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  • Posted By: taddbartley @ 02/25/2008 7:21:20 PM


    Obama clearly states what he stands for. Duh, visit his website and stop repeating what the right-wing machine wants you to believe - you're being herded you coward.

    http://www.barackobama.com/issues/

    Our country is not free as you'd like to think it is. As long as we continue to consume fossil fuels the way we do we will continue to be slaves to oil companies and foreign sources of oil. Why doesn't anybody just admit that this is why we got into this stupid war in the first place - so that oil producers and companies could profit. We're not free - they have us all by the bullocks.

    As far as I can see anyone who supports fighting this war is AFRAID - afraid of big business and big oil. Why don't we put our money into inventing renewable energy technologies that will free us all?!?!?!?! We already subsidize oil companies. Why not renewable energy industries?

    • Posted By: waterman3 @ 02/25/2008 9:37:15 PM

      I guess there is no oil in North Korea. They have WMD

  • Posted By: meltho @ 02/25/2008 8:37:04 PM

    Barack Obama is a Christian. When he is sworn in as President, he will place his hand on the Bible. The fear smears going around are exactly what this country does not need right now. Encouraging people to vote out of fear only results in stupid decisions. Make an informed choice. Read up on the issues. Visit the candidates' websites. See what their records are in the Senate. Educate yourselves.

  • Posted By: meltho @ 02/25/2008 8:36:51 PM

    Barack Obama is a Christian. When he is sworn in as President, he will place his hand on the Bible. The fear smears going around are exactly what this country does not need right now. Encouraging people to vote out of fear only results in stupid decisions. Make an informed choice. Read up on the issues. Visit the candidates' websites. See what their records are in the Senate. Educate yourselves.

  • Posted By: meltho @ 02/25/2008 8:36:51 PM

    Barack Obama is a Christian. When he is sworn in as President, he will place his hand on the Bible. The fear smears going around are exactly what this country does not need right now. Encouraging people to vote out of fear only results in stupid decisions. Make an informed choice. Read up on the issues. Visit the candidates' websites. See what their records are in the Senate. Educate yourselves.

  • Posted By: meltho @ 02/25/2008 8:36:50 PM

    Barack Obama is a Christian. When he is sworn in as President, he will place his hand on the Bible. The fear smears going around are exactly what this country does not need right now. Encouraging people to vote out of fear only results in stupid decisions. Make an informed choice. Read up on the issues. Visit the candidates' websites. See what their records are in the Senate. Educate yourselves.

  • Posted By: jogito21 @ 02/25/2008 8:30:01 PM

    I believe 100% that Obama is the future of the USA. That is for sure.
    I am Jorge L. Perez and i know what i am talking about.
    Trust me on this!

  • Posted By: jogito21 @ 02/25/2008 8:28:30 PM

    I believe 100% That Obama will be a great president of the USA, that is for sure.
    I am Jorge Perez and i know what i am talking about.
    I can see the future in him.

  • Posted By: joelsf50 @ 02/25/2008 8:04:58 PM

    Bias against old woman!!

  • Posted By: tireguy @ 02/25/2008 6:55:51 PM

    just exactly what is barack hussien obama for.If you watch the debates he never states his agenda! he just says hes going to have change ? what change and just what change does he want ? I'll take the one with thirty plus years of service and one who has respect for the military and those putting themselves in harms way so i can go drink coffee at starbucks in a very free country.John McCain is the only logical choice to be able to hand our children a country free and without fear knowing he will protect us when it comes time to put the boxing gloves on with all these rogue nations and wackos. Whats nobama going to do run!!!! billiary will negotiate ??? with the terroist"s. Mc Cain for the love of the United States and our future generations to live also in the land of the free.

    • Posted By: justchuck @ 02/25/2008 8:04:21 PM

      Enter Your Comment Bravo! I think Obama is for surrendering. That's the change he wants.

  • Posted By: meltho @ 02/25/2008 8:03:15 PM

    Barack Obama is a Christian. When he is sworn in as President, he will place his hand on the Bible. The fear smears going around are exactly what this country does not need right now. Encouraging people to vote out of fear only results in stupid decisions. Make an informed choice. Read up on the issues. Visit the candidates' websites. See what their records are in the Senate. Educate yourselves.

  • Posted By: J.K.L. @ 02/25/2008 6:10:28 PM

    The american people are playing right into the hands of the Devil and dont see it... it is just like the Hebrews saying CRUCIFY HIM..CRUCIFY HIM... LET HIS BLOOD BE UPON US. WELL WE SEE WHAT HAPPEN TO THE JEWS IN WW TWO. America you are putting the Devil right in to the White House. Obama is not a Christian. Are for-fathers founded this great land by the hands of Almighty God Jesus Christ. You fools that voted for him. Judgement is soon to come with out Gods blessing.

    • Posted By: Abdiel @ 02/25/2008 7:48:07 PM

      Those same forefathers enslaved people at will, defended it by corrupting the scriptures, and then fought will all their might to preserve the sin through civil war, reconstruction, and murderous acts for centuries. We've been trying to right those wrongs for generations. Read the scriptures instead of waving them around at people.

  • Posted By: therealcandidateforchange @ 02/25/2008 5:22:38 PM

    Im sorry, all I heard from that is Obama is the greatest Democratic candidate, and greatest man that ever lived ever, ever! Of course, why should I be suprised with that article coming from a grizzled old relic of the United Carter Socialist Republic. Of couse he would back Obama.. ( Socialist ) And I especially loved the part about how we need to rebuild our military. Rebuild? The last time I checked we are the most powerful, sophisticated military machine the world has ever known. I think what you really meant was, REFORM the military. i.e gut the hell out of military spending, and funding, and get the hell out of Iraq. Any reader with two cents worth of brainpower knows what you are really saying sir.. So why don't you just say it.

    Either way, continue to rattle off your socialist propoganda. Regardless, Obama is going to lose. And regardless of what the hopelessly partisan liberal media chooses to claim, the majority of this country is not ready to convert to a Marxist regime. Keep writing, and keep dreaming.

    See you at the polls!

    • Posted By: mrrcdd @ 02/25/2008 7:45:24 PM

      I just want a president who is proud of our flag, will place his hand over his heart when our National Anthem is played and most of all will place his hand on the bible and not the Koran when he is sworn as President.

    • Posted By: mrrcdd @ 02/25/2008 7:44:00 PM

      I just want a president who is proud of our flag, will place his hand over his heart when our National Anthem is played and most of all will place his hand on the bible and not the Koran when he is sworn as President.

  • Posted By: mjs mom @ 02/25/2008 7:30:23 PM

    That sounds like a winning team to me!!! It beats the idea of 100 or 1,000 more years of war!!

  • Posted By: Abdiel @ 02/25/2008 7:29:29 PM

    Throwing out "Hussein" and "Farrakhan" is typical of commentary that tries to sell race-baiting and attacks on anybody with education and vision as something like patriotism and common sense. McCain is the same guy who will sell out his principles for votes, like he did last election in South Carolina over the Confederate flag. That tells you just about what those many black soldiers fighting and spilling blood in Iraq what kind of Commander-in-Chief he will be. He's the same guy who will use public funding and then try to slither out from under his word. Everybody can sling mud. Somehow it is okay to elect a C student who avoided service and has no clue about foreign policy and few scruples about sending our forces into battle with less than quality equipment, fewer scruples about choosing his aides with ties to business, outing CIA agents and the like and no scruples about undermining our civil liberties.. But it is a problem to have a president with intelligence, service to the community, a commitment to eschewing the kind of high school name calling that passes for debate for so many others, playing down our obvious military power in favor of the more lasting, influential, and absolutely necessary diplomatic power that a true superpower has. Read a book, why don't you. Great nations and empires keep secure and keep control by being smart and working the angles on their enemies. They use the military when they need to make a definitive statement and to take out real rivals. Going for the sword first or with a limited amount of diplomacy is the sign of a failing nation or empire. Good leaders don't have to be soldiers. Look at our founders and see. We are a country that can be led by a Washington, but we also get led by Jeffersons too.

  • Posted By: veepjean @ 02/25/2008 7:23:28 PM

    What we need is a candidate who advocates real change: a more sensible foreign policy instead of the aggressive, militaristic approach we are taking now (a policy that is causing much of the world to hate us and will surely cause more and more "blowback"); and a wiser, more sound economic policy instead of the quick fixes and the constant reliance on borrowing that has been going on for decades. That candidate is Ron Paul. Haven't you heard about McCain "the songbird," who made over 30 propaganda films for the Viet Cong denouncing America to avoid being tortured? I've got news for you: America is the biggest rogue nation of them all. Are you aware that America destroys the lives of people all over the world (we have troops stationed in dozens of countries) in order to maintain its gluttonous and greedy lifestyle? We consume almost half of the world's resources and care nothing about who we trample in the process. And if you still think we are living in the land of the free, then you must not have read about the Military Commissions Acts of 2007 -- the power has all been shifted to the Chief Executive. Sounds like a dictatorship to me. And you probably have not read Section 802 of the Patriot Act, which states that "all crime is terrorism" and completely eliminates habeas corpus. But keep enjoying your Starbucks coffee and shutting out the real news.

  • Posted By: lillea @ 02/25/2008 6:51:18 PM

    Obama's friend Louis Farrahkan :.........
    For nearly 30 years, Louis Farrakhan has marked himself a notable figure on the extremist scene by making hateful statements targeting Jews, whites and homosexuals.

    Farrakhan???s bigoted and anti-Semitic rhetoric has included statements calling whites ???blue eyed devils??? and Jews ???bloodsuckers??? that controlled the slave trade, the government, the media and various Black individuals and organizations. In 2006, he blamed Jews and Israel for the war in Iraq, for controlling Hollywood and for promoting what he considers immorality during his February Saviours' Day address in Chicago

  • Posted By: robertgalbraith @ 02/25/2008 6:45:05 PM

    I find it mildly amusing that this writer is bragging about helping get Jimmy Carter elected. Carter was probably the worst president of my lifetime. He was completely ineffectual, created the worst economy in decades and left office in utter disgrace. Now decades later, he fashions himself as some type of elder statesman and manages to become an even greater embarassment each time he opens his mouth. Obama wouldn't be much better as his call for change appears as vapid and empty of substance as his political record.

  • Posted By: grla @ 02/25/2008 6:35:41 PM

    I thought this concept would have been useful for Kerry in 2004, when he was waiting for the convention while the cable networks obsessed over the swiftboat scum. By making semi-appointments leading up to the convention, the Obama campaign could divert the pundits from re-hashing fringe-right attacks to who he just proposed for his cabinet or who he might propose next. This would be a positive version of the way Bush uses terror alerts to drown negative news stories.

  • Posted By: malachifogle @ 02/25/2008 6:33:53 PM

    1. Don't give in to his play game, 2. talk about where we are now and ways to improve them. 3. talk about all people concerns and not just one class of people. 4. people need help in housing and health care now. 5. set up a web page now, for peple to tell you how, in their state we can help?

  • Posted By: lillea @ 02/25/2008 6:31:22 PM

    Obama's friend, Louis Farrahkan feels this way about other races:
    Farrakhan has referred to Jews, Palestinian Arabs, Koreans, and Vietnamese collectively as "bloodsuckers" and maintains that "Murder and lying comes easy for white people."
    And people want Obama for OUR President???? I say, NObama, NObama

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