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  • Posted By: Dingumama @ 06/12/2008 4:31:15 PM

    Hillary supporters should understand that Obama supporters would never insult Hillary anymore cause everyone knows he needs her supporters even his supporters know that. All those hillary-bashing-obama-supporters are actually McFart bots trying to divide democrats with their wicked tactics. Hillary supporters don't fall for it. If you see any Obama supporter bashing Hillary, tell yourself this: That cannot be an obama supporter!

    • Posted By: loriw @ 06/13/2008 1:46:53 AM

      you may believe that to be true but it isn't. The Clintons were a national embarrassment when Bill was in office. Bill treats women as sex objects and Hillary condons it.. I say this in present tense because it is still occurring. If Hillary is made VP the Bill and Hillary soap opera returns to the White House to further humiliate the American people. So one can be an Obama supporter but not want the Clintons back in the White House.

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 06/13/2008 1:18:07 AM

    Jimmy Carter was a Farmer same John MCCain.........Americans democracy having a Habit of leaning toward Dynasty Rules.......Birth right

  • Posted By: vincie @ 06/13/2008 1:02:22 AM

    If i learned anything about Obama its that he doesn't think he should be questioned about anything. He thinks the presidency belongs to him so don't question. No one can say or write anything about him he gets very defensive. To me this is not a sign of maturity, he better grow up. He is suppose to be the man that makes good decisions, like Rev Wright, Mr. Rezko, Mr Ayers and god only knows who else.

  • Posted By: vincie @ 06/13/2008 12:58:43 AM

    IF I LEARNED ANYTHING ABOUT OBAMA DURING THE PRIMARY IS THAT HE HAS A THICK SKIN AND IS A VERY WEAK PERSON. HE FEELS NO ONE SHOULD ASK HIM QUESTIONS OR QUESTION HIM. HE IS THE ONE THAT SUPPOSE TO MAKE GREAT DECISIONS. REV WRIGHT HIS MENTOR, MR REZKO HIS FRIEND, MR AYERS HIS FRIEND, HE CERTAINLY MAKES GOOD DECISION..

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 06/13/2008 12:58:02 AM

    Why dont people check John MCain Qualification? His only High School graduated,his highest qualification his Alma mater (Annapolis Academyy) As an Officer all must be commissioned maybe perharps his father is Admiral has alot influence about his admission as officer(now all officer must be Graduated at least with a degree before admission and commission as military officer thanks God we shouldn't have any stupid or traitor soldier)

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 06/13/2008 12:54:35 AM

    Why dont people check John MCain Qualification? His only High School graduated,his highest qualification his Alma mater (Annapolis Academyy) As an Officer all must be commissioned maybe perharps his father is Admiral has alot influence about his admission as officer( all officer must be Graduated at least with a degree before admission being Commission as military officer ...Thanks God !!1We dont have any Stupid or Traitor Soldier)

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 06/12/2008 5:55:56 PM

    You have two choices for president:

    The first one has one of the longest lines of political experience in history. He is exceedingly popular in congress. He also volunteered to defend the our country in the US Navy.

    The second one has no real political experience outside of Illinois. He is tall and lanky with big ears. He even lost a few of his first attempts at gaining political office. He is an excellent speechwriter and orator. He is a good attorney and has a successful law practice.

    So which one would you choose?

    This is a trick question because both were already Presidents of the United States. The first one is the 15th President of the United States, James Buchannan. He is the President who mired us in the Civil War by declaring the action illegal but doing nothing when the south decided to seceed from the Union. He is largely considered by historians as being the worst President in American history.

    He was followed by the other man who became the 16th President of the United States: This man is credited with the end of slavery, the end of the Civil War, and unification of the nation. He became president at a dark time when our country was deeply divided over very polarizing issues. He had no experience in Washington prior to his Presidency. His name was Abraham Lincoln and he is widely considered by historians as one of the best Presidents in American History.

    Sound familiar?

    • Posted By: MARSHA1961 @ 06/12/2008 8:23:36 PM

      OBAMA '08

      • Posted By: SukieTawdry @ 06/13/2008 12:49:53 AM

        Oh, this is beyond pure rubbish. Lincoln didn't "end" the Civil War, he fought, and won, the Civil War. His primary consideration was the preservation of the Union: "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that...I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free." The Emancipation Proclamation freed only those slaves held in states in rebellion (it fell to the slave states remaining in the Union to free their slaves by state edict, which they all did). Lincoln was able to make good on his promise of emancipation by bringing the Confederate army to it's knees and destroying utterly the southern agrarian economy and society slave labor had built (not his first choice certainly, but the Confederacy insisted). In order to "unify" the nation, he first had to destroy half of it (again, certainly not his first choice).

        Lincoln arguably had to make the toughest decisions of any American president ever. To imagine Barack Obama filling his shoes and being capable of the kind of leadership required to preside over a nation at war with itself is absurd on its face and laugh-out-loud funny. Name one really tough decision Obama's ever had to make. Name one principled stand he's taken (and stood by) even though it might have ended up costing him everything. He's the lightest of weights and, anymore I'm afraid, his childish, slavishly devoted, know-nothing acolytes are just plain annoying. They don't persuade, they don't unify, they aren't capable of rallying others to their cause. They just spout endless nonsense like this and annoy the rest of us to near distraction (say, maybe that was the plan all along).

    • Posted By: cabermj @ 06/12/2008 7:20:01 PM

      This is pure rubbish. Buchanan never served in the Navy. He was a lawyer, like Obama. He was also a Democrat, like Obama, that refused to fight a war that needed to be fought. Lincoln was a Republican, like McCain, and a leader, like McCain, that was not afraid to make hard, unpopular decisions regarding war that were in the best interest of the country.

    • Posted By: mcleodmn @ 06/12/2008 6:20:08 PM

      Bravo! You need to spread this like wildfire.....

    • Posted By: OH-IO for Obama @ 06/12/2008 6:02:22 PM

      Jack 999 you are on FIRE!!!! Well done :)

  • Posted By: pjmarnj @ 06/12/2008 3:35:43 PM

    Would you go to a doctor with three years of medical school?

    • Posted By: elizabethpaige @ 06/13/2008 12:30:23 AM

      There is no 'presidential' school so knock it off. Harry Truman was a farmer and a haberdasher in Independence, Missouri and stood up just fine as president. Barack Obama offers the best chance for America. She'll be down the tubes with John McCain.

  • Posted By: repaite@msn.com @ 06/12/2008 4:33:27 PM

    I don't know what all the fuss is about ! He'll be in the oval office for less than a year. Let's just hope he picks a good VP ( Not Hillary)

    • Posted By: elizabethpaige @ 06/13/2008 12:24:48 AM

      Why do you say he won't be in the office a year? What are you implying?

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 06/12/2008 5:53:44 PM

      Never miss a chance to Hillary bash. This kind of arrogance may cost Obama the white house

  • Posted By: USNA83 @ 06/12/2008 5:07:23 PM

    George Washington was a farmer, as was John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. They seemed to do pretty well despite their lack of qualifications as you see it.

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 06/12/2008 5:50:21 PM

      They were all instrumental in the american revolution and showed bravery, courage, and perseverance against a corrupt dictator.

      • Posted By: elizabethpaige @ 06/12/2008 11:58:54 PM

        What corrupt dictator?

  • Posted By: susancocco @ 06/12/2008 11:38:23 PM

    the other insight gleaned from this incident among others is that Obama has a quick rising flame of arrogance--expressed in the dismissive tone and speech with which he flicks away annoyance. it rises whenever he is questionned intently, whenever he speaks about those he does not respect ( the working class) and when he uses the word, "sweetie"

    should this arrogance become more noticeable, he is doomed.

  • Posted By: papi @ 06/12/2008 10:48:56 PM

    The last sentence of the article is the key. For everything there is a season and a reason under heaven, and that includes accessing the services of an old-time party hack like Johnson. But Oabama need not publicly appoint the man to access his services. Mass society and the media covering it are mainly about symbols, images, and appearences. Obama is quickly learning just how minute is the scrutiny under the presidential microscope.

  • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 06/11/2008 8:17:12 PM

    Obama supporters never cease to amaze me. You will never take any personal responsibility in the poor decisions of yoru candidate. Its always, "Well Clinton did this or McCain did that..." Take the hit, that Obama made a bad judgment call. Contrary to what you might think, there are a lot of Clinton supporters that do not like the Messiahnistic appeal that he has to his supporters. If he came back down to earth, he would have a better chance to unify the party. Using language of the ocean's going down and the sick being healed now that he is the nominee really doesn't appeal to a lot of the Clinton Dems.

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 06/12/2008 9:59:13 AM

      There is an level or superiority and arrogance that some Obama supporters project, and it is disturbing. The hostility is aimed at Hillary supporters, who are fellow democrats!

      • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 06/12/2008 9:51:05 PM

        I agree. I tried to tell them back in March but to no avail. The level of Clinton hatred is too deep. Now we are seeing the result of the division. I was really hoping some good would come of it like the splitting and formation of a third moderate party. Both GOP and Dems have gotten way to extreme for my taste anymore.

      • Posted By: catspaw @ 06/12/2008 1:58:58 PM

        Let the children sling mud at each other. Let us adults extend our hands in friendship.

  • Posted By: olderwiser @ 06/11/2008 8:22:29 PM

    Well, zombiehero, tell us just what does appeal to Clinton supporters.

    • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 06/11/2008 8:41:02 PM

      Depends on the supporter, what I can tell you from my own personal experience and other Hill Dems that I have talked to and on some other blogs (Obviously Pro-Clinton blogs =) ), is that the Cultish appeal he had originally turned them off. Something wasn't right, then all the juicy bits started coming out about him, basically confirming our original suspicion.

      • Posted By: Iamnotamused @ 06/12/2008 9:23:40 AM

        What "juicy bits" are you referring to?

        I have a question: do you, or any of the other 18 million Hillary supporters (and the other Republicans) do complete and thorough background checks on ALL your friends/associates and family? I mean really? I would like to know because I'm sure if you did you would find some doozies in the closets of all of them. You can't pick your family...you're born into it and unless they get rid of you, you're stuck with them for life regardless of what you might want to do. You can run but you can't hide from family.

        Friends and associates not so much. You would have to do complete background checks on them from the beginning of their lives, talk to all their friends/families and anyone they were in the same room with for more than 5 min., recall every conversation that they ever had with anyone and talk to those people, because you never know they could have said some insane sh!t some 10-20 yrs. ago or even before you knew them and it could come back to bite you.

        Then you would have to get into their finances. That should be fun. You would need to know about EVERY single transaction they ever made during their entire lives whether it was buying a pack of gum or a pair of shoes. JUST so you can make sure that they are clean.

        I'm tired just typing this...but you see how DUMB that sounds?

        Yet everyone wants to hold Obama accountable for all his friends/associates/family/mentors/spiritual advisors, etc. and someone he shook hands with in the 3rd grade. Then there is my personal favorite, his name. Dang people, HE DIDN'T NAME HIMSELF and not everyone goes around changing their names simply because if offends a bigot.

        People don't like him because they never liked him and were looking for any reason, regardless of how inane it is, to "confirm" their "suspicions" about him. The only thing that they are really confirming is their dislike for him for their own personal reasons (and I am NOT saying bigotted reasons because not all of them are) whatever they may be but it's them merely grasping at straws. You know how it is when you meet someone for the first time and it's "just something about them you don't like" but you just can't "put your finger on it?" Yeah, it's like that.

        • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 06/12/2008 9:36:12 PM

          Thank you for not calling all my reasons bigoted. I'd love to have a good debate on issues but please don't go there. Too many people already throw racial accusations out for no other reason than they can't actually debate.

        • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 06/12/2008 9:34:03 PM

          No you can't do background checks, that would be absurd.
          What isn't absurd is calling people on BS. If your friends start going into racist diatribe, what do you do?
          Do you do nothing? Then your just letting the cycle continue and are no better than they are (this is what Obama did)
          Do you call them out try to reason with them? (The more conventional choice since they are friends and friends don't let other friends go down the dark path)
          Or do you cut ties? (Only for extreme matters when they can't be reasoned with)
          The choice you make says more about you than the other person.
          My problem is that Obama keeps making bad judgment calls when it comes to the people he CHOOSES to associate with.
          How would you view Biden, Edwards or Richardson that choose to associate with members of the KKK or Al- Qaeda? Would you call that bad judgment?
          Your wrong I liked him to a point. I liked him during his 2004 speech. But then again that ALL I had ever heard about him. That one speech. It wasn't until he started to run for President did anything about him come out.
          I would say to you that you probably dislike McCain for those same personal reasons that I don't like Obama. Maybe you don't like McCain just because he is GOP. Thats fine with me I really don't care.

        • Posted By: News and Notes @ 06/12/2008 9:57:27 AM

          Put Hillary, McCain, and Obama's resumes side by side. Obama's is by far the weakest. I can put my finger on that

          • Posted By: Jack999 @ 06/12/2008 4:36:56 PM

            Why dont people check John MCain Qualification? His only High School graduated,his highest qualification his Alma mater (Annapolis Academyy) As an Officer all must be commissioned maybe perharps his father is Admiral has alot influence about his admission as officer(now all officer must be Graduated at least with a degree before admission as military officer)

          • Posted By: Iamnotamused @ 06/12/2008 4:35:24 PM

            And people also LIE on their resumes so what's your point?

          • Posted By: catspaw @ 06/12/2008 2:13:22 PM

            He may have a weak resume, but that is just paper. Just because the paper is strong, does not mean that person will be the hardest worker for you. More times then not, its the person that needs to prove themselves that well be your strongest link in the chain.

    • Posted By: summer1216 @ 06/11/2008 10:45:17 PM

      Well, Hillary has her problems too. A big one was trying to be an Honorary "Man" to succeed. Many women are now leery of honorary men. We see them all the time, being tougher than tough. But younger women want to succeed as real women, and not have to be Honorary Men. Hillary was not the right female candidate.

  • Posted By: Dennis in Denver @ 06/12/2008 8:30:46 PM

    ON-10 for Obama,

    I respect your opinion, too, and the attitude you???ve expressed toward my thoughts. For clarification, I'm not carrying water for this administration, nor any others, for that matter. I, too, care about what happens and am not blind to see failures during the past 8 years, as well as before that.

    While we may disagree on particulars, the problems this country faces, and indeed, those worldwide go back to the nature of mankind-- we are imperfect creatures. We like to fight with each other (war), we get greedy and don't share (can lead to war and poverty), and we become selfish and get involved in all sorts of activities that are hurtful (drug abuse, excessive emphasis on entertainment, excessive materialism, etc.).

    My view, and that of others, is that this is the story of human history. If we go back to centuries past, the problems will change, but we still see the above types of things going on. In fact, one book, the Bible, gives a pretty good summary of human history.

    In fact, in this book, it speaks about events/times to come. It speaks about war, human selfishness, and the need for an outsider to come into the picture to make things right. Many of us believe that the outsider was the person of Jesus Christ. We believe He came as God???s messenger to mankind, and that when He died on the cross, he paid the price for man???s imperfection (sin). He offers hope to all who will believe.

    When we look at this world, our view also is that mankind is rapidly heading to a final clash between good and evil, and that one day soon God will come into human history and make things right. This, too, is mentioned in the Bible. Between now and then, there are predictions of wars and rumors of wars, disasters such as earthquakes, famine, and ultimately a one-world government that will be led by an evil man. What he does will make individuals like Hitler or Stalin seem relatively saint like as it will be much more extreme than the terrible things they did. Even right now we see events developing that could cause this to happen with the rapidly rising energy prices, food prices that are going up, and other financial instability. Computer technology is also making it possible that a government could control the buying and selling of products, and very easily cause discrimination between those who ???take the party line??? and ???those who refuse???. Also, events in places like the Middle East, Europe, and Russia are portending changes in our world.

    But, I and countless others look hopefully to the future, because we see that one day these events will bring about a New Earth???one without the problems we see today, and a time when we are reunited with our loved ones from the past.

    Sure, I care about what happens in our world today, but am not naïve that any one political party, or person holds the answers. My ultimate hope is in the many promises and predictions found in the Bible.

    Take care.

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 06/12/2008 8:28:33 PM

    A New Orleans television reporter askedJohn McCain at a June 4 town hall meeting in Louisiana why he had voted twice against the creation of a commission to investigate preparedness for Hurricane Katrina. McCain responded that he "supported every investigation and ways of finding out what caused the tragedy." That's not true.This guy persistence of keeping US going for war value trillions of dollar rather helping our Americans miseries,flood,forecloses,tornado,unemployment,education many more....I wondering these trillions of dollar easy money goes for other reasons ,Does John MCain and Bush have any connection dealing with these War contractors to swing of easy money or they having as stockholder shares in these company .?

  • Posted By: kleart21 @ 06/12/2008 5:23:08 PM

    I read some of your comments and most of you act like you have never been in the company of someone that was just not right. That you are perfect and have never found out that the person that you were around wasn't who you thought they were. I'm sorry Mr. Johnson did the right thing and remove his self from the situation and he should have. This is not Obama throwing him under the bus. For the person who said that McCain looks better is an idiot, you must love paying $4.00 for a gallon of gas. You must also like the fact that you love ones are still fighting a war that they shouldn't.

    I'm personally tried of this war and the way our country is being run into the ground. I want change and it is sure not McCain.

    • Posted By: Dennis in Denver @ 06/12/2008 5:29:17 PM

      We've all been in the company of individuals who have had problems. But, Obama aspires to be the president. People who aspire for higher office must themselves demonstrate a degree of judgment and character. Don't forget, it was Obama who chose Johnson. He knew of his background. A man who campaigns as a "change agent" needs to lead by example. So far, Obama has not shown he is capable of that. His actions come in reaction. If no one had said anything, most of his recent actions would not likely have occurred.

      • Posted By: OH-IO for Obama @ 06/12/2008 6:24:03 PM

        The problem Denver is Hilary wasn't scrutinized for her associations. McCain isn't being thoroughly scrutinized for his entire staff of lobbyist associations. That's the point here. Barack didn't throw Jim Johnson under the bus, this man stepped down so that the process isn't slowed or distracted by this "story". McCain is paying his bad apples and having them write his policies. But an unpaid, volunteer vetter only interested in gathering background for potential vp candidates that Barack ultimately will choose? For this story to still have "legs" for 3 days because people like Fineman are bitter about Hil's loss, and then for people like you to cling to that little nugget as a reason to completely discredit Obama's intelligence and judgement, as one other blogger put it, shows more about the writer (and in your case the "reader") than it does about Barack Obama. Again, any old excuse will do for some people. I just wish you people would have the guts to look in the mirror and truly question your own attitudes about the man so that you may be enlightened. And if you are satisfied with your attitude, well then have the guts to say what it really is, don't just cling to the convenient excuses these goofy pundits give you! thank you

        • Posted By: Dennis in Denver @ 06/12/2008 7:10:10 PM

          You are wrong. McCain has been criticized, by Obama, no less. He has also gone through the scrutinyt of the MSM. And the Clintons various associations have been the subject of many articles. To suggest that to question Obama's associations is wrong is rather sanctimonious. Since Obama aspires to be president, he, too, should have to be questioned, and to provide reasonable explanations. If he cannot take the heat, then he should get out of the kitchen.

          • Posted By: OH-IO for Obama @ 06/12/2008 8:26:36 PM

            Here's my point though, no one has questioned John McCain's integrity this last 2 weeks since it has surfaced that one of his lobbyists is largely responsible for the bill that eventually was passed that eased all of the regulation which in turn is largely to blame for the current mortgage crisis. Barack mentioned it but has it been the subject of ongoing and non-stop questions of his integrity? No, Fineman isn't writing a piece on him and guarantee none of the rest of MSM is going to do a story like this about McCain's people...that's all I'm saying. If you're saying it's vetting, then hell let them all be vetted, but don't make one more salient and suspicious than the other when in fact, John McCain's ties I think we can all agree are far more troubling to most Americans today - they just don't know about his ties, but guarantee you, they know about Jim Johnson.

  • Posted By: JaneMS @ 06/12/2008 6:53:43 PM

    McCain is on. Town hall meeting in NY. Obama didn't have the balz to show up. No one could be there to tell him what to say. lol

    • Posted By: elizabethpaige @ 06/12/2008 8:15:13 PM

      McCain is on and I turned him off. He's a bore. Why any woman would choose to vote for an
      elderly male chauvinist as president in 2008 is beyond me. A 'war hero' in Vietnam, yet another war that young Americans should not have been in, doesn't qualify McCain to be president in 2008. His Vietnam demons from 40 years ago aren't helpful to America going forward.

    • Posted By: MARSHA1961 @ 06/12/2008 8:12:35 PM

      OBAMA '08

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 06/12/2008 8:09:39 PM

    Last 3 months Repubulican President G.W Bush met John Mccain privately at White-House,soon after that G.W.bush with a straight face give a speech to Kensset - Israel's Parliament humilating and comparing Americans politicians as Nazi appeaser.Its really ashamefull speech that relects how naive that he might thoughts and his feelings toward American Public and the world about the history.

    George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.Nobody cares even about John MCain policy align with G.W.Bush 95%..what hypocrites republican style of grouping.

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 06/12/2008 7:56:14 PM

    Are we all in English William shakespeare Class? .Practicing the supreme English poet and playwright, universally recognized as the greatest of all dramatists? interested only in another twisted ftales from the true intention facts..or rather just only a policticking minds game.

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