PA GOP Runs New TV Ad Attacking Obama on Rev. Wright

Are you surprise that the GOP is doing this? Give me a BREAK!!!!!!

If that kind of language was the norm in Trinity Church, why do we have the same old video? Didn’t he go to church for 20 years? 20 years of videos and that’s all they have. McNasty will only alienate more those Independent voters.

That ad has been running in Florida all weekend – no change in polls!

Typical Republican right wing sleaze campaigning.
Nothing has changed, it’s the same old Republican party with or without McCain.
This is not change. It’s the same slimy politics of the right wing.
This is a fear and smear campaign.

Small minds! Fortunately the more reasoned person will likely win. And thankfully all this smearing will end..it has been dispicable!

Last shred of McCain’s integrity now gone.
OBAMA = PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
McCAIN = FAIL

COAL INDUSTRY = BAD !!
Even McCain prefers nuclear energy. (I agree with McCain)

*coal

Obama should have to live down his spiritual mentor for the rest of his life.

“If that kind of language was the norm in Trinity Church, why do we have the same old video? Didn’t he go to church for 20 years? 20 years of videos and that’s all they have. McNasty will only alienate more those Independent voters.”
I guess that wasn’t enough for you! Some of you wouldn’t care if he was a stark raving lunatic. You would still support whoever agrees with your political ideology…especially abortion and gay rights! Obama is a slimebag just like Wright, Ayers, Rezko,
etc. etc.

This is the approach that Palin said she wanted. To talk about Rev Wright.
I guess that way she doesn’t have to talk about anything relating to national or international politics.
She hasn’t been able to so far, so why start now?
Shame the Pubs can’t find a decent candidate they can talk about. They can only talk about the only real leader…and that’s Obama.
OBAMA WILL BE THE 44th PRESIDENT!

In Obama’s own words – he will bankrupt the American coal industry !!!!!
It’s from an interview Obama gave to the San Francisco Gate Interview January 17 2008 in which he speaks of his approach to global warming and cap-and-trade systems. It’s an approach I’m not sure the bitter gun clingers of Pennsylvania would appreciate

Mccain campaign is not running the ad

Badboy,
So then you think it would be completely fair for Obama to run Hagee ads?

Tungsten,
Nice story. Good luck to your parents… and Obama.

Badboy,
So then you think it would be completely fair for Obama to run Hagee ads?
Hell yeah! Make it interesting. Obama is a scumbag and you know it. Mccain isn’t much better, but at least he served our country! Obama is a little wimpy girly boy who sucks on cigarettes and was a known drug user. I guess you lib’s like that in your candidate! Very presidential!!

its running here in oregon too seen it 5 times today on msnbc

Obama: I’ll make energy prices “skyrocket”

Paul;
Thanks. It’s the hard work and individual stories of millions of ordinary people that are going to pull Obama across the line, against all of this republican BS.

Badboy,
“This is a legitimate concern for some and some seem to not care about it! Vote for who you want, but don’t cry when a persons close associations are called into question!”
You are so right. I have a problem with McCain’s associations with G. Gordon Liddy and Sarah Palin’s AIP affiliations. If your concerns are legitimate, then so are mine.
You shouldn’t cry about it, just vote for the candidate (Barack Obama!) you find to be most aligned with your needs.
Obama/Biden 08!
McCain served our country while Obama was being schooled in the muslim religion!
Obama and Wright were God damning our country while McCain stood on the wall!
McCain was a POW while Obama never served anything but himself.
Still… if you align yourself with garbage you will be garbage yourself!
Keep drinking the Kool aid!

Tomorrow I predict that not only will the Sun rise, it will also set
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Interesting you’re saying that Palin hiding something is a sure as the sun rising and setting.
Can’t argue with that.

Tungsten,
“Paul;
Thanks. It’s the hard work and individual stories of millions of ordinary people that are going to pull Obama across the line, against all of this republican BS.”
Yes. That’s the amazing thing about the Obama campaign this year.
I heard say there were a million volonteers on the ground, getting the vote out.

I guess John McCain’s word means nothing. Didn’t he say that his campaign would use Wright? If you can trust him on such a simple issue, then how can you trust him on anything? I quote John McCain, “I don’t believe that Senator Obama shares Rev. Wright views”. What is the truth John McCain?

What is Obama’s Civilian National Security Force he mentioned the other day?
I am hoping it is not ACORN thugs. Why is he introducing new topics this late in the game?

Tungsten,
God Bless you,your father and mother.
we all remember chaney,goodman, and schwerner.Medger Evers, Jimmie Lee jackson, the list is long,and it includes all of the members of the One Human Family.

What is Obama’s Civilian National Security Force he mentioned the other day?
ILL TELL U WHAT IT IS .ITS A THREAT TO FREEDOM .EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD BE SCARED . ARE THESE THE NEW STORMTROOPERS.SAVE US FROM BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA.

Perhaps a little too ‘concerned’… as you said the sun will rise and the sun will set.
Although sometimes you can win by bringing down the other guy, I don’t think this is the time…

Tungsten’s family is no different from my black family or ANY family that has struggled in Americia. That is what America is about. I am tired of my fellow African American’s acting as if they have corned the market on suffering and sacrifice in this country. What about the Jews, the Irish, The Italians, The Japanese that were put in internment camps, What about Latinos? the Native Americans. The Statue of Liberty stands for ONE nation , she does not stand for OBAMA NATION.
Stop with the race baiting we have a choice to vote for whomever we choose to without threats of racism.
Obama should have ran from Wrights church, he should have ran from Ayers, From Khalidi, He should have ran from Rezko, but Obama chose to buy a home from him and move next door to him. Next door to a slumlord who has kept blacks down for decades.

This doesn’t surprise me at all. The GOP keeps beating the dead horse. They are desperate and the low road is now underwater!

Do anyone get surprised when they hear the song they have heard several times, and its an old one. The answer is a BIG NO.
Why should folks be surprised now to hear anything about Rev. Wright!!!!!!

NO IM IN BROOKLYN N.Y.

Dave,
Sorry, I have a friend in Oregon who types in lower case. Just checking.

YES WE CAN????WHAT DOES THAT MEAN .ILL TELL U WHAT BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA MEANS “YES WE CAN DESTROY AMERICA” GOD SAVE US FROM BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA.

An Oxford scholar was reportedly paid $10,000 to review Barack Obama’s autobiography to determine if it was ghost written by former urban terrorist and associate William Ayers, according to the Sunday Times of London.
Dr. Peter Millican — a distinguished philosophy professor at Hertford College in Oxford, England — was offered the money by Robert Fox, a California businessman and brother-in-law of Republican congressman Chris Cannon, the paper reported Sunday.
Millican was reportedly paid to use a computer software program to find suspected similarities between Obama’s best-selling 2004 autobiography “Dreams from My Father” and Ayers’ memoir “Fugitive Days.”
But Millican called the charges “very implausible” after a preliminary review of the two works.
FOX NEWS

Mike | Nov 2, 2008 2:14:04 PM
I guess John McCain’s word means nothing. Didn’t he say that his campaign would use Wright? If you can trust him on such a simple issue, then how can you trust him on anything? I quote John McCain, “I don’t believe that Senator Obama shares Rev. Wright views”. What is the truth John McCain?
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John McCain wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped him in the face!!!

Thank you Tungsten for sharing your family’s story! Many of us do not stand-up when we should because trying to fight those in powers is almost always a losing situation. Your father showed great courage, but had to deal with reality and the obligation to his family.
As a child, I lived in an all white suburb of a major city. I can remember an amusement park in the city with separate swimming pools for African-Americans, which I thought was strange because I did not know there were separate rules for blacks and whites.
I never heard anyone in my family make negative statements about African-Americans.
In the early 80s when my son was about 6, we drove into our driveway with one of my son’s friends in the car. My son waved at an African-American child in the neighborhood. His friend said in a shocked voice, “your parents let you play with blacks?”
From the hateful comments on this and many other websites, it is evident that racism still exists. As others have noted, negative posters far outnumber positive posters.
I am excited about the improvement in racism that is evidenced by Obama’s support. I pray that a President Obama will help us all learn to treat all of God’s children the way we would like to be treated.

Obama never even wrote his own book. Did you read today that Bill Ayers wrote it. That does it. Obama is a fake. Then to find out he will bankrupt us that do coal. Well we do coal in ND. Obama is a disaster to all of us. Wake up.

Regarding coal:
Old coat technology (which is extremely polluting) would have trouble surviving.
Clean coal technology would prosper under that system.
Obama has it right.
Stop your fear mongering.

Obama never even wrote his own book. Did you read today that Bill Ayers wrote it.
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I read that a stupid Republican fat cat paid $10k to find out that was a just an internet rumor

I understand all of the McCain supporters are frightened. You should go back & read your posts. YOU are what is frightening lately. It has been absolutely proven that Ayers did not write Obama’s book. The Republicans tried to con a professor into saying it did. Sorry dudes, no go. Stop repeating the rhetoric. You make yourselves look truly desperate.

Rev Wright’s sermons were not anti-American, racist, or anti-Semitic – listen to the entire sermons. Wright’s G** D*** was in a sermon against the Iraq war, against the Bush administration, not the American people.
I applaud Rev Wrights for speaking out against the war. My pastor and other pastors preached against the Iraq war, although the style was much different. I could never vote for McCain because of his pushing for war in Iraq, Iran, and Syria within hours of 9/11. McCain told us the war would be quick and not cost very much.
Part of Wright’s sermon:
“War does not make for peace. War only makes for escalating violence and a mindset to pay the enemy back by any means necessary,” he said. Wright criticizes the Bush administration & it supporters for using Godly language to justify the war in Iraq. He equates using God in America as condoning the war in Iraq to the same perspective of Islamic fundamentalists
“We say that God will bless the shock and awe as we take over unilaterally another country, calling it a coalition because we’ve got three guys from Australia, going against the United Nations, going against the majority of Christians, Muslims and Jews throughout the world, making a pre-emptive strike in the name of God. We cannot see how what we are doing is the same thing is the same thing that Al-Qaeda is doing under a different color flag calling on the name of a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem”
Long history of government lies,“Prior to Harry Truman’s government, the military was segregated. But governments change. … under Clinton blacks had an intelligent friend in the Oval Office. Oh, but governments change”
“Where governments change, God does not change. God is the same yesterday, today and forever more. That’s what his name I Am means. He does not change”
Note: “chickens coming home to roost” comment was attributed not to Wright but former Ambassador to the Iraq, Edward Peck

Apparently neo-cons not only are the only “real” Americans, they have a “special lock” with God.
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Then they’ll happily admit it was God’s will when Obama wins and McCain loses.

Obama never even wrote his own book. Did you read today that Bill Ayers wrote it. That does it. Obama is a fake. Then to find out he will bankrupt us that do coal. Well we do coal in ND. Obama is a disaster to all of us. Wake up.
Posted by: Dean | Nov 2, 2008 2:37:43 PM
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Where did you read this at? The only thing I saw was on Fox.com and it only said that Dr. Peter Millican was paid $10,000 to review it and see if Ayers had written. Millican called the charges “very implausible” after a preliminary review of the two works. It was funded by Robert Fox, the brother-in-law of a Republican congressman named Chris Cannon.

Julie;
Thanks for that.
Unfortunately, the internet is the great un-civilizer. I scarcely imagine that most people behind all the hate would say that kind of stuff in polite debate. But just count the numbers – it’s actually probably no more than 100 or 200 venomous maniacs who spew this kind of stuff in overwhelming amounts. I don’t post much because it seems useless, but it’s important to counter the echo chamber.

The truth of the matter Democrats call all working class poeple stupid. Republicans and inteligent people really know who created the financial meltdown and will vote for McCain. They know it was Obama demanding banks give WELFARE queens 300,000 dollar home loans with my money in the banks or Obama would charge them with RACIST CRIMES.

Do you Pubs EVER say anything that’s not a fabrication or a half quote filled with omissions.
Seems like everytime you post something, it gets debunked a few posts later.
Why would ANYONE listen to you now?

Our characters are formed in personal relationship.” So, 20 years with Rev. Wright is a lot of formation! :(
Which is better for our economy: Obama redistributing our wealth or McCain growing more wealth?
Obama will take more money from the Americans who already pay the great majority of income taxes and “spread the wealth” to many who don’t even pay taxes to begin with in the form of a government check. :(
Obama thinks it is his right to redistribute wealth, but it certainly isn’t the view of the average American worker, and it is obviously wrong.
McCain thinks the way for America to prosper is to leave Americans with more of their income, allowing them to do what they do best — create the businesses, jobs, and opportunities that drive our vast economy.
Government has to be paid for, and that money comes from guys like Joe the plumber. Politicians can either bleed him dry to fund their programs, or they can encourage Americans to create more jobs and more wealth – and keep government limited and effective.
It is your choice!
This former democrat and Hillary supporter voted for McCain/Palin 08! They are America’s only choice for authentic reform! :)

Tivo is the greatest invention ever– zip right over these stupid ads. Are they rehashing the Rev Wright boogeyman AGAIN? Sad. Who do they think is going to buy that out of context stuff at this point except members of their own base? The Republicans are once again over-estimating the stupidity of the rest of the voting public.

oh, to have a picture of Republican faces crying,
late night Nov 4th……
like the commercial used to say… ‘I’m Lovin it’..
Finally the xenophobic hate mongers will be gone.

The truth is that both McCain and Obama are good men, intelligent and knowledgeable. Both want to do what is best for America. They disagree on what that requires, and our job is to vote for the one who most agrees with our own views on what we should be doing.
That is why I am voting for Barack Obama, because I agree with him most of the time, and do not McCain. I am voting for Obama because he is the first candidate in a long time who seems to talk to us like we are intelligent adults. Because every issue I have heard him speak about, I have been impressed with his knowledge of the complexities and balances involved. He is willing to listen to ALL points of view, and then he makes up his own mind.
I am voting for Barack Obama because he has shown an understanding of the need to return fairness and justice to America and the world. We have been waiting for such a candidate for a very long time, and were starting to despair of it. The craving for real change is much deeper than people seem to realize. It will not be denied.

Y’see, here we are. We come back yet again to McCain’s biggest problem.
Regardless of how much money he’s raised, both he and the GOP have wasted more time talking about why someone shouldn’t vote for Obama rather than why they should vote for McCain. And now it’s too late to do it.
All Obama had to do was not come off as the McCain caricature. And that wasn’t too hard to do.
So now that McCain has the Cheney endorsement, it doesn’t matter what happened with Reverend Wright. He turns out to be merely someone Obama knows.
Bush and Cheney destroyed more lives than Wright ever even had a chance to.
Including the political life of McCain.

I just went to the Pennsylvania GOP website and donated money.
Yesterday I donated money to the Republican Trust website to run more Reverend Wright ads.
I donated 1500 dollars to Hillary’s campaign but now I need to work against my own former party that has made a huge detour to the far left.
Obama does his best to appear mainstream but his far left socialist agenda is main reason for wanting the presidency.

Tuesday it will be all over. McCain and the GOP will be disgraced. They are burning whatever bridges there might have been. The end of the GOP era is at hand.

Dave
haha
Your desperation is quite telling.
Two words for you to remember
President – Obama.

AS I RECALL OBAMA SAID IN A STUMP SPEECH ,,,,BY THE WAY I AM BLACK , YOU PEOPLE IN THE SWING STATES FALL FOR OBAMA ,IT WILL BE A SAD DAY ,WHERE IS YOUR AMERICAN PRIDE !!!

Throw the bums out Obama
The GOP is never good for a Democracy. Simply because they are not for all the people.
Have McCain addressed ALL American? May I answer for you….. HELL NO.
Barack Obama rallys represent the true America because every color every age every nationality every ect etc is there.
Wise up GOP you do not represent America so can we take all the themes you have hijacked back such as:
Morality
Freedom
Patriotism
God
Brotherly Love
Thanks but no thanks for your GOP ticket to nowhere!

So long to coal – so long to jobs in PA, Wv. KY, Ohio – Obama has to pander some to the far left – no matter the cost. Wasn’t Joe Biden an old coal miner from Scranton – he worked in the mines before age 10. The middle class tax plan has changed from 250K to 120K – just ask Gov. Richardson.

SOME CALL BARACK OBAMA A NEW BEGINNING
MY GOOD GOD!
THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO THE DOGS
YOU DONT KNOW HOW LONG IT TOOK TO BUILD AND HOW MANY LIVES..
ALL THIS MAN EVER DONE IS RUN FOR OFFICE.
HE NEVER HAD TO DEFEND AMERICA.
OBAMA IS AS LIBERAL LEFTWING AS IT CAN GET
OBAMA =TAX AND SPEND=PELOSI/REID =SOCIALISM ON STEROID= RADICALISM.
THE MAN IS TIED AFTER $700 MILLION DOLARS
WITHOUT THE EXCESS MONEY HE WOULD BE NOWHERE.
RESPECT OUR HEROS
VOTE MCCAIN/PALIN

So long to coal – so long to jobs in PA, Wv. KY, Ohio – Obama has to pander some to the far left – no matter the cost. Wasn’t Joe Biden an old coal miner from Scranton – he worked in the mines before age 10. The middle class tax plan has changed from 250K to 120K – just ask Gov. Richardson.
Posted by: jamescbuilder | Nov 2, 2008 3:10:14 PM
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Obama is for clean coal technology, and with that will come new jobs. Gov. Richardson has admitted that he made a mistake in quoting $120,000 saying “I just made a mistake. I’ve said before that anyone making under $250,000 a year would get a tax cut.” I expected the Republicans to jump on it, but it’s ridiculous and a last ditch effort.”

Most of our National Guard are serving in Iraq, just in case you haven’t noticed.

I saw another version of this in Utah this morning. Utah, where McCain is ahead by over 25 points!
Why would they waste money advertising this in Utah?

pefros: What is moral about taking money from hard working people and giving it to others? Here is what the man that wrote the Constitution had to say about it.
|The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. —Thomas Jefferson
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have … The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. —Thomas Jefferson
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first. —Thomas Jefferson
“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” —Thomas Jefferson
Please commont on his opnion.

More Rev Wright Please
I want you to really really really look stupid.
I don’t feel sorry for the folks running these ads. I feel sorry for the folks who would actually let this sway their minds.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. —Thomas Jefferson
Posted by: Retired old guy | Nov 2, 2008 3:35:15 PM
The very people Obama wants to help are the middle class who have been working their rear ends off. The Republicans have been giving to the wealthy and have forgotten about we, the middle class.

OH PAHHHLEEZEE!!! This is nothing less than appalling!!!! For the Republican Party to stoop this low has to be a sign of desperation – scare tactics – in the 11th hour! Good heavens, the Republicans have NO morals! Republicans, STOP the hate!!!
Obama is NO longer affiliated with this man! Are you Republicans THAT STUPID to think that ANYONE would stand by this preacher?!? If you do, there is no HOPE for your narrow minded thinking then!
Go Obama/Biden!

no wealth no jobs without jobs ull be waiting in line at the soup kitchens for barak hussein obama for handouts. wake up before its to late .vote mccain

It’s not smearing Barack Obama to talk about what political beliefs he has chosen to embrace throughout his life. He has also made John McCain’s associations a huge issue in the campaign. Just recently he said: “After all it was just a few days ago that Sen. McCain said that he and President Bush share a common philosophy.”
Sen. McCain has associations with people, including Bush, from being a Republican in the Senate for so many years. Sen. Obama has only been there a couple of years, but he did make decisions very definitely based on political beliefs during his career. So who are some individuals and groups that Sen. Obama “shares a common philosophy” with?
One is Rev. Wright. This was his church of 20 years. You don’t just randomly choose a church and then stay there if you don’t share its core beliefs, unless you’re there for reasons other than your beliefs.
In the 2001 radio interview that’s surfaced, Obama himself said that he favored “major redistributive change” through legislation rather the courts because that was likely to be a more successful route. He explained the Constitution as the founders devised it seemed to make such change through the courts difficult – at least, he added, as the Constitution has been interpreted so far by the courts since it was written: “It (The Warren Court) didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties.”
While Obama himself doesn’t bring it up, there are liberals who are looking to make the Constitution say what government has to do for you, as Obama described it. There was a “Constitution in 2020″ conference at Yale in 2005 held by the American Constitutional Society which discussed the need for our country to adopt “positive rights.” The Weekly Standard has written about it in “What Liberals Want.” One major participant in the conference, Cass Sunstein, is actually an Obama adviser, and he came to his defense on the 2001 remarks this week (“Obama advisor pushes back on ‘redistribution,’” Politico).
On Ayers, although he engaged in terrorism when Obama was still a child, that’s not the end of the story. His Weather Underground past is actually only secondary. If you look at Ayers’ words and actions since then, including during the time in which a fair investigation would say that he and Obama were friends to some degree and part of a circle or community of like-minded liberal people, he has boldly made known that he is a communist, as he has described himself. His politics is his life, as it was when he was a terrorist, but these days he openly promotes Marxism and communism as a professor in the ultra-liberal elite circles of the university world, where Marxism is welcomed and openly thrives. At a 2006 education conference in Venezuela, addressing Hugo Chavez and the “comrades” in the audience, Ayers said: “We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution, and I’ve come to appreciate Luis as a major asset in both the Venezuelan and the international struggle—I look forward to seeing how he and all of you continue to overcome the failings of capitalist education as you seek to create something truly new and deeply humane,” (“World Education Forum – Bill Ayers”). Look at what his books are about and research his life now, and you’ll see that no one could get close to Ayers without knowing he’s a “radical leftist,” as he as also called himself. As a state legislator in 1997, Obama was asked for a book recommendation by the Chicago Tribune, and he recommended Ayers’ “A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court,” in which Ayers mentions him (“writer Barack Obama”) on page 82 as one of his neighbors.
And there are other places where Marxism shows up in Obama’s life: his childhood family friend/mentor, Frank Marshall Davis (“Dreams From My Father”); his attraction to Marxist professors in college (“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists,” “Dreams From My Father”), his community organizer work with followers of Saul Alinsky, and his work with Ayers, including as president and board chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Ayers’ pet project, which gave money to leftist groups, including another Ayers’ project, the Small Schools Workshop, headed by Mike Klonsky, formerly SDS (like Ayers) and also formerly head of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) in the U.S. Obama also ran for Illinois State Senate as a member of the Democratic Socialist-sponsored New Party, as the blog Politically Drunk on Power uncovered through a number of publicly-available online records (“Web Archives Confirm Barack Obama Was Member Of Socialist ‘New Party’ In 1996”).
Today, Obama’s official blogger is Sam Graham-Felsen. A 2003 Harvard Crimsom article on a group of college roommates emphasized his Marxist beliefs, including that he hung a Soviet flag on the dorm wall and read and promoted the reading of Marx ((“The Four-Year Path to a Quincy Suite”). Obama also had the Decemberists, an openly pro-communist band who named themselves after a lower-class uprising and perform the Soviet anthem in Russian, open and close for him at a Portland, Oregon, rally in May. He also posed for pictures with the band.
This hardly begins to cover everything, but it is enough to show that those who believe Obama isn’t socialist are believing what he says now and while ignoring the available evidence. These things aren’t just little details or “sharing his toys in kindergarten,” as he’s said to try to deflect attention from his record. They’re the center of his career.

Posted by: Erika | Nov 2, 2008 4:13:11 PM
I find it amusing that when we democrats bring up McCain’s associations that not one of you will discuss them.
KLA
US Council for World Freedom
G. Gordon Liddy
Willam Timmons
How about discussing these for a change.

With the amount of money that Biden and BO have made, you mean to tell me that Biden wasn’t able to give more than $3,000 in charitable giving? Oh please, I make no where near the amount Biden and BO make and I have given far more than that in just the last year (i.e. church, soup shelters, relief in Africa, etc.) Now the damacrats feel that I should pay more out of my paycheck. Come on people. STOP DRINKING THE KOOL-AID, it has poison in it. And the only ones that are trying to make this campaign a race issue is BO and Biden themselves. Remember the words “What I want to do Joe is spread the wealth.” “What I wish would have happened after the civil rights act was signed, is that the judiciary system would have had the ability to redistribute.” Redistribute what and to whom? Oh please, read through the lines, and listen to the sound bites. BO’s agenda has been made perfectly clear in this last week. I would like to hear BO answer that question himself as to whom he wants restribution to be given to. Can anybody answer that question, if so I would love to read it.

Just yesterday McCain was getting all kinds of credit for his refusal to “stoop” to this kind of stuff. Desparation is apparently chipping away at “principle.”
Let rip with the Pallin pastor ads!

Brooklyn Democrat
HAH!
B O has played more dirty tricks and plundered our airwaves with more flagranly sleazy commercials about Palin and McCain… but especially Palin… then you can count on a triple level abacus!
At least when McCain releases an ad, it is FACTUAL…. not illicitely tactical.
BOOOOOH FOR B O !!!!!

Why isn’t anyone talking about how Sarah Palin’s husband was a six-year card-carrying member of the AIP, a group that detests the U.S. Government.

Why isn’t anyone talking about how Sarah Palin’s husband was a six-year card-carrying member of the AIP, a group that detests the U.S. Government.
Posted by: Holly | Nov 2, 2008 6:28:50 PM
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Being a member of the AIP is not a bad thing. It’s not like being in the KKK. AIP advocates positions similiar to those of the Constitution Party and Libertarian party. They support gun right, privatation, home schooling and limited govt. The AIP has appeared on the ballot in Alaska in all state elections since 1970.
Many other states and cities in U.S. history have tried to secede and some have succeeded.

Jwench:
I don’t know how old you are, but those of us who are a little older have been paying for opportunities for those who have not had them for a long time.
There has been
1. school bussing
2. Head Start Projects
3. School lunch programs.
4. Food Stamps
5. Aid to dependent children (welfare)
6. Minority hiring preference.
Now, I live in the same county as Senator Obama – and let me give you a sample of our headlines:
1. Chicago has the highest number of homicides in the nation. Higher than LA or NYC – which are larger cities. Jennifer Husdon’s family – who lived in Senator obama’s neighborhood, is just the latest example. There is at least one school age child killed weekly. I worked with two women who were touched by murder on Obam’s south side. One was killed, the other had a cousin killed in a home where five people were killed. This was in less than a year.
2. The schools in Senator Obama’s neighborhood are funded by federal and state taxpayers- 85% of it. I live 8 miles away, and my shcool budget is supported 96% by the property owners in the district. One of the Reverends in Senator Obama’s neighborhood is looking for more money and not looking for a tax increase in his own neighborhood. My taxes for our schools went up about $1200 in the last 5 years – $500 this year alone. I do not nor never had a child in the schools. The city schools do not perform well and Senator Obama does not send his children to public schools. He’s getting a break on his taxes for public schools, because the other areas of the state are paying for them.
3. Chicago’s mayor advised this that he needs to move 80 more garbage truck to one man crews, which by the way, most suburbs have had for years. Why did not mayor say he needed to go to more one man crews? Because the patronage workers who have these jobs have a daily absentee rate of 30%. This is on top of a recent study that indicated that street and sanitation workers get paid for 8 hours and work about 6. Yes, I’ve done okay in my career – working 12 hour days, working through lunch.
4. My county and Obama’s has the highest sales tax in the nation. The head of the county board has always clearly been for income redistribution. He was endorsed by Senator Obama even though there was a serious reform candidate in the democratic primary. When this man had an incapacited stroke, just before the general election, this man’s son was put there in his place. He has since made news for the continuous hiring of realtives at high salaries.
5. Obama endorseed a man for state treasurer who was 29 year old, had no experience, and had never voted in an election – and is rumored to be target of prosecutors who jailed Obama’s friend Rezko. I never voted for this guy because of the rumors then about corruption surrounding his family’s banking business.
I am all for the making an investment in our nations future, even if it means I might pay more taxes. I am not for someone wanting to “spread the wealth” – especially when there has been such small return on the wealth that has already been spread. Additionally, it is being spread at every level of governement, not just the federal. It will not apply to only those who make more than 250K or 120K, whatever the latest figure is coming out of Obama’s campaign. I used to be more sympathetic tto immigration issues – but I now decided that the democrats are not interested in stemming the tide of illegal immigraion because they become democratic voters, and I am paying the taxes for their benefits.
I am for the Obama of his speeches and his biography – who wouldn’t be.
I am not for the garden variety politican named Obama… The one that took Mondays off in the Illinois State Senate, the one who sat on foundations ffor the purpose of meeting influential ppeople to further his career, rather than further the interests of his constituents in any of his elected jobs. I am not for the college instructor ir the editor of the Harvard Law review, who never published anything to add to the scholarly work in his profession, but did write his second book as a US Senator, when he wasn’t planning his run for the Presidency.
I don’t respect his work ethic, and see ihim as a taker, not a producer – and I think his career clearly supports that. He hasn’t done much to improve his neighborhood or mine. I don’t think he will be anymore interested as President. He will start writing another book as soon as he tgets to the White House, if his track record holds. Someone else is going to do the ddreary work of governing. He will have time only to surround himself with the adoring masses.
Obama has never come up with a new idea to solve the problems of the neighborhood he knows well – except for well worn sixties ideas – which have fallen short.
I have no idea why anyone would vote for someone with so little accomplishment in any job. I don’t think he’s ever held a full time job.

What happened to John McCain and are we ever going to get him back? This is a man who hired the sewage who slimed his own baby in 2000 in SC for his 2008 campaign. He will do anything to win this election. This is not the man I once supported. How can he live with himself?
I find Sarah Palin’s current religious associations (the witch-hunter, the end-of-days people, the suggestion that Alaska will be a safe place during “the Rapture”) to be far more shocking than Obama’s pastor, who clearly goes off the deep end sometimes and has some major ego issues.
Do all of you honestly believe that America’s school are full of sorcery and witches? That’s what the guest preacher at Sarah’s church said, right before he annointed her – on camera, with her pious approval. I think Sarah’s real religious beliefs are far, far, far right of most Americans – she’s just hiding them to get elected. Stealth candidates do that everywhere. She doesn’t have a little star of David in her office because she loves Israeli intellectuals, or the kibbutz system. She has a flag because far right evangelicals believe Israel must exist for the second coming f Christ in our lifetime – and that wars in the Middle East will also bring that about. If Jews convert, they do fine. If not – oh boy, they do not do do well at all.
Sarah is aware, isn’t she, that her favorite country has socialized medicine? I think it always has.

Mary OK, you wrote:
“He is 48 years old and has accomplished primarily his own self advancement – and so many people don’t think that maybe a few more years as a Senator is in the voting public’s interest.”
His lack of much a record in Washington was part of the consideration to have him run now. Tom Daschle has said: “I tell him he should do it and that he shouldn’t assume, if he passes up this window, that there will be another because the longer he’s in Washington, the more history he has. And the more history he has, the more he’s going to be explaining his votes and his actions and his statements and his positions that undermine his message,” (“The Choice,” PBS).

Jwench,
Sorry, I see that I got your username wrong.

Erika thanks your comments.
I am well aware that many people advised Obama to run while he was baggage free. I am actually voting against the senior senator from Illinois because he was one of the people who gave Barack Obama this advice.
Maybe everyone who aspires to the Presidency should do what Obama did. Or is it because he’s so much smarter, better intentioned, more charismatic than everyone else that he doesn’t need to demonstrate that he is willing to take risks or work on behalf of the taxpayer? He doesn’t have to take on issues that might improve people’s lives to demonstrate he is worthy of the voters trust. He shouldn’t have to contribute to a profession or show up at his jobs. He may have to vote in a manner that may interfere with his ambitions. Gee, let’s all raise our children that way.
Erika, surely you are not saying that if actually doing the job you are paid for is potentially bad for your ambitions, its okay not to do it?
In the business world, we meet people like Obama all the time. People who adopt a fake seal, fight for the corner office, take credit for the work of others. Associate with people several levels higher in the organization to show that they deserve to be at that level. Never once worry about whether they contribute to the goals of the organization or serve the customer. Yeah, I’ve really enjoyed working with people like that.
Obama’s associations and his quest for higher office have done plenty to undermine his message. And none of this can or should be excused because he has done no work on behalf of his constituents to counterbalance it. Google “Alexi Gianoulias Obama Broadway Bank Loan” to learn a little more about Obama’s activities in Chicago.
If you like Obama’s ethics and bi partisanship message, you should be voting for McCain, who has actually worked in a bi partisan way for ethics, and against earmarks, McCan never voted for the “bridge to nowhere”. Obama and Biden did, twice.
As for Obama’s message, are you sure that it is not “just words”. I’m not. He has spent too much time cultivating his career, and not enough time working on behalf of the taxpayer. For being 48 years old, I am surprised at how little he has done for anyone other than himself.
Someone put togeher a video of Obama apologizing for being late. He was always apologizing for missing their speeches and presentations. He arrived just in tme for his own presentation. That is another one of those upward mobiltiy tricks. I don’t need to listen to your presentations, but now that I am here, you can listen to mine.
I can’t believe how much people take at face value. I hope it doesn’t turn out badly for us.