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Obama's Celebrity Cred

A new McCain ad calls Obama a celebrity (true) who says he'll raise taxes on electricity (false).

By Joe Miller | factcheck.org
Jul 31, 2008 | Updated: 9:35  a.m. ET Jul 31, 2008

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  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/11/2008 6:56:33 PM

    Comment: Are any of you chicken hearted chicken hawk repug mccainites/bra burning clintonites ever gonna step up and answer or just do the ROVE thing avoid and redirect?

    I ask a repug "why is the sky blue?" Repug says "well grass is green." I ask why is water wet?" repug says "dirt is brown and grass grows in dirt so Obama is a Muslim"...lol


    Here lets ask a question and see if a repug can answer with out saying the words Democrats, Obama or Clinton:

    Q: Which American President ignored intelligence that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks, then LEFT AFGHANISTAN for Iraq (a country that has never attacked the US) Says he NEVER even thinks about those who attacked us, "I don't even worry about bin laden"...he says
    Sub question: which American Senator has supported nearly ALL of said Presidents policies on the WAR as proven by his record of voting with the "President" 90% of the time?

    A: have at it

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/11/2008 6:55:38 PM

    Comment: Are any of you chicken hearted chicken hawk repug mccainites/bra burning clintonites ever gonna step up and answer or just do the ROVE thing avoid and redirect?

    I ask a repug "why is the sky blue?" Repug says "well grass is green." I ask why is water wet?" repug says "dirt is brown and grass grows in dirt so Obama is a Muslim"...lol


    Here lets ask a question and see if a repug can answer with out saying the words Democrats, Obama or Clinton:

    Q: Which American President ignored intelligence that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks, then LEFT AFGHANISTAN for Iraq (a country that has never attacked the US) Says he NEVER even thinks about those who attacked us, "I don't even worry about bin laden"...he says
    Sub question: which American Senator has supported nearly ALL of said Presidents policies on the WAR as proven by his record of voting with the "President" 90% of the time?

    A: have at it

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/10/2008 10:10:41 PM

    Comment: Are any of you chicken hearted chicken hawk repug mccainites/bra burning clintonites ever gopnna step up and answer or just do the ROVE thing avoid and redirect?

    I ask a repug "why is the sky blue?" Repug says "well grass is green." I ask why is water wet?" repug says "dirt is brown and grass grows in dirt so Obama is a muslim"...lol

    That's 22 times and still no answer loser.

    217 - 189 ;)
    or
    47 - 42, which ever you like ;) I like both haha

  • Posted By: Davole @ 08/07/2008 9:56:28 AM

    Comment: Boehner calls on Dems to buck Pelosi
    Politico The Crypt By Martin Kady Aug. 05, 2008

    House Republicans can't take this energy debate anywhere without the help of a few Democrats, so they're targeting the most vulnerable Democrats out there: the freshmen.

    Responding to today's Politico story suggesting that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is letting some of her freshmen in tough districts off the hook on drilling, Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) has called on Democrats to sign a discharge petition that would force the speaker to bring up the Republican energy bill.

    "My message to Democratic lawmakers is this: if you???re really for increased American energy production, then prove it by putting it in writing," Boehner said. "Sign the discharge petitions House Republicans are circulating that will force votes on energy legislation Speaker Pelosi refuses to bring to the floor. "

    Reps. Jason Altmire (D-Pa.) and Don Cazayoux (D-La.) have both asked Democratic leaders to consider new oil drilling legislation, but Pelosi seems unwilling to allow a major energy package to move before the election.

  • Posted By: Davole @ 08/07/2008 9:45:52 AM

    Comment: Freedom's Watch Criticizes Dems' 'Summer Vacation' in New Web Ad
    The Hill by Walter Alarkon Aug. 05, 2008

    A new Web ad by conservative advocacy group Freedom's Watch lambastes Democrats in Congress for failing to tackle rising energy prices.

    The ad, called "Son of a Beach" begins by describing the plight of the average working American who must pay a mortgage and and for fuel.

    "What do the liberals in Congress have on their mind? Summer Vacation," the ad's narrator states. "They're taking the rest of the summer off."

    Set to a 1960s-style surf rock tune, the ad mocks the Democrats' decision to go on recess without a vote on lifting the ban on offshore drilling. It features prominent Democratic senators and congressmen rollerblading, playing volleyball, reading on the beach and playing golf.

    The ad ends with a narrator urging viewers to "Call the Do Nothing Democrats in Congress and tell them to get back to work on the important issues."

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/06/2008 10:01:25 PM

    Comment: ???????? LETS SEE IF YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS ??????????????? 217 - 189 ????????????? SO WHO HAS A "LEAD"? ???????????????????????????????????????????//

    • Posted By: Davole @ 08/07/2008 9:42:02 AM

      Comment: hardly here nor there -

      That range probably refers to the number of word spelling errors in your weekly and weakly posted rants!

  • Posted By: Davole @ 08/06/2008 9:45:17 AM

    Comment: McCain Has Slight Leads Over Obama in Two National Polls
    The Hill by Walter Alarkon Aug. 05, 2008

    John McCain holds statistically insignificant leads over Barack Obama in two prominent national presidential polls.

    McCain is up on Obama, 42 percent to 41 percent, in the latest Zogby poll, released Monday. Zogby???s most recent numbers represent a significant turnaround from last month, when Obama led McCain 46-36.

    Zogby???s release also noted that McCain appeared to be eroding Obama???s level of support within some of the Democrat???s most important demographic groups.

    Among voters aged 18-29, McCain gained 20 percentage points from last month, while Obama dropped 16 points. Among women, McCain slashed Obama???s lead to 43-38, a margin down 10 points from last month. And among independents, the two candidates are now tied; Obama held an 11-point lead last month.

    ???The McCain camp seems to have turned lemons into lemonade,??? said pollster John Zobgy in a statement. ???Huge crowds and mostly favorable press reviews of Obama???s overseas trip have been trumped by McCain???s attacks on Obama.???

    ???Loss of support for Obama among young voters may also be due to his perceived reversals on issues they care about, such as the war and government eavesdropping,??? Zogby added.

    For the second straight day, McCain also leads Obama in Rasmussen???s daily presidential tracking poll, 47 percent to 46 percent, including ???leaners.???

    While the past two days represent the first time McCain has led Obama since the Illinois senator wrapped up the Democratic nomination June 3, Rasmussen???s numbers have consistently indicated a tight race most of the summer. Obama has not held a lead greater than 7 percentage points during the same period.

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/05/2008 7:43:35 PM

    Comment: Come o dodger, answer just one question, try it.

    Nah you'ld rather paste other peolpe's words, like I said you're a secretary ;)

    That's 17 times I've asked you to answer one question...

    • Posted By: Davole @ 08/06/2008 10:00:03 AM

      Comment: hardly here nor there -

      OK, I'll answer one question, and due to your demonstrated incompetence, I'll even supply the question for you.

      Question: Are you an incapable sham?

      Answer: Definitely!

      • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/06/2008 10:00:30 PM

        Comment: Yes I am incapable of "SHAM" that is a republican tactic, and campaign habit. You know the question and you STILL cower in the face of it ;) BTW this makes 20 times and counting.

        Have fun with your "sham" tactics...good luck and try to have the minerals to answer..mmmmaky?

        • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/10/2008 10:12:06 PM

          Comment: Brought to you by the king of spell sheck...."sham"...I think it was a freudian slip...but thanks for the chance to shamE you ;)

  • Posted By: Davole @ 08/05/2008 7:12:34 PM

    Comment: Bush rips Democrats for opposing offshore drilling
    MyWay By H. Josef Hebert Aug. 02, 2008

    WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush chastised Democrats on Saturday for refusing to allow a vote on whether to lift the federal ban on offshore oil drilling before lawmakers departed for their summer recess.

    "To reduce pressure on prices, we need to increase the supply of oil, especially oil produced here at home," Bush said in his weekly radio address. It was the fourth time this week that he has called for Congress to end the drilling restrictions off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

    Some of the drilling moratoriums have been in place since 1981 for environmental reasons and concerns that energy development might harm coastal tourist industries.

    Bush acknowledged it would be years before any of the oil beneath the offshore waters could be pumped, but he said "lifting the ban would create new opportunities for American workers and businessmen."

    "But the leaders of the Democratic Congress have refused to allow a vote" on whether the drilling moratoriums should be lifted, Bush complained.


    My Commentary:

    If, as the Democrats maintain, that approval for exploration and drilling in offshore locations would not affect the price of oil, and would not increase the supply of oil for several years (often touted as the magic number 10 years), why not grant approval now to test that theory, and provide several thousands of well-paying jobs to stimulate the economy?

    Do Democrats actually fear that their rigid assertions would be proven to be false?

  • Posted By: Davole @ 08/05/2008 7:03:54 PM

    Comment: Pelosi: At-risk Dems back drilling
    by Martin Kady II & Patrick O???Connor Politico 8/5/08

    California: Democrat Nancy Pelosi may be trying to save the planet ??? but the rank and file in her party increasingly are just trying to save their political hides when it comes to gas prices as Republicans apply more and more rhetorical muscle.

    But what looks like intraparty tension on the surface is part of an intentional strategy in which Pelosi takes the heat on energy policy, while behind the scenes she???s encouraging vulnerable Democrats to express their independence if it helps them politically, according to Democratic aides on and off Capitol Hill.

    Pelosi???s gambit rests on one big assumption: that Democrats will own Washington after the election and will be able to craft a sweeping energy policy that is heavy on conservation and fuel alternatives while allowing for some new oil drilling. Democrats see no need to make major concessions on energy policy with a party poised to lose seats in both chambers in just three months ??? even if recess-averse Republicans continue to pound away on the issue.

  • Posted By: Davole @ 08/05/2008 6:15:00 PM

    Comment: McCain visiting motorcycle rally, nuke power plant
    by GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer Yahoo News Mon. Aug. 4, 2008

    STURGIS, S.D. - Thousands of motorcyclists greeted Republican presidential candidate John McCain with an approving roar Monday as he sought blue-collar and heartland support by visiting a giant motorcycle rally.

    "As you may know, not long ago a couple hundred thousand Berliners made a lot of noise for my opponent. I'll take the roar of 50,000 Harleys any day," McCain said, referring to Democrat Barack Obama's recent visit to the German capital.

    Billed as the largest event of its kind in the world, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally has become something of an annual bikers' Woodstock during the past 70 years. It features nine nights of entertainment, with bands including Def Leppard, Lynyrd Skynyrd and REO Speedwagon.

    McCain played to a crowd that paused for a veterans salute. He criticized Obama for supporting a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq while opposing efforts to reduce record-high energy prices.

    "My opponent wants to set a date to come home. I want us to come home with victory and honor so we will never go back again," the Arizona senator said.

    McCain also criticized Congress for adjourning for a five-week recess without approving a new energy plan.
    "Tell em' to come back and get to work," McCain said, yelling into the microphone. "When I'm president of the United States, I'm not going to let them go on vacation. They're gonna become energy independent."

    McCain was accompanied by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., who has been mentioned as a potential running mate. He had warned the McCain campaign that a politician might receive an unfriendly welcome, but McCain relished the warm embrace.

    His wife, Cindy, also paid tribute to the crowd, saying: "I'd like to thank all of you for your support of our troops, and here's why: I'm many things in my life, and one thing I'd like to be is your first lady. But more importantly, I'm Jack McCain's mother and Jimmy McCain's mother, one in the U.S. Navy and another one in the Marine Corps, an Iraqi vet."

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/05/2008 5:18:43 PM

    Comment: McCain adopts another Obama campaign slogan..."Are you better off now than you were 4yrs ago?"...Obama has been saying it since the primaries. Now, mccain DESPERATE to seperate himself form bush, though he has voted with bush 90% of the time, is using the EXACT same line...John, DESPERATION is a stinky perfume.

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/05/2008 3:44:09 PM

    Comment: OMG is it this desperate for you dav?

    Posted By: Davole @ 08/04/2008 06:08:49 AM
    Comment: Share -

    Help me please, I know you're a Hillary supporter but she's just like mccain right? can you please help me I need answers, hardlyhere is calling me out and I can't think for myself, I'm desperate, so I implore you..help me,,,please please help me...he uses unfair weapons, like his own thoughts, and FACT and he knows where I get my propaganda from and he busts me on it every time I try to post it...please anybody, help me..I can't answer a question with out pasting sombody else's thoughts or rediredting...I'm stuck...:(

    Ciao for now!

    • Posted By: Davole @ 08/05/2008 6:12:00 PM

      Comment: hardly here nor there -

      Nice try fabricating that blatant counterfeit comment which you purport that I sent to sharenews.

      But you've fooled no one - except yourself - no, on second thought, I'll just leave it as no one, because that category already includes you.

      If anyone else would care to refer back to the messages for the post time which you stated, they would see that no such post from me exists.

      Now how do you explain that?

      You're a pathetic excuse for a human being.

      p.s. I see that the real Harley Davidson and other bike riders who attended the McCain rally yesterday in
      Sturgis, S.D. gave John McCain a roaring welcome and approval.

      Somehow that biker network ensured that invitations to attend the rally were not given to little immature brats like you who probably ride little pink plastic bicycles and consider themselves to be real bikers.

      • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/05/2008 7:41:33 PM

        Comment: WOW! Redneck bikers support mccain, and meth, and killing, and rape, did you see the simulated sex games they played on the very stage where mccain stood? Hmm, white bikers do not like the "muslim" running for pres...what a shock ;) funny thing is the crowd is there every year, an dit was the only way mccain would ever see that many people EVER...lol great example ;)

        and yes the post was fake, but also a parody of what you DID right...so get over it, macho man ;)

        BTW this makes 15 times and still no answer from you...coward ;)

        • Posted By: Davole @ 08/06/2008 9:37:26 AM

          Comment: hardly here nor there -

          Awe, you're jealous, and just throwing a tantrum because the mature bikers won't let pouting juveniles like you ride with them or attend their rallies!

          Now take your tricycle and ride around the block 10 times to "work off" your frustration!

          • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/10/2008 10:13:04 PM

            Comment: that's 23 times loser ;)

  • Posted By: Davole @ 08/04/2008 11:48:49 AM

    Comment: Share -

    Have you been away on a well-deserved holiday? If so, I???m sure that it was enjoyable for you.

    And I see that you???ve returned in fine fighting form!

    If you have a spare hour or two, you might care to review the posts on the older Newsweek board - Obama Abroad - to ???catch up??? on the rants and blogs which were posted while you were away.

    But I would like to take this opportunity to draw your attention to a vulgar, crass, probably pornographic spew by a ranter who has been credited with being an Obama ???blog hero??? by one of the socialite Obama supporters.

    I tend to refer to that ranter as ???hardlyhere???, in an attempt to bring his screen name closer to reality.
    His offensive, denigrating spews are visible on this same board, and can be found at his posting times of ??? 08/02/2008 4:16:30 PM??? & ???08/03/2008 19:12:56.???

    I regard that ranter???s intellectual capacity, to use a cardplayer???s terminology, as being several hands shy of a deck.

    He has tried to goad me by his tantrums into replying to his rant to answer his poorly stated questions, but I have avoided doing so because he appears to be unable to comprehend rational facts, thought, and discourse.

    If you do review his crass belligerent spews, please let me know your interpretation of his actions, state of ???mind??? (if that really exists here), and whether he is just a typical obamabot.

    Is this an example of the kind of change that ???the Great Unifier??? wants to implement?

    I wonder whether any obamabots will bother to voice their opinions in this matter, and whether they will throw this spewer under the bus to join the numerous other unsavory characters associated with Obama.

    Or, on second thought, maybe they???ll elevate him to displace Hillary Clinton as the key-note guest speaker at the DNC convention, due to a high-regard appreciation of his disgraceful sense of humour (for lack of a better word).

    Ciao for now!

    • Posted By: Notrepublican @ 08/05/2008 1:03:02 AM

      Comment: Oh and by the way, this sharenews your talking about and liking so much. We're actually on pretty good terms. We both had a very formal talk and even almost had a debate on the internet. I would challenge you to a debate, but I don't trust you'll keep away from all the mudslinging. You seem to talk very crass and informal.

      • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/05/2008 3:37:41 PM

        Comment: I wish you the best of luck getting a DIRECT answer from davie, this here will be the 13th time I have asked for a driect answer toa very simple question, not cutting, no pasting, in dav's own words, just an answer....and instead he insults my mother in response to a joke she came up with, a very good one btw ;)
        and when I responded in accord, he cries to the righties here to help him...

        So angain good luck in you "debate" just watch for the cut and paste and the redirect, dav is not subtle about it...and dav like I said this make 13 times you have avoided the question...I'm waiting.

        • Posted By: Davole @ 08/05/2008 6:36:24 PM

          Comment: hardly here nor there -

          You're sinking fast - regarding your comment - "driect answer toa - now you've achieved 2 spelling errors in 3 words - that's even a record for you!

          If you would care to strive to appear at least minimally intelligent, you should restrict yourself to one word posts - then at least you would have a 50 - 50 chance of spelling that one word correctly.

          Also, you should consider limiting that word to only 1 or 2 letters, in order to try to maximize your chance of success.

          You're still having problems paying attention to detail, aren't you?

          And I do admit that you have asked a "very simple question" - yes, it definitely qualifies as just another one of your very SIMPLE MINDED questions. And I don't bother responding to those, because you just wouldn't be able to understand my answer.

          But do keep on counting - I want to see whether you can count to 100!

          • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/10/2008 10:14:14 PM

            Comment: yeah with all those spell errors I should be asham...ed...lol 24 times now and NO ANSWER from DAVHOLE!!! chickenhawk.

  • Posted By: Notrepublican @ 08/04/2008 1:53:48 AM

    Comment: Terms don't determine the substance of a man. Like George Bush. I know many Governers and senators that had many terms, but still did a crap job and had low approval ratings.

    • Posted By: Notrepublican @ 08/04/2008 2:00:19 AM

      Comment: You know, I don't understand why we're calling Obama a celebrity. Just because he's popular and has a lot of support behind. If you call Obama a celebrity, than you label everyone who was popular and had a lot of support a celebrity. So pretty much you're calling war heroes, presidents, dictators, kings, all those people, celebrities. The only reason Mccain's bitching about Obama is because he can't even fill a state hall for christs sake.

  • Posted By: Notrepublican @ 08/03/2008 8:34:25 PM

    Comment: One, 17% of all statisitics are made up on the spot, especially when the people are biased and tell lies like they're the truth. You're less like sharenews and more like biased, half truth, self loathing conservative republican broadcast. Hey Rush Limbaugh, sorry, sharenews, can you please stop crapping out of your mouth.

    • Posted By: Davole @ 08/04/2008 5:11:12 PM

      Comment: Notrepublican -

      From viewing your method of discourse - case in point - "crapping out of your mouth," are you related to hardlyhere? You're not his mother, are you?

      Or is this style of discourse the standard talking point spew which seems to be programmed into many obamabots?

      Are you all from the same typical obababot ghetto?

      Could you "couth it"?

      • Posted By: Notrepublican @ 08/05/2008 12:58:16 AM

        Comment: Sorry, I just state the facts maam. It's not myfault most facts make Mccain look bad. Don't shoot the messenger. LOL :)

        • Posted By: Davole @ 08/05/2008 9:48:01 AM

          Comment: Notrepublican -

          Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Aug. 4, 2008
          Monday, August 04, 2008

          The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows the race for the White House is tied with Barack Obama and John McCain each attracting 44% of the vote. However, when "leaners" are included, it???s McCain 47% and Obama 46%.

          This is the first time McCain has enjoyed even a statistically insignificant advantage of any sort since Obama clinched the Democratic nomination on June 3 (see recent daily results). Tracking Polls are released at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time each day.

          A week ago today, Obama had a three-percentage point lead and the candidates were even among unaffiliated voters. Today, McCain leads 52% to 37% among unaffiliateds.

          McCain is currently viewed favorably by 55% of the nation???s voters, Obama by 51%. That is the lowest rating for Obama since he wrapped up the nomination. Obama is viewed favorably by 83% of Democrats, 22% of Republicans, and 47% of unaffiliated voters. For McCain, the numbers are 87% favorable among Republicans, 26% among Democrats, and 61% among unaffiliated voters.

          Sixty percent (60%) of voters now see Obama as politically liberal while 65% see McCain as politically conservative. Among liberals, 71% see Obama as one of them, but just 18% of liberals see Obama as Very Liberal. Among conservatives, 71% say McCain is also a conservative, including 38% who say he is Very Conservative. Thirty-five percent (35%) of politically moderate voters say that McCain is politically moderate and 33% say the same of Obama. Fifty-eight percent (58%) of Democrats see McCain as conservative while 69% of Republicans see Obama as liberal (see other recent demographic highlights).

          Forty-six percent (46%) of voters trust McCain more than Obama on energy issues while Obama is trusted more by 42%. Two months ago, Obama had a four point edge on the energy issue.

          • Posted By: Notrepublican @ 08/07/2008 4:23:03 AM

            Comment: blah blah blah. I get it, the Rasmussen reports. Oh no, Obama's losing, you're right, I should change my ways and become a republican. Seriously, there's 90 days to election and I expect those numbers will change. Numbers don't mean anything in elections. What looks like landslide victories may turn into a bitter struggle, or a what looks like a horrible loss, may turn into a close draw. Polls change, they always have, they always will. The only numbers we will be certain about, are those on election day.

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/03/2008 8:57:08 PM

      Comment: Just stating the facts, maam. : - ) You just dont like what you see. Im not the one who determines the polls. Dont shoot the messenger. LOL

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/03/2008 8:20:47 PM

    Comment:
    Rasmussen Reports
    Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
    Sunday, August 03, 2008

    Obama - 44%
    McCain - 43%

    With leaners:

    Obama - 47%
    McCain - 46%


    69 % of voters have seen or heard news coverage of McCains ad including Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.

    Just 22% believe the Spears/Hilton ad was racist.

    Most say OBAMAS COMMENT about not looking like other Presidents on the dollar bill WAS RACIST.

    McCain is currently viewed favorably by 56% of voters.
    Obama is currently viewed favorably by 54%.of voters.

    McCain earns positive reviews from 85% of Republicans.
    Obama earns positive reviews from 83% of Democrats.

    Among UNAFFILIATED voters, 61% have a favorable opinion of McCain.
    Among UNAFFILIATED voters, 47% have a favorable opinion of Obama.

    Cindy McCain is viewed favorably by 50% of American voters.
    Michelle Obama is viewed favorably by 46% of American voters.

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/03/2008 7:49:16 PM

    Comment:
    INTERVIEW with author of new book called THE OBAMA NATION by Dr. Jerome Corsi, Ph.d

    Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdFs6hjPnyw

    Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgaGFITnTAQ

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/03/2008 7:40:24 PM

    Comment:
    HolyRoller was right. Looks like the book called The Obama Nation was just released.

    BOOK: The Obama Nation by Dr. Jerome Corsi, Ph.d

    Available Now:
    http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Obama-Nation/Jerome-R-Corsi/e/9781416598060/

    and http://www.amazon.com/Obama-Nation-Jerome-R-Corsi/dp/1416598065/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217792859&sr=8-1

    THE OBAMA NATION

    Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality
    Barack Obama stepped onto the national political stage when the then-Illinois State senator addressed the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Soon after Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, author Jerome Corsi began researching Obamas personal and political background.

    Scrupulously sourced with more than 600 footnotes (over 30 pages), THE OBAMA NATION is the result of that research. By tracing Obamas career and influences from his early years in Hawaii and Indonesia, the beginnings of his political career in Chicago, his voting record in the Illinois legislature, his religious training and his adoption of Christianity through to his recent involvement in Kenyan politics, his political advisors and fundraising associates and his meteoric campaign for president, Jerome Corsi shows that an Obama presidency would, in his words, be A REPEAT OF THE FAILED EXTREMIST POLITICS that have characterized and plagued Democratic Party politics since the late 1960s.

    In this stunning and comprehensive new book, the reader will learn about:

    * Obamas extensive connections with Islam and radical politics, from his father and step-fathers Islamic backgrounds, to his Communist and socialist mentors in Hawaii and Chicago, to his long-term and close associations with former Weather Underground heroes William Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn, associations much closer than heretofore revealed by the press

    * Barack and Michelles 20-year-long religious affiliation with the black-liberation theology of former Trinity United Church of Christ Reverend Jeremiah Wright, whose sermons have always been steeped in a rage first expressed by Franz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X, a rage that Corsi shows has deep meaning for Obama

    * Obamas continuing connections with Kenya, the homeland of his father, through his support for the candidacy of Raila Odinga, the radical socialist presidential contender who came to power amid Islamist violence and church burnings

    * Obamas involvement in the slum-landlord empire of the Chicago political fixer Tony Rezko, who helped to bankroll Obamas initial campaigns and to purchase of Barack and Michelles dream-home property.

    (Continued in Reply area below)

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/03/2008 7:44:02 PM

      Comment:

      NEW BOOK RELEASE: THE OBAMA NATION (Continued from my Post above)

      * the background and techniques of the Obama campaigns cult of personality, including the derivation of the words HOPE and CHANGE.

      * Obamas far-left domestic policy, his controversial votes on abortion, his history of opposition to the Second Amendment, his determination to raise capital-gains taxes, his impractical plan to achieve universal health care, and his radical plan to tax Americans to fund a global-poverty-reduction program

      * Obamas NAIVE, anti-war, anti-nuclear foreign-policy, predicated on the reduction of the military, the eradication of nuclear weapons and an OVERCONFIDENCE IN THE POWER OF HIS PERSONALITY, as if belief in change alone could somehow transform international politics, achieve nuclear-weapons disarmament and withdrawal from Iraq without adverse consequences, for us, for the Iraqis or for Israel.

      Meticulously researched and documented, THE OBAMA NATION is the definitive source for information on why and how Barack Obama must be defeated - not by invective and general attacks, but by detailed arguments that are well-researched and fact-based.


      INTERVIEW with Author of The Obama Nation, Dr. Jerome Corsi, Ph.d

      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdFs6hjPnyw

      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgaGFITnTAQ

      • Posted By: Notrepublican @ 08/03/2008 8:39:23 PM

        Comment: Yeah, which Mccain can't do since his whole campaign runs on lies and half truths.

        • Posted By: Notrepublican @ 08/05/2008 2:14:27 AM

          Comment: You know, I'm sure if someone published a book about Mccains life, he'd look pretty bad too.

  • Posted By: bunja @ 08/03/2008 5:32:20 PM

    Comment: Is mcCain going into some kind of psychiatric imbalances some how? He was the one telling senator OBAMBA that he is new and has no forigne policy experiences he should go to Bagdad and elsewhere. Now so what? He did and came with credits and victory. That making the McCain camp very sick and jelouse to OBAMA. Calling him celeberty this is the biggest insult every mention from a persidential candidate. This time your adds are not going to work for you because OBAMA is not going to let you play him to that old politics.Go and learn how to use internet. We are in the 20th century not back to the same old type of politics.

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/03/2008 7:35:22 PM

      Comment:

      FROM RASMUSSEN REPORTS

      Impact of Obamas Oversees Tour with People:

      63% of voters told us the trip didn???t make him more fit to be president.

      Military veterans also still support the Republican candidate more -- by nearly 20 points -- 56% to 37%.

      But 55% of voters gave good or excellent marks to Obama???s high-profile speech in Berlin .
      * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

      RASMUSSEN REPORTS
      63% Say Trip DOES NOT Make Obama More Fit to be President
      Wednesday, July 23, 2008

      While Barack Obama has touted his travel to Afghanistan and Iraq as a FACT-FINDING trip, 63% of Americans DO NOT BELIEVE it makes the Democratic candidate any more qualified to be president.

      A new Rasmussen Reports national survey, taken Monday night, also finds that LESS THAN a third (32%) think Obama will learn from his trip to Iraq. Forty percent (40%) say his mind is already made up about policies to deal with the war there.

      Another Rasmussen Reports survey this week finds that while voters trust Obama more on most issues, McCain has a double-digit lead on his rival when it comes to national security and the war in Iraq. Overall, Obama and McCain remain very close in the popular vote contest as measured by the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.

      http://www.rasmussenreports.com/scoreboards/by_the_numbers2/by_the_numbers




      • Posted By: Notrepublican @ 08/03/2008 8:41:27 PM

        Comment: You can read, good for you. Do you want a treat or something. Yeah you may not have common sense, or be able to seperate biased from unbiased and truth from lies, but you can read, good for you.

  • Posted By: bunja @ 08/03/2008 5:23:36 PM

    Comment: John mcCain is a lost candidate, he didn't have enough taugths about senator OBAMA. He is going down aging. He was the one drum for the war with Bush. How in the world people believed him that he is winning the surge talk. At the first place we should not go in to Bagdad and is a same to think that way against Senator OBAMA. Come November OBAMBA Victory speech. Go back to senate mr. war monger McCain.

    • Posted By: Davole @ 08/05/2008 6:49:18 PM

      Comment: bunja -

      Do you have a universally accepted definition for your supposed word "taugths"?

      You're not making any sense here - you must be an obamabot!

  • Posted By: AnthonyAfterwit @ 08/03/2008 2:28:36 PM

    Comment: Is this McCain's idea of the "high road"? What a loser. He's a disgrace to America.

    • Posted By: Davole @ 08/05/2008 6:59:30 PM

      Comment: Anthony -

      I won't even comment on the second half of your screen name nere - probably everybody knows the inference here!

      Congratulations - although you're repeated yourself in your second post, you've actually managed to include a second comment.

      That's definitely an accomplishment for an obamabot.

  • Posted By: AnthonyAfterwit @ 08/03/2008 2:27:19 PM

    Comment: Is this McCain's idea of taking the high road? What a loser.

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/03/2008 5:09:06 AM

    Comment: Here we go now it's 9 times. 9 times! Davherpe ahs refused to answer a very simply question on a different thread and now comes herer to paste more silliness...ever gonna man up there dav?

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/02/2008 9:59:59 PM

    Comment: "Wasn't this going to be a campaign free of the usual partisan bickering?"...

    That's what John Mccain SWORE and has never looked back, as he and rick dahmer daivs fling mud, and lies everywhere. While Obama, laughingly responds and mccain says Obama creid "race"

    Funny how on the EXACT DAY Obama returns to asking the question to people "Are you better off then you were 4yrs ago, or 8yrs ago, do you think you can stand 4 more years of it?"...and gets a roar of "NOs!" from the crowd, John McCain, takes a piece of Obama'a speech which he has been saying for months now, and CRIES OUT about it...I will give RICK DAHMER DAIVS credit for his timing there ;)

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/02/2008 4:16:30 PM

    Comment: John McCain could'nt attract a crowd of 200,000 if he covered himself in SH!T and counted the flies...ROFLMAO!!!! - My Mom wrote that one, way to go Mom ;) Gotta love it!

    • Posted By: Davole @ 08/02/2008 10:15:22 PM

      Comment: hardlyhere -

      Medic! ... Medic! ... Emergency! ... Emergency!
      Or on second thought - cancel that call!

      It???s just a little boy hyperventilating because he can???t get his way.

      Once we extract that thumb from his mouth, he should be OK (or as close to it as he has ever been).

      So, you???ve got a very, very close relationship with your mother - that explains a lot!
      And it sure seems as though it may ???run in the family.???

      Are you admitting that she supplies your talking points for you? That???s interesting.

      After reviewing your pathetic attempt at humour to which you attribute to your mother, it wouldn???t surprise me if her favourite vacation destination is the city dump or a sanitation sewer.

      Many people go to a park to feed the birds and squirrels, but you make it seem as though she goes to her preferred spot to feed the flies. Very interesting!

      Time out!
      Maybe it might be worth while for you to take a ride on your bicycle - or better still, use your tricycle, since you do seem to be quite unsteady now.

      If you???re good (or bad, depending on what your mother admires), maybe she???ll even let you stay up until 7:00 p.m. tonight.

      • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/03/2008 7:12:56 PM

        Comment: Ist off I don't have a mom me and my dad use yours...
        and let me tell you speaking of flies, we did not even have to go to a garbage dump, her crotch was covered with them, but then you know that because according to your MOMMY you spend more time there then her own pubic hair does, which by the way I have seen dread locks before but DUDE, she got them down there.

        If you called it hair pie she'd be a bakery...hell a comericial bakeryfor that matter.

        I swear your mom is teh source of MOST if not ALL Bigfoot sightings, just based on her smell,let alone the hair every where, but you'd know that because according to your mommy, you groom her regularly, and oraly like a little cat, or the big pu$$y you are....

        Should I go on...

        Tell what let's get off moms, as I just got off yours...and stck to the topic of unanswered questions, like why you lust for your own mother, or what happened to your daddy?...Oedipus

        Hey your mom say's get your room cleaned up, what's up with all the Obama pics, vasaline, and wadded up tissues...ewe.

  • Posted By: philh64 @ 08/02/2008 1:21:37 PM

    Comment: Ugh, I'm sick of this election already. I can't believe how nasty and negative McCain has gotten. It's such a turn-off. The Republicans know they can't win on the issues, so instead, they're complaining their opponent is "too popular."

    Nobody whined when Fred Thompson, Arnold Schwarzenegger or Ronald Reagan decided to run for office when their only credentials were Hollywood acting careers. Obama actually served in elected office and worked for the public good before running.

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/03/2008 8:54:23 PM

      Comment: Well I definitely know that Reagan and Thompson both are/were men of substance compared to Obama.
      * Ronald Reagan was Governor of California for two terms (8 years)
      * Fred Thomson represented Tennessee as a Republican in the U.S. Senate for two terms (8 years) from 1994 through 2002.
      As for Arnold, I dont know much about him. Maybe someone else will fill you in on him. I do know he cannot run for President of the United States given he was born and raised in Austria.

  • Posted By: bristgus @ 08/02/2008 4:24:11 AM

    Comment: fossil fuels are not sustainable, and sustainable energy isn't here yet in a widespread, commerically available form. You need one to make the other. Higher cost for fossil fuels means higher production costs for sustainable fuels.

    Democrats and Republicans are both wrong. America needs a third party to kick them both in the ass

  • Posted By: mj it @ 08/01/2008 4:05:00 PM

    Comment: McCain is jealous and mean. After all he is the guy who abandoned his disabled wife and 3 kids for a young, rich beer heiress to only then abandon her after a stroke for her to learn to walk on her own.

    This is true McCain character -- it's coming out in all it color and glory. He is mean, an opportunist (now climbing into bed with Big Oil - who cares NOTHING about regular Americans) and not an underdog - but just low-class.

    McCain doesn't have the character to be a leader. Only a tool.

    Don't want anything like McCain as a leader.

    • Posted By: neocon @ 08/04/2008 3:23:21 PM

      Comment: How about the $400,000 from oil companies and $29,500 Obama has taken from associates of Hamas?
      The media has tended to gloss over anything that could put BHO in a poor light. But, he's still losing poll numbers.

  • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 3:29:15 PM

    Comment: 5 Democrats (moderate) and 5 Republicans (moderate) have come together to discuss our current energy crisis. They have come up with ERA of 2008. ENERGY REFORM ACT of 2008. Under the leadership of Senator Conrad (D-ND) and Senator Chambliss (R-GA), today, they submitted a bill that is fully paid and offers a BALANCE of Finding More US oil, Funding alternative energy, and conserving energy. It will open up the southern eastern offshore - but NOT around FL nuclear weapons testing area and NOT WITHIN 50 miles of FLORIDA COAST. It will be funded by levying ROYALTIES on all offshore drilling. (Not just minor lease payments)

    This is the only WIN-WIN solution offered on the Senate floor in the past 1 1/2 years.

    Please contact your Senators to support the ENERGY REFORM ACT OF 2008, by Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND), Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga), Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.).

    • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 08/01/2008 6:46:02 PM

      Comment: NICE................PROBLEM IS..............NEEDS 50 MORE VOTES!

      • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/01/2008 10:45:39 PM

        Comment: And OBAMA SUPPORTS IT...he said so today because it also addresses WIN FALL PROFIT TAXES and includes a rebate for you and me. $500 single, and $1000 coulpe ;)

        My Man ;)

        • Posted By: neocon @ 08/04/2008 3:26:11 PM

          Comment: So your willing to pay more for gas to get a couple bucks back? Good economic sense, lol.

      • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 6:55:40 PM

        Comment: Contact BOTH of your Senators DEMANDING they represent their constituents BEFORE the elections.

  • Posted By: tiredoflies @ 08/01/2008 3:00:07 PM

    Comment: I can tell you this:

    Foreign presidents and dignitaries would have NOT stood beside a celebrity at high level press conferences being broadcast worldwide. They did stand beside Obama talking about promising new leadership in America.

    Perhaps they could speak honestly and without bias as to what they see in Obama as they are not afflicted by the decease of racism I see raising its ugly head here.

  • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 2:49:45 PM

    Comment: We have a choice. We can leave things in the hands of the extremists in both the Democratic and Republican Parties, who care nothing about the US citizens, until they want our vote.

    If the extremist Democrats cared about the high cost of gas, they would never stopped funding in the early 80's for alternative and renewable energy. The switch from domestic produced oil did not happen overnight. In the 70's under Carter, we had the OPEC oil embargo. Our scientists came up with ideas for extracting oil from the oil shale fields in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming; wind generators, solar panels etc. After the embargo ended, the Democratic Congress eliminated funding for oil shale, coal gasification and even the solar industry was on the outs. (Apparently they weren't providing enough campaign funding to the extremist Democrats.) And offshore drilling was banned under George HW Bush.

    Yes, we need alternative and renewable energy sources. But, the only energy the extremist Democrats are talking about is POWER PLANTS - ELECTRICITY. Do they expect us to stay at home (or at work) while they are flying all over the world and flying home every Thursday-Monday? Do they think they are the only worthy people to USE transportation energy? They feel WE are the ones who need to conserve - not them. Without a balance of conservation and new transportation energy, we will always be at the mercy of foreign nations. It is no more logical to only drill for oil in ANWR than it is to expect the US citizens must revert to bicycles and have NO solutions for TRANSPORTATION energy.

    How did our Democratic Congress allow the mega-mergers of all the oil companies anyway starting in the late 80's? Exxon and Mobil merged November 30, 1999 - under Clinton's watch - unchallenged. However, mega-mergers in all industries had been on the rise during the Reagan Administration - under DEMOCRATIC Congress. SO - NO PARTY IS INNOCENT!

    It's not JUST the oil men of Bush and Cheney who are receiving major lobbyist money. Shell/Texaco is supporting major players in the Democratic Congress. Wind power energy companies are lobbying BOTH sides heavily and contributing to both parties campaigns.

    Extremists on both parties have been destroying our country for 3 1/2 decades, and each election their numbers go, both by new members and by the incumbents who felt, "if you can't beat them, join them."

    It's time to take our government back! Defeat the extremists from both parties. DO NOT ALLOW AN ABSOLUTE MAJORITY FOR EITHER PARTY!!

    • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 08/01/2008 6:50:47 PM

      Comment: AGAIN...............GREAT IDEA..................BUT THE MODERATES IN CONGRESS ARE ABOUT 30 TOTAL ON BOTH SIDES...........MAYBE ONLY 25..................IT WILL TAKE DECADES OF UNIFIED EFFORT TO UNSEAT ALL THE EXTREMISTS ON BOTH SIDES, UNFORTUNATELY THE MONEY THAT BUYS ELECTIONS IS IN THE HANDS AND POCKETS OF THE LEFT AND RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS.

      • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 6:57:46 PM

        Comment: 1/3 of the Senators are up for reelection. Those 1/3 WILL listen. Some states offer recall votes for those who refuse to compromise. If they refuse to work for the people, it's time they become UNEMPLOYED!

  • Posted By: love this country @ 08/01/2008 2:41:15 PM

    Comment: befair, you could not have been more correct! These neo-nuts have nothing to talk about except the smear and fear what they have done for years! Oh, the sheep that follow these nuts, are so afraid to look around the corner because they believe what the neo-nuts are telling them! They flip-flop on everything to press their agenda! They never admit they were wrong and they always attack the messenger and not the message! These sheep, if they just took the time to find facts instead of listening to the Drug Lover Limbaugh, Savage Wiener, Hannity Insanity, or Bill Orally, as commonly known as the Frank Burns of Journalism, and all those crazies at Fox Fiction News they may find the actual facts! These are the same people who supported Bush and all his lies to get us into the Iraq War and we find out later that Bush used propaganda and lies, as the Senate Intelligence Committee reported earlier this year! And you people still believe these commentators! As per the government reports, there are 68 million acres that the oil barons can drill, not to mention that on the west coast of Alaska, which is called the Alaskan Saudi Arabia! They also report that we only have 3% of the worlds oil and we use about 30% of the worlds oil! Do the math!

  • Posted By: cfusaone @ 08/01/2008 2:39:56 PM

    Comment: Maramara in a comment has compared our young candidate to King Solomon, how sad that is for us as the Christian Faithful TODAY who will vote in the most crucial election year...But let me see...if I am to read the scriptures quoted correctly with above-all-else a full comprehendsion---I would have to realize that this young KING was still firstly not considering to "CHANGE" the way his Human Father King David through GOD's guidence had already set-up the Civil Laws of the LAND so-to-speak to be enforced in our Promised Land. Point made for certain in those scriptures is that being handed the Kingdom and being so young when his human father passed away---At least he had a good inspired instilled foundation, being King David's Young Son which could only serve to uphold and enhance---not to "CHANGE" in anyway, what was already set-in-stone through the Messiahship of his father, King David when it involved Civil Matters of living life within God's Kingdom Rule on Created Earth. Look in any Holy Bible in Isaiah 9:6 & 7 If you'd deny that would have not been true in his case as
    God's Kingdoms' youngest KING???

  • Posted By: befair @ 08/01/2008 2:13:57 PM

    Comment: We have a choice, we can leave things in the hands of the Republican Party, who think about the american people only when they have to for political reasons. This off-shore drilling story is nothing more than a tactic held in reserve by the GOP, they count on the american people being too busy or uninterested in sorting through the details to discover the truth and that truth is , the oil industry has 68 million acres of leased property across this country, that they could be drilling on but the aren't.The current administration wants we the voters to believe that the only oil available is off-shore. That is not true. It keeps working for them politically though and as long as the public is willing to buy it, they will keep selling it. Some people compain that the government is not doing its job but it is we, the voters who can and should hold them accountable and I am not talking about criticizing the Dem. Congress and trying to hold them responsible for the miserable way George Bush has performed his duties as our President. We can stop being manipulated with predictable tactics that John McCain is engaging in and stop letting George Bush get away with playing politics with the serious issues that our country faces. The republican party boasts that it is for smaller government, well that is fine with me too but first the government should be efficient and should do what it is designed to do. When that is accomplished and the government is running smoothly, then we can worry about the size. Our country has grown and it seems natural that the government would have to adjust to better serve the people.

  • Posted By: gobbledegook @ 08/01/2008 1:59:36 PM

    Comment: Who are these people and just what do they want from me? All I want is buck and a quarter gasoline the way it was when Geo W Bush took office. Country First: but first put Toby Keith on the Ipod; "Let's Talk About Me." Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Barrack Hussein Obama are all clamoring for attention and what do they want from me? They can all have each other, just leave me alone and get back to the good ol' days of the good ol' boys when Geo W Bush took office and gas was a buck and a quarter. Toby Keith and John McCain have fresh new ideas of how to repeat Geo W Bush and his success. Country First: but first put Toby Keith on your Ipod. Why? "Let's talk about me."

    • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 08/01/2008 6:52:55 PM

      Comment: ?????????..............YOUR RIGHT.................THAT IS GOBBLEDEGOOP....

  • Posted By: redheaded blue girl @ 08/01/2008 1:34:07 PM

    Comment: McCain looks more dishonest, bitter, whiny and pathetic each day.

  • Posted By: Davole @ 08/01/2008 12:59:54 PM

    Comment: Pelosi blocks offshore drilling vote GOP wants
    Zachary Coile, Chronicle Washington Bureau
    Friday, August 1, 2008

    For weeks, pressure has been mounting in Congress to approve more domestic oil drilling, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has held the line, using her power to block a vote on offshore drilling.

    President Bush has made almost daily calls for Democratic leaders to take action. House GOP leaders, citing a new poll showing that a slim majority of Californians now favor offshore drilling, issued a release Thursday saying "even (Pelosi's) own California neighbors oppose her efforts to block new drilling far off American coasts." GOP lawmakers are so disgruntled they're urging Bush to deny Congress its August break by calling a special session on energy.

    Some Democrats wary

    Even some Democrats are getting antsy, fearing the party's stance could hurt them in the fall elections. But Pelosi, who has opposed offshore drilling throughout her two decades in Congress, insists opening new areas to drilling won't lower gas prices in the short term. She believes a vote would only help the GOP blame Democrats for high gas prices.

    "I will not ... give the administration an excuse for its failure," Pelosi said at an end-of-session roundtable interview Thursday.

    Republicans have put a bull's-eye on the federal moratorium on coastal drilling, which has kept most of the East and West coasts off limits to new oil rigs since 1982. Bush announced earlier this month that he would lift the presidential moratorium on drilling, and the GOP is now seeking to lift the congressional ban.

    Pelosi drew derision from her critics for telling the Web site Politico this week that she was blocking a vote on offshore drilling because "I'm trying to save the planet." But she elaborated on that theme Thursday,
    saying she sees energy independence and fighting global warming as "my flagship issue." She said she will use her power to resist a policy that could increase the country's oil dependency.

  • Posted By: Davole @ 08/01/2008 12:55:51 PM

    Comment: Continued - Pelosi blocks offshore drilling vote GOP wants

    "I'm not going to be diverted for a political tactic from a course of action that has a big-picture view - a vision about an energy-independent future that reduces our dependence on fossil fuels ... and focuses on those renewables that are protective of the environment," she said.

    Republicans are quietly gleeful at Pelosi's tactics, which have only breathed more life into an issue the GOP is clinging to as a lifeline in an otherwise grim year for the party. Some House Republicans said Thursday that they will ask Bush to order a special session of Congress in August if lawmakers adjourn this week, as expected, without voting on drilling.

    While a special session is unlikely, House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, made clear that his party plans to use the issue as a bludgeon against Democrats throughout the five-week August recess.

    "A solid majority of Americans want us to have more drilling for more American-made energy, and they aren't going to take no for an answer," Boehner said Thursday. "Speaker Pelosi, Senators (Harry) Reid and (Barack) Obama are defying the will of the American people, and they're doing so at their own risk."

    Some Democrats have already started to shift their views. Rep. Tim Holden, D-Pa., who voted two years ago against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and for a federal ban on offshore drilling, told a hometown paper last weekend he now wants to "drill everywhere."

    A new CNN/Opinion Research poll released this week found that 69 percent of Americans favor more offshore drilling, while 30 percent oppose it. But the poll found the public was split over whether more coastal drilling would lower gas prices, with 51 percent saying yes and 49 percent saying no.

  • Posted By: Davole @ 08/01/2008 12:52:06 PM

    Comment: A Solution to American Oil Dependency

    Put American Ingenuity to Work - Drill Now!

    Reduce the Price of Gas in the US!

    Provide More Good Paying American Employment!

    Stimulate the American Economy!

    Increase the Value of the American Dollar!

    Keep American Dollars out of Terrorist Nations!

    Achieve Oil Sufficiency in America!

    and Put Some American Gas in your Tank!

    Confidently Drive Forward!

    Drill our Way out - Yes we can - Yes we will!

  • Posted By: love this country @ 08/01/2008 12:48:26 PM

    Comment: Look at the estimates from the government not from Fox Fiction News! You might get facts not fiction!

  • Posted By: love this country @ 08/01/2008 12:47:24 PM

    Comment: Hey Native New Yorker, Do you really think Barack is the second coming of the Messiah? You must be smoking the wrong cigarette! Think about what you said and then listen to what, ???Bush said! God told me to attack Iraq??? and ???I talk to God??? and you call Barack second coming of the Messiah? I know you must be listing to Fox Fiction News, because they are using the same talking points! Yes, we should go after the oil baron who have been raping and looting America for the last 7+ years! I know Fox Fiction News didn???t tell you that Bush used propaganda and cherry picked information to invade Iraq which had nothing to do with 9.11! and to boot, Exxon Mobil (Who set another record for profits 11.68 billion with a b in profits) has contract with Iraq for oil and have been negotiating for the last 4 years! Are you that naive to believe Bush and the oil barons? Gas was around $1 and oil was less that $30 when Bush took office! Lets see Bush and Cheney made their fortunes from oil gas and oil went up over 400%! Can you connect the dots?

  • Posted By: love this country @ 08/01/2008 12:33:55 PM

    Comment: That is why people need to be educated because of the neo-nuts wanting ultimate power to run this country! People have no one to blame but themselves if we get Bush???s 3rd tem Teflon John McBush! (Nothing ever sticks to him he can say what he wants and the media never cover it) These neo-nuts have no remorse and will do anything to keep the power they stole from the American People! They will lie, cheat or steal! I am very disappointed that McCain is still a Republican Neo-Nut after what Rove under the direction of Bush did to him in the 2000 Primaries! But the smear and the low road campaigns that these neo-nuts stoop to never seem to amaze me! McCain sold himself to the Devil, Bush, and for that I have lost total respect! McCain could never raise money unless he has Bush on his side and now Teflon John! (Nothing ever sticks to him he can say what he wants and the media never cover it) has Bush???s oil buddies behind him to carry out Bush???s agenda for the wealthy! But on the other hand, If Barack wipes McCain, than all the Neo-Nuts in this country are sure to make a million excuses and whine and cry foul for the next 8 years! For that my right wing friends GET OVER IT!

  • Posted By: Native New Yorker @ 08/01/2008 12:27:39 PM

    Comment: Obama thinks he is the second coming of the Messhiah...his hubris and naivety demonstrate his lack of the appropriate skill set and experience to run this country. He is basically an empty suit with one fantastic PR machine. His recent pronouncement to use the revenues of the oil companies to give Americans $1000 each is SOCIALISM at its best....now we are going after any company that makes a profit??? Shades of Castro and Chavez! What he will nationalize high tech firms? Banks? Pharmacueticals? All because they make a profit, and HE wants to redistribute the wealth. America, wake up. The man is dangerous and an insult to the intelligence of the voters.

  • Posted By: maramara @ 08/01/2008 12:24:57 PM

    Comment: God bless American is the usual saying common in American society. What ponders me is why we Americans do not believe in God. King Solomon was a very young and unskilled when he was chosen as the successor of King David. I believe the Israelites know this story better. King Solomon was the best king that has ever ruled (1 King 3: 5, 7-10). Well, I am an independent but I will like to make the following point to those who think he is young and inexperience are missing the point because a good leader is one who is able to discern between good and evil. I guess you can make the judgement for yourself. Amongst thes two candidates, which of them is a war monger and which of them has been accused of being an appeaser?

  • Posted By: You Know!!! @ 08/01/2008 11:11:51 AM

    Comment: Go Ahead !!!! Vote for Bush # 3 and when he wins...don't whinnnnn.....Just swollow and enjoy it!!!!!

  • Posted By: kkhan @ 08/01/2008 11:00:42 AM

    Comment: Obama is no celebrity, he is just a regular politican feeding the population with the usual gimmick that tends to get them into position of authority. He has no empirical political wisdom, yet he proclaims to have alll the answers to the countless problems facing the American nation. He sounds more like Houdini to me or maybe it's just the senseless voter's mentality in effect once again since they last voted Bush into a second term. He really did a number on the nation & the world as a whole.

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 08/01/2008 10:59:16 AM

    Comment: Many of you remember this....I discussed Hussein's Christian massacring cousin, in Kenya FOR WEEKS...All the obamamohammeds, tried to downplay ridicule, and discredit it. WELL, WELL, WELL.....seems a NEW#1 Bestseller is on the stands. Obama Nation...by..Dr. Jerome Corsi Ph.D(remember the swiftboats???) Here is what Dr. Corsi says............................

    Dr. Jerome Corsi told Sean Hannity yesterday that he has tapes of Barack Obama campaigning for his COUSIN, Raila Odinga, in Kenya back in 2006.

    Odinga???s trying to overthrow the US-backed government of democratically-elected President Mwai Kibaki, so he can institute shari???a law (fundamentalist merging of religion and state) in Kenya.

    Obama campaigned for Odinga as a sitting United States Senator, where he spoke in front of crowds with his cousin Odinga:

    There???s a natural train of logic here that could be very damaging for Obama in the general election if Corsi actually does possess footage of Obama???s Kenyan campaign tour:

    (1) Odinga???s supporters are determined to overthrow the Kenyan government, so his campaign appearances would address that as his chief goal.

    (2) By nature of wanting to overthrow the Kenyan government, Odinga???s supporters are anti-American, since the Kenyan government is US-backed (and at least partially reliant on the US for stability).

    (3) A successful campaign by Odinga would mean making anti-American statements, coupled with anti-Kenyan government statements, at campaign stops to rev up his followers.

    (4) Obama appeared at campaign rallies with Odinga in Kenya, for Odinga???s followers.

    (5) Obama has a proven track record of telling people exactly what they want to hear (see: San Francisco liberals re: bitter, gun-clinging Midwesterners; Ohio voters re: NAFTA; the Canadian government re: NAFTA; the liberal netroots re: FISA, campaign finance reform, you name it).

    You know where this is going.

    If Obama???s audience wanted to hear anti-American remarks, and Odinga always obliged these people, then Obama, with Odinga, at a campaign rally like this, as a sitting US Senator, well, fill in the blank. Or, go read Corsi???s book. Or, just wait for the tapes.

    Should be interesting. BUT WHAT THE HECK....They were only Christians...RIGHT???

    NOBAMA!!!

    • Posted By: raddave @ 08/02/2008 2:21:43 PM

      Comment: UNHolyRoller, you are so full of crap that your eyes are brown. Obama's massacring cousin, Raila Odinga is a member of the Anglican Church, which is Christian. Odinga IS NOT Obama's cousin. Odinga claimed to be a first cousin of Obama on his father's side. Obama's uncle Said Obama has denied any relation to Odinga. Odinga did not become a candidate for the Kenyian presidential election until September 2007. MOST countries presidential election campaigns begin only a few months before the election, not a year and a half before like they do here.

      The 2007 election results in Kenya were controversial. International observers said that the results were flawed at best. So flawed that our own government has not officially recognized the Kenyan government.

      Odinga, since being a Christian would not be trying to istitute sharia law, which is islamic.

      Since Odinga was running to be president of Kenya, he statements would not be anti-american or anti-kenyan statements, but would be against his opponent.

      Dr. Korsi's book "Unfit for Command" was severly discredited and was shown to be full of lies and falsehoods. You also mentioned that his new book is a new #1 bestseller. Since it was only released yesterday it is not even on the best selling list, much less being #1.

      Again Corsi did not even mention having tapes of Obama speaking for Odinga and Fox News didn't play any.

      You and Corsi are full of sh*t.

      GOBAMA!!!



      I saw the interview with Sean Hannity and Corsi NEVER mentioned having tapes of Obama campaigning for Odinga, in fact he didn't even mention that Obama had campaigned for Odinga.

      Odinga has not tried to overthrow the "democratically elected" Government of Kenya. Unless, you mean overthrowing the government by running for the presidency of Kenya. Obama did make a speach in 2006 in Kenya, at the Univeristy of Nairobi, he did not speak out against the current government or for Odinga, he spoke out against the corruption in Kenya.

  • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 10:27:45 AM

    Comment: Senators Boxer (D-CA), Feinstein (D-CA), Durbin (D-IL), Reid (D-NV), Reed (D-RI), Cantwell (D-WA), Murray (D-WA), Wyden (D-OR):

    All feel that tourism is more important than high gas prices.

    • Posted By: raddave @ 08/03/2008 12:05:00 PM

      Comment: Don't forget about Governor Arnold Swarzenegger (R-Ca) and former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) also think this as well.

  • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 10:24:14 AM

    Comment: Senator Salazar's (D-CO) solution to high gas prices:

    Shell (paid lobbyist) said we shouldn't try to extract oil from the oil shale fields in Colorado, Utah or Wyoming.

  • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 10:21:07 AM

    Comment: Senator Boxer's (D-CA) solution to high gas prices:

    Allow the new President to declare an Energy Emergency and restrict and ration remaining gas as the new POTUS sees fit. (S 3044)

  • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 10:19:08 AM

    Comment: Representative Pelosi's (SOH D-CA) solution to high gas prices:

    Give actors, producers and directors a tax break.

  • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 10:15:57 AM

    Comment: Senator Bingaman's (D-NM) solution to high gas prices:

    Sell all the oil in the US r