold one democrat responsible for anything done in the last 8 years. How about the 8yrs previous.

Yes lets vote democrat again, it has worked so well for us, we elected so many people for congress that are now the majority in the house and senate. Now the ratings for each are lower than the president that people supposedly dislike so. So lets do more with these people maybe we all can become disgusted with goverment altogther.
Democrats for McCain

Unfortunately. A Veteran, I don’t believe that McCain will actually do that. I have been a long time support of that man (I like him a lot), but it appears to me that he is being led by his party. I don’t think he will have the voice to make the changes he desires.

Obama does not want to start a war in Pakistan… you are just insinuating… he would only declare war in self-defense and the world knows that. Besides, bin Laden would have far less influence if Barack was president because Muslems are tender towards Barack.

The voters still don’t know much about Obama. Sure, his self promoting books are out there but MSM failed to do thorough reporting on him. Where are his mother’s relatives? We only heard about the grandma. Still undecided.

Kristie
Actually the war part is basically won. Now we are trying to win the peace. I agree it would take awhile. Just like we still have troops in Germany and South Korea. There has been strife in the Middle East for the last 2000 years and it probably will never end you are right. I just don’t want it to be a politically motivated move to get votes. I would rather ask the troops there what they think we should do and act upon their answer.

I for one, am so proud of Obama. This man has proven himself to be a TRUE LEADER. For all those that try and make him out to be this big bag bogey man, stop , its a done deal. I know what Obama stands for, I know why he is running for Presidency. TOO GIVE THE GOVERNMENT BACK TO THE PEOPLE.
McCain/Palin and the GOP has mocked this man from day one. What has McCain said that evens resembles a plan for this country…..NOTHING!!!!
I was behind McCain in the beginning 100%. But he isn’t the McCain of old anymore. He’s arrogant, condescending, and lack any CLASS. We’ve had enough of this behavior out of GWB.
The GOP has done nothing but lie about Obama to no end. He’s worn every label they could throw at him. And not once has he stooped to McCains level. True leaders, lead by example. And Obama has set an example that we all can learn from.
McCain has shown use affinty for telling out right lies, through his misleading ads. His lack of good sound judgment. His fear and race baiting and the list goes on and on.
People will accept and believe what they want to believe. Believe the GOP lies and vote McCain. Research the lies McCain has been telling about Obama, with an open mind. The true facts speak for itself. That’s why Obama is the last man standing.
This was McCains year to lead. Sadly though he didn’t know how. AND IT SHOWS

Singlemomvoting? Are you kidding me?
I am a single divorce mother with two children, work full time, in the middle of working on my master degree, one kid in softball and one in football.
Please do not give me that crap that Obama has time for you because he is spending MILLIONS of dollars on an infomerical.
Good Lord you have got to be kidding me!!
Obama needs to Really CARE and start answering the tough questions without crying racism when someon asks him something he does not like or something that is going to make him “look bad”!
He has ZERO EXPERIENCE with foreign affairs.
He has ZERO EXPERIENCE when it comes to the miitary or wars.
Education Ideology? Just look at where he sent millions of dollars-it wasnt to the public schools for math and science!
Economy? Are you guys kidding? He could not even make a low income housing project work in Chicago, how in the heck is he going to fix the entire US Economy?
Health Insurance? We have already seen hawaii do away with the Universal Health Care as it cost too much and it is NOT working.
Then we look at all of his shady and criminal friends, we look at his racist preacher and the fact he refuses to release any documentation regarding his past.
right….what exactly do we know about Obama and what exactly is he going ot tell you tonight that is going to be good for a working mother?
He will cut your taxes? LMAO…no one is cutting taxes this term, maybe keep the tax cuts in place, but I do not see how they can get any lower witout taxing other people.
95% tax cuts huh? Roughly 40% do not pay taxes….that equalys only 55%. Of that 55%, some only pay pay roll taxes, therefore a check to them will be no larger than $500.
As for campaign funding….I am not sure where you are getting your iformation from, but there is quite a bit of Obama’s money under investigation right now and hundred of thousands of dollars he had to return because they accepted money they should not have.

Global warming theories are based on increased CO2 levels, humans, animals, bugs all emit CO2, cooking, driving, flying all emit CO2.
How do you suggest that we change the CO2 levels, solar, wind – Carter tried those in the 70′s a complete failure.
Using things other than oil would be a good idea, many coutries use alcohol not only from corn.
But how do we have electricity how do we have planes without fuel? In Physics you learn energy has to be used to create new energy.

UnPoliticallyCorrect2008, those infomercials were paid by Obama’s supporters. We purchased them, not Obama. Your tax dollars are not paying for Obama’s commercials.

Kristie …..Did you know that in 1972, the mantra of the environmentalists was GLOBAL COOLING ??? CO2 (carbon dioxide) is what we breath out; it is necessary for photosynthesis – the process of plants producing the oxygen we breath. The taxes to fight Global Warming are outrageous.

UnPoliticallyCorrect2008, if Obama is elected, my tax burden is going to up, and what I pay is going to cut down what you pay.
I should be angry that my burden is going up, but I never needed the extra money that Bush gave me. It should have gone to you.

UnPoliticallyCorrect2008, I don’t mind that Palin purchased a new wardrobe. I suspect it was necessary and that the news media blew it up.

James321
I agree with you mostly. I don’t think we should have rewarded them with a bail out either. All these things had both parties involved. Not just one. Most people in government are in the upper upper class. We have been able to have pretty much all we need or want, have it paid for with money left on a household income of 50,000. Our nations dependence on credit is overwhelming. You end up paying so much more for the items you buy on credit. The banking and credit card system need a major going over. Two shows I watched really say it all
FRONTLINE: The secret history of the credit card
IN DEBT WE TRUST before the bubble burst. That one made before the crisis was warning of the very thing that happened.

TV TONIGHT HIGHLIGHTS:
8:00 PUSHING DAISIES (ABC)- A mysterious man shows up at the diner and claims to be an old friend of Ned’s father.
8:00 BARAK LIVE! (CBS, FOX, NBC) – A mysterious, inexperienced, first term Senator shows up in a TV studio and claims to qualified to lead the free world. He also requests that Ned’s father skip work on Tuesday.
Hmmm, both shows sound a little over the top to me. Only in Hollywood, as they like to say.

Where oh where is Palin’s medical record? Palin supports redistributin wealth, she said it. (Oil checks for people of Alaska) Ronald Reagasn created the earned income tax credit.
People that don’t work get tax refunds, remember?? Is that socialist? Fact: those making less than 250,000.00 gets a better tax deal with Obama. It’s just a fact you can’t disprove. It’s the truth. Christians behind McShame and Palin, remember the “TRUTH”.
Now McCain is letting Joe the Plumber talk about foreign policy on the tour. Is this the beginning of a McCain administration, Palin, Joe the Plumber, Oscar the Grouch, Batman, Dora the Explorer???? It’s embarrassing that people are falling for this socialist grap? Our whole tax policy is based on socialist principles. How can he take the wealth and redistribute it. Wall Street already did that along with your government. What wealth? Dah!!! Open your eyes people. Vote for Barack Obama, just don’t tell your friends. Just keep it to yourself. McCain sick or dead, Palin, our president???? Oh my God!!!!

I personally will never be able to watch Obama on TV tonight. I get sick just thinking about the possibility of him becoming the US President. He and his wife are far left radicals that will turn this nation inside out and divide us for a long time to come. His administration will ruin what democracy we have left in this country. The really scary thing about it is…people won’t believe it, they call the rest of us crazy and they worship the ground he walks on! Read your Bible people…Obama is the beginning of the end.

I continue to pray for the lost soulds that follow Palin. She’s a liar and not qualified. You are the tragedy of this campaign following behind someone like this woman. /shame on YOU!!!!

Honay? LMAO…and Obama always tells the truth? LOL…..LOL….LOL

–A Veteran
the war is almost won???? Wow, were you on the ship that said Mission Accomplished?? the war isnt one by any means…..sure if you have a bullet proof vest and a army of armed soldiers around you, you can walk the streets of Iraq….but this war is no way over or won….we can never win there….Patreaus even said you cant judge this by win or lose just a few weeks ago…..its a mess….we leave, and civil war will break out….we stay, our country is hated even more…..if you really think we won, you need to call all the news companies and tell them how we won this war….McCain always says “he know how to do this and that”….you have had 8 years my Friend to do something and they have done nothing……he said he knows how to get BinLaden…..well again, 8 years, you probably should of told one of the generals your plan to do this soon….im not sure what your waiting for….

Honay Rogers, I don’t think demonizing Palin is the right thing to do. She has done a lot of good things for Alaska.

Molly, actually, you could say that about Bush. Lots of pretty evil things have been happening on his watch…

Molly, actually, you could say that about Bush. Lots of pretty evil things have been happening on his watch…
Posted by: justbob | Oct 29, 2008 1:02:33 PM
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Don’t know what you are referring too, but you don’t know the half of it about the evil things that will happen if “The Messiah” is elected. Bush has kept you safe, if we aren’t safe none of the rest of our bs will matter. “The Messiah” is not the one to keep us safe…….far from it.

IGNORANCE is the most expensive commodity.

America is about to be hoodwinked and smooth talked into a very long and painful Depression with another failed attempt and democratic-socialism. We have tried this twice before. See FDR 1930-1939 and Jimmy Carter 1976-80. It doesn’t work and we ALL pay dearly for it. The United States has only been successfull for 200 years because it is a free-market, capitalist country. Notwithstanding idealist, wishful, thinking, ALL people are not created equal. However, all people in this country are given equal chance and opportunity to succeed. That is what drives people to do great things. When a society assumes that everyone must “equal” in condition, it must begin to manipulate the system to take wealth from those who have and redistribute it to those who do not. That lowers productivity, jobs, and incentive for people to work harder. Oh, well, some people have to learn the hard way.

RealClearPolitics poll averages currently have Obama ahead nationally by about 6%. More importantly, Obama leads: Colorado +8.3%, Ohio +5.8%, Nevada +7.5%, Virginia +7.4%, and Pennsylvania +11.0%. It isn’t over until it’s over but you sure can see the likely finish from here. In any event Obama doesn’t need the commercial spots to win. It may help people feel better about the person most likely to be their next President though.

A Veteran | Oct 29, 2008 1:17:50 PM
…..And unfunded debt of ~$90+Trillion (social security among other things)!!!!

Global Warming… the sun has been hotter than usual for a while now (as “A Veteren” eluded to)… plus the planet’s gonna warm up before the next ice age… and the north and south poles are changing. But we human beings do have the responsibility of cleaning up our act. The clean energy technology is here and we will convert, the sooner the better, and hopefully it won’t take more than 20 years. Instead of taxing polluters support alternatives and put those dirty people out of business (besides they have the tech (Chevron, Exxon, etc.) and they’re just waiting as long as they can before they have to change, just like how Intel already has much faster chips but they’re just slowly releasing slightly faster chips in order to capitalize the most) but no matter what we do the earth and sun are gonna go through their cycles and we may face a dramatic decrease in population.

A Veteran
the democratic government “they formed”? more like the democratic government we forced them to have……..Was Saddam a bad man, yes….but he didnt attack us…Even if they had been given false intelligence he did, the evidence against Bin Laden for 9/11 was obvious….he admitted to it….but we went after Saddam first, not BinLaden….or well they disguised it as we did go to Afgahnastan first, but we switched gears and supplies all to Iraq…..
But we invaded a country without world support….We invaded a country that didnt attack us, we forced them to switch their government and they hate us for it….in their eyes, we are the terrorists…..if the situation was reversed and they came into our country, we would feel the same…and not to mention the radicals hated us anyway, this just made it 1000 times worse….
we cant win this war, we can only hope our troops come home safely and that we can defend ourselves if we are attacked…..
lets stop fighting, talk with all the leaders over there and see if we can find some resolution….Kennedy and Reagan talked during their times, why cant we now?

kristie “the real one
I agree to a point on talk as long as it isn’t to just further demean us.
I don’t think you could find too many Iraqis who were happy with Saddam and his sons running things.
I am all for letting them put whatever government they want. This is there chance.
When Saddam took power he had a list of 50 or 60 government leaders he said were subverseve had them taken out and shot.
He used chemical warfare on his own people.

Nobama is a modern day Jim Jones. His followers are so drunk on the poisoned kool aid they can’t see the reality of who Nobama is.
He’s a fraud and an empty suit. He is the puppet of the liberal democrats and with a super majority in the government they will raise EVERYONE’s taxes to pay for the ulta socialist welfare state they have planned for you.
Say good bye to your 401K. Say good bye to free markets. Most of all say good bye to your hard earned wages.

I have never been so disappointed in a political figure as John McCain. He had my vote – he lost my vote -

The Historical Lessons of Lower Tax Rates
by Daniel J. Mitchell, Ph.D.
WebMemo #327
There is a distinct pattern throughout American history: When tax rates are reduced, the economy’s growth rate improves and living standards increase. Good tax policy has a number of interesting side effects. For instance, history tells us that tax revenues grow and “rich” taxpayers pay more tax when marginal tax rates are slashed. This means lower income citizens bear a lower share of the tax burden – a consequence that should lead class-warfare politicians to support lower tax rates.
Conversely, periods of higher tax rates are associated with sub par economic performance and stagnant tax revenues. In other words, when politicians attempt to “soak the rich,” the rest of us take a bath. Examining the three major United States episodes of tax rate reductions can prove useful lessons.

I think we all should pay the same percentage…rich or poor. But as it is the supposed rich are paying higher percentage than the supposed poor. The poor are not paying any taxes now. Obama keeps redefining what is rich…first it was those making over a $1 million, then those making over $250,000, then $200,000, and now Biden Says $150,000……..It is only a matter of time before Obama is AGAIN saying those making over $42,000 a year is rich. He has already voted to raise taxes 94 times including for those making over $42,000. People wake up and grow a brain………..what Obama says and what he has done don’t line up.

McCains tax plan would creat 2+ million jobs by 2018
Obama tax plan create less than 1 million jobs during the same time frame

Why on Earth would a Hillary supporter want to vote for Palin? They are completely opposite.

A Veteran | Oct 29, 2008 2:01:35 PM……Given your recent tax post, why would Obama want to raise taxes?

As a CANADIAN. You should start listening to us. We see outside the box.
Vote OBAMA, or end up suffering some more. Get some gun laws folks. At the moment, you look pathetic as a nation divided. Time to start owning up to your mistakes

In Va. Flyers have been hung and handed out telling Dems that they are supposed to vote on Wed and only Rep can vote on Tues. A mandate from Va. is being put out to address the situation and those responsible are being sought. Cant the republicans ever win something fair and square? Same way they run the country with deception.

Yea Davis and Palin is a rocket scientist.

Hey lost democracy,
You can thank the monkey in the oval office for the loss of democracy. What in God’s name has he done to better this country or it’s citizens? And don’t say He’s made us safe. He has made us more unsafe.

Google :
“An examination of Obama’s use of hidden HYPNOSIS techniques in his speeches ”
It’s a compelling 67 page report.
Some people are more susceptible to it…may explain the ‘Obama Zombie’ syndrome .

I hate to get off subject….but this whole CO2 is causing global warming is nonsense. It’s not and there is no scientific evidence to back up this BS….the planet has cycles of cool and warmer climates———-UNFORUNATELY, AND MARK MY WORDS———–THIS YEAR IS THE BEGINNING OF A COOLING PERIOD…LONG, COLD WINTER AHEAD. Cooler climates are harder to live in, so watch out.

You’re so concerned with keeping your guns, but where are you going to be able to use them? The only place that’s going to be left when McCain/Palin are done is the local gun range.
Palin is ready to destroy a salmon spawning ground to make a few more bucks for Alaska.
The McCain/Palin ticket is an environmental disaster, waiting to happen. If they get elected, you can use your gun to shoot yourself in the other foot, because you’ll already have shot yourself in the foot.

Obama’s own 30 minute commercial…what person in their right mind wants to watch a 30 minute commercial? And geesh, what an ego on Obama to delay the game so we are force to listen to his idiot.

It’s official Obama is an ego-maniac….toss the fascist Obama out.

Too many flash bulbs in the McCain ad. It’s really distracting.
Looking forward to Obama’s ad tonight. He is a phenomenon.
I think it will be more than 16 years before we something like this again.

The world will begin to change only when you are ready to pronounce this oath:
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine.
Mr. Obama is a Marxist. It shows in his off-the-cuff statements, and in the people with whom and in the policies with which he has surrounded himself for years.
The “wealthy” of this nation (who by the way are also the producers of most of our goods, services and jobs) will remain “wealthy” precisely because they will continue to do the things that made them wealthy in the first place. They will find ways to protect their assets from the draconian tax policies of an Obama Administration. If this calls for such measures as cutting jobs in order to keep their businesses financially healthy, they will do so. They will have to.
From whom then will the Obama Administration extract the necessary taxes with which to pay for their social engineering? The floor for their tax hike has already dropped from $250k to $200k (Mr. Obama said both of these figures in the last debate), to now $150k, per Mr. Biden. Gaffe? Or “foaming the runway”?
You are next. I am next. We all are. Believe it. Protect your assets now.
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
– Ben Franklin

I’ve seen enough, I’m voting McCain/Palin. Obama can thank Joe Bidin for this one woman’s vote. If ever a chance this guy sits in the oval office as my president, I’ll send my vote elsewhere, thank you very much. As if my Ohio vote will even count at this point with the amount of voter fraud expected in Ohio. Makes me wonder if the presidency of the United States of America can be bought for the right price. If so, Obama has this job he’s clearly not qualified for in the bag, bought and paid for.

I am so looking forward for tonight’s infomercial because Obama is the smartest candidate. All republicans are just talking out their ears because they know it’s over for McCain. Shame on you any Hillary supporters for voting Palin. What’s wrong with you?

I worry about the pendulum effect. In about eight years or so, when the economy is out of danger and America has world respect and self-respect, will we elect another trickle-down Reagan-bush style Republican to put us right back in the toilet?

What will you Obamabots do when Obama loses????? Polls are closing and we PUMA patriots stacked the cards in the polls…every Puma polled said they would vote for Obama…just to skew the polls……Acorn can stuff the box with bogus votes…but Puma can can beat Obama legally!! GO PUMA!!!!!!

This country was a 200 year experiment in a failed philosophy of liberty and freedom and based on false idealism that was documented in the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. Barack understands that and will finally move all of us who live here foward on a truely equal basis into the a glorius future. He has been a “sleeper” who emerged on the world stage in 2004 as the true candidate and will finally be in control. I look forward to working with him and his new armies of believers to fix our constitution and laws to put us in our rightful place in the world.

Molly, Can you please expound oh how “Bush has kept you safe”? I was not aware that I had “anything” to thank him for.

Wasn’t Ben Franklin the idiot that flew a kite in a storm?
When the people find out they can vote themselves money… They themselves will no longer be slaves to the Republic.
Duh!
Is that the END?… or the beginning of the Republic eh’em …for which WE the people stand?
Go fly a kite.

I watched this commercial on-line as missed it last night due to forgetting that 8:00 ET and I’m on CT-(WI). He talked about his plans in a posative way and his pick of 4 different families facing issues I face everyday were heartfelt and REAL.
He did not mention McCain or Palin nor made any attempt to smear them or their policies-period. Obama talked about what what he wants to do, when he wants to do it and talks about what we can do to fix what is wrong in America right NOW and HOW to get the ball rolling, right NOW!!
Barack Obama is a man of great character, strength, decency and seems to genuinely care about the people in this country who have been “stomped on” long enough. People like me and my husband who are 45 and 50, worked all our lives and have to live to paycheck to paycheck to keep up with the costs of my RX meds, keep my chidren in a decent scool and just make ends meet day after day after day.
If I hear one more remark that Obama is a Socialist, Muslim or terrorist, I’ll puke. He is truly deserving to be our President and did not sugar coat anything that government is NOT giving “us free-loaders” as the “other side” likes to call us but the break we deserve. He said it is not going to be easy and we have a long way to go to undo the mess of the last 8 years. God Bless America and God Bless Barack Hussein Obama-A 21st Century innovator and thinker that will not only steer us out of a financial crisis but an environmental crisis as well with his common sense Green Energy approach that has been delayed by the greedy big oil barons/cartels for far too long. There is NOT one thing this man says that I disagree with. I want change, hope, peace and a clean planet for my children to inherit. Obama’s vsion is MY vision of what our country AND world could be like if people put aside their anger, greed, hate and me, me, me, mentality once and for all!!!
Go Obama as your message is one of unity and hope that together, Americans can indeed do ANYTHING if we’re willing to work at it!!!
Obama/Biden 08

atomheartmother1 Break you “deserve”? Just what is it you think you “Deserve”? Non of us “Deserve” anything we dont work for. Fairness and a right to make your own way? Yes, of course? Free money becuase you “struggle”? “NO”. I’ve struggled for years and am finally getting ahead, now you want a what I have “struggled” hard to earn? Here’s something to consider:
**YOU DO NOT DESERVE WHAT I HAVE EARNED**

Brainwashed – follow the leader because you guys are definitely not leaders …followers.
Scary- reminds me of lemmings that run for no reason…right off the cliff.
Scary