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Not party guys--as in political parties. At least until recently, neither McCain nor Obama has presented himself, or been viewed, as a rank-and-file party guy. McCain made a career out of taking on the GOP powers that be--until now, that is. These days there isn't a conservative interest group or party power group he won't embrace. Obama made an early peace with the Daley family in Chicago, but he simply hasn't been on the national stage long enough to have been defined by the Democratic Party and its folkways. He's built his own party one e-mail address at a time, even as he is now trying to pacify Clintonian traditionalists.

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  • Posted By: Obamaismyguy @ 09/16/2008 11:55:28 PM

    Even though I will never make the money you make, I would be willing to bet my life on the fact that I work just as hard (and probably harder) than you do each and every day to earn what I do.

    When you start paying 40% of your income for a place to live, 15% of your income for utilities, 5% of your income for fuel for getting to and from work, and 15% of your income for groceries for a family of 3, then maybe, just MAYBE, you can complain that we are not paying our fair share in taxes. Until then, what you have LEFT OVER over at the end of every month, even AFTER you pay your taxes, would probably pay my monthly bills for 6 months. You have NOTHING to complain about. As my farmer father-in-law always said... "I'm happy to pay my taxes, because the more taxes I pay, the more money I'm making."

  • Posted By: careerdaytrader @ 08/25/2008 1:04:46 PM

    Obama IS an idiot. You simply do NOT RAISE TAXES GOING INTO what will be one of the WORST RECESSIONS in last 20 years due to housing bubble, bank blowups and credit tightening. People are already spending less, its SPENDING by consumers that helps the economy. Any freshman in Economics 101 knows this.

    Obama does NOT know this. So I could care less that he's black, really don't even care he was raised Muslim which he was till age 10, what I care about is he will DESTROY America.

    And how can he ask ME to pay more in taxes, paid $107,000 last year, when he won't even help his OWN BROTHER George in Kenya who lives on $1 a day! Typical hypocrite, Obama could give him $1,000 that would radically CHANGE his own brothers life but he lets him live in total poverty. Obama is a moron, GREEDY, and a total Hypocrite. You are a MORON for believing his lies and NOT KNOWING the truth which is so clear to the intelligent in this country.

  • Posted By: DavidCA @ 08/25/2008 12:05:33 AM

    No argument here that your vote for McCain is clearly in your self-interest and in the interest of your fellow top 1% in income. If only McCain were as honest as you are in defining the actual stakes, we could have a clear debate on whose tax plans make more sense. Instead, McCain continues to foist the now-debunked lie (http://www.newsweek.com/id/151621) that Obama's tax plan would raise taxes on the middle class.

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