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Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Saturday, August 09, 2008

With Leaners:

McCain - 47%

Obama - 46%


Without leaners

TIED:

McCain - 44%

Obama - 44%

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that the race for the White House is tied - Barack Obama and John McCain each attract 44% of the vote. When leaners are included, it???s McCain 47% and Obama 46%. With leaners, the candidates have been within one point of each other for nine straight days

Tracking Polls are released at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time each day.

This is interesting: A good government group is set to ask the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into the two big McCain stories of recent days -- the bundled contributions from Hess executives, and the bundling by Harry Sargeant, the guy who raised cash for McCain from a host of unlikely donors.

The request, which will be made on Monday by Campaign Money Watch, which first flagged the Hess story to us, raises at least the possibility that such a probe could be initiated during the campaign. Barring that, it could keep the stories going in the press a bit.

David Donnelly of Campaign Money Watch confirms to me that they'll make the formal request on Monday, and also is request for a Federal probe in an email that just went out to supporters. Donnelly says that his group's request is being triggered by McCain's letter to the donors whose contributions had been bundled by Sargeant.

Donnelly said that the letter, which advised the donors of the legal ins-and-outs of such contributions, didn't go far enough in trying to determine what had happened.

"What he didn't say was, 'Tell us who was responsible for giving you money to give to me, and we'll urge the authorities to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law," " Donnelly said. "The letter raises the question, 'Is the McCain campaign covering for his bundlers?"
Asked why Sargeant, whose company holds a huge contract to deliver fuel to military bases in Iraq, merited an investigation, Donnelly said: "An executive from a company that has a billion dollar contract to deliver oil to U.S. bases in Iraq possibly violated election law to funnel contributions to McCain. We think that warrants an investigation."

And on the Hess matter, Donnelly said: "An office manager for an oil company that stands to gain millions in profits from offshore drilling makes donations for the first time this cycle to McCain, and did it at the same time nine other Hess donors do. That's worth an investigation."

"Drill here drill there drill everywhere" McCain said:

Extend your oil boring PAIN with your vote for McCain

McCain fatigue sets in as soon as he opens his mouth. After 8 years of Bush/Cheney/Rove, it is unfortunate that the best the Repubs can offer is McCain of the same. I am so tired of the swiftboating type attacks, and so should you.

McCain's history of cancer tied to age. But some things are, such as the less-publicized array of his potentially compromising conditions, ailments and medications.

Everyone knows about the cancer. In the last 15 years, McCain has had "every kind of skin cancer you can get, basal cell cancer, squamous cell cancer and, of course, malignant melanoma ...[and] quite a few precancerous lesions," said Dr. Nancy Snyderman, who reviewed McCain's medical records. "He's going to get another skin cancer".

The melanoma on his temple, discovered in 2000, is the most worrying. His current doctors described a single site. But buried in the medical reports released on May 23, was previously undisclosed information. Two pathologists at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology who examined the melanoma specimen in 2000 noted both a primary and satellite cancer, meaning the original site had metastasized and a recurrence was more likely than with a single site.

It is amazing that reporters unearthed this fact. In a parody of openness, McCain allowed a few HAND-PICKED news outlets three hours -- an average nine seconds a page -- to review 1,173 pages of medical records covering eight years. The campaign cloistered about 20 reporters in a room and barred cell phones, Internet access and leaving the room except for bathroom breaks. The New York Times, which had pushed hard for disclosure, was not invited. A follow-up conference call, scheduled for 90 minutes, was stopped after 45.

That the supine media agreed to these conditions rather than boycott the "release" is a travesty. That McCain -- who has pledged to "set a new standard for transparency and accountability" -- drew little criticism is a triumph of manipulation.

In fact, McCain had pulled the same one-time-only, beat-the-clock trick in 1999 when he released a 1,500-page batch of medical records that included mental health assessments relevant to his imprisonment in Vietnam. They remain sealed.

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"War is one thing, collaborating with the enemy is another; it is a legitimate campaign issue that strikes at the heart of McCain's character. . . or lack thereof. In occupied countries like Iraq, or France in World War II, collaboration to that extent spells an automatic death sentence. . . . The question is: What kind of collaborator was John McCain, the admitted war criminal who will hate the Vietnamese for the rest of his life?

"Put it another way: how psychologically twisted is McCain? And what actually happened to him in his POW camp that twisted him? Was it abuse, as he claims, or was it the fact that he collaborated and has to cover up? Covering-up can take a lot of energy. The truth is lurking there in his subconscious, waiting to explode.

"McCain had a unique POW experience. Initially, he was taken to the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison camp, where he was interrogated. By McCain's own account, after three or four days he cracked. He promised his Vietnamese captors, "I'll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital ...

"His Vietnamese captors soon realized their POW, John Sidney McCain III, came from a well-bred line in the American military elite. . .The Vietnamese realized, this poor stooge has propaganda value. The admiral's boy was used to special treatment, and his captors knew that. They were working him."

"....two weeks into his stay at the Vietnamese hospital, the Hanoi press began quoting him. It was not 'name rank and serial number, or kill me'. as specified by the military code of conduct. McCain divulged specific military information: he gave the name of the aircraft carrier on which he was based, the number of U.S. pilots that had been lost, the number of aircraft in his flight formation, as well as information about the location of rescue ships."...McCain was held for five and half years. The first two weeks' behavior might have been pragmatism, but McCain soon became North Vietnam's go-to collaborator...McCain cooperated with the North Vietnamese for a period of three years. His situation isn???t as innocuous as that of the French barber who cuts the hair of the German occupier. McCain was repaying his captors for their kindness and mercy.

"This is the lesson of McCain's experience as a POW: a true politician, a hollow man, his only allegiance is to power. The Vietnamese, like McCain's campaign contributors today, protected and promoted him, and, in return, he danced to their tune. ..."

John McCain's been getting kid-glove treatment from the press for years, ever since he wriggled free of the Keating scandal and his profitable association-- another collaboration,-- you might say with the nation's top bank swindler in the 1980s. But nothing equals the astounding tact with which his claque on the press bus avoids the topic of McCain's collaborating with his Vietnamese captors after he'd been shot down.

How McCain behaved when he was a prisoner is key. McCain is probably the most unstable man ever to have got this close to the White House. He's one election away from it. Republican senator Thad Cochrane has openly said he trembles at the thought of an unstable McCain in the Oval Office with his finger on the nuclear trigger.

What if a private memory of years of collaboration in his prison camp gnaws at McCain, and bursts out in his paroxysms of uncontrollable fury, his rantings about "gooks" and his terrifying commitment to a hundred years of war in Iraq. What if "the hero" knows he's a phony?
Doug Valentine has written the definitive history of the Phoenix Program in Vietnam. He knows about the POW experience. His dad, an Army man, was captured by the Japanese and sent to a POW camp in the Philippines for forced labor. Many of his mates died. Doug wrote a marvelous book about it, The Hotel Tacloban.

Now Valentine has picked up the unexploded bomb lying on McCain's campaign trail this year. As he points out, he's not the first. Rumors and charges have long swirled around McCain's conduct as a prisoner. Fellow prisoners have given the lie to McCain's claims. But Valentine has assembled the dossier. It's devastating.

If you have not seen this article, you might want to read it. It is very well written and informative. It provides readers with some insight into Barack Obamas early political career. The time between his first campaign for the Illinois State Senate in 1995 and his race for U.S. Senate in 2004, which can fairly be called the LOST YEARS, the span of years that you never hear Obama talk much about.


Weekly Standard
Barack Obamas Lost Years
by Stanley Kurtz
08/11/2008, Volume 013, Issue 45

The Senator Obamas tenure as a State legislator reveals him to be an Old-fashioned, Big Government, Race-Conscious Liberal.


Article:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/386abhgm.asp?pg=1

Look at these Stats for Monday, August 4th.

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Monday, August 04, 2008

TED:

John McCain - 44 %

Barack Obama - 44%


WITH LEANERS:

John McCain - 47%

Barack Obama - 46%


This is the first time McCain has enjoyed a statistically advantage since Obama clinched the Democratic nomination on June 3rd.

Tracking Polls are released at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time each day.

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AMONG UNAFFILIATED VOTERS:

McCain - 52%

Obama - 37%

FAVORABLY VIEWED BY THE NATIONS VOTERS:

McCain - 55%

Obama - 51%


This is the LOWEST rating for Obama since he wrapped up the nomination.

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Let's call McCain what he is and OLD man with a young man's dreams. He has done nothing but exhibit just how much he hates (yes hate) Obama. How dare Obama steal his thunder. And you talking heads constantly overly examine Obama and let McCain slide. McCain is hateful, nasty, rude, grumpy, divisive and just plain mean. His past ads has given us no information concerning what we need to know about our future. But the message is clear that he hates Obama.

Don't cry Mr. McCain you will have enough time to sit and what while Obama becomes PRESIDENT. Like one of your's said. "STOP THE WHINING"

ICEYES...TYPICAL TRAILER PARK WHITE TRASH...let me ask, why do you even log onto newsweek and not the Klan Weekly? I have made many comments on this thread, I'm African-American, what about those? Or do your infantile hatred of Black people only let you respond to those posts that fit your stereotypes so you can bring forth your bigotry. What happened, your sister break up with you or something? We get it, you hate Obama, not because of his politics, but because of his skin color...we get it..ok. You are the typical GOP'er, mad because your skin color no longer buys you free lunches in American society, I bet your still mad over that whole Brown V Board of Education thing aren't you? lol maybe you should've finished high school or something, I don't know. But Obama is more the typical Black than a rapper, educate yourself, take a sociology clss or something.

Then there is this guy . . . even Obama admitted he did not have good judgment associating with this felon in jail now.

ANTOIN (TONY) REZKO -CONVICTED FELON WAS MORE THAN FUNDRAISER FOR OBAMA. HE WAS ALSO A FRIEND OF THE OBAMAS.

1. Obama explains his TONY Rezko relationship to Sun-Times
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/844634,obamasun031508.article


2. Obama admits involvement with Rezko was a MISJUDGMENT; a BONE-HEADED MISTAKE:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4111483

Then there is the Obamas (both Barack and Michelle's) radical friends. Starting to see a pattern of bad judgment starting up. . . hmmm.

OBAMAS RELATIONSHIPS STEMMING FROM HIS DIRECTORSHIP OF THE WOODS FUND

1. William (Bill) Ayers - An admittedly unapologetic terrorist that Obama worked with on the Board of Directors for 8 years and associated with on a personal level outside of work with Michelle.

2. Bernadine Dohrn (admittedly unapologetic terrorist, wife of Bill Ayers; she and Bill hosted fundraiser for Obama; Dohrn worked with Michelle in the same Law Firm )

3. Woods Funds Investments (associations with radical anti
-Israel organizations.):

Source: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-problematic-directorship-woods.html