Cheney’s Hometown Paper Endorses Obama
ABC News’ Jennifer Duck Reports: With less than 24 hours before the polls open, Vice President Dick Cheney’s hometown newspaper in Casper, Wyoming endorsed Sen Barack Obama for president.
"It is a foregone conclusion that Wyoming’s three electoral votes will go to Sen. John McCain," the Casper Star-Tribune Editorial Board wrote. "It would be easy for the Star-Tribune to simply agree with the majority of voters in this red state and endorse the Republican candidate for president. But this isn’t an ordinary election, and Sen. Barack Obama has the potential to be an extraordinary leader at a time we desperately need one."
The Editorial Board attacked Sen. McCain’s vice presidential pick saying, "McCain’s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, however, shows extremely poor judgment" adding, "She has shown repeatedly that she is simply not ready to fill McCain’s shoes."
Commending Obama’s advisers and recent endorsements, The Star-Tribune cited Warren Buffett and retired Gen. Colin Powell by name. "Obama’s advisers are extremely capable leaders," the Board wrote.
"It’s good to know that he turns to the likes of Warren Buffett for financial matters and retired Gen. Colin Powell on military issues. With his emphasis on diplomacy along with a commitment to protecting America, Obama gives us our best hope of regaining the respect of other nations."
Cheney stumped for Republican congressional candidates on Saturday in Laramie, Wyoming reiterating his own endorsement for the McCain/Palin ticket. "I believe the right leader for this moment in history is Senator John McCain," Cheney said as the crowd cheered. "I’m delighted to support John McCain, and I’m pleased that he has chosen a running mate with executive talent, toughness, and common sense: our next Vice President, Governor Sarah Palin."
Hours later, democrats pounced on Cheney’s words using them in an attack ad to show the difference between McCain and Obama’s endorsements
Obama also took the opportunity to once again link McCain to the Bush administration.
"Earlier today Dick Cheney came out of undisclosed location and he hit the campaign trail and he said that he is and I quote, ‘delighted to support John McCain,’" Obama told a crowd in Colorado on Saturday. "So I would like to congratulate Sen. McCain on this endorsement. Because he really earned it. That endorsement didn’t come easy
Sen. McCain had to vote with George bush 90 percent of the time and agree with Dick Cheney to get it."
The McCain campaign immediately responded likening Obama to Cheney.
"Barack Obama and Dick Cheney aren’t just cousins, they’ve shared support for the Bush energy policy and the out-of-control spending that John McCain has fought to oppose," McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said.
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LOL….rather ironic isn’t it, that Wyoming is one of our largest coal producing states, and by endorsing Obama, they have endorsed a man who will bankrupt their coal industry, costing the state millions of dollars and thousands of jobs.
Great job , Casper newspaper! Do you not care about your constituents? Do you not care or know that you have endorsed a ridiculously inexperienced and dangerous man Obama? Shame on you….SHAME! You, like all the media, have let Americans down tremendously. How can we ever trust you again?
Posted by: liberati | November 3, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm
“common sense” – Ok floks wounldn’t common sense tell you that Presidents of countires DO NOT call in to talk radio shows?
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | November 3, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm
If there is only one reason not to vote for McCain, it’s Chaney, the biggest a-hole on the planet….
Posted by: Paul | November 3, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm
hee, hee, hee. I am sure McCain was “delighted” to get Cheney’s endorsement, too!!
Posted by: geecee | November 3, 2008, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm
You can pick your friends but not your relatives …..hahaha He has no choice but be related to the nimrod…..
Posted by: nh voter | November 3, 2008, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm
IT’S OVER.
E_DAY – 1: ELECTORAL COLLEGE EV POLLS
Obama 353
McCain 185
Posted by: Steve_NJ | November 3, 2008, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm
Take it easy, liberati. Not “all the media” have let you down. Not “all the newspapers” have endorsed Obama. Fox Noise Channel hates him and hasn’t stopped attacking him since the guy announced his candidacy. Take heart, as you can always listen to Fox for “fair and balanced” (translation, Hate and fear-filled) reporting and Rush Limpbag, as they tear down everything and anything the Obama/Biden Presidential Administration has to say and do in the next four years!!!
Posted by: geecee | November 3, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm
I agree with the Wyoming paper.
After hearing the conversation of
Sarah Palin and the fake Sarkozy yesterday, Palin is a thousand km far to assume the role of VP.
Posted by: FM | November 3, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm
BIGGEST COAL STATE WY ENDORSES BARACK YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA IN YOUR FACE PALIN MCCAIN
Posted by: Angie in PA | November 3, 2008, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm
I’m surprised that the neo-cons didn’t claim that Obama is endorsing McCain, they’ve lied about everything else, why not that?
Posted by: JR | November 3, 2008, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm
I find it comforting that intelligence is winning out over the “good ‘ol boys” mentality.
Kudos to the Casper Star-Tribune for recognizing that the Republican party has driven this country into the ground and the only candidate that makes sense this election is Barack Obama!
Posted by: moosedog | November 3, 2008, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm
You know liberati, no one but other neo-con nit wits are buying your coal industry bullshitt, can’t you come up with a better lie?
Here’s an oldie but a goodie from you neo-cons. “Obama is a Godless, terrorist, Muslim infiltrator” or how about “Obama is the anti-Christ”?
Posted by: JR | November 3, 2008, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm
America has a knack for producing exceptional leaders just when it needs them the most- in the midst of our greatest tests. Obama has potential to be just such an extraordinary leader.
Cheney on the other hand, the guy who chose himself to be VP, is the Dr. Strangelove of our times, a power hungry, ruthless, deceitful, greedy, corrupt little man. He’s the kind of guy who lied us into war though he found a way 6 times to get a deferment.
Posted by: hopesprings52 | November 3, 2008, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm
Anyone with any common sense would vote Obama!
Posted by: becky | November 3, 2008, 2:17 pm 2:17 pm
You have to be in awe of Cheney’s arrogance and elitism. Who else could shoot another person and then deny all culpability by blaming them for getting in the way of the bullet? Or better yet, as Vice-Prez ignoring the Constitution in claiming his office is part of the Legislature, and then later refusing to release official documents claiming Executive Privilege. You love to hate a guy like Cheny……
Posted by: StillLearningToo | November 3, 2008, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm
This is so telling of the country’s mood. McCain/Palin are morally and ethically bankrupt and they have no plan for the economy. We can’t afford 4 more years of Bush/McCain. So long Sarah Palin!
Posted by: Louise Riley | November 3, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm
Obama will get a landside of biblical proportions.
Posted by: Lookup | November 3, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm
Come on everybody, let’s cancel the election and leave Bush in as president! No really, all of the republicans told us he was the answer 8 years ago, and then again 4 years ago.
Come on, republicans know what they are talking about! He was going to be the greatest president ever! So why change? Right republicans? You pick the right president every time? You guys sure now how to pick them!
President Obama! Get use to it!
Posted by: Independent realist | November 3, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm
Wow — and I thought it was the job of newspapers to endorse people simply because someone from his party was born there. Thanks ABC for showing me how bad this newspaper is for not following this ethical rule of journalism. I will never buy a paper that didn’t endorse a Republican when a famous Republican is from that town.
PS: Reagan was born in Illinois. OMG. If Obama wins that means Reagan’s home state will give us a Democratic president. OMG. OMG. OMG!!! Will wonders ever cease!
Posted by: Tommy | November 3, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm
I used to support Sen. Obama, but we don’t know anything about Sen. Obama, and that’s not a talking point, that’s not even an accident. It’s by design. The San Francisco Chronicle just now got exposed at this late hour of hiding an audiotape of Sen. Obama saying, “You can build a coal plant. It will just bankrupt you.” How cynical. Just a few days ago, he said, “I don’t have anything against rich people. I like rich people. I want all of you to become rich.” and then he goes on to say Americans who believe in small, limited government and low taxes are “selfish,” as opposed to good Americans who believe in big-government tax-and-spend policies. His running mate also called those types “unpatriotic.” How cynical: he wants you to become rich, but in the words of his SF Chronicle interview, his draconian tax policies are going to bankrupt you for becoming rich. Just now the Los Angeles Times got exposed still hiding a factually known videotape of Sen. Obama praising Palestinian terrorist Rashid Khalidi, and of course, we know as a matter of fact that Sen. Obama has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from Hamas and Hezbollah disguised as multiple thousands of unregulated contributions under $200 from credit cards over the internet. We don’t know anything about Sen. Obama, and this is by design. This is proven by the fact that even the newspaper that serves conservative Wyoming, owened by liberal elites, would side with the only Senator in the United States Senate more liberal than good American, self-avowed “Socialist” Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Posted by: Obamacrat for McCain | November 3, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm
Well,
I would just like to say that I think it is rather bad form and ungracious for McCain’s camp to lodge a put down insult towards Mr. Cheney who, however, unhelpful, is actually trying to support Mr McCain and Mrs. Palin. I think it is rather telling.
Obama 08
Posted by: sdmil | November 3, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm
This rubbish that Palin is coming with now re Obama’s intention to ‘bankrupt the coal industry’ is another example of how much research SHE DOES NOT DO. Did she listen to the entire tape? I don’t think so (and she didnt have to read it for God’s sake). If she did she would have heard him say that there is the need to balance the clean coal activity with the use of coal itself. The charges for greenhouse gas emissions could also be used to research OTHER safe energy alternatives.
She doesnt believe that global warming is man-made so I really cant expect any better from her.
Posted by: Shamaedene | November 3, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm
Hey,
Fake “Obamacrat for McCain,” when will you people stop lying.
I tried to read your propaganda (just to know how the enemy thinks) but it was just too long winded and boring. Break it up and give it some pizzazz.
Posted by: sdmil | November 3, 2008, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm
Well, liberati, it sure looks like the rest of the country completely disagrees with your assessment… Strange, though, Fox Noise is the only “news” source that mentions the January video that you are referring to.
And the things is, Fox Noise never seems to get the WHOLE story out there about Obama. They just like to pick through the text of his speeches and piece together their version. I just see how anyone with a cerebral cortex could fall for their blatant fabrications.
Posted by: moosedog | November 3, 2008, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm
So liberati,
What facts do you base your opinions on? Maybe you were just mixed up and meant McCain who helped bankrupt so many as a member of the Keating 5. Oh I forgot, you worship at the feet of Fox News and they don’t care about facts.
Posted by: We'll be Partying Tomorrow | November 3, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm
The Bush/Cheney/Rove posse is about to be run out of town. America and the entire world will be lifted by the sheer relief of ending the gangsta grip they’ve had on our nation.
Posted by: hopesprings52 | November 3, 2008, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm
01-20-2009 The END of an ERROR…
Posted by: pt | November 3, 2008, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm
Good bye Sarah.
Posted by: Honay Rogers | November 3, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm
Why isnt ABC covering the republican election fraud in Virginia?
Republicans spread a leaflet with false information telling independandts and democrats to vote on nov 5 and the change in voting times is due to “larger than expected voted turnout”
And they kept talking about ACORN. F***ing hypocrites!
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/03/virginia-bogus-flyer-grounded-police-consider-charges/
The state’s official logos appear on the flyer.
Communicating false information to voters is punishable as a class 1 misdemeanor under Virginia election law.
Nice try low-life repuke a-holes. But you wont steal the election this time!!!
Posted by: JoeShmoe | November 3, 2008, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm
Sarah has to hurry back to Alaska, because I hear they have an impeachment party waiting for her.
Posted by: We'll be Partying Tomorrow | November 3, 2008, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm
It doesn’t matter. I also live in a western state, and ours is NOT one of the so-called “battleground states”. With the Electoral College, our votes simply don’t matter.
ABC News has made it very clear that six states will determine our next President. The rest of us can forget about standing in line tomorrow.
Posted by: Rhys | November 3, 2008, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm
I live in Arizona and I am voting Obama tomorrow even if we stay red, because I want John McCain to know a lot of Arizonans have had it with this kind of campaigning.
Posted by: We'll be Partying Tomorrow | November 3, 2008, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm
Who Cares another media outlet backing Obama shocking!!!
Posted by: reddog0216 | November 3, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm
All i have to say is that obama is a socialist borderline communist and do we really want to go their? COME ON PEOPLE he wants to raise taxes and have universal health care!! plus if he is president then most of congress will be democrat n it wont be a democracy any longer and no one will be able to stop them!!!
For the sake of this country vote McCain!!
Posted by: Amber Beach | November 3, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm
We’ll be Partying Tomorrow: I also read they are checking out that half million dollar home of her’s also.
Posted by: becky | November 3, 2008, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm
Amber Beach: You need to breath, turn off Fox News and do a Fact Check!
Posted by: becky | November 3, 2008, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm
I own and operate farms in both SC and WY so unlike Joe-the-Plumber, I am a REAL business person in America. Neither of my states will go to Obama but I and my entire family are voting for Obama.
Posted by: jimt | November 3, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
I say watch Texas… Obama is only 5 points down. Didn’t most of New Orleans go into Texas? Turn it Blue tomorrow……..
Posted by: becky | November 3, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm
I agree this race is not quite over. McCain havent begun his “sad grandpa” strategy yet. LOL
Posted by: JoeShmoe | November 3, 2008, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
becky,
You can hope you can dream but we shall see what tommorow brings you can not count on the polls this election two many variables just like the weather
Posted by: reddog0216 | November 3, 2008, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
Amber Beach,
That’s a load of Republican Talking Points crap. Go to Project Vote Smart and get an education. McCain has consistently lied about Senator Obama’s voting record and his own. He suck on Vet, Senior, Family, Energy and Environment issue. The Disabled American Veteran’s gave him a 20% rating and Obama 75%. That’s just one example.
McCain/Palin 4 more years of the same.
Obama/Biden 08
Posted by: We'll be Partying Tomorrow | November 3, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm
Please excuse the spelling error in the previous comment.
Posted by: We'll be Partying Tomorrow | November 3, 2008, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm
I would hold off on the party Even if elected he cant do squat till January 20th and by febuary 20th he will be explaining why he cant do what he claimed and how he will be raising eveyones taxes
Posted by: reddog0216 | November 3, 2008, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm
Tucker Bounds is a nit-wit twerp who tries desperately to sound smarter than he is.
Posted by: kittyonice | November 3, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm
This time tomorrow I will be casting my vote for Obama and PA will hand him a victory!!!!!!
Posted by: Jwench | November 3, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
Fact Check:
Despite the fact that both candidates support clean coal technology, the McCain campaign tried to make the case that Barack Obama wanted to take away jobs from coal country in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and both Drudge and FOX were happy to oblige.
But just three years ago on the floor of the United States Senate, John McCain’s Republican colleague George Voinovich of Ohio took to the floor to argue against a proposal by McCain to curb greenhouse gas emissions. McCain’s proposal, Voinovich said, would “put coal out of business” and cost thousands of jobs, an argument that McCain did not contest.
In fact, McCain agreed that his plan would require sacrifice, but he also argued (correctly) that in the long-run, America would be better off. In other words, he made the exact same arguments as Barack Obama
Posted by: becky | November 3, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
Palin is a joke. I wonder what Alaskan are thinking or drinking when they voted for her to be governor of Alaska. She has no brains except strong conservative beliefs. She shuld be never be in any national positions or she will ruin every good we have achieved.
Posted by: BeeVee | November 3, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm
Tucker Bounds, what a moron. Remember that Campbell Brown interview? He’s as clueless as Palin… a pollution in the gene pool.
Posted by: JoeShmoe | November 3, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm
Jake is this really news. All the liberal college educate elites NEWS are in the tank for Obama. College does not mean common sense
Just remeber you are setting up your own demise. The liberals first thing they do is censor the news and toss you and teachers and many other college educated scum into prison or kill them so they can stay in power
Posted by: Shirley, Frekhaug, Norway | November 3, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm
Tucker Bounds, what a moron. Remember that Campbell Brown interview? He’s as clueless as Palin… a pollution in the gene pool.
Posted by: JoeShmoe | Nov 3, 2008 3:33:59 PM
He is about a goober. His voice sounds like he is going through puberty.
Posted by: Jwench | November 3, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm
Posted by: Shirley, Frekhaug, Norway | Nov 3, 2008 3:38:16 PM
The only demise we saw was the GOP running this country for 8 years.
Posted by: Jwench | November 3, 2008, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm
Shirley, were your family nazis during WW2? I heard a lot of norwegians were, and apparantly… you still are.
Posted by: JoeShmoe | November 3, 2008, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm
Obama is going to put the nations coal industry out of business and that means a loss of thousands of job. The Coal Association of Ohio says this about Obama and his drones…
“It’s evident that this campaign has been pandering in states like Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana and Pennsylvania to attempt to generate votes from coal supporters, while keeping his true agenda hidden from the state’s voters.
“Senator Obama has revealed himself to be nothing more than a short- sighted, inexperienced politician willing to say anything to get a vote. But today, the nation’s coal industry and those who support it have a better understanding of his true mission, to ‘bankrupt’ our industry, put tens of thousands out of work and cause unprecedented increases in electricity prices.
Posted by: ml | November 3, 2008, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm
Fact Check:
Despite the fact that both candidates support clean coal technology, the McCain campaign tried to make the case that Barack Obama wanted to take away jobs from coal country in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and both Drudge and FOX were happy to oblige.
But just three years ago on the floor of the United States Senate, John McCain’s Republican colleague George Voinovich of Ohio took to the floor to argue against a proposal by McCain to curb greenhouse gas emissions. McCain’s proposal, Voinovich said, would “put coal out of business” and cost thousands of jobs, an argument that McCain did not contest.
In fact, McCain agreed that his plan would require sacrifice, but he also argued (correctly) that in the long-run, America would be better off. In other words, he made the exact same arguments as Barack Obama
Posted by: becky | November 3, 2008, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm
Posted by: ml | Nov 3, 2008 3:47:00 PM
McCain stance is the same. Look it up and not on Fox or Drudge.
Posted by: Jwench | November 3, 2008, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm
so now that McCain needs Pennsylvania and Ohio, he’s going around saying that coal is the way of the future? what, are we all supposed to work in coal mines after Chrysler goes bankrupt next week? it’s a shame McCain didn’t give up on PA to focus on Michigan because he’d be pretending to give a cr@p about auto workers right now. oh well.
p.s.: McCain supported a repub president who put a mining lobbyist in charge. (see Sago Mine.)
Posted by: cha cha cha | November 3, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm
Cheney said “I’m pleased that he has chosen a running mate with executive talent, toughness, and common sense: our next Vice President, Governor Sarah Palin.” She has already said she is not going hunting with you Cheney!!! What a crook…..
Posted by: rickyt1234 | November 3, 2008, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm
McCain must have held his head in his hand when that vampire Cheney endorsed him. Just another nail in the coffin for McCain; First Palin, then Bush and now Cheney. I think they all want him to lose and I’m actually feeling sorry for him…
Posted by: DaveM | November 3, 2008, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm
“I used to support Sen. Obama, but we don’t know anything about Sen. Obama, and that’s not a talking point, that’s not even an accident. It’s by design.”
Mmmmm, what planet exactly have YOU been on the last 2 years? Obama announced his candidacy in January 2007, has been in the news all through the primary season and now into the general election…and you say you don’t KNOW anything about him? Are you still you’re still alive and breathing?
Posted by: FranklyMyDear | November 3, 2008, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm
RE: Coal bankruptcy/SF Chronicle tape… You sound-bite idiots.. if you bothered to listen or read the entire comment or transcript you would have understood the context of the comment. But NOooo, you could careless about details, facts, and context…reminds me a lot of the idiot we have in the White House now!
I often laugh when I hear the dochebaggetry of me don’t know Obama.. after 2 years of campaigning, 2 books, State Senator, US Senator… you claim he’s a muslim, socialist, etc.. BUT how much do you know about Sarah Palin? after 9 weeks of just meeting her? SHE IS NOT QUALIFIED!
Just look how hers & McAlzheimer rallys…NO DIVERSITY, simply DIVISIVE RHETORIC .
Posted by: Ejack | November 3, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm
I see you all have not lost your fight :
GOOD! Because we have a lot to do. You! (the American people) are going to have to take back control of your elected government at every level, and set your government back on the right path of service to you, and the greater good of the World.
Barack Obama and the democrats are your best hope of doing that now. Tell your family, friends, and everyone you know to support them as best they can. Because the Bush McCain vote fraud, vote cheating, vote buying, vote manipulation machine is already hard at work to cheat you again. And we all know what a disaster that has been the past 8 years of Bush McCain.
Barack Obama and the democrats will need all the power you can give them at every level of government (Federal, State, County, and local City elected governments). Obama and the democrats will have an enormous mess to fix for the American people, and the rest of the World. A mess caused by the corrupt Bush McCain administration.
You see, starting back in 2000, and before 911, it was mostly the Republican governors, Republican legislatures, and county elected Republican officials that conspired with the corrupt Bush McCain administration to raise college, and university tuitions by the fastest, and highest rate increases in American history. Some state tuitions went up by as much as a WHOPPING! 30% in one year.
The reason the Bush McCain administration did this was to force struggling working class kids into the military to pay for the sudden jump in tuition. Which was forced on them by the corrupt Bush McCain administration, and their corrupt Republican Governors, and republican controlled state legislatures.
See, Bush McCain had plans to get us into all these immoral, foolish, criminal, and unnecessary wars from the start. So they could use these wars to seize power, and later to get reelected. But, for their evil plan to work they needed more volunteer soldiers struggling to pay for an education whose blood they could spill to help them seize more power. Remember Bush McCain’s “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!” theatrics.
The exploitation, and lost lives of these finest Americans is despicable, disgusting, immoral, corrupt and criminal. And it makes me SICK, and ANGRY!
You will have to vote for Obama, and the democrats in overwhelming numbers to overcome the Bush McCain vote fraud machine. Vote early if you can. Then help your fellow Americans cast their votes on through election day. Vote for Obama, and the democrats like your life, and the lives of your loved ones depends on it. Because it does. You will not survive 4 more years of “Let Them Eat Cake” Bush McCain, and their republican allies.
Just look at the mess we have now.
You can fix this mess with your votes for Obama, and the democrats. But you must continue to surge forward for Barack Obama, and the democrats, and for your-selves most of all. The children, and the World are counting on us.
It’s in your hands now. And I know you will get it done.
God bless all of you.
JACK SMITH – WORKING CLASS… :-)
Posted by: jacksmith | November 3, 2008, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm
We all will decide on our own – but since knowledge is power, I am passing this along…
A question of perspective :
Obama/Biden v.s. McCain/Palin, what if things were switched around?….. think about it. Would the country’s collective point of view be different? Could racism be the culprit? Ponder the following:
• What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three-month-old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
• What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
• What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
• What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?
• What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?
• What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married?
• What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to painkillers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
• What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
• What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)
• What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
• What if Obama couldn’t read from a teleprompter?
• What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashi ng seven planes?
• What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management problem?
• What if Michelle Obama’s family had made their money from beer distribution?
• What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?
• You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
Educational Background:
• Barack Obama:
o Columbia University – B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.
o Harvard – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
• Joseph Biden:
o University of Delaware – B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
o Syracuse University College of Law – Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
• John McCain:
o United States Naval Academy – Class rank: 894 of 899
• Sarah Palin:
o Hawaii Pacific University – 1 semester
o North Idaho College – 2 semesters – general study
o University of Idaho – 2 semesters – journalism
o Matanuska-Susitna College – 1 semester
o University of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.A. in Journalism
Education isn’t everything, but this is about the two highest offices in the land as well as our standing in the world. You make the call.
Posted by: moosedog | November 3, 2008, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm
Hey moosedog: Careful….God will get you for that comment.
Posted by: Gina - California | November 3, 2008, 5:40 pm 5:40 pm
To ‘Obamacrat for McCain’:
you mean to say that you believe every fiction that that women can come up with to spew out of her empty skull? I almost feel sorry for you, that is until I start feeling afraid. Eyes are rolling at the LA Times and SF Chronicle like never before at a politician these day. As someone who reads the SF Chronicle online EVERY DAY, I can assure you that the video of the interview, along with the accompanying article, has been posted on their website since it happened way back near the beginning of the primaries, when there were still, what, 20 people running in the GOP primary? It was sometime in January, and it was on the front page of the site for a couple of weeks at least before they retired it to the politics section. I remember well watching it way back when it was still a three way contest among the Dems – it was what basically clinched it for Obama with me (I never liked Hillary, I was trying to decide btwn Edwards and Obama at the time). The Chron did indeed encourage people to watch the video at length after their interview with him — yes back in January. And, it was not long ago that I noticed they STILL have it up, again, on the Politics page in the site. Sarah Palin apparently just started to read the papers in an effort to know what is happening in the world. (Here is where I start to wonder, again, if this is something I should feel more assured about, or more afraid). The only reason she and/or her handlers are just noticing now is because they weren’t PAYING ATTENTION to details having to do with the democratic primary at the time — they were too preoccupied with their own race to pay attention to interviews with the other side. Palin has no regard for honesty or fact, she just says whatever sounds good to her: ‘it don’t matter if it ain’t true, it sure sounds good and the crowds will LOVE ME!. Gee this is so cool!!’– She doesn’t give any thought to her words before she speaks, as we learned in spades during some of her nonsensical answers to journalists. Palin is all about telling whatever lies she can think up because she knows that her supporters are stupid enough to believe whatever comes out of her mouth. Completely disgraceful for a politician of her supposed stature (not that they don’t all lie, but there are levels of integrity which we expect these people to abide by, such as getting the facts straight in favor of making erroneous, inaccurate or false claims is one of them). Unfortunately some people really are dim enough to not bother to learn the truth for themselves, like you Mr. Obamacrat for McCain. I’m sure you have your pride, but I do feel sorry for you.
Posted by: kittyonice | November 3, 2008, 6:07 pm 6:07 pm
By the way, Mr. Obamacrat for McCain: have you watched the interview? Hmm?? You should watch it, at least so that you can be sure whatever mimicking of Palin you engage in can be supported by what was ACTUALLY SAID in the interview:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2008/01/20/EDIAUHASH.DTL&o=0
Don’t let Palin trick you with her taking statements out of context and convolutions. By taking her words as truth you are showing just how sophomoric you are.
Posted by: kittyonice | November 3, 2008, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm
Regardless of your ideological or policy positions, hopefully everyone can agree it is time we have a president that can to a competent job of running government. Obama has run one of the best campaigns in history by surrounding himself with a great team that works well together. This pretty much proves that he has the ability to be a good president.
McCain, on the other hand, has not run an effective campaign. If he can’t run a campaign, how do you expect him to be able to run the country?
More at: http://everyoneforever.org/blogger/
Posted by: Richard | November 3, 2008, 6:46 pm 6:46 pm
In these times we need a President and A VP contender considering especially McCain’s age as a factor, someone ready to step in at a moment’s notice. When one President relies on his wife for the internet, the other apparently doesn’t read nor watch TV. We are in BIG trouble! Outside of all the missteps for Palin to NOT KNOW small details that Sarkozy DOES NOT SPEAK ENGLISH and was punked,is frightening and you can’t make this stuff up. Had she watched even the Obama world tour (hence translators were there geez) or googled while on the phone maybe she at least would have known! This is so scary, I will never forgive McCain and those idiots for putting a election in front of Country. Country first my ARSE!!!! A horrible joke, trick, ploy played in these times!!!
Posted by: Kay | November 3, 2008, 7:31 pm 7:31 pm
We are not all brain dead in this country like a lot of them were 4 years ago.
Posted by: Rose Szymanski | November 3, 2008, 8:13 pm 8:13 pm
Moosedog-great perspective-and worth reflecting on-Lets hear a big cheer for America tomorrow-we take our country back TOMORROW-I haven’t felt this way since Bobby Kennedy…
Posted by: cowgirlblues | November 3, 2008, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm
Where are Palin’s medical records? Why has she refused to release them? Is it because they would not show she had a baby this year?
Posted by: Carl | November 3, 2008, 11:37 pm 11:37 pm
moosedog,
A well-researched, well-reasoned argument.
It sticks out like a sore thumb in the midst of all this misinformed propaganda.
McCain NEVER once denied voting 90% of the time with Bush.
We have seen McCain/ Bush’s policies for 8 years.
IT IS TIME TO TRY SOMETHING ELSE!
Posted by: royale6 | November 3, 2008, 11:42 pm 11:42 pm