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  • Posted By: Cecilpau @ 08/09/2008 11:14:01 PM


    The Obama campaign need to respond to these falsehoods. On Friday Fox News was repeating these McCain lies on Obama policies every hour on the hour. Mc Cain has sunk very low indeed after promising a clean campaign. He is now in the same league as Bush,Cheney,Rove,Gonzales and Libby - Lies, Misinformation and Deception of Voters,as their strategy. For them, dirty tricks is the most effective manner to win an election. Never Mind the country will be ruined by Partisanship and Mismanagement.

  • Posted By: mrscharming @ 08/09/2008 2:38:32 PM

    It is pointless to respond to junglejim and others like him...they are lemmings so willing to believe the crap put out there by the "OMG a Black Boy in The White House" Groups..they can't see past the racism and fear long enough to see that every story pitched about Obama has been PROVEN FALSE. However, these same people have no problem ignoring the complete lack of integrity in the candidate that they support..he can lie, manipulate, twist facts, attack, smear..do whatever he wants and Mccain backers are absolutly BLIND to these things. He flip-flops far more than Obama..but you will never hear a Mccain supporter admit it..even when it's caught on tape! He made a fool if himself in Sturgis...showing what a neanderthal he is..and I would say his followers are willing to overlook everything about him...the most important being that he would be a horrible President...just so a black man with a name like Obama does'nt win. Do you even care who is the better candidate? Does it matter to you that our country is on a downward spiral and will only continue on the same path under Mccains leadership? For once can the people in this country close their eyes to color and funny names and look at the person as an individual? Honestly...I don't think so...not yet anyway. Racism..skinheads, the KKK, Hater extremist like Dobson, and of course those who blindly listen to their lies and scare tactics, are alive and well in the good old USA and they will keep anyone except the GOOD OLD BOYS from running the country...hence the mess we are in. God Help Us all if McCain is elected...the por and middleclass are going to need it..not to mention ANYONE fit to serve in the military..with our forces so thin and us on verge of war with at least 2 country other than Iraq...you can bet the draft is not far off.

    • Posted By: a brighter America 08 @ 08/09/2008 10:49:00 PM

      Georgia has declared they are at war with Russia! The US and other major countries are calling for cease fire but both are still attacking each other. Georgia is a very small country and is fighting the giant, Russia. Some are talking about this fighting spreading beyond Georgia. So now, there is another war going on, although we are not involved it is very frightening. I hope this can be resolved diplomatically before it gets nastier and larger. I think we all need to pray for peace and cooperation in diplomatic resolutions. I just hope GWB and the Republicans do NOT commit our troops to yet another war! The world is going to hell in a handbasket as foreign leaders no longer listen to GWB, and some of you want to put McCain, the OLDER, SENILE VERSION OF BUSH in charge??? That happens and McCain will definitely drag our troops into another war. There don't forget McCain and his "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" and his delight in large shipments of cigarettes, saying that is a good way of killing Iranians. McCain is a warmonger !! By the way, he has also ben a erohwmonger, worse than Edwards. Anyway, you would be looking at FOUR wars with McCain in charge. Is that what YOU want??? Will YOU volunteer to server your country?? If not, then count on being drafted!!

  • Posted By: FauxReal @ 08/09/2008 9:51:11 PM

    Finally, a publication tells the truth about Obama and actually informs the public. Please keep it up because we cannot afford

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 08/09/2008 5:40:27 PM

    Most divisions and wholly owned corporations are sold when they are no longer profitable and there is not future expectation of large profits. Companies that are in dire straits may sell parts of their company in an effort to raise money to stay in business. The point is that Democrat policies have led to a hostile environment where Westinghouse felt that it would not be profitable to continue to keep its nuclear building division. Obama and Democratic proposals to study the nuclear waste disposal issue for another thirty years which will result in no new United States power construction for another thirty years. Most companies can not afford to stay in business if there is no business for thirty year spells. Star Bucks coffee has cut back even with a slight dip in sales. Democratic hostility to nuclear power generation is a reason why United States nuclear power plant construction companies either sell their businesses or go out of business.

    • Posted By: mrzoid @ 08/09/2008 6:09:06 PM

      Really? Tell that to Cindy McCain and the other former board members of Anheiser-Busch, or should i say InBev. Was the A-B company in danger of going under? Many companies sell for reasons far beyond dire financial woes. Once again, tell me how all of this is the democrats fault, seeing as they held the presidency for 12 out of the past 40 years.

      • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 08/09/2008 6:30:14 PM

        Today John McCain calls for the rapid expansion of forty-five new nuclear power plants. Obama wants to study the issue for another thirty years.

        • Posted By: ebony @ 08/09/2008 6:52:04 PM

          There is a reason that no more nuclear power plants have not been built! I admire Obama for looking out for the safety of the American people! And tell me would you want one of those things built anywhere near your home, placing you and your family in danger? THANK OBAMA FOR YOUR INTELLIGENCE AND THOUGHTFULNESS!

          • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 08/09/2008 8:45:04 PM

            The land surface area of the United States is about 3.4 million square miles. The population of the United States is about 300 million. So that divides out to roughly 1 square mile for each hundred people. There are a 640 acres in a square mile so there are about 6.4 land acres for each person in the United States. There are another 12.8 acres of ocean acreage for each American. There are a lot of places where there are no people, that new nuclear power plants can be built. Did you ever look out the window of an airplane as you are flying over the United States. There are a lots of open areas where there is no population. Forty-five nuclear power plants could be easily located in areas of little population. John McCain proposals will bring about our energy independence quickly.

        • Posted By: mrzoid @ 08/09/2008 7:31:38 PM

          Did Obama say that, or is that your typical bullshit conjecture. My guess is the latter. You just continue to skirt the question though; HOW ARE ALL THE COUNTRIES PROBLEMS THE DEMOCRATS FAULT WHEN THEY HAVE ONLY HELD EXECUTIVE CONTROL FOR TWELVE OF THE PAST FORTY YEARS????

          • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 08/09/2008 8:02:30 PM

            Comment: Under Nixon and Ford, the United States built 100 nuclear power plants and American owned Westinghouse was the world leader in nuclear plant construction. In the last thirty years not a single nuclear power plant has been built. Today John McCain calls for the rapid expansion of forty-five new nuclear power plants. Obama wants to study the issue for another thirty years.

        • Posted By: katylies @ 08/09/2008 6:56:09 PM

          But just don't build those nuclear power plants near his ranch in Sedona!

  • Posted By: a brighter America 08 @ 08/09/2008 8:09:25 PM

    Posted By: paul962 @ 08/09/2008 6:44:42 PM
    Comment: John McCain lied to his first wife while he was sleeping with his future second wife.
    So much for loyalty as practiced by john McCain.
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    Actually, McCain had MULTIPLE AFFAIRS WITH MANY DIFFERENT WOMEN, HE FINALLY SETTLED ON THE RICHEST AND THE YOUNGEST WITH A DAD WHO HAD POLITICAL CONNECTIONS AND WHO PAVED McCAIN'S ROAD INTO HIS POLITICAL CAREER. McCain should be getting the same kind of scruiiny as John Edwards. If John Edwards' political career is over because of his indescretion, then so should McCain's because of his MANYm MANY indescretions WITH MANY, MANY WOMEN!

  • Posted By: a brighter America 08 @ 08/09/2008 7:55:10 PM

    More news outlets MUST put this information out there for the public to know what McCain is doing: Blatantly lying about Senator Obama's policies and how he has voted. It's a sad day when a candidate wins the presidency by blatantly lying about his opponent! Yes, I know, it has been done repeatedly by the Republicanliars but we need to put a stop to this. The Republicans are dishonest, always have been but McCain seems to be taking it to a much higher level. I believe McCain is putting all these lies out there to try and project Senator Obama as a stupid black person who cannot think. Yes, McCain is playing the race card all over the place with his "my opponent does NOT UNDERSTAND, my opponent DOES NOT KNOW, my opponent DOES NOT SEE, etc. etc. Yes, McCain is prjecting Senator Obama as a black man who cannot understand anything and is too dumb to grasp things. The FACT of the matter is that SENATOR OBAMA HAS A BRILLIANT MIND, IS MUCH, MUCH MORE INTELLIGENT AND SHARPER THAN MCCAIN EVER WAS, IS, OR EVER WILL BE. McCain is a dirty politician, no bars held!! As Paris says, "This old white wrinkly white-haired dude" is pathetic. He does not belong in the White House, he belongs in a mental institution for his dementia or at the very least at home with a caregiver, People must keep informed of McCains never-ending lies and total distortions about Senator Obama. And of course of McCain's lies boosting his own campaign. War hero, BS!! The man servered in the VietNam War LESS THAN ONE YEAR and than got shot down and spent nearly five years as a POW. This is NOT heroic!! I know a few POWs and they have never put POW and heroism in the same statement. They rarely talk about being a POW and never claim heroism for that. McCain, however is over emphasizing his POW and his VietNam years. Furthermore, McCain is a COWARD and not a hero. He did Ads against America and his comrades on behalf of the enemy and he also gave them information they needed. McCain is a COWARD, NOT A HERO!! Someone must subpeona his Military Records!!! Why did he seal them?? Also, McCain was NEVER AWARDED "THE MEDAL OF HONOR" which is reserved for TRUE WAR HEROES!! McCain has been parading himself around as a War Hero when in fact he is a fraud!!

  • Posted By: Drdike @ 08/09/2008 7:15:27 PM

    The trade mark of the GOP has always being to conquer by deception. Typical GOP propagandist knows that average American never have the time to check the product we are sold. We live in a fast-food kind of environment That's why we are under the influence and control of food and pharmaceutical industries. The price we pay for this kind of tragic siuation is sickness, disease and death. The worst victims of GOP tactics are mostly uneducated populaton, the Rush Limbaugh crowd. Any wonder that Obama, since the primary is still leading among the college educated Americans in the gallup poll. The GOP tactics of deception is what got us into senseless Iraqis war, 4000 American soldiers died. While Americans are suffering on foreclusures and working hard everyday to give up their paycheck to the gas pump, the Iraqi's are laughing to the bank with oil windfall of about 150 billion dollars. The beneficiaries of this oil crisis, McCainBushCheney understands that most Americans are under hypnotic spell of fear and ignorance and will not know when they are lied or decieved. The lackadaisical attitude of most Americans makes the GOP tactics work so beautiful. I know a lot about hypnotism and the authorities knows it too. The Idle, slow or dreamily indolent, lacking in spirit, drive and commitment to check facts is not typical of average uneducated.The GOP will never reinvent their deceptive and fear tactics because they understand that most Americans are still in their hypnotic condition.

    • Posted By: mrzoid @ 08/09/2008 7:36:43 PM

      The GOP has always been superior in terms of political manuvering, just inferior in terms of their platform. They've convinced a good section of the population to vote against their best intrests every election; but their acctual platform is citizens be damned, get the money, dolla dolla bills yall.

  • Posted By: JPACTS @ 08/09/2008 6:18:24 PM

    who cares Obama will STILL be raising taxes for a nyone whose gone to college and borne much stress

    • Posted By: ewaynes @ 08/09/2008 7:25:58 PM

      Finally - Some people are waking up to smell the very bitter coffee. Taxes have to go up with either candidate. Has anyone noticed the deficit? It was bad before "W". Now, at $9.5 trillion, it's atrocious and embarrassing. The very idea that a tax rebate / tax rate reduction will ultimately yield enough incremental tax revenue to offset the original rebate and the deficit is economically impossible. Check out the maximum personal tax rates of "comparable" countries - Australia 45%, Canada 47%, Denmark 63%, France 50%, Sweden 59%. And these countries haven't been spending money on two wars for 7 years and trying to pay for it with a tax cut. Yeah, I know Australia and Canada "support" our "War on Terror", but not financially. It's time to focus on our own affairs. For you Fox Freaks, I'm not advocating blind nationalism. But our FOCUS for 7 years has been everywhere but our own backyard. Time to clean it up.

    • Posted By: mrzoid @ 08/09/2008 6:20:46 PM

      Sure will, and so will McCain. So would Bob Barr, and so would Cynthia McKinney. Its the current state of the economic requirements of this country. Accept it and move on, its going to happen.

      • Posted By: ebony @ 08/09/2008 6:49:30 PM

        YOU ARE SO RIGHT! NO MATTER WHO GET'S IN OFFICE THE TAXES WILL GO UP! AS BIASED AS FOX NEWS IS THEY SAID MCCAIN WILL DO IT! MCCAIN JUST SO HAPPENS NOT TO BE HONEST ABOUT IT JUST LIKE HE SEEMS TO NOT BE HONEST ABOUT A LOT OF STUFF! LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE ANOTHER BUSH ON OUR HANDS! WAKE UP AMERICA IF YOU VOTE THIS MAN IN OFFICE WE WILL BE IN A WORLD OF TROUBEL!

  • Posted By: ebony @ 08/09/2008 7:06:32 PM

    MCCAIN IS A DISHONORABLE MAN AND DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE PRESIDENT!

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 08/09/2008 5:19:15 PM

    Obama and the Democrats with their tax and energy proposals want to kill the United States auto industry just like they have killed the United States nuclear industry and United States owned oil industry and ship building industry in the past. Despite leading the world with having built the first civilian commercial reactor in Shippensport Pennsylvania, there has not been a single new nuclear power plant built in the United States in the last thirty years. Now, France generates eighty percent of its electricity from nuclear energy while the United States on generates twenty percent of its electricity from nuclear energy. Obama wants to study the nuclear waste disposal issue for another thirty years. It is no accident that the largest US builder of nuclear power plants, Westinghouse Nuclear Power Construction Division was bought out by Toshiba Corporation of Japan. While 80 percent of the electricity of the country of France is generated by nuclear power, only twenty percent in the US is generated due to the successful efforts of Democratic party to kill the US nuclear power industry. Significantly, nuclear power is not considered a mainstay of Democratic plans to address our energy crisis.There is also a worldwide shortage and backlog of orders for oil drilling platforms and oil drilling ships but US shipyards are not building these ships. Only one percent of the world's commercial ships are built in US shipyards. Hold your breath for the Democratic outcry and push for government help to US ship builders to build oil drilling ships in the US. Democratic disdain for energy production by US companies is evident with the current ownership of former US energy companies. Is it any surprise that the American jewell Arco Oil Company which owned 80 percent of our Alaska Oil Reserves was bought out by British Petroleum Corporation at the end of the second administration of Bill Clinton due to the hostile Democratic attitude toward American owned energy companies. The centerpiece of the energy proposals of Obama is increased fuel efficiency. Obama knows that American auto companies are at a disadvantage compared to Japan to bring online more fuel efficient automobiles. Obama knows that his proposals will cost more United States auto jobs in Detroit due to the loss of business to Japanese auto manufacturers. Obama and the Democrats tax and energy proposals are clearly catering to their base in trying to kill the United States auto industry just as they have killed the United States Nuclear Power industry and United States owned oil industry

    • Posted By: mrzoid @ 08/09/2008 5:26:44 PM

      You continue to yak and yak and yak. What about the years under Nixon, under Ford? The 20yrs under the Reagan and Bush Administrations? You are so blinded by your own rancor that you dont even see the obvious statistics. In the past 40 yrs, democrats have held the presidency 12 YEARS!!! It's all the democrats fault? Put down the pipe man!

      • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 08/09/2008 7:05:08 PM

        Under Nixon and Ford, the United States built 100 nuclear power plants and American owned Westinghouse was the world leader in nuclear plant construction. In the last thirty years not a single nuclear power plant has been built. Today John McCain calls for the rapid expansion of forty-five new nuclear power plants. Obama wants to study the issue for another thirty years.

    • Posted By: ebony @ 08/09/2008 6:56:21 PM

      Mccainsupporter I have one question for you....ARE YOU, YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE 4-8 YRS AGO? If not, I suggest to you that you just might want to VOTE OBAMA! McCain will continue the same destructive path that Bush has put us in! Don't be so blind! Wake up! McCain is already being dishonest with his ads! Just imagine what else he is being dishonest about!

  • Posted By: Denniswm2003 @ 08/09/2008 7:04:32 PM

    As usual the Elephants are resorting to the same old tactics, lying. Remember,"NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND, WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, $2.00 GAS??!!"
    Are Americans that stupid, like the rest of the world believes. WAKE UP!!

  • Posted By: ebony @ 08/09/2008 7:01:38 PM

    IF YOU MAKE LESS THAN $250,000 OBAMA WILL NOT RAISE YOUR TAXES!!!!!!

  • Posted By: ebony @ 08/09/2008 7:01:08 PM

    IF YOU MAKE LESS THAN $250,000 OBAMA WILL NOT RAISE YOUR TAXES!

  • Posted By: ebony @ 08/09/2008 7:00:37 PM

    IF YOU MAKE LESS THAN $250,000 OBAMA WILL NOT RAISE YOUR TAXES!

  • Posted By: Wise_Guy @ 08/09/2008 6:46:14 PM

    I am so tired of hearing and seeing Senator McCain him attacking Senator Obama, when what he needs to do is start telling the American people the truth as to what he is plans to do if elected as President. He feels that we should vote for him just because he is a veteran and prisoner of war but in all of the years he has been a senator I do not remember anything he has done to get the veterans better healthcare, pay and etc. Senator McCain is always speaking about his experience but I still trying to found out what experience is he refering to unless is it once again comparing himself with Senator Obama. Also, why would we want to vote (again) for someone who is a womanizer even doing the time his 1st wife Carol was recovering from a serious accident which led to him divorcing her to married his present wife Cindy. I know some will say that this is his life but the answer is yes and no, you can judge a man by his character and actions which would gives more insight of the type of person who wants to be President. I am currently reading "The Real McCain"; this is a real eye opener. Senator McCain is so out of touch with almost everyting, well everything.

  • Posted By: ebony @ 08/09/2008 6:45:14 PM

    McCain has had an affair and it is a well documented fact! That is how he and his present wife got married! Ol McCain left his first wife for her! So do your fact checking and research! You will find out a lot of stuff! And McCain should be ashamed of himself for downright lying about Obama! If you win why not do it honestly! MCCAIN IS NOT AN HONOURABLE MAN!

  • Posted By: paul962 @ 08/09/2008 6:44:42 PM

    John McCain lied to his first wife while he was sleeping with his future second wife.
    So much for loyalty as practiced by john McCain.

  • Posted By: ebony @ 08/09/2008 6:43:05 PM

    MCCAIN IS A VERY DISHONOURABLE MAN!

  • Posted By: ebony @ 08/09/2008 6:42:32 PM

    Well my question is will the media continue to let McCain get away with this? McCain is showing his true colors! McCain most definitely is not an honourable man! If he is not honest about the little things imagine the big things! McCain would be a very dangerous man for our country!

  • Posted By: arkay @ 08/09/2008 6:41:13 PM

    The MSM has bent over backwards to further the Obama candidacy from the rush to print the unsubstantiated rumor of an affair to the extensive critism of McCain's plans and the blind acceptance of Obama's promises. It calls to question the whther the First Amendment needs to be reviewed as we have revisited other parts of the Constitution

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