‘Who Is the Real Barack Obama?’ Someone Has an Answer

McCain’s camp knows what it’s doing: fanning the flames of hatred and fear. They may not hold responsibility for the words of these people, but they are stoking these hatreds. If they keep up the Mussolini-like, pure personal demonisation speeches, then we’ll see some people being really riled up in a very bad way.

Are we throwing the race card again? Get this straight…don’t blame others if Obama’s parents named him “hussein”. That is his name. Deal with it. Sorry if it is considered an insult, but blame his parents.
How many terrorists have you met in your lifetime? any terrorists launch your job or celebrate your promotion at their homes recently? So, if you can exercise judgment to avoid known murderous terrorists, why can’t we expect the same of Obama?
Not just Ayers. There is video documenting Obama’s involvement with Kenyan prez candidate Odinga, who, if elected, would have been against US policies against terrorism. Why is the media not paying attention to this?
All Americans should be furious and offended.
In his short and meager career, Obama has managed to have more dangerous associations than the entire congress combined. All wonderful canddiate for president, and this is the best the Dem party could come up with?
READ THE FACTS. Obama is dangerous. YOu can bring up Keating or Troopergate or other silly lies about mccain or Palin, but the facts show that Obama is not only a dangerous corrupt piece of trash, but has the audacity to lie to the American people about it.
Fight for America. mcCain is fighting for you, why won’t you fight with him?

The best way to stop these tactics is to vote. Vote to stop a regime like this from taking power and destroying this country further.

this is sort of like obama allowing his “supporters” and minions to label Bill Clinton as a racist and Hillary as disrespectful of Martin Luther King Jr., while not condemning or even stating that such characterizations are untruthful

mccain does not deserve our voter either.

just a slight correction: mccain does not deserve our VOTES or our VOTERS either. WriteHillaryIn.com

Finally McCain is running a presidential campaign. Everything he said about Obama is fair game. He should have been doing this last month.
Jack, I think you are fair. Can you please set the record straight regarding the sex education bill in the Illinois Senate? I read an article by Byron York in the National Review that McCain’s ad was accurate and in fact the Obama campaign was the one “lying”.

Of course the McCain/Palin campaign, by it’s new character attacks, is encouraging these things. I saw a Sean Hannity special last night on Obama and his questionable associations (focusing on Wright, Phleger and one other Arab man whose name eludes me at the moment) and they all but suggested he might be a member of Al Qaida in secret.
The fact is, McCain has shown he wants to win no matter what so I think privately they are grateful for this sort of smear. Shame on McCain.

The GOP does not want the race this year. The country is in total chaos, the country is broke, the country is paying for a military occupation of a foreign country and we have a terrorist as a possible president. There is no money to spend on ‘pet’ projects from Hussein or his racist wife.
Who would want to take the job of president? What good will this president do? Noting!!! There is no money…

The only terrorists I know are Bush and Cheney.

When the Campaign does nothing to correct the statements on the spot it amounts to Condoning and encouraging. McCain Clearly heard the terrorist comment from his supporter and he should have stopped and corrected that individual then and there.
His speech was designed to place doubts about Obama and his intentions, and his campaign is focused on establishing those doubts.
McCain is a dishonorable cowered.

What is your real Economy solution?? .
do we have a answer john McANGRY.
very sad to see the old guy grasping at straws as his time draw to a end .
the 30 years average career keating 5 corrupt senator will be ship off.
cant say it was nice knowing you.

COME ON GUYS YOU LEAVE JOHN MCSAME ALONE HE IS WITH ME
sincerly.
THE TITANIC.

and what’s more:
He who sows iniquity will reap vanity, and the rod of his fury will perish.
Proverbs 22:8

McAngry?
I am anxiously awaiting the debate tomorrow night to see who’s angry when all is said and done.
I have a feeling that many topics Obama does not prefer to talk about will be brought forward, and he has a habit of getting annoyed, angry and frustrated when anyone steps on his toes.

The latest Fox News/Rasmussen Reports polling of five battleground states shows Barack Obama has made significant gains in Colorado, Missouri and Florida. In Ohio and Virginia, there was little change from the week before.
All five of these states were won by George W. Bush and the Republicans four years ago. Obama now holds at least a modest edge in four of the five states and is essentially even in Ohio.
Obama now leads by seven points, 52 percent to 45 percent in Florida. A week ago the candidates were tied in the Sunshine State. Two weeks ago, McCain was up five.
In Colorado, Obama now holds a six-point advantage, 51 percent to 45 percent. Last week, Obama had a one-point edge in the state and two weeks ago McCain was narrowly ahead.
In Missouri, it’s Obama 50 percent McCain 47 percent. In mid-September, a Rasmussen Reports poll had found McCain up by five in the Show-Me State.
Obama continues to hold a narrow advantage in Virginia, 50 percent to 48 percent. That’s virtually unchanged from last week. However, last week was the first time Obama had moved ahead in this state that hasn’t voted for a Democrat since 1964.
Ohio is the only state where McCain has any sort of advantage. But a 48 percent to 47 percent lead is meaningless in a poll with a three percentage point margin of sampling error.

Tomorrow’s debate will seal McCain’s fate! He and Palin opened a can of worms and Obama opened his can of whoop @##.

Obviously the “Barack Hussein Obama” is an attempt to make Obama sound scary, but that is nothing new. They have been trying to frame that for many months.
The “terrorist” shouts are a little more disturbing. I hope they are not encouraging that behavior. It is too close to the idea of inciting a mob to violence.

liberati
The Keating 5 as well as the AK Troopergate are real sport. You are all about make-believe.
There has been one and only one presidential cadidate in US history to surrender to our enemy, guess who?
Those of us who were yanked into that unjust war never forget nor will those who serve in Iraq.
de oppresso liber

DNC Party Crasher:
Yes, if Obama has nothing to hide, why doesn’t he just up and produce his REAL birth CERTIFCATE?
Why goes through all the courtroom antics putting off the inevitable?
What does Obama think, that if he puts this off until after the election and he does happen to win, that they won’t be able to disqualify him later?
Ineligible to hold office is still ineligible to hold office, before or after an election.

One thing for sure. This will just push independent voters towards Obama.
He is losing on economics, but switching his tune to this neanderthal level is maybe his biggest mistake.
My predictions.. In few days his rating will drop even harder.

DNC Party Crasher, it the polls that made McCain decide to give up on Michigan.
Today’s new polls, national and states, might inspire him to give it ALL up.
He’s going to lose in a landslide.

Anybody who is using fear and war to try to win an office is a terrorist. WBush, Cheney, McCain and Palin are the real terrorists, because the are terrorising the American people. Any one who has protected deregulation, anybody who has supported criminal bankers against American people is a terrorist, McCain is one of them: Keating 5 and the new collapse of Wall Street. Palin has a low IQ and McCain has almost no IQ, if Palin thinks that the VP is a competitition ofr Miss Alaska, wake-up and smell the …Sarah and McCain are losers.

Jo
Do you know what the definition of terrorism is? Although I condemn Ayers’ actions, as does Obama, I’m not sure you can call it “terrorism” if innocent people were not targeted.

Merle,
By your argument, you are saying that since Obama sat passively and silently by in that hate filled church for 20 years he was giving concent to what Wright was saying that whole time – correct? I appreciate that from you.
It’s not fanning flames of fear to point out the BO has spent his entire adult life in the company of radicals. Obama has a world view that has been warped by the tutalige of the marxist professors he sought out in college – by his 20 year relationship with Jeremiah Wright and his choice to associate with a man he knew to be a domestic terrorist.

I believe Kerry was up just as Obama is now in the polls in 2004.
How did that turn out?
Lol.

It doesn’t matter if their messiah stood on a stage tomorrow and said he’s going to make America a socialist country (sigh!) and cut our defense spending to 100K a year .. they’d still whoop it up for him! It’s the kool-aid people .. I hope you enjoy CHANGE – what’s left in your pocket if this clown wins!! The thing I’ll give him is this .. he’s smart and he knows EXACTLY that!

Jump ball for discussion purposes: Are these random events it’s unfair to blame on the McCain-Palin campaign, or does the new tone of the McCain-Palin campaign encourage these types of statements?
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um, duh? enciting this kind of “us vs. them” mentality also contributes to domestic violence.
mccain / palin are fanning flames… it’s all they’ve got

McCain is spineless. Talks about his straight Talk Express, but doesn’t have the courage of his convictions.
Spineless coward!

Last i check people problems at the kitchen table IN losing their JOBS and HOMES have NOTHING to do with With REv WRIGHT, REV WRONG, bill ayers or whoever they claim he say hello to.
Obama/Biden .my kitchen table and purse matters.

From the NY Daily News …
McCain’s course correction reflects a growing case of nerves within his high command as the electoral map has shifted significantly in Obama’s favor in the past two weeks. A top McCain strategist told the Daily News, “It’s a dangerous road, but we have no choice. If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we’re going to lose.”
Well guess what? We’re talking about it…
Dow plunges to lowest level since 2004.
Wall Street joined a “selloff around the world” today, with the Dow Jones dropping more than 400 points and falling to below 10,000 for the first time in four years. As the AP reports, the “markets have come to the sobering realization that the Bush administration’s $700 billion rescue plan won’t work quickly to unfreeze the credit markets, and that many banks are still having difficulty gaining access to cash.”

Republicans better cut out the extremely negative and outright untrue accusations. There about to lose a big chunk of independents and moderate democrats who sometimes vote their way. Keep it up and you may just lose this election and many more to come in future years!

CCB,
This isn’t about racism. This is not because Obama is black. You may feel different if you had a loved one in the twin towers as I did. I don’t want these people to get back in our country. Thank God for our military protecting us and trying to make our country safe.

As to the “terrorist” shout-out, I’ll look to the words of Sir Thomas More (as written by Robert Bolt) to interpret McCain’s silence:
“Not so. Not so, Master Secretary. The maxim is ‘Qui tacet consentiret’: the maxim of the law is “Silence gives consent”. If therefore you wish to construe what my silence betokened, you must construe that I consented, not that I denied.”
Are we back to “A Man for All Seasons”? McCain and Palin’s events today are stirring up a mob – let’s hope that it doesn’t quell over into mob actions.

I hope I am just exaggerating but I must say I am beginning to sense some real danger in the McCain camp’s increasingly ferocious attempts to smear Obama. It’s the danger of violence or, more precisely, assassination attempts. I am not sure if the McCain folks realize that racism is still alive and well in this country and it’s extremely dangerous to stir up those sentiments. They will be really sorry if they see blood on their hands.

Ran,
yes thank god for our military. My nephew just got back from his third tour in Iraq and he and all of his buddies are voting for Obama. Apparently his support of the troops is affecting them. Also McCain’s lack of support – even when he was an officer – to watch his shipmates try to save each other while he watched on closed circuit tv in the breakroom- SHAMEFUL!

Fears go both ways. I’m thinking of buying a few guns to defend my family in case of Obama’s loss.

Clifton,
Guess how many more Americans would have been killed since 9/11 if we had not stood up for our country….do you think 9/11 was the end of the terrorist situations? Absolutely not. They are planning attacks as we speak. They want Obama in the white House, so they can get into American easier….and kill many more Americans. We are such bad people.

These are despicable statements, and they are not randomly occuring. Instead, the McCain campaign has decided that unless it truly changes the tone of the debate, it will not win. So now, they are willing to do anything – ANYTHING – to close the gap.

The NYT story about Obama and Bill Ayers the TERRORIST is just a whitewash. You need to read STEVE DIAMOND at his Blog “Global Labor and Politics”. Stve has talked to the Reporters at the NYT many times but they won’t print the REAL STORY. It’s not about Ayers Bombing Policy, it’s about the EDUCATION POLICY that he shares with Obama. Ayers started the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and made Obama the Chairman. Obama would fund Ayers’ education programs. They both believe in “Educational Reparations” to people of color that have been held back by the racist culture in America.

They will be really sorry if they see blood on their hands.
Posted by: chris | Oct 6, 2008 7:02:43 PM
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I’m afraid they wouldn’t be!

“Two words
Hagee and Keating.’
Two Words:
Who cares?

Mack,
My thoughts exactly when it came to this post:
Clair,
The character of the person in the Whitehouse should matter. Someone who could sit passively by in that hate filled church for 20 years – someone who would even think about nurturing a decades long relationship with the disgusting likes of William Ayers is unfit to command – it’s just that simple.
Posted by: oldspice | Oct 6, 2008 7:06:32 PM
It’s the same thing. Who cares?

McCain’s honor is GONE. The tone of his campaign is getting toxic. It is clearly the increasing negativity of his campaign that is bringing out these incidents.
Palin’s insinuations that Mr. Ayers is still a terrorist and Obama may as well be a terrorist are tantamount to slander. She should be held accountable.

The people who are racist here are the black people. It just takes something like this presidental campaign for their true feelings to surface.
I never experienced racism before until I moved to the south…and it was from the black people. I think Black people just want a black president, and they are ignoring the true facts about this man.
Posted by: Ro | Oct 6, 2008 7:11:53 PM
Newsflash he has some white folks voting for him too!Wink wink.

I like to go online at realclearpolitics, they have a section on the right side of their Homepage called “Readers Articles”, you click on the heading and you can see articles from many papers or Blogs. Today I saw a site that had the F.B.I. Files on Frank Marshall Davis, who was Obama’s “Mentor” in Hawaii, he writes about Frank in his book. This guy was a Communist agent and a sex freak too. They have 100′s of pages in the file, he was a member of CPUSA and connected with the Soviet Union. It seems everyone Obama is connected with has a F.B.I. file, I’d love to see the one on Obama Grandparents, Obama’s Grandfather hooked him up with Davis

You Obama supporters would be funny, if your ignorance wasn”t so pervasive. You call the Sheriff Scott a racist because he referred to Obama by his full name, yet you support a candidate who attended a racist black liberation theology church for over 20 years. Very funny, indeed.

I wonder what you McCain “supporters” would talk about if you had to discuss and argue for McCain’s ideas / policies / issues.
You’d have nothing.

Prove this video wrong, Obama supporters. It is very straight forward. The video proves that Obama’s church preached black liberation theology for the whole 20+ years of his attendance, and then it offers verifiable evidence of the racist nature of the theology, including many quotes from James H. Cone, the founder of black liberation theology. The bottom line is that Obama attended and adhered to a racist religion for over 20 years. One does not attend a racist church, unless one is a racist, any more than someone would attend KKK meetings for 20 years unless he or she were a racist. Prove me wrong, if you can!

Reginald: Very eloquent garbage. Good job defending the indefensible.

gaypastor: I share your puzzlement with the fact that the ailing economy has benefited Obama. After all, it was McCain who saw this coming in 2005 and co-sponsored a bill to regulate Fannie and Freddie. It was the Democrats who killed the bill in committee. Also, Barack Obama has received more money from Fannie and Freddie in his 3 years in the Senate, than any other legislator in either house, other than Christopher Dodd, who is the chairman of the committee which overseas Freddie and Fannie.
Then, when the Congress develops their bailout bill, it is laden with hundreds of millions of dollars for the voter fraud group, Acorn. It took McCain and the House Republicans to force Congress to delete those provisions.
It is a testament to the power of the mainstream media, which is in the pocket of Obama, that the American public has been brainwashed into thinking that this problem should be laid at the feet of John McCain.

Look, this kind of stuff is going to happen when you start to run the type of campaign the McCain folks are running. Does that make it right, absolutely not. However, I doubt that McCain condones this type of action (as shown by the statement). He actually seemed a little off after the comment.
That being said, like the economy, expect it to get worse before it gets better. Until the McCain people stop with this ridiculous line of attacks/desperation, the rabid right wing nut jobs out there that will do other dumb things. Look how long it took to get past some of the viral emails out there.
While it is not over, McCain is becoming very close to being irrelevant in October.

Erin: You want us to read Obama’s own autobiographies to find out the “truth” about him? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, stop, you’re killing me, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, wait, I can’t stand it, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

The association of many years with the likes of Farrakahn, Wright, Ayers, Rozcoe and others, is motive to doubt the moral character and judgement of any one, much more for some one running for the presidency of the greatest country in the world. Barack Hussein Obama have too much luggage. If you want to vote for him, it’s your AMERICAN given right. Me? I lived in a Communist country and I know how they work the masses, this guy don’t fool me.

Obama attended Trinity United Church for over 20 years, and considered Rev. Wright to be his “mentor and spiritual adviser.” Trinity United preaches Black Liberation Theology, developed by James H. Cone.

“Why didn’t he use Palin’s middle name? He didn’t know it.”
Riiiight. And why didn’t he know it? Because middle names aren’t usually used! So why use Barack Obama’s?

John McCain Profile:
John McCain hobby? Political stunts!
John McCain dream? Be the president no matter what!
John McCain political ideology? Opportunist!
John McCain cheerleader? Sarah Palin.!
John McCain favorite place? Florida, many elderly residents and you can manipulate the voting results!
John McCain favorite Cable news? FOX spin masters!
John McCain favorite movie? Pinocchio!
John McCain favorite song? Bomb.Bomb..Bomb Iran!
John McCain favorite word.? President Reagan ,my friends!.
John McCain friends? Wealthy people like him.!
John McCain ability ?Regular flip flop.!
John McCain number of houses? Seven!
John McCain Number of cars?Eleven!
John McCain definition of middle class?Under five million dollars assets!
John McCain family business value? Over hundred millions!

Aengil: I don’t believe that it is appropriate to use anyone name against them, period. I will say that the temptation some have to emphasize Obama’s middle name would likely be much less if he didn’t have so many racists and terrorists for friends, advisers, and supporters.

John McCain and Sarah Palin want to be elected like Republicans but they are trying to avoid discussing issues critical for the American families. And portraying themselves like reformers because they are embarrassed of the last 8 years of the Republicans –Bush Administration Americans want answers to they problems they want better healthcare they want better pay they don’t want just change because that sounds good on election time, they want change from the Bush policies.
The financial institutions are bankrupt. The dollar super weak
The military are stressed out dangerously. Factories and jobs move overseas.
Home owners become homeless. And John McCain worry about the judgment of OBAMA?
McCain is desperate to be a President! He doesn’t see the disaster of Iraq coming when he vote in favor of War .He support deregulations and then argue about the circus of Wall Street .A person who talk against the Government but he favors the government interference .What you can say about his judgment? Now we know that not only Obama can lead, but also he had a plan for the future of this great country!
Now McCain can snooze tight. Obama can answer the 03.00 am call any time!
Rebublicants can spin like wash machine all day long! The truth is
Senator McCain past actually impairs him from to be flexible and confront the future with open mind. The last days of the campaign confirmed that McCain -Plain are the most inadequate people to run this country!
The same people who gave George Bush a second term should feel responsible for the mess that is occurring today. They are the same ones who today have doubts about the ability of Obama to be a good choice for President. At war the first casualty is the truth. At this electoral race the truth has been killed by McCain and the Rebublicants .

Since some folks on this blog couldn’t convince the public that Obama was a foreign-born terrorist, they’re now trying to spin that he’s a racist, and white folks had better watch out because he’s gonna come with his army of bow-tied Farrakhan supporters.
Racism is a live and well in America in this form: some say black folks are angry and vengeful and we shouldn’t be lettin’ run things. This is the mindset of so many Americans. Shame!

Racist wow what a joke.
A white man says ANYTHING and he’s a racist yet a black man can say anything and don’t contradict it because it’ll prove you are a racist….. welcome to the USSA the new socialist state

Who They Are, What They’re About
Josh Marshall
So we have McCain today getting his crowd riled up asking who Barack Obama is and then apparently giving a wink and a nod when one member of the crowd screams out “terrorist.”
And later we have Sarah Palin with the same mob racket, getting members of the crowd to yell out “kill him”, though it’s not clear whether the call for murder was for Bill Ayers or Barack Obama. It didn’t seem to matter.
These are dangerous and sick people, McCain and Palin. Whatever it takes. Stop at nothing.

To the very foolish extreme liberals you scare the heck out of me. like Bush is extreme right and Obama is extreme left.
McCain has proved time again he tend toward the middle.
“Two things are infinite The universe and human stupidity and I’m not sure about the former.”
Quote, Albert Einstein

Barack (the poster below), you have given no evidence of Obama being racist. Once you give facts, I’ll listen to you.

“… the temptation some have to emphasize Obama’s middle name would likely be much less if he didn’t have so many racists and terrorists for friends, advisers, and supporters.”
Please. Terrorists? Name two. And note that Ayers isn’t a terrorist – he was in the past, but isn’t now. He’s a college Professor.
As for racists, have you actually read any significant number of Wright’s sermons? This may shock you, but they’re not actually racist. Really. That’s the bottom line here.
The question of whether Black Liberation Theology (BLT) as a whole is racist is consequently fairly academic, not to mention complex. Is opposition to racism inherently racist in itself? Is hating white people because they hate you racist? (Bear in mind Cone’s book, Black Theology and Black Power, was published in 1969 when Cone was 31). Now… what happens over time, and the institutions and people become less racist? At what point does that opposition to the institutions and people that were racist become racism itself? Like I said, it’s a complex issue (to complex to cover in a blog comment). But like I also said, if you check out the Rev. Wright’s typical sermons, they’re not in themselves racist.
So personally, given Barack Obama’s background (white parents, raised in part by white grandparents), the fact that (having checked them out myself) the typical sermons of Rev. Wright were not, actually, racist, and the fact that I haven’t seen any account of him himself expressing any sign of being racist, I’d have to conclude that he is not racist.

Still think most liberals are fools.
Again I say welcome to the USSA boy are we in trouble if Obama is elected. No matter what is said because a snake oil salesman can sell sand to Egypt.

Uh-uh. Sorry, “barack”, it’s YOUR argument that doesn’t hold water. The KKK is not a church where people come to rpay to Jesus. The KKK was a domestic terrorist organization advocating white supremacy — WHICH WAS IT’S ONLY PURPOSE AND THE ONLY REASON TO BE A MEMBER.
BLT is a liberation-based belief which does not preach supremacy or violence, but advocates empowerment and seeks the right of self-definition, self-affirmation and self-determination. The theology is not racist, but an empowerment of the people through the power of Christian faith.

Mr. Tapper,
The McCain campaign is responsible for the level of fear mongering and lies that they use. We are not fools. This is engineered and the words are chosen with care and emotional impact. That is the Rove way and they are effective.
The problem is that everyone knows these are lies. Everyone. They are used to evoke our worse demons. They are used to evoke fear, hate, and prejudice and yes, the words are used carefully… “pal with terrorists (plural), you are a terrorist. You are a terrorist, then you are a muslim, black and al queda our worse enemy. Bringing together the hate of our enemy with racism is the worse type of evocation. This is done by born again Christians and this is done in front of our children and the world. This speaks of dark spirits worse than the McCarthy era. We need to be careful what we bring forth.
At one rally by Mrs. Pallin, a person yelled “kill him”.
At McCain’s recent rally, a person yelled “terrorist” (about Obama).
This isn’t ambiguous. This is a mean-spirited witches brew being made.

Barack Obama is an American. Just like John McCain. He loves his country and is trying to do the best he can to serve his fellow citizens. What makes him the superior candidate is that he knows he does not need to make you afraid of John McCain to raise his profile. All he has had to do is present his case to the American people. I have no doubt that John McCain loves his country, the problem isn’t there, the problem is that he will gladly destroy his country in the name of victory. The President takes an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States, not the flag, not a political party,Big business, not any lobby or special interest group. When was the last time John McCai, George Bush or Sarah Palin read the Constitution to do anything more than to see how to get around it? The Constitution is not about fear. John McCain is.

I ALSO AGREE WITH HILLARY CLINTON:
“I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House and Senator Obama has a speech that he gave in 2002.”
“More than ever before, our workers will need good job training for the jobs of this new century. But we can’t afford on-the-job training for our next president. That could be the costliest job training in history.”
“And we don’t need Obama’s trillion-dollar tax increase that will hit families already facing higher energy, health care and college costs. What we need is to focus on the real crises of health care and Medicare, and on expanding opportunities for poor, working and middle class families who are struggling now.”

Not just her husband’s DUI but his treasonous past.

Jake asks:
Jump ball for discussion purposes: Are these random events it’s unfair to blame on the McCain-Palin campaign, or does the new tone of the McCain-Palin campaign encourage these types of statements?
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Where do we draw the line, when we decide some “tone” has encouraged outrageous statements?
Did the anti-Iraq war tone of the Democrats encourage Code Pink to show up at various hearings, waving fake-blood colored hands in Condoleeza Rice’s face?
What about the hecklers all of the candidates have faced throughout the campaign? Are they encouraged by the rhetoric of the other campaigns?

Actually, James, I respect that Obama could choose someone like Biden as a VP – someone who disagrees with him and will challenge him. They both have their own minds. anyone with any level of intelligence knows that things are said in primary campaigns… we could go back and find things Mittens said about McCain, etc.
Today?
Democrat HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON has raised more than $8 million for former rival Barack Obama’s presidential campaign since July and plans to barnstorm the country for even more cash, as the New York senator works to show she is aggressively helping the candidate who cut short her White House bid. “I am using every tool that I have to help Democrats win,” Clinton told USA TODAY. She was between fundraising events in Texas and California that brought in another $1.5 million for Obama and congressional candidates on Friday and Saturday. Later this month, Clinton will headline Obama fundraisers in Chicago, Philadelphia and Little Rock along with 11 events to raise money for Democratic congressional candidates and state parties.
Former President BILL CLINTON revved up a crowd on behalf of Barack Obama in Florida Wednesday, his first since the Democratic convention. And though he repeated his mantra that Democrats don’t have to “say one bad word” about their Republican opponents to win the election, Clinton actually snuck in a dig against Sarah Palin. “So he’s got a better philosophy. He’s got better answers. He’s got a better understanding, and better advisers on these complex economic matters. He’s got a better vice presidential partner,” Clinton said to a crescendo of applause.

About time.
And it’d be really nice if the media would drop the Obama pom-poms for a minute and actually investigate his associates and background instead of whitewashing it. Why not start with sending the hundreds of reporters that went to Wasilla to Chicago to check things out?

Why not start with sending the hundreds of reporters that went to Wasilla to Chicago to check things out?
Posted by: Rebecca | Oct 6, 2008 9:02:09 PM
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Well, Rebecca, how do you feel about McCain’s ongoing friendship with Liddy?

Is it important for the president and his family to exhibit Christian values in every aspect of their lives? John McCain broke his vows and deserted his crippled first wife. He is an adulterer, and maybe even a coward, for not honoring his vows. His second wife Cindy may be an adulteress as well. They were married in a lavish society wedding one month after McCain’s first marriage was dissolved. John McCain may be an adequate president, but are he, and his wife and family, adequate role models for our children. If John McCain becomes president, will I have to make excuses and explanations, to my son and other children, on the forgiveablity of divorce, the forgiveability of deserting a woman who was brought to the alter and bound in a covenant of love and devotion? John McCain’s behavior cannot be reconciled with any standard of moral fortitude to which I expect to hold my childen. Similarly, if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will I have to explain to my daughter the acceptability of becoming a teenage mom? It does seem hypocritical all around.

It’s time for the grownups still involved in the McCain campaign to take a deep breath and realize their words have consequences. He may be losing the race and getting desperate but deep down McCain can’t possibly be comfortable hearing someone (a presumed supporter no less) shouting that.

Hannah, what vicious attacks against Palin are you talking about.

I agree gatc–an intelligent response indeed.

Listen for “Obama and Terrorist” to be mentioned in the next couple of days……and watch Karl Rove to say “wow, even I wouldn’t go that low”
Obama said it best……”its what you do when your out of ideas and running out of time”

Riiight, Hannah.
Suppose you tell us the facts and proof you have to suport your fearmongering.

How funny that John Sidney McCain III wants to sling mud. Keating is a whole lot more relevant than Ayers. Ayers is a college professor in Chicago. McCain made out just fine after he and some of his goons made out with some quick cash. His wife is a recovering drug addict. SHe was addicted to prescription drugs. Palins husband was part of that Alaskan seperatist group. So that makes her a terrorist by McCains standard. Much mre so, because she married the man. I doubt that anyone here will change there mind as to who to vote for, so let’s end it on this. Make sure to pass the word on to anyone you know that they should go out and vote. No matter who they want to vote for, people need to vote, especially the young voters. We all know they are the ones that will have to pay for any bumps we hit along the road.

Sorry. That should be three times. And all three are useless, empty comments.

This race is still close and it will be close since we are a nation that is split 50/50 and it is really the way Washington likes it Can’t you see them all sitting around having a drink and looking down on us laughing I can.If they wanted to end the war it would be a done thing they knew the shape of things on Wall street they all have money are you going to tell me they don’t keep up with it. Hell they have been telling us on tv for a year now .

All of you crazies who practice sleaze politics, pls say out loud, “PRESIDENT OBAMA.” Start practicing.

USA
we would but Obama wont be president forget it

I thought Obama set the tone for the entire campaign when he sent out ads in South Carolina calling Hillary a secretive liar….and what about the ads he’s been running lately calling McCain “dishonorable” or trying to scare FL retirees claiming that McCain is going to take away their social security. What about the daily attacks on McCains age from Obama or the daily attacks portraying him as “erratic”. I would say he’s finally had enough.
Why does the media think that McCain is attacking first when Obama has never stopped attacking?
It’s true that McCain gave a speech about the differences of how he and Obama would handle the economy…and about 2 or 3 minutes of it was “Who is Obama?”
I think it’s what you choose to cover and how you spin it.
Sadly I think it’s working….yellow journalism with Chicago talkinhg points. Obama needs no surrogates he has ya’ll.

McCain and Palin are the very people who won’t allow this country to move forward from hate and racism that still exists in this country today by fanning the flames of hatred and fear. It’s downright sad. McCain rather go to the White House with half of the country disliking him, than with honor and respect.

The real Obama is the American who is less than 1 month from becoming president.
Amazing how the electoral map is turning his way.

to the obama clan you stand for the one person that is so dangerous for this country.there is no getting accross to you intellectual morons. you want a socialist that hates white people will tax you to death run our lives with socialized medicine that will run this country into the ground.socialism is the change you can believe in.READ MY LIPS if he wins we will get hit again. tell me who your with and I’ll tell you who you are as simple as that. he is dangerous and a liar a smooth talker a deceiver to those who do not see the forest for the trees.

Only in America can someone bomb the capital, the pentagon, preach hate for the country, fund education for teaching radical behavior to our youth..
well you get the idea…AND have the
distinction of friendship with a person
only a heartbeat away from the presidency. Isnt freedom great, it even
gives us the ability float around in a
dream world. Dont shoot the messenger,
you need to think about consequences.

“The whole don’t mention his middle name thing is stupid. I have heard countless news reporters comment on Palin’s kids names, but Obama’s name is off limits.”
It’s not a question of not mentioning his middle name. It’s a question of why someone would use his middle name when they’re not using anyone else’s middle name.
The motives are pretty transparent.
It’s nothing like saying, “Why would anyone give their children such stupid names?” ;-)

Get real please…after you talked the day before about him “PALLING” around with a known terrorist and then the next day his middle name is shouted out…are you stupid????
After hearing for months the name Sudom Hussein and how much of a terrorist he was, what do you think sticks in some people’s empty heads?
It was done for effect to put that fear into the minds of those who can not get past the fact that he is black and would never want him in the white house.
How long before the “N” words gets shouted next?
When Palin said he hung with a known terrorist, listen close because some shouts “kill ‘em”.
You tell me what that says about caring Americans.
Obama/Biden ’08

Want to see that along with Mr. Dude that Sarah herself is a member of the AIP?
Got to you tube and type in Palin AIP member…listen to what the head guy says about her and so happy that she is a member.
Mud is mud, it’s all dirty, but if you hit me first, then be prepared to get hit back.
McCain said he would never fight dirty and because he is losing, he had to bring up stuff that was asked and answered during the primary…where were all of you when those things were reported on already for the last 20 plus months.
Obama/Biden ’08

Abunimah said Obama urged him to “keep up the good work” at the Chicago Tribune- where Abunimah contributed guest columns that were highly critical of Israel. Abunimah serves on the board of the AAAN- a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a “catastrophe” and supports intense immigration reform- including providing driver’s licenses and education to illegal aliens

I am simply not surprised anymore with what the McCain campaign is going to come up with. Throughout this campaign, they have managed to stoke fears that Obama is muslim (like simply being one is a dangerous thing), link him to all sorts of associations with crooks, sometimes simply on the basis of Obama being in the same room with a person, lie about his tax plan for the middle class, continue to charge that the media is biased (to innoculate their lies). Now they claim Barack Obama is associated with the Weathermen (he was 8 when they were active). Yes, indeed Obama has gone into attack mode as well, but his attacks are based on far more relevant associations like McCain’s deep links with Lobbyists (the McCain campaign is both financially supported and staffed by lobbies), McCain’s dangerous healthcare plan, his proposal to open up social security for investment decisions (good idea, but also adding considerable risk to people’s security net), and McCain’s behavior (claiming that the fundamentals of our economy is strong, and then messing up the bailout talks for political gain, his impulsive my-way-or-the-highway approach to problems, his irresponsible selection of Palin), his tactics of dividing the electorate on choices that do not matter to the challenges we are facing today (guns, abortion, gay marriage etc), and his unethical attempts at voter caging across swing states to disqualify democrat votes. So while both campaigns have gone negative, we need to take things into perspective, and understand the difference between mud slinging versus relevant criticism, they are very different things. I have given up trying to convince the hard-core right wingers, and racially prejudiced people, because these are a group that have been completely swayed by their own preconceived notions about a candidate they have not even tried to read up about. This group has been hugely affected John McCain’s systemetic strike at the media establishment (so they can say anything they want), to believe only what John McCain is saying, and have been programmed to allow their prejudice to claim that Obama is not experienced enough. Truth is, you can hire experience and you can buy knowledge, but you can never change someone’s judgment and the moral compass that guides it. I am hoping that the Independent voters and undecided voters, who tend to be more deliberate, and inquisitive in their considerations would be able to make these distinctions.

Who is the ‘real’ Barrack Obama?
Who, for that matter, is the ‘real’ John McCain?
Please, people… these guys have been running for President for the past two years. Their every sneeze has been examined.
The negative campaigning was bound to happen. It’s been happening throughout the primaries and the entire process. You want to bring up guilt by ‘association’ and think that’s totally relevant? Who patriotic? Who’s not? OK, but clearly your concerns aren’t what’s right in front of your face. The Dow has lost almost 20% in the past few weeks. We’ve lost 750,000 jobs.
I don’t care if McCain tried to influence things to help some guy who ripped people off 20 years ago. I don’t care if Obama was on some board with some dude who did stupid destructive crap 40 years ago. It’s ancient history. What I care about is tomorrow.
Can we please just change the subject and ask the candidates to provide us with their ‘plans’ for steering the economy back to some semblance of normalacy so people can work and afford homes and that kind of thing?

At the VP debate when Palin asked Biden, “Can I call you Joe?”, he should have responded, Sure, but can I call you by your middle name, Weezee?” That would have been a riot!!

McCain 2000: “Uh, I, I just have to rely on the good judgment of the voters not to buy into these negative attack ads. Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future or you’re not ready to articulate it.” [The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, 2/21/2000]
This quote seems pretty appropriate right now…
They are going to provoke their avid followers into doing something horrible to Obama.
McCain/Palin are the ones using terrorist tactics to win this election.
Palin saying “i’m scared”, “i’m afraid” when refering to barack. inferring that he likes people who wish harm on our country, filing for investigation into his donations.
The terrorist do the same. Make their followers fearful, convince them that we will do harm to their homeland, claiming their targets have friendship and funding from the west.
It seems as though McCain/Palin are trying to incite violence, hatred, and terror to fire up their base.
Who are the real terrorists?
They lost my vote now that they have decided to ignore the issues facing us and focus on smear campaigns.

McCain 2000: “Uh, I, I just have to rely on the good judgment of the voters not to buy into these negative attack ads. Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future or you’re not ready to articulate it.” [The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, 2/21/2000]
This quote seems pretty appropriate right now…
They are going to provoke their avid followers into doing something horrible to Obama.
McCain/Palin are the ones using terrorist tactics to win this election.
Palin saying “i’m scared”, “i’m afraid” when refering to barack. inferring that he likes people who wish harm on our country, filing for investigation into his donations.
The terrorist do the same. Make their followers fearful, convince them that we will do harm to their homeland, claiming their targets have friendship and funding from the west.
It seems as though McCain/Palin are trying to incite violence, hatred, and terror to fire up their base.
Who are the real terrorists?
They lost my vote now that they have decided to ignore the issues facing us and focus on smear campaigns.

The American people are not as stupid as the people of the ilk of Sarah Louise Palin and John McBush think they are. Instead od tyring to pull all Americans together at this time of crisis is not very Christian like. We all know the code words of racial discrimination are and Sarah we are not going for it. Why don’t you want to talk about the issues facing our country and offer up some resolutions to the problems? It appears that your small mind is not up to or capable of the task at hand and neither is your VP, John Mc Bush.

Palin and McCain are clearly encouraging this sort of rhetoric, the cries of “Terrorist” and “Kill him” while avoiding crossing the line themselves. This gives them deniability when their rabid fans go nuts. But it’s still shameful. By analogy, it’s like inciting to riot, or “fighting words”, where you are legally culpable for encouraging violence even if you don’t commit the violence yourself.

I have a question, was John McCain in office “IN” Arizona with Governor Mecum in 1985ish through 1989ish? Curious to know.

IF YOU CAN NAME ONE THING THAT BARACK OBAMA HAS DONE THAT QUALIFIES HIM TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THEN YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR HIM.
SILENCE

Everyone needs to take a deep breath with regards to William Ayers. The committee that Ayers sits on with Obama is for Chicago Education. It was started by, and is attended by many republicans and democrats. Let’s stop with the petty hate mongering. If you don’t like Obama’s policies/positions, then exercise your right as an American and vote for McCain.