Vote for McBama

Good idea! Blend the candidates, the parties, the platforms and the voters, add ice and a little sugar, stir it all up and drink it. We'll still have the same gigantic bureaucracy operating as usual and hardly anything will be different. We just like to change the players and have someone new to blame for whatever went wrong. We don't applaud when everything goes right, because that's what is supposed to be done. That's what the salary is for. Do a good job. So, bring one of 'em on. We need a new target of derision. But vote, whatever you do.

I'd like to point out that this general election has just begun. Why don't we give both candidates the opportunity to offer substantial solutions to problems before we decide that neither have solutions. They haven't even had a debate yet. Did the author not watch Obama's speech on the economy the other day? The man literally said that he would be offering more substantial solutions at the end of his two week tour. I'd say there's a lot of jumping the gun going on in relation to labeling either candidate as having little to offer in terms of policy and solutions to domestic problems.

Comment: MCCAIN OBAMA
Income Avg. tax bill Avg. tax bill
Over $2.9M -$269,364 +$701,885
$603K and up -$45,361 +$115,974
$227K-$603K -$7,871 +$12
$161K-$227K -$4,380 -$2,789
$112K-$161K -$2,614 -$2,204
$66K-$112K -$1,009 -$1,290
$38K-$66K -$319 -$1,042
$19K-$38K -$113 -$892
Under $19K -$19 -$567

I want people to look at what kind of savings you will get if your voting for McCain and if your voting for Obama. Take a look and you tell me who you are voting for.

"When it comes to America's obvious domestic problems (retirement programs, immigration, energy policy) neither John McCain nor Barack Obama has offered real solutions."

Oh, very good, Samuelson. First, you and your rediculously bias magazine spend all your time and effort ripping Hillary Clinton to shreads. Then, when your Golden Boy, Obama, clinches the nom, you're gonna start saying that neither candidates, which YOU handpicked, have what it takes? The only thing you people are good at is making yourselves look like idiots. Pat yourself on the back, BOB- you've just ensured that we're all going to Hell in a handbag.

Amazing.

Only a demorcrat could sit through the aftermath of the Moninca Lewinski scandal, argue to high heaven that Bill's personal life has no bearing on his presidency, or that it shouldn't affect Hillary's campaign because its irrelavant, and then actually claim that Mcain is not fit because he cheated on his wife. How laughable. Do you people just not care how hypocritical you look, or do you not know you're doing it?

Even lower: calling a person who cannot raise his arms above his chest because he was viciously tortured while serving in the military--SACRIFICING HIS BODY in the name of his country---a traitor. Not even demorcrats in congress taut him as anything less than a national hero. Yet, there a souless, self-serviant demigogs out there who will say anything, no matter how dispicable, if they think it will aide in theObama cause. Jeez, win an agument by debating it honestly at least. Disagree with the man's policies, but don't be so dispicable as to call someone who is physically disabled because of service to his country a traitor because you read one thing that one guy said (without even having the guts to admit that his accounts have already been discredited--BY PEOPLE IN YOUR OWN PART!

And, in the difference between opinion and fact:

It is a fact that Obam voted with his party 97% of the time. That is not cenrist in anyway.

It is a fact that during his run for office, John Kerry (Uh, hello? Democrat?) even considered John Mcain as a candidate for VP on HIS OWN TICKET, because Mcain was centrist enough in his viewpoints to warrant so. This in not an opinion--that is an undeniable truth. You can spin it, or lie about it, or dilute it down. Funny how all that changes the minute he is opposing the Democatic candidate--talk about hypocritical. LOL

Saying you are a centrist, after spending your whole carreer voting with your party, just because you think it will reach a certain demographic of votes is called: pandering. People aren't stupid. When you hold their records up to the light--FACT IS FACT--and no amount of trying to spin, twist, or flat out lie about them will change such truisms. So good luck with your efforts dear Obamanites.

Disregarding the truth just because you want to win is as about as dispicable as calling a war hero a traitor just because you HOPE someone might be stupid enough to believe it.

Argument without merit is why the Dems have lost so much in recent history.

When are you going to learn that it takes a lot more than just name calling?

People are not stupid.

To quote the author: "Even those who disagree with him ought to feel pride in his impending nomination because it continues America's racial reconciliation and atonement for slavery." However 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 Martin 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.

Great article.

Comment:
1) Many believe by voting for Obama they are helping to address a great political and moral wrong to Black Americans. But what about Native American Indians?
2) This article is just one of many which proves that America's two party system must die. Adding a third or fourth party to Capital Hill balances the worst instincts of the Democrats and Republicans.

Vote for Nader 2008
http://www.votenader.org/
Obama talks about change but Nader has producted it for over 20 years. Nader is someone of wealth who uses that wealth to help those most in need neither Obama or McCain can claim such a long history of service.

Your article touched home about the "great conciliator" who has done anything but unite. In fact, Senator Obama???s campaign has caused a great divide in this country. He has inspired some groups and, in the process, insulted others. He has spoken some of the words that have caused disrespect between young and old, between rich and blue color workers, between blacks and whites. His advisors and supporters uttered the rest of the divisive words and, even now, his supporters arrogantly continue with that rhetoric.

I was recently eating in a local restaurant when a table of four young male Obama supporters paid their bill, stood up, and shouted ???old people suck???. I???m not sure if they were talking about me or one generation older than me. Perhaps they were talking about the people now in their 80???s who lived through the Great Depression and then sacrificed so much during WWII: the men who went to war and their wives who worked in factories while they were gone in order to keep the country going. I wonder how much those four young people are willing to sacrifice for this country.

Senator Obama and the rich blame the blue collar workers (???the lunch bucket crew???) and the rural for racism and lack of progress in this country. That is ironic when the rich have the power to hire and promote minorities and to set a progressive agenda. It is the rich who sit in the board rooms of the corporations that control this country and make the decisions.

Regarding Reverend Wright and Father Pfleger, Obama???s spiritual advisors, they have managed to set race relations back, stir up anger, and insult those people, black and white, who have spent their entire lives doing what they can to help erase the injustice of prejudice.

Millions of women have been insulted by Senator Obama???s remarks about Senator Clinton (???fangs???) and his insensitivity to women (???sweetie??? to the female journalist). In this regard, there was more than ???quiet aid received from the media.??? Many of us have been incredulous at the sexism exhibited during this campaign by the good old boys of talk TV.

I really don't know who I will vote for at this time. The race may have developed into the lesser of two evils. When confronted with a choice like that in the past, I have voted for a 3rd party candidate. I am hoping one will appear that I want to vote for.

Hey joe: at least we can agree on one thing : they both suck