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What These Eyes Have Seen

He's endured the unendurable, and survived. Inside the mind and heart of John McCain.

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  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 10:53:11 PM

    BREAKING NEWS ALERT....

    Obama taped conversation with San Francisco Chronicle states his policies ???will bankrupt coal mining operations that produce gas emissions in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina
    which it will cause energy prices to skyrocket....." .....more info nobody knew until now about what Obama wants to do!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 6:06:22 PM

    Obama's Links To Radicals Starting To Surface!! www.newsmax.com/timmer

    Obama-Farrakhan Ties Are Close, Ex-Farrakhan Aide Says

    A former top deputy to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan tells Newsmax that Barack Obama???s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had ???an open line between them??? to discuss policy and strategy, either directly or through intermediaries.

    ???Remember that for years, if you were a politician in Chicago, you had to have some type of relationship with Louis Farrakhan. You had to. If you didn???t, you would be ostracized out of black Chicago,??? said Dr. Vibert White Jr., who spent most of his adult life as a member and ultimately top officer of the Nation of Islam.
    White broke with the group in 1995 and is now a professor of African-American history at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
    White said Obama was ???part of the Chicago scene??? where Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and radicals would go to each other???s events and support each other???s causes.
    ???Even though Chicago is the third-largest city in the country, within the black community, the political and militant nationalist community is very small. So it wouldn???t be uncommon for [Obama and Farrakhan] to show up at events together, or at least be there and communicate with each other,??? White told Newsmax.
    The Anti-Defamation League has denounced Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam as a ???hate group.???
    Farrakhan has called Jews ???bloodsuckers,??? ???satanic??? and accused them of running the slave trade. He has labeled gays as ???degenerates.??? In a 2006 speech, the ADL again condemned Farrakhan when he said: ???These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength. ??? It's the wicked Jews the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality. It's wicked Jews, false Jews that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!"

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 5:23:13 AM

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for Obama = 57

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for McCain = 0

    The choice is obvious...vote for the patriot and war hero...JOHN MCCAIN!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 5:22:57 AM

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for Obama = 57

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for McCain = 0

    The choice is obvious...vote for the patriot and war hero...JOHN MCCAIN!!

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 11/01/2008 7:43:58 PM

    What is most troubling in todays political climate is the promotion of hatred as a philosophy. The emergence of an ultraconservative dogma relies increasingly on the encouragement of mass hostility aimed at one group in particular - Americans with progressive political views. Liberals are spoken of with the kind of dripping contempt and virulent hostility that used to be associated with racism and sectarian religious strife. Liberals are viewed not fellow Americans citizens concerned with the future of their country, but as ideological enemies that need to be destroyed - and eaten if possible. This view is fundamentally anti-American.

    This right-wing sect manifests a complete lack of empathy toward other Americans whom it defines as its ideological enemies. Its core beliefs are absolutely impervious to reason and are unleashing ugly and violent impulses. What makes their zeal so dangerous for our country is their willingness to do serious damage to our precious American Democracy in their quest for absolute power.

    -The Assault on Reason (2007)

    SOUND FAMILIAR? IT DOES TO ME AND I AM SICK OF IT. IF YOU ARE TOO, VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN ???08

    www.republicansforobama.com

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 11/01/2008 3:53:50 PM

    You think you know Sarah Palin and John McCain? Think again.

    SARAH PALIN

    Palin appointed friends and donors to key posts in Alaska, records show
    http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palinrecords24-2008oct24,0,6683728.story

    Sarah Palin Linked to Second WITCH HUNTER
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/sarah-palin-linked-to-sec_b_137532.html

    Palin faces new ethics complaint over kids travel
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081030/ap_on_el_ge/palin_ethics_complaint_5;_ylt=AiD7P6Fxkk.LKh67DdqdA1Bh24cA

    Palins un-American activities
    http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/10/07/palins_unamerican/index.html

    Palin And The Alaska Independence Party
    http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/the_alaska_independence_party.php

    Alaskan Independence Party chairwoman Lynette Clark talks about why she doesnt identify herself as an American, and about her kindred spirit Sarah Palin.
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/10/alaska_secession/index.html

    The pastor who clashed with Palin
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/15/bess/index.html

    Troopergate Report Concludes Palin Abused Power, Full 263 Page report here
    http://download2.legis.state.ak.us/DOWNLOAD.pdf

    Mad Dog Palin: The full Story
    http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23318320/mad_dog_palin



    JOHN MCCAIN

    Make-Believe Maverick
    http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

    The Dark Side of John McCain
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/22/johnmccain.uselections2008

    The funniest part of all of this to me is that Palin will return to Alaska with her tail between her legs. She might try for a run in 2012, but Guliani, Huckabee, Romney and whomever else vie for the Republican nomination will absolutely tear her apart. I cant wait to see it.

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 10/31/2008 4:27:06 PM

    Here are the answers to all the Obama smears using various trusted non-partisan sources. Investigate for yourselves before believing anyones version of the facts.

    Rezko: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp

    Ayers: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ayers.asp

    Rashid Kahlidi: http://jews4barack.com/react/?p=23

    Are three former Fannie Mae executives economic advisers to Obama?
    http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/are_three_former_fannie_mae_executives_economic.html

    The Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan Controversies
    http://jews4barack.com/react/?p=21

    Is Obamas brother really dirt poor in Kenya and living on a dollar a day?
    http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is_obamas_brother_really_dirt_poor_in.html

    How many times did Obama vote PRESENT as a state senator and why?
    http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/how_many_times_did_obama_vote_present.html

    Obama???s relationships with corrupt Chicago politicians
    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/guilt_and_associations.html

    NRA ads regarding Obama violating second amendment right to bear arms
    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/nra_targets_obama.html

    Jerome Corsis The Obama Nation
    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/corsis_dull_hatchet.html

    Obama wants to teach sex ed to Kindergartners?
    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/off_base_on_sex_ed.html

    Obama plans painful tax increases for working families
    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/a_new_stitch_in_a_bad_pattern.html

    Context Included: Obama on Iran
    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/context_included_obama_on_iran.html

    Did Obama write that he would stand with the Muslims and that he nurses a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity toward whites?
    http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_obama_write_that_he_would_stand.html

    Did Hamas endorse Barack Obama?
    http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_hamas_endorse_barack_obama.html

    Claims that Obama is a Muslim, attended a Wahabi school in Indonesia, took his Senate oath on the Koran, refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and is part of an Islamic plot to take over the U.S.
    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_obama.html

    Barack and Michelle Obama spent $450 on lobster and caviar at the Waldorf at taxpayer expense
    http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_michelle_obama_spend_450_on_room.html

    50 Obama lies and counting
    http://jews4barack.com/react/?p=9

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/18/2008 2:34:13 PM

    Everyone of voting age should read these two books written by Obama, 'Dreams of My Father' and 'Audacity of Hope'. Don't buy them, get them from the library before they are removed from the shelves.

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "I never emulate WHITE men and BROWN men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela."

    And FINALLY the Most Damning one of ALL of them!!!

    From 'Audacity of Hope', "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

    • Posted By: wendydk @ 10/31/2008 4:25:52 PM

      Oh yes, indeedy, but first, read this from FactCheck.org about this very subject:

      "Anyone looking for Barack Obama's real sentiments about whites, blacks and Muslims won't find them in this scurrilous collection of falsified, doctored and context-free "quotations." The e-mail they come from claims to feature words taken from Obama's books, "The Audacity of Hope" (2006) and "Dreams from My Father" (1995, republished in 2004). But we found that two of the quotes are outright false, and the others have been manipulated or taken out of context"

      Read the rest of the analysis at http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_obama_write_that_he_would_stand.html

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 10/31/2008 4:21:55 PM

    samval: I agree. The reds are upset by how Obama has inspired millions of new voters, and millions of first-time contributors (like me). They don't understand it because they are not inspired by their own candidates. Therefore, their vote is against Obama, not FOR McCain. That's going to lose them the election, and they will cry, kick and scream (or maybe hide in the cellar hugging their "Flight Suit George Bush" dolls) for the next four years. DOOOOOM, GLOOOOOM!

  • Posted By: samval @ 10/28/2008 2:30:17 AM

    So sad that instead of commenting on the virtues of their candidate, a flawed but admirable man, the right-wing posters here just want to heap calumny and abuse on Barack Obama. As we learned in 2004, it is not enough to hate the other candidate -- you have to believe in YOUR candidate.

    If John McCain had bucked his party and contested Bush in 2004, I beleive he would be president today.

  • Posted By: haynessemperfi @ 10/27/2008 11:29:52 PM

    Comment: C-SPAN THIRD PARTY DEBATE

    http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/includes/templates/library/flash_popup.php?pID=281952-1&clipStart=&clipStop=

    C-SPAN THIRD PARTY VP DEBATED NOVEMBER 2

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/16/2008 1:11:38 PM

    Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!!


    Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.

    The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
    Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."

    Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.

    Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.

    Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.

    Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.

    It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.

    Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luck­being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}

    Capitalism is the only social system that rewards virtue and punishes vice. This applies to both the business executive and the carpenter, the lawyer and the factory worker.

  • Posted By: cowen123456 @ 09/30/2008 12:01:19 PM

    I;ve watched the elections for over a year now and I still have not seen anything to disprove the view that John Mccain is a do-er and Obama is a talker.

  • Posted By: Nins @ 09/18/2008 9:41:31 PM

    Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac, Bear Sterns, Lehman Brothers, AIG and the rest of the failed institutions have failed primarily because of former Senator Phil Gramm. The Gramm-Leach-Biley Act stripped away the regulations separating banking from investment companies, insurance companies and mortgage guaranty companies. Those regulations were added after the Great Depression when it became obvious that allowing banks to be in bed with the stock market was a sure way to rig the system to collapse, as it did in 1929.

    Lo an behold, a few years after the regulations were removed, the sh!t has hit the fan, and the inter-related investment, insurance, mortgage and banking industries are now starting to collapse, and guess what, you, the taxpayer will have to pay to clean it up.

    Phil Gramm is the Senator who brought you the "Enron Loophole" that de-regulated futures trading, causing the prices of oil, gas and food to spiral out of control.

    Senator Phil Gramm was McCain's top economic advisor until recently, when he was forced to step down after he said that there is no problem with our economy other than a "mental recession" on the part of a "nation of whiners." Phil Gramm is the man who McCain said he wants to name Secretary of the Treasury if he becomes President. You have to believe John McCain when he says that he knows little about the economy -- so little that he doesn't even know who to choose as an advisor.

    Barack Obama addressed the Enron Loophole, futures trading, short-selling and Wall Street de-regulation months ago in his economic position papers, which are available on his website. Obama has been saying all along that he is going to put in strict regulations and clean up Wall Street.

    McCain just started saying that he favors regulation in the past couple of weeks. How is it that McCain is going to put in new regulations, when he plans to appoint Phil Gramm, the man who caused the de-regulation, as Secretary of the Treasury? McCain says he would fire Christopher Cox, the SEC Chairman, to solve the problem. However, the problem is caused by lack of regulations on the legislative level, regulations that were removed before Cox was appointed. The SEC can only enforce regulations that actually exist, so making a scapegoat of Cox solves nothing. I would suggest that McCain is guilty of saying what's politically expedient, that he does not actually intend to regulate the banking industry. McCain knows that most Americans are unaware of the details.

    I am a middle-aged white conservative Republican who loves America. I am voting for Barack Obama.

    http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15050.html
    http://www.newsweek.com/id/145011/page/1
    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6007788.html
    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E0D81038F934A25752C0A9649C8B63
    http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gG5Rzb

  • Posted By: LindseyW @ 09/08/2008 1:17:22 PM

    It makes me nervous how mccain can't talk about the issues and is only ever talking about this pow stuff. It's like he can't think about anything but war. I can't vote for someone who thinks war is so romantic and loves it because it gave him an identity as a hero as he calls himself. He will only start more wars if he becomes president so he can relive the old days and work out his mental problems from being a pow. Not only that but his Vietnam stories keep on changing, like he is remembering new ones all the time. I think reality has gotten mixed up with fantasy as he admits in the article he created a fantasy world for himself and now I think he is doing it again with this persona he is pushing. It is scary that he still has so many issues about his time as a pow that he wants to demand that we elect him president to pay him back for his service even though other guys were pows too. It's like mccain is always so angry about something. I think he is still resentful about his capture because he seems to want to make it harder for other vets as he keeps voting against anything that could help them. I am uneasy about all this pow stuff because it reminds me of Bush-if you don't vote for me you're not patriotic. Maybe he still has issues like the psychiatrist said he doesn't want to live in his father's shadow so he wants to become president because it is more than being an admiral. I can't vote for someone who is always living in the past. Mccain said he doesn't even know how to work a computer, he is like Frankenstein with fire about anything new.

  • Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 09/07/2008 12:12:23 AM

    9/11 and religion..... What is the connection??? there are all the answers... Please pass it on.

    http://propagandameatgrinder.magnify.net/video/Zeitgeist-s-hrvatskim-titlom/theater#theater_title

  • Posted By: Territc @ 07/22/2008 10:46:18 AM

    What! What has he seen? Nothing fool. Has he seen thorugh the eyes of a 6 year old's who hasn't eatern for a week, whose bones are sticking out of body, whose skin is stretched so tightly over those bones that is shines. Has he seen through the eyes of a two year old sitting next to the dead boy of his mother murdered by rebels. He has not seen nothing! He uses his POW status as the basis of his election. That gives you no rights at all to even consider yourself Presidential material.

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 06/23/2008 10:20:38 AM

    Barack Hussein Obama's Political Views

    Unsuccessfully sponsored measure to expunge some criminal records and create an employment grant program for ex-criminals. (2002)




    Voted against making gang members eligible for the death penalty if they kill someone to help their gang. (2001)



    Voted against letting people argue self-defense in court if charged with violating local weapons bans by using a gun in their home. (2004)



    Voted against restrictions on public funding of abortion. (2000)



    Being gay or lesbian is not a choice. (Nov 2007)



    Ok to expose 6-year-olds to gay couples; they know already. (Sep 2007)



    Legal rights for gays are conferred by state, not by church. (Aug 2007)



    Gay marriage is less important that equal gay rights. (Aug 2007)



    Gay rights movement is somewhat like civil rights movement. (Aug 2007)



    Let each denominations decide on recognizing gay marriage. (Jul 2007)



    Supports health benefits for gay civil partners. (Oct 2006)

    Opposes gay marriage; supports civil union & gay equality. (Oct 2006)



    Extend welfare and Medicaid to immigrants. (Jul 1998)

    Support granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. (Nov 2007)



    Forthright on racial issues and on his civil rights history. (Jul 2004)



    Supports affirmative action in colleges and government. (Jul 1998)



    Include sexual orientation in anti-discrimination laws. (Jul 1998)



    Miscegenation a felony in 1960 when Obama's practiced it. (Aug 1996)



    Voted NO on recommending Constitutional ban on flag desecration. (Jun 2006)



    Voted NO on constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. (Jun 2006)



    Rated 100% by the NAACP, indicating a pro-affirmative-action stance. (Dec 2006)



    Need justice that is not just us, but is everybody. (Jun 2007)



    Videotape all capital punishment interrogations. (Oct 2006)



    Battles legislatively against the death penalty. (Jul 2004)



    Supports alternative sentencing and rehabilitation. (Jul 1998)



    Voted NO on declaring English as the official language of the US government. (Jun 2007)



    Voted YES on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security. (May 2006)



  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 06/23/2008 10:13:20 AM

    The Many "Quotes" of Barack Obama

    "I don't think my church is particularly controversial."

    Rev. Wright is "like an old uncle who sometimes says things I don't agree with."

    "The emotion between the races could never be pure..... the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."

    "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites"

    "never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself..".

    "I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations."

    "The person who made me proudest of all, though, was [half brother] Roy .. He converted to Islam."

    "...I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."

    "I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator."

    "I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying."

    "You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt."

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 06/23/2008 10:04:26 AM

    I guess Barack is shaken by all the bloggers and websites floating the Net because he has formed a "dream team" to help fight us! Senator Obama has formed a team to battle his negative image on the Internet. Why would he be concerned about articles that he claims are lies and misconceptions? Do you think that maybe a good percentage of those articles may speak the truth?

    Is it coincidence that Obama graduated from Harvard, a school with one of the largest Muslim organizations (HIS - Harvard Islamic Society) located on campus since 1955.

    Is it coincidence that Barack was repulsed by a very successful Republican President Ronald Reagan and is enamored by one of our worst Presidents in history Jimmy Carter?

    Is it coincidence that Larry Sinclair is getting death threats after stating he had a drug encounter and two gay sex encounters with Obama about 8 years ago?

    Is it coincidence that Obama had absolutely NO PROBLEM with his church or pastor until the year that he ran for President and then he amazingly saw the light?

    Is it coincidence that Barack received donations from, visited the home of and is friends with Pentagon and Police Headquarters Bomber William Ayres? Is that Liberal enough for you?

    Is it coincidence that 16 times convicted felon Tony Rezko donated thousands to Obama's campaign in Illinois, basically buying him the election, than receiving millions in Illinois contracts for himself and associates?

    Is it coincidental that Obama has all these questionable ties and with little to no political experience has received over $264 Million in campaign contributions?

    Is it going to be coincidence when Democratic opponents John Edwards receives an Attorney General's position and Hillary Clinton will get a Supreme Court nomination for their quick change in support FOR Barack Hussein Obama should he be victorious in November?

    Who is controlling this puppet. We may find out soon enough. I guess this article and others will put us on the Internet dream team's radar. Bring it on Obama Sheeple, you can't handle the truth!

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