How to Beat a Rock Star: ‘Substance.’

"NEWSWEEK: Sir, Senator Obama is a hugely gifted politician. This is a brutal year on a clinical level for any Republican to be running.
McCain: Umhmm."

Wow, show a little more bias there, Holly and Jon.

I think the sickest thing about American politics isn't politicians, it's the American public.

We would NEVER ELECT a politician with the balls or the ovaries to be honest with us.

Can't you hear an honest political speech?

Americans,

Our economy sucks, and it isn't going to get better in a hurry. Gas is over $4 a gallon, and it ain't going to get lower, possibly EVER.

Entitlement programs are running our budget into the ground, but the alternative is 30 million homeless old people, and bodies in the streets from lack of Medicare and Medicaid. So what are we going to do? Oh, and it IS going broke.

And the war is really stupid, but Bush was right, it DID distract you from what???s going on with budgets and trade deficits, and corruption that isn't really THAT uncommonjust a little more blatant. But it???s a war we can???t afford, we're borrowing money from China right now to pay for it. BTW that's why the President can't even think of offending the Chinese at the Olympics, they own us.

You don't even want to know how much all the wounded vets are going to cost us over the next 3 decades.

We're completely dependent on foreign oil, and bio-diesel isn't the answer because it's raising food costs, and costs more to produce than gasoline, because it takes gasoline to grow the crops and harvest them, and then the processing....

We don't have the money to soak the costs of wind and solar for the initial 7 year pay back period just for the equipment. It would work, in the long run, but no one wants to pay for it, and then environmental groups keep saying "go green" but "not here" and "not there"

We could go nuclear, and that would solve a lot of it, France has, Japan has, and they don't have a lot of problems. The technology has come a long way since three mile island and it's pretty safe now. But, NO, you people won't hear of it...eek radiation..eek nuclear waste. NIMBY. So that solution is out.

So we're screwed and get used to the rolling blackouts, or a lot of air pollution and drilling in ANWR.

And the same goes for a lot of manufacturing, no money to invest in super-clean technology, and no way to make businesses pay for it. If we legislate it they will go..overseas where there aren't so many rules and standards. But then, there is no way we can manufacture anything in America at American wages and to American standards that's even near the price of the same thing at Wal-Mart, and since you all shop at Wal-Mart, we're screwed on this too.

But we're free traders, and we have to be, or every farmer and tech company in America goes under.

We can amend our trade agreements with more worker protections.. but since the whole world hates us for being jerks and ignoring the U.N. in order to start a war in Iraq and we owe all of those countries money that we can't afford for them to ask for. So we have to play nice and keep losing money, or they'll call in the debts and it'll be a depression.

Thank You America !

McCain Opposes Senate Bill That Sought Equal Pay for Women
by Associated Press


link: http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/23/mccain-opposes-senate-bill-that-sought-equal-pay-for-women/

Oh happy day!!!!!!!!!!

Today's Gallup - "Since Hillary Clinton decided to concede the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama last week, Obama has established a lead over Republican John McCain in general-election polling. Obama's gains have come more from women than men, though he has picked up among both groups in recent days.
Obama's lead among women has now expanded from five percentage points to 13."

Wait guys, it gets better..........

"One of Clinton's core groups of supporters during the nomination phase of the campaign was older women. During the last few days of her active candidacy, Clinton led McCain by 51% to 41% among women aged 50 and older, while Obama trailed McCain among this group, 46% to 43%.

Since Clinton suspended her campaign, older women's vote preferences have shifted toward Obama, so that he now enjoys a six-point advantage over McCain."

Oh happy day!!!!!! The TRAITOR, CROOK, FRAUD, WOMANIZER is slowly dying!!!

Yeah nothing like back stabbing strait talking making policy. Typical Right Wing hard liners retoric cr@p just to win votes and then we will just scew you. LWOL

Now that Joe Lieberman has emerged as John McCain's lead attack dog against Barack Obama -- even going so far as to suggest that Obama's judgment could pose a danger to our safety -- there's some very interesting behind-the-scenes back-story to the Lieberman-Obama relationship that you should know about.

Specifically, a top official on Joe Lieberman's 2006 Senate reelection campaign tells me that Lieberman's staff practically begged Barack Obama to come in and endorse him at a critical moment -- requests that Obama agreed to, helping Lieberman minimize the damage from challenger Ned Lamont's recent entry into the contest.

This back-story is particularly relevant right now in light of Lieberman's harsh assaults on Obama's national security credentials.

The top Lieberman official, who was directly involved in securing Obama's help, tells me that the campaign was desperate for Obama to come to Connecticut in March of 2006, soon after Lamont entered the race.

"We needed him to strongly validate us as a candidate that liberal Democrats should not desert," the official tells me. "We went to the Obama operation with a very urgent plea for him to come out for us."

It's well known that Obama's 2006 endorsement was important. But it's not widely understood just how urgently the Lieberman people begged for Obama's help at a critical moment in Lieberman's career -- and in that light, just how much of a back-stabbing Lieberman's attacks on Obama now represent.


In response to the Lieberman camp's pleas for help, Obama subsequently endorsed him at a dinner of Connecticut Democrats later that month.

"I am absolutely certain Connecticut is going to have the good sense to send Joe Lieberman back to the U.S. Senate so he can continue to serve on our behalf," Obama said at the time.

"It was a favor as huge as we could have gotten -- it was like a drowning man getting thrown a life preserver," the Lieberman official continued.

Pia, HUACHUCA is a mouth-breathing card carrying 23%er. He hasn't taken a single breath through his nose since birth. He thinks the Hussien remarks are intellegent. He's been in the Army, according to him, for 16 years. He was finally promoted to Ignoramus 1st class this year right after he switched to McCain.

I have a very simple question for Senator McCain. Do you, Senator McCain believe that a Black man will ever have the necessary qualifications to lead the USA?

I struggle to understand the hullabaloo over Mr. Obama. As a black person living in America , I personally think it is a disgrace that folks rush to elevate a man who was complicit in the self-destruction of the black community. For 20 years he sat by and allowed trusting black folks to wallow in the self-defeatism dished out by Rev. Wright. This is the same defeatist thought that is echoed through the African-American community today. Where was the message of "HOPE & CHANGE"? Where was the "YES WE CAN" cry when it was needed most? Who better to transform that backward thinking group than someone unscathed by the 60s? Just think what could have been if Mr. Obama had shown a modicum of leadership (or at the very least walked away). But he did absolutely nothing! Just thinking of his non-action send chills through my bones and evokes a wellspring of sadness that will never be assuaged.



I am even more grateful today that I was blessed with parents whose vision have long transcended race. Failing that, I and siblings could have easily been among the causalities of the missteps and missed opportunities that were there for the taking after the Civil Rights era. The selfless action by M art in Luther who paid the ultimate price is who should be lauded as being a hero "for all of us that have dreams and hope". That is, he did what was right without a single thought of the personal gains (or harm) to himself.

Finally, I would challenge every voter this November to think well on this and ask yourself if you could with a clear conscience give this man a pass - NO I CAN'T. For we become who we are by the folks we look to as heroes.

I had to say this again, Did you hear about this?

during McCain speech, he stated " he will veto every beer"

Now what was this man thinking when he said this during his speech to the American people. Let's guess

"BEER" come on folks think about this clearly....
OBAMA 08'

When bush got in office gas was $1.46 cents a gallon Now in my Conn. neighborhood its $4.26 a gallon for regular. If you vote for mcCorps this country will continue to bleed. We need a change.

The "republicans" have forfeited their right to have an opionion about governing this nation, having led us into the ditch economically, led us into war under false pretenses, and completely mis-managed every aspect of governing this nation - not just homeland security, transportation, FDA, CIA, This is benign neglect at its best, and criminal neglect at its worse. Howdy doody could run for the democrats and I'd vote for him ahead of McCain. If you want incompetence. Vote Republican.

How much will continued occupation cost, for possibly up to "100 years," McCain, still at war or not, especially when warring with Iran will be next? How many troops will be left after the surge returns home in July? You seem to have gotten that mistaken before. And who are the key players - Sunni and Shiite - and waht are their agendas again? The posturing to stand in the streets with hawks and tanks protecting says nothing about the safety there nor the victory of a war won. If Scott McClellan's book is pure propoganda, then why did Powell leave the Bush administration? Obama has no bi-partisan legislation? What was that that he co-sponsored with none other than McCain himself? None other than the "SECURE AMERICA and Orderly Immigration Act," along with a bill also co-sponsored with McCaintargeting climate change to reduce greenhouse gases (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/barack_obama), about nine bills and/or acts that he either amended, sponsored or co-sponsored besides those that he voted in favor of. Is it no wonder that he would remark that McCain "refuses to acknowledge his work," though he honors McCain for his bi-partisan work in the Senate?

The argument that we cannot leave a war because soldiers have died in it is too flawed to have any traffic at all. Be in a herd of lemmings for just a moment. They run in a herd of thousands and periodically go over a cliff into the sea and die in the water. The ones in the back argue that they must continue because so many have already gone to their deaths ahead of them. Once a lemming or two goes over the cliff, those behind are deprived of any reasons to consider stopping the suicidal madness. That is about as good as the argument that we must stay in Iraq in honor of those who have died there.
Forrest Gump's mama said it best. "Stupid is as stupid does".

The Mc Cains like to charge Obama with a hasty retreat. In fact, as a better commander in chief than the one we now have, he knows how the commander in chief is supposed to function. First, he sets policy. Get out of Iraq. Then, not being a general, same as Bush-not a general, he gives the order to prepare an orderly withdrawal plan, protective of both our troops and the general population, and submit it to the presidency. What Bush has done over and over again, is to try to control what the military does, thinking that this is what a commander in chief president does. The last fiasco was ordering a "Surge". General Petraeus is extremely capable of carrying out the surge and performs magnificently, but the order to do it is flawed. The surge is simply the irritation of a sore with a stick. It knocks the scab off, but it is still infected and it is the wrong medicine.
Those who cavalierly advocate "permanent bases" there as in Japan and Germany do not know the difference between unconditional surrender and perpetual religious conflict. Our facilities are in a fortified enclave in Iraq and would not be safe there otherwise. There is nothing to indicate that this will ever change. The people there do not want us there interfering in their family dispute and they will not quit sniping until we leave.
We got rid of Saddam Hussein. There is nothing sensible left for us to do there.

WOW! Hey Nins, between you,Thevail and Circling the Wagons I've changed my mine. You folks have proven to me without a green shadow of a doubt that BO is in fact the Messiah. Initially, I was for Hill, then I switch to McCain and now .... YES ... the Messiah. Count me in as the newest member of the PROGRESSIVE CULT! My $25 contribution is on its way! Love you guys! Thanks for showing me the light! What a life changing experience! A true revelation!!!

Obama / Jane Fonda '08!

YES WE CAN!!!!