Barack’s Bounce

loriw: go and learn the queen's english then come back... u silly boy!!!!!

GOODMORNING ALL!! LIFE IS JUST SO BEAUTIFUL!!!

I don't see McCain's problems going away. Unless, he and Charlie Black get there wish.....a hopeful attack on US soil to "strengthen McCain's chances".

Today's Gallup: "After more than a week of Barack Obama and John McCain being tied in Gallup Poll Daily tracking, Obama now holds a statistically significant five percentage point lead in the preferences of national registered voters, 47% to 42%, slightly larger than Sunday's 46% to 42% lead for Obama."

It seems (no matter how the GOP tries to spin it) the American public knows exactly what Gen. Clark was vocalizing. Military service becomes a very touchy subject, especially when the experience includes the amount of sacrifice that McC endured. BUT, IT IS NOT AN AUTOMATIC QUALIFICATION FOR POTUS. This is simple commonsense, NOT A SMEAR or a dismissal of McC's record. The media (running out of talking points) is fanning the flames on an obvious non-issue.

Don't forget Rasmussen: "Continuing the remarkable stability of recent weeks, the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows Barack Obama attracting 46% of the vote while John McCain earns 40%. When "leaners" are included, Obama leads 49% to 44%.

What's interesting is McCain's military service is beginning to cause quite a stir. Folks want to know more about his experience in Vietnam, AND how he was allowed to serve after graduating at the bottom of his military class: "After high school, McCain was accepted to the United States Naval Academy, though he was not a strong student. He was often disciplined for misbehavior and ultimately graduated near the bottom-790th out of 795-of the class of 1958."

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_did_JOhn_McCain_rank_in_the_Naval_Academy_1958_class

We just had 8 years of a C-average student running our country. NOW, we're going to elect an actual "FAILURE"?!?!?!?!!?

Oh, almost forgot about you folks who dismiss the polls and would rather see the ELECTORAL MAP.

RealClearPolitics has OBAMA leading by 78 electoral votes, and is leading in 5 out of 7 "battleground states".

Have a great day!!!!!!!

Hi Davole
you may call me Lori.
Do you reside outside of the USA?

alvinernest -

I had to cut my comment into 2 parts to comply with the site requirement that any comment be restricted to 3000 characters or less.
Here is the second part of my comment to you.

In your first post to which I replied on Jun. 28, 2008, you made 3 empirical statements -
???all Americans realise (realize?) that history has been all about economics ...
no one who is honest about modern America will do otherwise (than vote for Obama) ...
he has not stood up for race or money, he stands only for principle... and deep down inside we all know this!!!!???
Are these 3 statements of yours indicative that you have an ingrained problem discerning reality, and that you insecurely have an irrational compulsion to assume that you have massive support from others to develop and maintain your own personal confidence?
I???m sure that there is at least one honest person who does not agree with your pronouncements. And who actually appointed you to speak on behalf of everybody? Somehow I missed that news flash.

No, it hasn???t been my intention to patronise (patronize?) you. Do you not see that you have a problem tolerating another person???s opinions, especially well-founded verifiable opinions?

Do you notice that when opinions or facts are presented to you, you avoid even responding to them? That???s not even academic. A masters graduate should be able to do better.

Hopefully, as you age, you will learn to become more tolerant of the viewpoints expressed by others, and less focused on taking offence when another person tries to reason with you!

And note - I only used one exclamation mark to express my hope, and I am not going to post this same comment uselessly 3 more times.

Be thankful for your blessings! And I hope that you do get some help.

To :Davole
Yes, I am young! but that is my advantage... I haven't got the burden of the past.... I dare say that you must be "old"... you sound it... slavery was not abolished for philanthropic reasons... nor was integration... it was done because of economics i.e. the cost of social unrest... just like today diversity in business and politics is not about love or ethics its about markets and profiting from all of them... its about competitive intensity and business survival...

Obama has just completed a long and intensive primary process, through which his involvement and interaction with the American people has informed him about the true democratic position, by that I mean what the majority of the people believe... of course politicians will have their own views, but it is their responsibility to make thier case while listening to the people and if after that process they conclude that people are still not totally intune with their perspective, then they shift their position to reflect the democratic majority position. If Obama did not take the people's view on guns and financing on board I would then class him as being elitist, but he has listen to people and shifted his positions accordingly but in a way which allows the discussions to continue... he has not abandoned his views and as a principled politician he will continue to seek to influence the American people... but the democratic principle says that he must reflect the will of the people....

Of course all parties are seeking support from all segments (here I use the word "all" twice again, because I choose too; because I am pragmatic; I want to commuincate; I am not here to "garnish" my words, that might be an "old" principle not a contemporary one) but they play them like a deck of cards against each other.. Obama is the only candidate not playing that game... he is "straight up" and honest! I don't need to be convinced, I am already a fan!!!!

I am calling Nins bluff. Nins claims to be a doctor but I doubt it. First off, this abortion debate is the first time I have seen Nins comment on anything medical. There has been discussion about Hillary and Obama's health care plans but Nins was silent. Nins made a derrogatory comment about Cindy McCain being a stroke victim, something I would not hear from any doctor ( I called Nins out on that one too and Nins apologized but it was a tasteless comment to begin with). Nins claims to own at least one business(may own 2 but never states what they are) seems very, very concerned about the whole oil price thing. My gut instinct is that Nins is a political plant and not a doctor at all at least not a medical doctor.

There is always hope even for the worst sinner, and the article by Dick Morris over on Realclear Politics advising McCain how to puncture Obama proves it.

Refreshing to have Dick Morris talking sane, balanced sense for once.

However, I feel advising McCain is a wasted effort. He is as unperceptive politically as a rock.

I am a Clintonite who will vote McCain, but I have lost hope in his winning.

I have never seen such a slow-witted, unimaginative leading contender for the presidency as McCain, with the possible exception of Bob Dole.

What is crazy is that McCain's chances are actually very good - if only he would grasp them.

Despite the suffocating media sycophancy toward Obama, his being promoted as God walking on earth, the American public, miraculously, still remains grimly skeptical of him. In most polls his lead is narrow.

What McCain desperately needs to do very very very soon is to demand what Obama was doing all those twenty years sitting in a church whose pastor made fascist hate speeches against America- and taking that pastor as his family's spiritual adviser.

This is a frightening detail about Obama - it shows how utterly bogus and unreliable are his claims to patriotism.

But McCain has virtuously ruled out campaigning on that critical issue. Just like Clinton.

He will suffer Clintion's fate.

The people who insanely glorify this slick Chicago huckster will have to suffer the consequences of him in office. In a year they will be utterly disillusioned.

Obama's troubles will begin when he has won, not before.

2012 should be a good year for Al Gore to run for the presidency. America will be so disgusted with both the brainless Republicans and the crooked Obamites !!!

No wonder he is looking pleased with himself these days.

Hi Cowen, I have been slowly going through all issues/solutions, policies, etc. for Obama, even though most are similar to Hillary's, but one thing he supports jumped out and didnt go over good with me either. That being Partial Birth Abortion. So I looked up what is involved in such a procedure and it is pretty gruesome:

WHAT IS PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION

Partial Birth Abortion is a method to abort a baby as late as seven months into a pregnancy.

The procedure is typically as follows...

* The doctor spends two days forcibly dialating the mother's cervix.

* The doctor uses forceps to pull the baby's legs down; rotating the baby so its head is away from the birth canal.

* The legs & body are pulled into the birth canal, until only the head, which is too large to pass through the cervix, remains in the uterus.

* The doctor uses a sharp instrument, such as scissors, to puncture the base of the baby's head.

* The doctor inserts a tube into the hole he created in the baby's skull and suctions out the baby's brain, allowing the baby's skull to crush and pass through the cervix.

If Obama is elected I hope he doesnt in any way touch this one. It is enough to turn me Pro-Life if he starts messing with the banned abortion procedures like this.

The appeal of the Obama campaign is its meekness and humulity.. humble enough to ask all Americans for support, not reliant on old sytems and structures that have failed Amercia... the Appalachian American, the Black American, the Native American have been poor and ignored for 200 years, that is the reality of American political history - that's the common ground bringing Americans together... the well educated and previllaged Americans are also turning away from the status quo, because they too recognise that there is a lot that is wrong with American politics... a lot that has gone astray from the path set out by the founding fathers of America... moreover they understand the increasing importance of real democracy to business and economic prosperity...

The realisation that the Appalachian Ameican has been poor for 200 years, proves that there is no grand racist conspiracy, it proves that even if you are white, black or blue, if you were not considered economically mobile you were forgotten and left on the scrap heap... I believe that both white and black Americans are now realising this, especially as people from these groups become more educated... Appalachia can no longer be appeased by the notion that they are racially superior, when the reality is that they have been bottom of the economic ladder along with blacks for 200 years; blacks no longer believe that they are inferior, they have seen that power comes from organising and focusing their power of consumption... all Americans realise that history has been all about economics, nobody has really cared untill you showed them your money... a new politics is needed to ensure that everyone is enlightened and empowered to deliver what they can for their country and for their families, no matter who they are... because nothing else matters...

So, I am convinced that Americans will vote for Obama... that is the map to victory... no one who is honest about modern America will do otherwise... he is the only candidate who has ever presented truth and enlightenment to the people... he has not stood up for race or money, he stands only for principle... and deep down inside we all know this!!!!

Ok, i just read on a liberal blog that Rasmussen is a biased pollster. why should anyone believe them.

This article is filled with statistics based on, or projected from, head counts, voter counts, and survey respondent counts. An egregious exception is the mention that Al Gore lost the 2000 race to George Bush. That was by electoral --not popular-- votes. Let's remember that the popular vote was won by Gore, with 48.4% to Bush's 47.9%.