How to Beat a Rock Star: ‘Substance.’

the 23%ers describe John McCain as a Honorable man. In there dictionary the term honorable would include one who would send our young soldiers to their deaths in iraq to garner the right wing vote of his party and help him to realize his ambition.

In the dictionary use by those who are really honorable that meaning would describe a sociopath. Vote McCain and share the responsibility for those that will be sent to their deaths in a war that you know is wrong.

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Barack Obama is not legally a U.S. Natural-born citizen according to the law on the books at the time of his birth, which falls between ???December 24, 1952 to November 13, 1986? .

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.

Am I the only on that thinks this election is going to be an ass whooping in Obama's favor? I have been for Obama this whole time, but when I take the most objective perspective I am capable of, I see the republican party caving in on itself. I see a boring republican candidate that isn't well liked by the party's core constituancy. I see a country that has been driven to two wars and economic peril by the worst president in the history of our country(literally) who is a republican. I see republicans leaving their party in droves and I see republican politicians losing elected positions across the country. To say nothing about the McClellan scandal.

And the dems? Look at the voter turn out and new registered democrats. Our candidate is young, wildly inspiring, intelligent and constantly compared to JFK, RFK, and MLK. These are some of the most cherished fiugures in american history! We just had the most facinating primary between to of the most capable candidates in memory. Sure, some Hillary supporters are going to stray from the democratic party, but to assume that there are going to be enough people that crazy(and that IS crazy) to sway the election in favor of the walking embodiment of the ways of old??? I just don't think thats possible. I'd like to give Americans more credit than that. I'm not suggesting we let our guard down, I just think we are about to deliver a left hook that the republicans will feel 100 years from now.

Please, please Senator, wimper, wimper, please agree to townhall meetings, wimper, wimper, you know I'm to old to answer any unscripted questions, wimper, wimper. Please don't ask me why I didn't have the courage to expose Bush/Cheney when I knew they cooked up the evidence to send over 4000 of our troops to their deaths in Iraq. wimper, wimper. Do ask me why I am still refusing to go against them, wimper, wimper. You know i need their support and if it costs a few thousand more deaths of our young men and women, i'm good with that.

It's the Economy Stupid! It's not about the 4000 young men and women that Bush/Cheney/Rice/Powell and rumsfeld sent to die in iraq after faking evidence to fool the world into supporting their plot.

It's the Gas prices Stupid. It's not about the several thousand more young women and men that McCain is willing to sacrifice just to get the Right wing wacko Mouth-Breathers to vote for him.

JOHN MC CAIN STRATEGY = ITS GOOG TO BE OLD, REALLY OLD, REALLY REALLY OLD -- REALLY !

VOTE FOR ME ! NOT THE YOUNG KID OBAMA.

OBAMA IS IN HIS MID 40's TOO YOUNG !

I ( JOHN MC CAIN ) ON THE OTHER HAND AM CLOSER TO DEATH ----- REALLY !

CHECK MY EXPIRATION DATE : ? TOLD YOU I WAS OLD ! REALLY OLD !

I AM ANTIQUE OLD !

I WAS FOUND IN THE ISRAEL DESERT, IN AN ANCIENT VASE.

I HELPED BUILD THE PYRAMIDS, AZTEC TEMPLES, FIRST MC DONALDS RESTAURANT --- REALLY !

EXCUSE ME ! WHO AM I AGAIN ?

YOUR KIDDING ?

THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ---------- ?

COME ON ! WHO AM I REALLY ?

What I find troubling about McCain is the sustance he is choosing to run on. I find myself disconnected to his set of values. Some will then say how can you not want to protect America? I do, I just to not think that McCain vision of how to protect America resonates in the 21st century. I listen to his contiuation of cold war policies, have a bigger miliarty, spend more than they can, bomb them or a nieghbor to intimidate them. I have heard this President say and McCain repeat "this is the idealogical struggle of our generation". You do not spread the ideal of democracy by force or corersion. By all appreneces so far that would still be McCain's foriegn policy. I do not find his policy of tax breaks for coroporations or the wealthy beneficial. I believe that history shows that the highest amount of capital investment occured when the tax rate on the wealthest American was a 28%. It is not that I want anyone taxed unfairly. But, I feel that it is the duty of those that prosper from this nation to give back. As the wealthy often do not serve in her military this is one way they can do their patriotic duty with litttle inconvience to their lifestlye. I have also struggled with McCain's resent refusal of the new GI bill. I find it hard to beleive that a veteran has turned his back on others. While I believe John McCain to be a fine Man I do not believe he is the man for America we need to be moving forward in a differnt direction not backward into the cold war politics and idealogy of the past.

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 mothers 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.'

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

to say that other countries had info. on iraq's wmds is like saying "that your friend said." the way i see it is if you are going to wage war you need to make 100% sure you have your facts straight. you cant pawn off a bad decision based on german and french intell. the wrong call was the wrong call no matter who told you whatever. the blood is on our hands not theirs

I am a soldier doing my second year in a forien country IRAQ and believe the only chance in hell we have to finish and win this war is to vote for MR McCain. I have had firends die here and do not want their death and our progress to be for nothing. A wise man once said "Thoes who wish to reap the BLESSINGS of Freedom; like men must undergo the FATIGUES of SUPPORTING IT" . If you send me and my fellow man into combat you should have been in the Armed Forces of in Combat yourself. We need someone who has been in combat and knows what its like to send a someone to war. SSG FELK

McCain thinks that Obama's economical plan is wrong... But McCain wants to keep us in the war for however long it takes... But that not only digs us into deeper debt but the American dollar is turning to s%$^ because of it. How can you seriously sit there and argue that you are right and Obama is wrong???

its true Technicaly The honorable Mr. Obama is not an African American. His mother is a white woman. So I apolagize He is or would be consider multi racial. He was born in Hawaii So guesse what folks hes an American. And thank god you have to be a naturalized citezen to run. Otherwise Arnold would run and who know what would happen LOL

Again the liberals have thrown an empty suite into the race, I ask Obama supporters what he brings. My answer is change, is this what his entire campaign is running on. Looking at his short voting record as a senator I see more times than not he votes present on important issues, voting presents is like saying pass. The one time he did vote it was to vote down declaring English as the national language, change, I don't think so, just the same none sense. Tired of Americans being treated like second class citizens, as a democrat I'm voting for McCain and will continue to support the republicans until the democrats take their party back from the far left crazies. Unless you like liberal judges simply releasing child molesters, more Americans like the Oregon fire chief fired because he didn't speak Spanish, union & nonunion jobs lost, the end of Christmas, and working class seeing more and more of their hard earned money going to people who haven't worked a day in their useless lives you'll do the same.

How to beat a Rockstar? Hmmmmm.....

Find a dead hooker in his trunk. That's the only thing that'll stop Obama from being our next President.

We can see where you stand simply by reading your writing, and the irony is that you tell others to focus on education when it is obvious you're being nothing more than a facetious hypocrite. (and yes, go ahead and look up the word facetious)

(While you???re at it, look up the word ???demagoguery???, and that seems what Republican candidates and supporters have preached for the last 8 years. And yes, I truly believe that before the last 8 years, of steady downward slide for this country into the muck, Republicans had much to say and a better way of saying it; nowadays, it seems preying on the fears and weakness of a population.)

Before you flip out, know that I???m a moderate conservative who simply sees the writing on the wall and the weakness and fear of people being used. Let???s contrast that with someone who has at least tried to inspire change and instill hope, evident to anyone who takes their heads out of their asses long enough to actually pay attention.
ry???, and that seems what Republican candidates and supporters have preached for the last 8 years. And yes, I truly believe that before the last 8 years, of steady downward slide for this country into the muck, Republicans had much to say and a better way of saying it; nowadays, it seems preying on the fears and weakness of a population.)

Before you flip out, know that I???m a moderate conservative who simply sees the writing on the wall and the weakness and fear of people being used. Let???s contrast that with someone who has at least tried to inspire change and instill hope, evident to anyone who takes their heads out of their asses long enough to actually pay attention.