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  • Posted By: Kboogie @ 07/23/2008 2:53:01 PM

    YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS!!!!!

    Vanity Fair satirizes McCain/New Yorker!!!
    http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/07/vanity_fair_satirizes_mccainne.html

    The magazine posted a cartoon on its website featuring John McCain holding a walker with one hand and giving the fist bump to a pill-popping (well pill-holding) Cindy McCain. The Constitution burns in the fireplace of the Oval Office while a painting of George W. Bush hangs on the wall.
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    The funny thing is, Obama's cover was a depiction of silly rumors. The McCain cover illustrates factual events.

    HILARIOUS!!!!!!

  • Posted By: Kboogie @ 07/23/2008 2:39:05 PM

    BREAKING NEWS!!!!!

    McCain Gets History Of The Surge Wrong, CBS Doesn't Air Footage!!!!!
    July 22, 2008 11:43 PM
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/22/mccain-gets-history-of-th_n_114419.html

    During a CBS interview on Tuesday, John McCain made a stone cold error on a subject about which he claims expert knowledge: the "surge" strategy in Iraq. In an interview with anchor Katie Couric, the Arizona Republican said, inaccurately, that the surge strategy was responsible for the much-touted "Anbar Awakening," in which Sunni sheiks turned against Al Qaeda, helping in turn to reduce violence in the country.

    Katie Couric: Senator McCain, Senator Obama says, while the increased number of US troops contributed to increased security in Iraq, he also credits the Sunni awakening and the Shiite government going after militias. And says that there might have been improved security even without the surge. What's your response to that?

    McCain: I don't know how you respond to something that is as-- such a false depiction of what actually happened. Colonel MacFarland was contacted by one of the major Sunni sheiks. Because of the surge we were able to go out and protect that sheik and others. And it began the Anbar awakening. I mean, that's just a matter of history.

    In fact, as Spencer Ackerman and Ilan Goldenberg have reported, the record firmly establishes the opposite: instead of being caused by the surge, the key signs of the Anbar Awakening occurred not only before that strategy was implemented, but before it was ever conceived.

    Yet McCain's error was not seen by any CBS Evening News viewers. As MSNBC's Keith Olbermann noted (video below), "CBS curiously, to say the least, left it on the edit room floor. It aired Katie Couric's question, but in response, it aired part of McCain's answer to the other question instead." (Ironically, this edit came on the same day that McCain's campaign released a video mocking the media's "love affair" with Obama.)

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    McCain is a liar and a puppet for the ready-made "Bush and Neo-Con Agenda".

    The GOP could've at least chosen a candidate who's not suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's.

  • Posted By: contaxs @ 07/22/2008 9:31:34 PM

    If Mark Salter is so smart, why did he have McCain admitting that he ALLOWED himself to get shot down over Hanoi???? It was completely HIS decision to make. Consider this direct quote from page 188 in the paperback version of his book, Faith of My Fathers:

    ???I recognized the target sitting next to the small lake and dived in on it, just as the tone went off signaling that a SAM was flying towards me.
    ???I knew I should roll out and fly evasive maneuvers, "jinking" in flyers' parlance, when I heard the tone. The A-4 is a small, fast highly maneuverable aircraft, a lot of fun to fly, and it can take a beating. Many an A-4 returned safely to its carrier after being badly shot up by enemy fire. An A-4 can outmaneuver a tracking SAM, pulling more G???s than the missile can take. But I was just about to release my bombs when the tone sounded, and had I started jinking, I would never have had the time, nor probably the nerve, to go back in once I had lost the SAM.
    ???So at about 3,500 feet, I released my bombs, then pulled back the stick to begin a steep climb to a safer altitude. In the instant before the plane reacted, a SAM blew my right wing off.???
    So he ???knew??? he ???should have??? outmaneuvered the SAM, but chose not to, in effect becoming a Kamikaze pilot. McCain had already in the book stated how accurate the SAM???s were, once they had locked on to a plane. So, why keep going in the face of an almost certain hit? McCain was not on some solo night mission to knock out a key bridge before a commando attack. It was a regular bombing mission, from which the Navy hoped to get as many of their pilots and planes back as possible - especially considering the severe losses McCain said the SAMs were causing. So, why didn???t McCain evade the SAM?
    Jeff Pemberton
    Bethel, CT

    • Posted By: Davole @ 07/23/2008 10:45:09 AM

      contaxs -

      Welcome to this political website.

      After reading your blog, I suspect that you are probably quite young and inexperienced (no derogatory intent on my part).

      You question ???If Mark Salter is so smart, why did he have McCain admitting that he ALLOWED himself to get shot down over Hanoi???????

      I believe that Mark Salter is an honest advisor, and that he had no issue with the wording of the book ???Faith of my Fathers???.

      But I do disagree with what may be a naive interpretation on your part regarding your conclusion that John McCain ???ALLOWED himself to get shot down over Hanoi???.

      Jeff, have you ever served in a military during wartime?
      I doubt it. And I believe that is why you might have come to a faulty conclusion in this regard.

      As a navy pilot, John McCain had a specific objective to fulfill - to bomb the target.
      He had already begun to dive to achieve that task.
      Would you have any idea regarding the speed of descent of McCain???s plane?
      And then he heard the tone warning that a missile had been fired at his craft.
      Would you have any idea regarding the speed of ascent of the SAM?
      Also, would you have any idea regarding the low elevation at which the plane was descending?
      Those are not unimportant considerations - they are matters of life and death.
      In a split second decision, John McCain assessed those variables, and valiantly chose to complete his mission.

      Have you ever heard of any soldier purposely falling on a grenade in order to shield his fellow soldiers from harm, so that their mission could be completed successfully?

      Granted, in this instance, there were no other pilots around, but there definitely was a mission to complete successfully, and if John McCain chose instead to try to evade the missile, the VC would be expecting him to return again (if the evasive manoeuver were successful) at a very low altitude. Then he would have probably been ???a sitting duck???.

      And you seem to think that John McCain purposely chose to ALLOW his plane to ???take a hit.???
      I???m sure that even a person with no military experience would realize that doing so would be a very critical and possibly life costing decision.

      I doubt that John McCain was intending to commit suicide.
      I respect him for having the integrity and valour to live or die based on that decision which he willingly made, and even recorded in his book.

      Has that changed your opinion in this regard? I invite your response.

  • Posted By: Driver of wagons @ 07/21/2008 10:19:15 AM

    Davole

    You could take that on the road because your nonsense might do good on the Burlesque circuit. Oh, thats right that circuit died a long time ago just like your ideas.

    I like posting Replies as comments because sometimes it gets people who don't know how to hold their emotions in check, get all full of themselves. Jr is something I could care less if "Dumbya" was named or not. it just puts him a that light which he most assuredly deserves.. As far as the "Smrking Chimp" reference thats all it was.I don't frequent that web site although I have been there and it has been mentioned in numerous blogs for years.

    Your just a name on a page and really of no consequence what so ever, just and opinion just like everyone else who comes here. But unlike most who come here you really need to get over yourself.

    canadian? really?
    LMFAOAYF

    have a nice life

    • Posted By: Davole @ 07/21/2008 11:23:47 AM

      Driver of wagons -

      I see that you're still pathetically trying to excuse your grandstanding by posting your reply as a grand pronouncement comment - indicative of a personal insecurity issue on your part?

      In response to your attempt to actually think (I congratulate you in that regard- keep it up) - "Canadian? really?" - Yes - is that beyond your ability to comprehend?

      And thanks for your mentioning to "have a nice life" - ditto to you.

      Most Conservatives do enjoy life - for we believe that life is what we ourselves make of it, and we are therefore generally optimistic.

      Whereas most liberals expect big government to cater to their every wish and demand, thereby often contributing to a perpetual personal malaise.or pessimism.

      Lastly, in regards to your use of the initialization ???LMFAOAYF??? - if you were to diet, and exercise, it might not be as FAT as it is now!
      But I have to admit - it sure does suite you by "rounding out" your opinions!.

      CS

      • Posted By: Driver of wagons @ 07/21/2008 12:38:00 PM



        Your just a name on a page who's ego just keeps rambling on, thinking your clever............. and you know the rest. Well in your mind you know it all. And your one - up - manship is smearing the page. WLMFAOAYDS



        • Posted By: Davole @ 07/21/2008 1:26:43 PM

          Driver of wagons -

          No, it's your infantile proccupation with trying to command center stage by posting replies in the new post comment area that is "smearing the page" - grow up, will you?

          You do realize that your opinions generally lack factual foundations - by posting them "front and center", you only draw attention to your inadequacies.

          What's the matter - did your mommy regularly lock you in the closet, and now you're trying to "break free?"

          Go for it!

          Now go back to playing with your toy wagons!
          Delude yourself into thinking that you're a real driver, if that is your fantasy.

          • Posted By: no bigots here @ 07/22/2008 3:13:10 AM

            you really don't know what wlmfaoayds is or any other saying that driver is posting, because fat has no bearing to his statement. OMG Well, suggestion if you google it, you may find out that your response is off base, LMFAO-ROTFL, CIAO, ADIOS

            • Posted By: Davole @ 07/22/2008 4:49:02 AM

              bigot -

              It appears as though the drunken driver (who likes to play with his toy wagons) is saying that he is - laughing his FAT ass off.

              And my comment to him still stands!

              • Posted By: no bigots here @ 07/23/2008 10:09:15 AM

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  • Posted By: mk2008 @ 07/21/2008 3:00:21 PM

    Obama has the looks, the physical grace and charisma that communicate a sense of change at a time when voters seem to be yearning for it

    oh obama.. oh obama. ha ha ha

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 07/22/2008 2:02:42 AM

      http://www.sheepshagger.com/

      • Posted By: no bigots here @ 07/22/2008 3:35:16 AM

        Ha ha boring, your still holding a grudge with the DNC and the primaries. You know your becoming a minority pretty quickly. I think Persuing-through has pretty much summed up why Obama is doing so well so far. Now, do you have any comments on what she/he posted? Thats the sharenews I enjoy reading, not the sarcastic sheeps going bah bah bah...LMAO :-) I guess your bored and having an off night, CIAO

        • Posted By: Davole @ 07/22/2008 4:31:56 AM

          bigot -

          Are you implying that perusing-through is a trans-sexual?

          The Obomabots love to play the gender card.

          • Posted By: no bigots here @ 07/23/2008 10:07:23 AM

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  • Posted By: no bigots here @ 07/22/2008 3:28:38 AM

    To Davole...when you think like a dogmatic person, and make comments on every person who posts, and pretend you know something about everything and my gosh your position is seemingly is high and mighty, remember the higher you are on that wall or platform, well I think your smart enough to know the rest.

    When you become a soothsayer, and prophet, and can tell us all what the winning lotto numbers are, then people will ooh and ah you, and your remarks. Try to use a little intellect, be humble, less sarcastic, and your remarks will go much further. Your pi$$ing contest with whomever posts gets boring after a couple of times.


    • Posted By: Davole @ 07/22/2008 4:18:06 AM

      bigot -

      You must be the answer to a farmer's prayer, due to all the BS which you spew.

      Are you one of those rumoured Obamabot propagandists?

      Sure, go ahead, feebly attempt to attack me, the messenger.
      I do invite anyone to whom I reply to reply to my comments.

      But the operative consideration is - that you haven't even dared to attack specifically any of my posts or replies.

      That speaks volumes.

      p.s. - I'm glad that you are bored - that can be interpreted as being a human trait!
      - but you, and all other members of your rat pack, can't intimidate me!

      • Posted By: no bigots here @ 07/22/2008 10:15:56 AM

        One other thing, your like a playground bully that shows how inept, and boorish you are as a person. You must have enough anger that your a boiling pot that just doesn't stop boiling. Relax a little bit, you may live a day or too longer with your domagtic thinking.

        • Posted By: Davole @ 07/22/2008 11:56:42 AM

          bigot -

          And you're (do you notice the proper or correct usage of that amalgamation of 2 words) definitely wrong again, (oh ... hum, not another one) - no anger resides in me.

          Conservatives and most Republicans generally are optimistic, happy, and content, unlike obamabots who perpetually regard themselves as victims, and look to blame their own inadequacies on others.

          I admit that I do speak my mind forcefully and competently, unlike most obamabots which are misprogrammed to spout Obama's ever changing talking point feeble stances.

          Yes, the American public has begun to understand the true meaning of Obama's motto of "change".
          It is disasterous change that any thinking person would soon regret!

          • Posted By: no bigots here @ 07/23/2008 10:03:55 AM

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      • Posted By: no bigots here @ 07/22/2008 10:19:25 AM

        And if you want to learn a thing or too about life read persuing-through's comments, but I wouldn't expect that from the high and mighty Davole. Should every one bow down to you and kiss your a$$? Jerk

        • Posted By: Davole @ 07/22/2008 11:38:14 AM

          bigot -

          No, I don't regard myself as "high and mighty" - rather - as competent, honest, intelligent, and confident.
          I realize that most obomabots lack those specific qualities.

          With regard to your question about bowing down and kissing somebody's ass - definitely not me and mine, but most of you obamabots have already adopted that practice as a means of worshipping your idolized messiah Obama - that cheap substandard polyester empty suit.

          And yes, thanks for confirming that I have, to put it mildly, jerked your chain.

          • Posted By: no bigots here @ 07/23/2008 10:03:28 AM

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  • Posted By: mj it @ 07/23/2008 2:35:48 AM

    On what Christian path was McCain taking when he abandoned his disabled wife and 3 kids for a younger, richer beer heiress to only then abandon her after a stroke, in which she had to learn to walk on her own?

    This is not the character of a leader. We've just had 8 years of the most disastrous U.S. presidency in our history. We can not afford 4 more years of the same with John McCain. He does not have America's interest at heart. He's interested in making his corporate buddies very rich.

    • Posted By: Davole @ 07/23/2008 9:25:18 AM

      mj it -

      Those accusations have been made several times over the past 2 years.

      If one of the mainstream commentators takes the time to pose that topic to John McCain, then I believe that we all would know the true, and not rumoured innuendo, answer to those questions.

  • Posted By: leighjamesleigh @ 07/23/2008 8:24:11 AM

    It's a shame that in American politics and in the most important position in U.S. politics, the presidency, that these men cannot just be themselves and speak about who they are, what they believe and what direction they want to take the country in. Every word they say is contrived by a public relations guy. We're all being sold on a product that is shaped and developed by salesmen. Salter and these advisors are all just salesmen and they're selling us a candidate. Iraq and Afghanistan conflict will never end, Iran will be next. Mark my words, within the next 10 years, wealthy and educated Americans will be leaving the country as we continue on a downward spiral.

  • Posted By: mj it @ 07/23/2008 2:40:16 AM

    John McCain's friend: Phil Gramm (Enron/Mortgage crisis)

    But first, Gramm returned to the Senate, where he was lobbied intensely by one of his major campaign contributors, Enron. Enron enjoyed easy access to Gramm's office; the senator's wife served on Enron's board of directors and Ken Lay was his 1992 campaign co-chair. Gramm rewarded his financial angels in 2000, slipping the "Commodity Futures Modernization Act" into a omnibus spending bill just as Congress headed off for summer vacation. His amendment instantly enabled the creation of a shadow banking system -- "weapons of financial destruction" in the words of Warren Buffet -- that directly contributed to the current mortgage foreclosure crisis. Millions of Americans have suffered as a result of Gramm's machinations.
    While the destruction Gramm has caused is felt across the country, little is known about the seedy business schemes that preceded his political career. Before Gramm joined the Christian Coalition's Ralph Reed to call for the defunding of the NEA, before he attacked an opponent for taking money from a gay rights group, and before he was interviewed by the white supremacist Southern Partisan magazine, Gramm was an avidly active investor in soft-core pornography movies.

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 07/22/2008 9:31:41 PM

    PART 1 - BARACK OBAMAs FRIEND: Rashid Khalidi (Palestinian Activist)

    Obamas relationship with Rashid Khalidi goes beyond conversation. Khalidis ties to Obama were first exposed by WND in February in a widely cited article.

    According to a professor at the University of Chicago who said he has known Obama for 12 years, the Democratic presidential hopeful befriended Khalidi when the two worked together at the University. The professor spoke on condition of anonymity. Khalidi lectured at the University of Chicago until 2003 while Obama taught law there from 1993 until his election to the Senate in 2004.

    Sources at the university told World Net Daily (WND) that Khalidi and Obama lived in nearby faculty residential zones and that the two families dined together a number of times. The sources said the Obamas even babysat the Khalidi children.

    Khalidi in 2000 held what was described as a successful Fundraiser for Obamas failed bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, a fact not denied by Khalidi, who spoke to WND in February.

    As WND reported, an ANTI-ISRAEL Arab group run by Khalidi's wife, Mona, received crucial funding from a Chicago nonprofit, the Woods Fund, for which Obama served as a board member with William Ayers (the notorious terrorist from infamous Weather Underground (VIDEO).
    .
    In 2001, the Woods Fund, which describes itself as a group helping the disadvantaged, provided a $40,000 grant to Khalidis Arab American Action Network, or AAAN. The fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for $35,000 in 2002.

    Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an ANTI-ISRAEL line.
    The group co-sponsored a Palestinian art exhibit, titled, The Subject of Palestine, that featured works related to what some Palestinians call the Nakba or catastrophe of Israels founding in 1948.

    When Khalidi departed the University of Chicago in 2003, Obama delivered an in-person testimonial at a farewell ceremony reminiscing about conversations over meals prepared by Mona Khalidi.

    According to a Los Angeles Times account, Obama said his talks with the Khalidis served as consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases. It is for that reason that I am hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation ??? a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashids dinner table, but around THIS ENTIRE WORLD.

    (Continued from another of my Posts below)

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 07/22/2008 9:29:45 PM

    PART 1 - BARACK OBAMAS FRIENDS : William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn (Admitted Terrorists of the Weather Underground)

    Obamas Relationships Stemming from his Directorship of the WOODS FUND

    * Obamas Problematic Directorship at Woods Fund with WILLIAM AYERS

    Barack Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Funds website.

    While the Chicago Sun Times provides a laundry list of Obamas problematic relationships (Rezko, Farrakhan, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Austan Goolsbee, list goes on), none may prove more ultimately controversial than fellow Woods Fund Directors William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.

    As others have mentioned, WILLIAM (BILL) AYERS and wife BERNADINE DOHRN were once notorious members of the Weather Underground, TERRORIST BOMBERS who attempted to overthrow the United State Government. http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2008/02/obamas-bill-ayers-problem.html
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=BpDUU3Z7dm4&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMOtNHyejrU

    Bill Ayers was Obamas (radical) mentor whom he has known since 1995. The Ayers were principals in Baracks first run for the State Senate. The Ayers hosted a Meet the Candidate dinner/meeting at the Ayers home. Not an attractive character for a President to hang out with and to not answer to what he learned from Ayers after all those years.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV_h-XwchkY

    William Ayers, quoted on Sept. 11, 2001: Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

    [Ayers and Dohrn] disappeared in 1970, after a bomb, designed to kill army officers in New Jersey, accidentally destroyed a Greenwich Village townhouse, and turned themselves into authorities in 1980. They were never prosecuted for their involvement with the 25 bombings the Weather Underground claimed; charges were dropped because of improper FBI surveillance.

    I DO NOT REGRET SETTING BOMBS. I feel we did not do enough, AYERS TOLD the New York Times in 2001. http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/

    Ayers was a terrorist. His wife Bernardine Dohrn was a terrorist. (She knows and worked in the same law firm with Michelle Obama). Ayers has never offered one word of apology. He glories in it, thinks it is terrific. And that to me is not what I would call acceptable or mainstream behavior, said Dan Polsby, a former law professor at Northwestern who is now Dean of George Mason University Law School. If Obama takes a different view on that - well, OK, that is data about Obama.
    SOURCE: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-problematic-directorship-woods.html

    (Continued in another of my posts below)

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 07/22/2008 7:12:01 PM


    That referred to an ABCNews.com posting asserting that McCain appeared to confuse Iraq and Afghanistan in a Good Morning America interview with ABC???s Diane Sawyer, who asked whether the "the situation in Afghanistan is precarious and urgent.

    McCain responded: I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border," McCain said. The ABC posting added: Iraq and Pakistan do not share a border. Afghanistan and Pakistan do.

    Unfortunately for McCain, that wasn't an isolated slip. Among the other lapses:

    Somalia for Sudan: As recounted in a reporters pool report from McCains Straight Talk Express bus on June 30, the senator said while discussing Darfur, a region of Sudan: "How can we bring pressure on the government of Somalia "

    Senior adviser Mark Salter corrected him: Sudan.

    Germany for Russia: A YouTube clip from last year memorializes McCain referring to Vladimir Putin of Russia following a trip to Germany as President Putin of Germany.

    This spring, McCain said troops in Iraq were down to pre-surge levels when in fact there were 20,000 more troops than when the surge policy began.

    Also this spring, McCain twice appeared to mistake Sunnis and Shiites, two branches of Islam that split violently.

    In Phoenix earlier this month, McCain referred to Czechoslovakia, which has been divided since Jan. 1, 1993, into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He also referred to Czechoslovakia during a debate in November and a radio show in April.

    In perhaps the most curious incident, McCain said earlier this month that as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, he had tried to confuse his captors by giving the names of Pittsburgh Steelers starting players when asked to identify his squadron mates. McCain has told the story many times over the years but always correctly referred to the names he gave as members of the Green Bay Packers.

  • Posted By: Perusing-through @ 07/22/2008 2:32:02 AM

    FOR DITTO-HEAD THAT CLUELESSLY REPEAT THE CAMPAIGN LINE "THE SURGE HAS WORKED", ALLOW ME TO GIVE YOU AN ANALOGY OF HOW STUPID YOU SOUND

    Here is The Analogy:
    The Dallas Cowboys are loosing to an opponent by 45-points and it's the 4th-quarter. Although the team made nice plays, the head coach and team managers made bad calls leaving the players embarrassed to be losing 45 - 0

    Now star wide receiver makes a catch and scores with 0:28 seconds to go, but follows that up with a victory dance and trash talk in the end-zone as the score goes to 45 - 7. Next the managers claim victory. You and everyone know this is foolish and know the Cowboys need a lot more than a touch down to claim TRUE VICTORY.

    Ditto-heads, it is the same way when Molasses McSame claims the surge worked and won the Iraq war. Americans fought and died for WMDs that were never there, and fought terrorist that were never there until the Americans got there. We lost 4,200 precious soldiers; 30,000 maimed Americans, and 700,000 Iraqi's dead, with 8-million Iraqi's displaced. $700-billion taxpayer dollars also up in smoke.

    Now McSame claims the surge has won a war he hawkishly but naïvely voted for. This is "CYA" at its highest! I would not trust this guy with a troop of boy scouts. When McSame cannot tell the truth about what we Americans see in front of us, how can we possibly trust this cat when America's back is turned?

    GOD Bless America!
    GOD Bless Obama!

    • Posted By: Davole @ 07/22/2008 4:26:49 AM

      DITTO-HEAD -

      You know what you can do with your analogy.

      There is no McSame.

      And the surge is working, even though you deny it.

      • Posted By: jh35180 @ 07/22/2008 11:16:27 AM

        "CYA". All Otaxma is about is "CYA." I realize that it is hard for some of you Obamists to swallow but he is a typical politician. He is not "Joan of Arc" and all of these other legendary figures you make him out to be.

        • Posted By: Davole @ 07/22/2008 12:07:24 PM

          jh35180 -

          No, I'm sorry, but I have to differ with you here - I do not regard Obama as a typical politician - some of them actually do display integrity and honesty - rather, I view this empty suit as pathetic and manipulative.

          ATB

  • Posted By: Perusing-through @ 07/22/2008 2:32:51 AM

    THIS IS HILARIOUS - "CHANGE" HAS ALREADY STARTED

    Before Obama's run . . . Bush/McSame said any timetable was off the table. Now that Obama has pushed for timetables, every Democrat & Republican including Bush is talking timetables.

    Before Obama . . .Bush/McSame said troop withdrawals was the same as "cut and run". Now with Obama the Iraqis, Americans, and politicians alike are saying its time to come home. All except McSame.

    Before Obama . . . Bush/McSame said it was appeasement to have any form of dialogue with Iran. Now after Obama insisted he would talk with Iran under the right conditions, suddenly Bush & Rice are in back-channel communications with Iran.

    Before Obama . . . The Religious Right claimed it not possible to be a Democrat or Independent and still be a Christian. With Obama, a Democrat may outwardly where his/her Christian views and not be attacked by the hypocritical Religious Right.

    Before Obama . . . Democratic nominees took taxpayer funded campaign welfare. Now Democrats turn down campaign welfare.

    Before Obama . . . The world hated us and wished us ill-will. Now with Senator Obama in striking distance of the Presidency, the U.S is being cheered as admiration for America vaults skyward.

    Before Obama . . . Lobbyist ran rampant & reckless over middle-class interest. With Obama in striking distance, lobbyists are running desperate and scared.

    Before Obama . . etc. . . etc. . . etc.

    GOD Bless America!
    GOD Bless Obama!

    • Posted By: jh35180 @ 07/22/2008 11:13:05 AM

      I see that another "brainy" and "open minded" Obamists have spewed out their own form of bigotry, snobbery, and narrow minded way of thinking. For example, referring to McCain as "MC SAME" is very original. How about we refer to Obama as "OTAXMA" since he will more than likely raise taxes and not just on the wealthy. You see Otaxma said that college is a "birthright" for all Americans. Basically, that means that many of us hardworking middle class people will have to bear the brunt for Otaxma's plans. I don't believe that Otaxma the flip flopper will help us out. Otaxma is a typical politician.

      Also, referring to the religious right as hypocritical shows how bigoted so many Obama zealots really are. How do you know that all people in the religious right are hypocrites? Granted there are some who are hypocrites, but not all of them are. There are many on the far left who are just as judgemental, snobby, and hypocritical. Just remember when you criticize McCain and the religiuous right you expose your side to criticism as well.

  • Posted By: mk2008 @ 07/21/2008 2:57:34 PM

    Which is a good thing, since they're up against an opponent, Barack Obama, who so far seems more deft, organized, popular and blessed by destiny.

    bwahhhhh ha ha haaaaaa ha ha ha!!

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 07/22/2008 2:03:57 AM

      Well obama WAS a Community organizer you know. http://www.sheepshagger.com/

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 07/21/2008 11:24:39 PM

    ATTN......... ALL OBAMAMOHAMMEDS....BREAKING NEWS...HUSSEIN BIRTH CERTIFICATE FAKE...............

    Laugh it off. Ignore it. Whatever you like. THIS WILL get MSM coverage. For the entire story go to.......

    ....................... http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/21/forensics-expert-obama-birth-certificate-is-a-forgery

    Larry Johnson and others are going to FORCE an inquiry. Here is a snippet........

    The following report was written for TD/NQ by Techdude, who hurried to complete it after his tires were slashed and a mutilated rabbit was found hanging by his front door. He is currently working on another exclusive follow-on report.

    Who threatened Techdude, and why? And if his findings are correct, why did Barack Obama publish a fake Certificate of Live Birth (COLB) on his own website, FightTheSmears, and on DailyKos?

    Well, well, well....what's up with this??? We will all find out soon. Check out the entire investigation.

    NOBAMA!!!

  • Posted By: OnlyCureJGK @ 07/21/2008 8:49:06 PM

    Homosexuals should not be aloud to spend time with children and corrupt there minds. Homosexuality is just as wrong as Murder they are both depraved sick crimes against what is natural.
    Both these crimes fly in the face of what is normal decient human behavior.
    Anyone that supports homosexual activity is a contributor to it.
    Homosexuality is wrong.
    Its is not diversity it is perverisity
    They should be given the mental help they need.
    It is not about left or right wing politics its about right and wrong.
    Homosexuality is wrong and always will be just because you say its not does not mean its true.

  • Posted By: f688xt6 @ 07/20/2008 1:51:55 PM

    Look, either of the two canidates that were crammed down our throats aren't perfect. And furthermore, to those who have commented earlier, it amazes me and most other people I know how you cannot see past the "Bush" years. If you want a change, now is your chance. Go ahead and vote for Obama. You call McCain mockingly (and not very cleverly) "McSame". Ok, let's go with that, and then ask yourself how that is so bad? If we are to take your assumption that McCain is just another Bush, which isn't the case, and he's having a hard time convincing conservative voters that he is, what would be so bad about that? We are starting to see results from the Bush administration's decision's that are actually showing improvement.

    For example, Iraq's leaders are beginning to make their own decisions and are starting to stand on their own, along with their police and military as their body of experience gets greater. Also, the fires in California proved that the emergency response of the federal government is vastly improved since Katrina. Now, Bush is starting to tackle fuel prices, and suprise suprise, a democrat controlled congress stands in the way. The question nobody is asking is why? Why is Congress standing in the way of lower oil prices? Why are they suggesting that we socialize the industry instead of using the free market to our advantage? Congress has a 9% approval rating, and that is historically pitiful. They are fighting Bush, not fighting for the people. It matters not what idea gets presented to them. It only matters what side Bush is on, so they can be on the opposite side. That is the ideals of our "Leadership" in congress.

    Perhaps it's our society and it's addiction to instant gratification that cannot handle the concept of taking time to implement ideas.

    But, then again most people assume that once Obama is elected, all our problems will dissappear. All the troops will return from Iraq (not likely), heathcare will be free, and a magic elixir will be found to power our cars and emit no pollution. Because, that is what we are being told, and some people are weak minded enough to believe it. He is making all sorts of promises to people, and not really telling anybody how he's going to accomplish those promises. With Bush, he at least told us that a lot of things he was planning were difficult and would take time.

    So I guess the question one must ask before deciding that McCain is worth voting against is this: Is my life that much worse now, than it was in 2000? Is that an acceptable level of pain for myself to be in? Should I go to therapy because my outlook on life and "king and country" is so negative? How evil must the USA be, before I decide to move somewhere else where my socialist ideas are more acceptable?

    So vote for Obama! Take that chance! Make that change! Just remember, you're jumping out of a plane with a blindfold on. When do you open the parachute.

    • Posted By: Davole @ 07/20/2008 3:52:19 PM

      f688xt6 -

      Welcome to this political website.

      I definitely do appreciate your articulate intelligent post - it???s sure ???beyond the norm??? here!.

      Hopefully it will actually stimulate pensive discourse.

      Blog on!

      • Posted By: jh35180 @ 07/21/2008 5:09:39 PM

        Amen. I am glad to see some intelligent comments.

  • Posted By: NewsWkDickG @ 07/21/2008 12:31:17 PM

    McCain has begged, appealed for and promised to the supporters, backers and influences behind Bush-Cheney. Since 2003 McCain has again and again flip-flopped to become a strong supporter and backer of the Bush administration and now he has their full support. McCain is a product of, is dependent on and indebted to Washington as usual. McCain has stated that he believes in the Bush-Cheney policies and seeks their continuation. McCain has even hired Karl Rove for his campaign. Now this country desperately needs drastic change, some being possible to implement quickly, more being possible to only start. With Barack Obama there simply isn't any guarantee but there is the promise for the chance to see change. The promise for the chance for change seems a far better choice than the guarantee for just more of the same (something this country can't take).

    • Posted By: jh35180 @ 07/21/2008 5:06:09 PM

      It is kind of a hard argument to call McCain a flip flopper when Obama seems to have an earned doctorate in flip flopping

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