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  • Posted By: BlessedMan @ 11/04/2008 4:28:02 PM

    A CHANGE is here whether you like it or not. The true colors are being shown by the republicans and its sad they have some much built up hatred like they went through slavery or something. At the end of the day God has control of it all,and he will choose the best person for the position.

  • Posted By: Concerned One @ 11/04/2008 4:27:35 PM

    go mc cain barack is inexperienced. we need a president with experience and leadership qualitys. i am sorry but obama just cant be trusted to lead.please people wake up. McCain Palin the only choice.

  • Posted By: red77wings @ 11/04/2008 4:22:07 PM

    You know in about five hours this whole conversation is going to be moot so why don't you all just go out and vote and shut up already!

    • Posted By: hmminteresting @ 11/04/2008 4:27:07 PM

      Maybe you should quit wasting your time reading these posts.....Hmmm, Your a liberal right

  • Posted By: xeouz @ 11/04/2008 3:16:28 PM

    im with you bulldog.. i feel wieerd to have a president with the name of Obama Laben or Osama Binladen.
    i lost a lot of relly good friends in 911. i would neer forget that......im sorry

    • Posted By: smarti29 @ 11/04/2008 4:26:51 PM

      Yeah but you would like a governor of California named Schwartznegger?

  • Posted By: some1namedjeff3 @ 11/04/2008 3:37:42 PM

    bdc8605 is RIGHT!!!! Hate is what's wrong with this country. I'm a SATANIST. No i DON'T worship satan for the ignorant ones... So to light 7, i don't believe religious and spiritual prefrences make any difference in who a person is.

    • Posted By: Light7 @ 11/04/2008 4:26:47 PM

      To jeff3, religious and spiritual preferences do make a difference. Our country was based on Christian values and beliefs and it is obvious that Obama doesn't stand for anything that our country was based on.

  • Posted By: tomlehr @ 11/04/2008 4:26:24 PM

    I have been self employed for 9 years I don't qualify for any government cheese now that my business has failed. I have paid employemt taxes but the stae auditor explained to me that I don't qualify for unemployment.

  • Posted By: We are all God's Children @ 11/04/2008 4:26:13 PM

    If your going to make a comment, at least make an intelligent one and be able to state the facts. There are many people out there who make money and earn it that Obama is trying to help. He is in the top 5% that he wants to pose additional taxes on but he is concerned about everyone not just making the rich richer and the poor poorer. It is not his sister who is here illegally, it is an aunt that he is out of touch with and her returned the campaign funds back to her. Where do you get your info from? He has never cheated on his wife and do you honestly think that so many people would support him if he really hung out with or was a terriorist. I could go on forever but remember that he has never mentioned color, it is everyone else that is doing that. The bottom line is that Obama is an intelligent bi-racial man that everyone views as a black man! If Obama had white skin we would not be hearing from many of you. The bottom line is that most of the people against Obama are either rich or racist therefore they cannot relate or don't want to relate to the reality of life that most americans have faced for many years.

  • Posted By: tanithvosloo @ 11/04/2008 4:26:08 PM

    ERIKSWYFE not everyone who is unemployed uses drugs, most are out of work through no fault of their own, dont tar everyone with the same brush

  • Posted By: therightone44 @ 11/04/2008 4:03:23 PM

    WOW! WHAT IF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



    Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin: What if the presidential candidates exchanged race?

    Think about it.

    Would the country's collective point of view be different?

    Ponder the following:

    What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the

    stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed,

    pregnant teenage daughter?

    What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard

    Law Review?

    What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his

    graduating class?

    What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was

    divorced?

    What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife

    after she was severely disfigured in a car accident?

    What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a

    long affair while he was still married?

    What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became

    addicted to pain killers but also acquired them illegally

    through her charitable organization?

    What if Cindy McCain had graduated from Harvard?

    What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five?

    (The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of

    corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as

    part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s

    and early 1990s.)

    What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

    What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?

    What if Obama was the one who had military experience that

    included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven

    planes?

    What if Obama was the one who was known to display

    publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management

    problem?

    What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money

    from beer distribution?

    What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?

    You could easily add to this list. If these questions

    reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers

    would be as close as they are?

    This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and

    minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and

    emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a

    color difference.

    Educational Backgrounds ???

    Barack Obama:

    Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a

    Specialization in International Relations.

    Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna *** Laude

    Joseph Biden:

    University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in

    Political Science.

    Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

    vs.

    John McCain:

    United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899

    Sarah Palin:

    Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester

    North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study

    University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism

    Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester

    University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism

    Education isn't everything, but this is about the two highest

    offices in the land as well as our standing in the world.

    • Posted By: ProgressiveOne @ 11/04/2008 4:25:44 PM

      Wow! He crashed five planes? No wonder he got shot down over Viet Nam!! What a putz! Hero? I don't know if dropping bombs on Vietnamese villiagers should be considered heroic.

  • Posted By: tanithvosloo @ 11/04/2008 4:25:02 PM

    ERIKSWYFE not everyone who is without a job uses drugs, most are without jobs through no fault of their own. Does tar everyone with the same brush

  • Posted By: james_t @ 11/04/2008 4:25:02 PM

    All you Obama supporters who are all about "change" read the following: when did the economy start to crash? Within the last two years....when did the democrats take charge of the senate? Two years ago! Bush hasn't done anything that the majority didn't want him to do.....more of the same?? Who's fault is it?? You all are as much to blame as any of us. McCain knows things could have been handled better during the last four to eight years....he will learn from Bush's mistakes! McCain/Palin!!!

  • Posted By: kasey33 @ 11/04/2008 4:18:19 PM

    Why does everyone say Obama is black or an AFRICAN Ameican.....because of tint of his skin? Did he grow up in the projects fighting off drug dealers and learning how to survive, did he have any of the adversities that most blacks have had? He was raised by a white woman and a muslim. If he wasn't running for President and promising to help the poor and no one knew his name and he walked into the projects, they'd call him a Poser and shoot him.

    • Posted By: Saky @ 11/04/2008 4:25:01 PM

      I cant wait till that happens.

  • Posted By: samspud @ 11/04/2008 4:24:00 PM

    thank you kasey33 to many people are saying hes black last time i checked he is both. who cares you would think we were living in 1950

  • Posted By: red77wings @ 11/04/2008 4:23:53 PM

    You know in about five hours this whole conversation is going to be moot. Why doesn't everyone just go out and vote and shut up. No matter who wins, America will still be here - always have been, always will be.

  • Posted By: wzwest1966 @ 11/04/2008 4:23:44 PM

    Edwards Jones Investments says it all: When a democrat has been voted in, inflation has risen 46%. When a Republican has been in office (on the average), it has risen 1%. This is a study done over the past 100 years so if history proves this correct, get ready for HIGHER inflation with Obama!

  • Posted By: motherofgirls @ 11/04/2008 4:23:39 PM

    I don't believe in polls, I don't answer political phone calls. My vote is between me and the machine, no one elses. There are alot of people out there who believe the same way..... This is like getting a Happy Meal prize, you get what you get. Pollsters try and forecast and open the Christmas present before Christmas. Leave it all alone and let the people decide!

  • Posted By: LauraDavids @ 11/04/2008 2:44:40 PM

    I'd like to suggest there are many ways to serve your country. Yes, I value military service but what about members of Doctors Without Borders who, in helping children without access to decent medical care , may put their own lives at risk? What about individuals affiliated with various religions who might do something similar? What about folks in the Peace Core, in VISTA, etc.? What about police officiers, firefighters, etc. Just because someone has served doesn't make what them eligible for hero/etc. status. It also doesn't mean their background, abilities, etc. should not be questioned. I have one question: if Senator McCain wants to put "Country First," as his motto announces, why did he pick Governor Palin, whose experience is mostly in Alaska, a state with about 600,000 folks (if that much)? Why did he pick Palin whose notion of the average American is a hocky mom or Joe six-pack? Why did he pick someone who winks at the public in a speech to the world? (Note: former beauty queen behavior is unacceptable.) Why did he pick someone who got the tiny town of Wasilla into debt?

    • Posted By: Disabled_Marine @ 11/04/2008 2:56:22 PM

      Ms. Davids,

      The next time you go to sleep and cover yourself with the blanket of safety the military men and women died of this great country gave you. Ask yourself would thhis doctor have done the same for me. Would he pick up a weapon and defend me so I can have a nice car, a home, or just have a choice. I think not. Most doctors hid behide the vail of protection during war times to protect their $1,000,000.00 salaries.
      I was an only son and was offered a chance to be discharged honorably from the US Marines. I chose to serve my country and drfend the consttution and our freedoms. O'Bama wishes to tear that all down with taxing the American system till it breaks. Then he can have the middle eastern buddies come take our freedoms and prides away. Making those who died for you to appear to have DIED for nothing!!!
      Is that what you are saying, mam??

      • Posted By: jennzdawgs @ 11/04/2008 4:23:13 PM

        First I agree with what Disabled Marine says and Second - A Hockey Mom is a working mom and that is what the majority of us women are - What do you think the average american woman these days is??? Seems you are the one out of touch - and being govenor of a state of 600,000 is a bigger job with more responsibilities than a lot of our senators!

  • Posted By: 4USA2MORROW @ 11/04/2008 4:22:32 PM

    Are you serious? More of your paycheck is not going to support welfare recipients....its 95% of WORKING CLASS. You need to read his policies instead of watching too much FOX news and believing everything that they say. Be an INFORMED VOTER Check the facts. I second this statement! GET EDUCATED PEOPLE - all unemployed people are not lazy, drug sucking losers!

  • Posted By: OBSERVER_Y_AM_I @ 11/04/2008 4:22:01 PM

    I rather give my money to low lifes here than give it to rich companies and to a losing war in Iraq. GO OBAMA

  • Posted By: MickforObama @ 11/04/2008 4:21:57 PM

    ERIKSWYFE - your an idiot! It's called Spell Check first of all... And people like you have gotten us where we are today - broke with no international friends or allies. Anyone that makes racist comments - then says "just a fact" is making themselves out to be a hypocrite. Please do us all a favor - sshhhhh....

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