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  • Posted By: proud2barmy @ 11/04/2008 4:21:49 PM

    I think everyone needs to step back and do their studying on the Constitution. Bush did not destroy this country, he does not have the power to do that....Bush, or any other president cannot do anything without Congress. Congress passes the laws, Bush only signs the law. If people really wnat change, change Congress, make your Senators and Representatives stand accountable, including McCain and Obama. Neither of these candidates will able to one single, solitary thing they have promised unless Congress allows it. The President is a face that lobbies Congress, the same thing we can do...Personally, I don't think either one of them are up for the job, I would have liked to see someone like Colin Powell run, but this is what we have. If we truly want to see some change happen, start with Congress, get rid of the electoral vote, speak up, get involved, and set an example.

  • Posted By: wzwest @ 11/04/2008 4:21:14 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: zacharycss @ 11/04/2008 4:21:06 PM

    Look in the paper, there are a ton of jobs out there, just because its you dont want the job does not mean there are no jobs!

  • Posted By: A SMART AMERICAN @ 11/04/2008 4:11:57 PM

    Comment.... You people that are on here bashing Obama are idiots.. Mccain's dumb ass vote with Bush 90% of the time.. All McCain is another Bush... us middle class folk cant afford that crap again.. The only people that are voting for McCain, makes more than 100,000 a year.. IF YOU DONT....that would explain your stupidity.... GO OBAMA.!!!!!!!!

    • Posted By: Melis2004 @ 11/04/2008 4:20:48 PM

      Why should my husband and I be punished for making a few hundred thousand dollars a year. We worked very hard on our education and careers to get us where we are. Why should someone tax us more to give to people that do not want to help themselves? I don't think it is fair to call someone like me stupid. If a person wants what we have then they should work for it, as we did.

  • Posted By: CM1002 @ 11/04/2008 4:14:32 PM

    Omg, i can't believe the ignorance spouting out of some people on this site. Please go read a book, get some education and realize that there are so many more issues that welfare and so called "lazy people". I can't wait until you lose your job in this failing economy and won't even be eligible for as much as a slice of government cheese.

    • Posted By: 4USA2MORROW @ 11/04/2008 4:20:29 PM

      I agree!! I am a college educated middle aged woman who is a single mom. I raised my kids' alone for the past 15 years and guess what? I LOST MY JOB because the housing and banking market crumbled. My stocks and 401K which I saved for 20 years is GONE! Am I a stupid lazy american who wants to collect a welfare check!?? Hell Ya! I'm broke now and its time to do something about what is happening in this country. McCain will be more of the same - I'm voting Obama and I am a republican!

  • Posted By: celebrate57 @ 11/04/2008 4:19:55 PM

    If you expect to have your comments viewed as intelligent, you must first learn the proper usage of the English language and the proper use of grammar and spelling. If your comment involves subject matter pertaining to the Lord, you must also learn that "God" is always capitalized when you are referencing religion

  • Posted By: Rhino275 @ 11/04/2008 3:19:03 PM

    You say Obama is a great speaker just remember so was Hitler and look how that turned out. The young people today want change. Change from what; all they know is what their parents feed them. I served this Country???s in the Military I did not have the choice where to go or who to fight But I did have the choice to join and protect this great country so all Americans wood have the right to vote. Even if you want to give this country away to an unpatriotic Socialist like Obama and his kind; first, he did not serve this country, He did not salute this country, and most of all from his own books does not love this country. He just wants to run this country; and run it he will straight in the ground. Remember the Democrapes ran the house they are to blame more than George Bush he received this country from a known lire and cheat Bill Clinton that was to busy doing other things to run this country. Vote for McCain

    • Posted By: Gleeson @ 11/04/2008 3:39:54 PM

      Thankyou for your sevice. It is greatly appreciated. As far as being run into the ground goes, maybe you haven't been home in a while. The country HAS been run into the ground. The worst Obama could do, is run us across it, or get us upof of it again.
      Sorry you're not happy, but I just voted for a new course.
      Gleeson
      OBAMA/BIDEN

      • Posted By: pllortz @ 11/04/2008 4:19:43 PM

        Gleeson, you say Rhino has been gone too long. The problem is you haven't been paying attention while you're here. Maybe you didn't notice but it seems that all these problems didn't arise until the Democrats gained control.

  • Posted By: The Wise One @ 11/04/2008 12:49:18 PM

    Obama was raised by his mother. She is white. He only saw his father twice like most black kids. So he was raised white. He will do a good job, just give him a chance.

  • Posted By: jarheadatunm @ 11/04/2008 4:18:16 PM

    I think EVERY politician in America - Federal, state, local, etc. - should be removed from office. Let's get back to the roots of this country and start interpreting the constiution as it was meant to be. Reduce government involvement as much as possible and start being honest with ourselves. If someone can't make $100K a year, then they can't. The government doesn't need to help. If someone can't work, then their family should take care of them. If your kids are not doing well in school, then maybe YOU need to be more involved. Sorry if that means you have to spend more money on tutors or special schooling. I am personally sick and tired of the right, left and everything in between trying to tell me how to live and what I NEED. Let me choose. Did anyone ask President Washington or President Lincoln for a stimulus check??? Not everyone is meant to be rich, a professional athlete, or a doctor. If you can't get affluent, then deal with it - maybe take it up a notch and work harder or spend less...

  • Posted By: dagwood1959 @ 11/04/2008 4:16:13 PM

    Yea for Mc Cain and Palin Go Go Go keep us Happy!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: tumbleweed1999 @ 11/04/2008 4:16:01 PM

    I can't believe all the name calling and wicked comments from both sides of this. I fully believe that we are in trouble no matter which way we vote. whichever one wins is going to inherit a mess that the previous "resident" help to make. I don't care if you are Democrat or Republican, pray hard and make your mark and may God have mercy on our souls 'cause no one else is going to.

  • Posted By: 4USA2MORROW @ 11/04/2008 4:15:57 PM

    too lazy to get a job or UNABLE to get a job because corporations are moving off shore. Your generalizations zacharycss are fromt he 1960's - get real!

  • Posted By: Proud American 45 @ 11/04/2008 4:14:55 PM

    randyg71161 I am glad you think so little of McCain and Palin. Guess you want someone who has No Experence except on how to snort his coke up his nose. I guess that is what makes you qualifed to be President.

  • Posted By: Proud American 45 @ 11/04/2008 4:06:59 PM

    4us2morrow, why do you blame everything on Bush when Congress has been ran by the Democrats for the past 2 years. They are the ones who send the bills up to the President . Now he can either vote yes or veto the bill. President Bush to my knowledge has only Vetoed 1 Bill. So I blame the Democrats who have put us in the spot where we are now.

    • Posted By: 4USA2MORROW @ 11/04/2008 4:14:42 PM

      Obviously a pathetic response from someone who does not have the slightest idea of how many crap bills the republicans have sent up to mr bush to sign and he has not vetoed them.

  • Posted By: zacharycss @ 11/04/2008 4:14:08 PM

    Obama wants to take money off of people who really earn it and give it to lazy low lifes who are too lazy to go out and get a job. MCCAIN!!!

  • Posted By: Obama2008yeswecan @ 11/04/2008 4:13:38 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.

  • Posted By: HappyDemocrat10 @ 11/04/2008 4:03:28 PM

    Rhonda Jo - You are so ignorant, obviously brain-washed. Obama isn't Muslim and he does salute the American flag. I'll be so glad when he wins so you idiots can see for yourselves what a good president he will make for the next four years.

    • Posted By: achristiansperpective @ 11/04/2008 4:13:28 PM

      See you in the flippin welfare line....oh yea, if he does manage a win ( I doubt) but I would give anything to see the look on your face when that man does not salute the flag...he has not and never will...he is not American!!!!!! He does not beleive in GOD, You idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: FOREVERHISWIFEY @ 11/04/2008 4:13:17 PM

    HEY RhondaJ07! WHY DON'T YOU BUY A NEWSPAPER AND DO SOME READING! OBAMA IS NOT MUSLIM YOU UNINTELLIGENT PERSON! Barack Obama was born at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu, Hawaii. With his Kenyan father and white American mother, his upbringing in Honolulu and Jakarta, and his Ivy League education... When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced and his father returned to Kenya. His mother married Lolo Soetoro -- a Muslim -- moving to Jakarta with Obama when he was six years old. Within six months he had learned to speak the Indonesian language. Obama spent "two years in a Muslim school, then two more in a Catholic school" in Jakarta. Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim while admitting that he was once a Muslim, mitigating that damning information by saying that, for two years, he also attended a Catholic school.

  • Posted By: Light7 @ 11/04/2008 3:33:08 PM

    How can anyone as an "American" vote for Obama??? I agree with Rhino275!!! How can anyone support and put someone in office to lead our country who refuses to even salute our Flag, who won't even wear
    a Flag lapel pin and who possesses the same beliefs as Rev. Wright and his church???? Face it people, you DO NOT attend and worship in a church for 20+ years if you do not share those same beliefs!!! Wake up America!

    • Posted By: ObamaIsBest4US @ 11/04/2008 3:50:19 PM

      When did he refuse to salute our flag?? Does he not wear a lapel pin? It might not be as big as Palin's because Mccain pays hundreds of thousands of dollars on her clothes. Would you like to be judged by every person you have met in your life?

      • Posted By: pllortz @ 11/04/2008 4:13:09 PM

        There's a difference between people you meet and people whom you associate yourself with.

  • Posted By: Wis.PackAttack @ 11/04/2008 2:42:13 PM

    McCain and Obama are both qualifed for the job. It's the Rebulican party I have no faith in. The dems don't impress me either! The Dems better get things done this time! Bring on a third party if you don't.

    • Posted By: su1950 @ 11/04/2008 4:11:29 PM

      THE DEMS GET THINGS DONE! ITS THE REPUBLICANS THAT SCREW THINGS UP. READ YOUR HISTORY, WHAT THE HELL HAS BUSH DONE GOOD???


      OBAMA 08

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