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  • Posted By: jjkk @ 08/23/2008 12:31:04 PM

    Biden brings to the party as old a Washington politician as it can get--besides Byrd, Kennedy, Inouye, Stevens and Domenici. Laughable. Who believes any of the crap that barry spouts?

    CHANGE! CHANGE! CHANGE! NO OLD WASHINGTON!

    uh, well, in this case, old doesn't mean 65 or 6th senior ranking in the senate...haha...who can possibly take barry seriously? obviously not the American people, who've got Sen Clinton ahead by 6 over McCain and barry by 3.

    • Posted By: katvan @ 08/23/2008 3:20:07 PM

      Just the fact that they are still polling that questions says it all.

  • Posted By: marcopolo62 @ 08/23/2008 10:18:23 AM

    A vote for Obama is like voting for Osama

    • Posted By: chrisphx66 @ 08/23/2008 3:18:20 PM

      And a vote for McSame is a vote for Cheney - he's the one who's really ruined this country. And you Rupublikanischers really make me laugh - you've been trying to make Obama into a boogeyman. got anything REAL to bring to the table. Obviously not.

  • Posted By: MBell77 @ 08/23/2008 2:35:19 PM

    I've always liked Biden. He is thoughtful, intelligent, and a rather straight talker--something McCain use to be--and I think his experience in foreign affairs can't help but be a boon to the Obama ticket. Good choice, I think,.

    • Posted By: C. MacLean @ 08/23/2008 3:18:01 PM

      The biggest rap againt Biden seems to be that he opens his mouth to change feet. Since this hasn't affected Bush the Younger's ability to go to Washington twice, I doubt it will matter much for Biden.

      Cheney and Bush the Elder have shown us that the VP position can indeed be very powerful when you have a weak president: Obama is far from weak. So if Biden offsets some of Obama's perceived weaknesses, that's fine. (It will be interesting to see who McCain can find to offset his).

      But with the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Russians in Georgia and the Chinese seemingly everywhere, the real question is who Obama (and McCain) will nominate for Secretary of State.

      The Sec. of State nominee and any Supreme Court Justice nominees are the real positions of power. we should be concerned about.

      If the MSM truly wants to help the American electorate make an informed choice, they should push both candidates to reveal their picks in these areas.

  • Posted By: Newvoter101 @ 08/23/2008 2:26:24 PM

    To mbdougan: Please don't do 2 things: One call me ignorant for voting for the only sane choice between Obama and Mccain! I'm voting for Mccain and I am college educated and I'm not carzy! Two I am not a racist! Is that all you people have? I would vote for Condi Rice, Colin Powell or Allen Keyes anyday over Obama! Obama will lead this country down! Are you on welfare? I guess that is why you love Obama?

    • Posted By: Noble1on1 @ 08/23/2008 3:17:37 PM

      I would love to keep race out of any issue political or otherwise but I have to ask who you are refering to when you say, "you people" and do you really feel that welfare recipients are voting for Mr. Obama simply because they are on public aid? That college education you spoke of should have kept you from making such unsavory remarks. C

  • Posted By: womendeservebetter @ 08/23/2008 2:03:20 PM

    A Roman Catholic who does not follow the teachings of the Church. . . no wonder he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer We have failed in our ability to reason. But we love anyone who can talk a good game
    At least the war on women is going well!

    • Posted By: chrisphx66 @ 08/23/2008 2:22:13 PM

      Could it possibly be that he doesn't wear his religion on his sleeve like the rest of the Republikanischers? Could it be that he realizes that not everyone is a catholic, and that their views should be respected? Oh, I forgot - Republikanischers no NOTHING about respect of others.

  • Posted By: FreeMenThink @ 08/23/2008 10:30:12 AM

    Wow, the Rethugs start with character assassinations already! "His father was a..... gggaassp....used car salesman!" He's "sleezy", Obama is "sleezy". Typical high-school bully mentality. Name-calling, innuendo, gossip, smears. It's no wonder the Republican brand is so tarnished and weak. The High Road is definitely the Road Less Traveled for you and your ilk.

    • Posted By: chrisphx66 @ 08/23/2008 3:15:37 PM

      It's the only tactic they can come up with, FreemenThink.

  • Posted By: JWeber08 @ 08/23/2008 10:33:02 AM

    To all Reps: Grow up!! Stop whinning (like your top advisor said) and wait till you see what happens in November!!!

  • Posted By: Rowdy Eastwood @ 08/23/2008 10:37:11 AM

    Biden is a Catholic in name only. One must practice the faith; Biden is for abortions which contrary to the Caotholic faith. And since his position in life is one that can heavily sway the nation toward pro life, he discredits the Catholic faith by proclaiming that he is one. Archbishop Raymond Burke, now the head of the highest court in Catholic law, would and should rightly deny Biden's mockery of receiving the Church's sacraments while all the while promoting sin against the 5th commandment, thou shalt not kill.

    • Posted By: Ubipetros @ 08/23/2008 10:42:18 AM

      If I Biden came to my chrch, I would deny him communion.

      • Posted By: chrisphx66 @ 08/23/2008 3:14:09 PM

        If I came to your church, I'd turn my back when it's offered.

  • Posted By: Floyd551 @ 08/23/2008 10:40:40 AM

    WHEW!!!! I am glad that is over, now the full concertration can be on the issues and defaeating the wealthy guy who does not even know how many houses he owns. I must say, while I would have much rather have seen Mrs. Clinton as the number two, this selection is the second best Obama could have made. It will make the race and chances for sucess, much better-just not as certain as Hilliary would have brought.

    • Posted By: ssbn777 @ 08/23/2008 11:01:37 AM

      Your messiah and Her Bitterness made $4 million last year. Sounds "rich" if you ask me....

      • Posted By: chrisphx66 @ 08/23/2008 3:13:34 PM

        And what of your Fuhrer? Lot a room to talk, scumbag.

  • Posted By: Rowdy Eastwood @ 08/23/2008 10:47:49 AM

    Biden only proclaims himself a Catholic. You must practice the faith if you are a Catholic. Biden is for abortions, which is contrary to the Catholic faith. It is especially important for a person like Biden, who occupys a position in life that can greatly influence the protection of the most helpless and innocent people in the world, to oppose the destruction of innocent lives as his Catholic faith requires him to do. Archbishop Raymond Burke, now the head of the highest court in Canon law, would have people like Biden ostracized for trying to proclaim themselves Catholic in order to sway other Catholics to promote his position for abortion, which is against Church teaching.

    • Posted By: chrisphx66 @ 08/23/2008 3:12:17 PM

      Oh, but war in the name of your god is perfectly acceptable. You people would like nothing more than the eradication of the separation of church and state - hell, you'd like to do away with the Constitution altogether. Remember that the Catholic church was compliant to the will of Nazi Europe.

  • Posted By: proud-2B-an-american @ 08/23/2008 10:52:28 AM

    Many things I've learned in my life and the greatest of them all is love. One of my sons is a Marine and fights for the freedom of our country. Do I feel ALL the right decisions have been made by our current adminstration, absolutley not. There will NEVER be an Admin who makes all the right decisions. Have I agreed with all the strategies surrounding Iraq, not hardly. But, Iraq had to be dealt with either NOW or AFTER they were more powerful, they WERE coming after the United States. I feel I speak from a heart who loves his family, his country, and all lives. I believe both candidates are good men and have hearts full of love for their families and hopefully their country as well. Living in Arizona, I am partial to John McCain because I've watched him continually try and do the right thing. Every leader will make mistakes, but leadership MUST be placed in the hands of those who are proven leaders. Our country will be at crucial points from this moment forward, we need PROVEN leadership. If there is ONE PERSON who truly believes terrorism will EVER go away? Think again! Setting all personal differences aside, I will vote for the candidate who will keep my children and grandchildren safe in their homes.

    • Posted By: tjf4648 @ 08/23/2008 11:00:14 AM

      Voting for John McCain will keep your children and grandchildren overseas fighting a war.

      • Posted By: softball mom @ 08/23/2008 11:20:59 AM

        Voting for Obama/Biden will keep you, you children and grandchildren paying higher taxes. I would
        rather have then fighting to keep our county safe than paying taxes for more social programs and
        government hand outs.

        • Posted By: chrisphx66 @ 08/23/2008 3:09:31 PM

          Liar. Send your softball kids to Iraq, then.

      • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/23/2008 11:12:00 AM

        Voting for Obama with Brzezinski as his foreign affairs advisor will guarantee your children and grandchildren will be the end of your lineage. World War III with Russia will be the end of the world.

  • Posted By: This is America @ 08/23/2008 10:53:33 AM

    It's obvious that many of the Repubs and Cry baby Hillary supporters seem to have forgotten about the last eight years of Facists implementations by Bush and Cheney. Talk about unqualified to be President, not to mention being put in office by the courts. To even believe the country would be better off with McCain is a failure to put common sense into rationale thought. Who would of believed that the Grand son of Prescott Bush who raised money for the Nazi party would become President of the United States Of America and sell the country out to the Communist nation of China. Why are any of you willing to continue the policies of the present administration that has caused banks to fail, allowed corporations to steal from hard working Americans and call it business as usual while shipping jobs overseas? Plus work hard to install puppet Judges that follow the Facist credo of the current administration. The corporations that pay the salaries of the Glen Becks, Rushes, and Hannities as the megaphones of the current Facist party in power are the same corporations crying for more tax breaks while they sell our country out. I'm tired of it and I hope the Obama/Biden team can restore this Democracy to pre Facist times.

    • Posted By: ssbn777 @ 08/23/2008 10:59:57 AM

      Do you even know the definition of "fascist"? Big government taking control of people's lives, something like that? Sounds like liberal Dems, if you ask me....

      • Posted By: chrisphx66 @ 08/23/2008 3:07:16 PM

        that's crap - sounds more like the Republikanischers to me. They're in our bedrooms, in our pockets, and excrete feces on the Constitution.

    • Posted By: katvan @ 08/23/2008 2:55:33 PM

      PUBS?

    • Posted By: softball mom @ 08/23/2008 11:29:50 AM

      You need to live in a real Facist country so you can tell the difference. You need to get a grip on
      yourself!!

    • Posted By: what? @ 08/23/2008 11:15:50 AM

      Where in here is the reason why the CRY BABY HILLARY SUPPORTERS should support barry? All you give are reasons not to support Sen. McCain. Love your party unity!

    • Posted By: Bob2008 @ 08/23/2008 11:05:02 AM

      And what has the Democrat controlled House and Senate done with the last 3+ years? Who makes law? Who REALLY can implement Change? When does the "First 100 Days" actually start? Who is failing to put common sense if front of rational well thought out fact (do you own a mirror?). Biden Should be the Presidential Nominee, and Obama should be his VP. This way just spells failure...Again! Who do I blame? The Democratic Party Chairman, or the American voters that continue to put emotion and personal partisanship ahead of what is best for America as a whole. Your screen name sums it up...This is America, a failure in common sense and personal responsibility for our future.

    • Posted By: Ubipetros @ 08/23/2008 11:02:40 AM

      Keep running against Bush. This will ensure a McCain victory. Do you know the definition of fascist, or do you simply regurgitate it because you heard a grownup use the term? Read the definition. Study question - was Lincoln a fascist?

  • Posted By: katvan @ 08/23/2008 3:01:03 PM

    How many world leaders got the text before Mr Clinton?

  • Posted By: Cavallino @ 08/23/2008 2:49:35 PM

    The Democratiic ticket is truly upside down---Biden should be at the top spot, while Obama gets four years of much needed OJT. If the ticket wins, Biden will have his job cut out for him as Barack is a rank amateur.
    We saw what the last two amateurs did to the office. ---For God's sake, let's not make that mistake again.

    • Posted By: toobad4us @ 08/23/2008 2:59:08 PM

      I can only assume you are talking about Slick Willy and Big Al of the "my carbon footprint doesn't count....remember ride your bike to work or send me a few bucks to plant a tree for you."

  • Posted By: careerdaytrader @ 08/23/2008 11:57:48 AM

    Obama wants to RAISE taxes and help the poor and middle class but he has a brother, George who lives on less than $1 dollar a day in a shack in Kenya and he doesn't even help his BROTHER!

    Yet he wants US to sacrifice and pay more taxes than we already are (we're paying ENOUGH now!) when he won't even help his brother. At $1 a day Barak could give this guy $1,000 to $5,000 of the $4 MILLION he made last year and it would help him IMMENSELY!

    Talk about Greedy folks! You heard it here first unless you also happen to read CNN. Here's the article. Barak Scumbag Obama.

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/22/bts.obama.brother/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

    • Posted By: intelligentvoter @ 08/23/2008 2:55:13 PM

      Day trader, you must be one of the people making over a quarter million dollars a year. That's the only people who will pay higher taxes with Obama. Most of us will pay less. In fact, he's not raising taxes, he'l eliminating George W's handout to the wealthy. Its called reducing our debt. (Bush inherited a surplus from the Clinton years, and now we have the deepest debt ever in history) Now McCain supports the same bush b.s. rgarding the econeomy good luck

    • Posted By: smashley @ 08/23/2008 12:21:55 PM

      careerdaytrader, did you even read that article you linked to on CNN.com? Straight from the source:

      "But reports surfaced in the past few days, springing from an Italian Vanity Fair article saying George Obama is living in a shack and "earning less than a dollar a day."

      The reports left him angry.

      "I was brought up well. I live well even now," he said. "The magazines, they have exaggerated everything.

      "I think I kind of like it here. There are some challenges, but maybe it is just like where you come from, there are the same challenges," Obama said.

      Obama, who is in his mid-20s, is learning to become a mechanic and is active in youth groups in Huruma. He said he tries to help the community as much as he can.

      At least one of his neighbors feels that perhaps the candidate should help the brother.

      "I would like Obama to visit his brother to see how he is living, to improve his way of life," said Emelda Negei, who runs a small dispensary near Obama's house.

      But George Obama will have none of it. He draws inspiration from his famous half-brother. He acknowledges that he is biased but said he knows that his half-brother will be the next president.

      "Because he wants to be [president]," he said. "I think in life, what you want is what you are supposed to get.""

      (McKenzie, David, CNN.com, "http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/22/bts.obama.brother/index.html?eref=rss_topstories")

      • Posted By: jjkk @ 08/23/2008 1:54:28 PM

        do you really believe that article would have appeared on CNN if his half-brother had said anything else?

        • Posted By: katvan @ 08/23/2008 2:53:12 PM

          How do we know he didn't?

    • Posted By: Braes @ 08/23/2008 1:25:13 PM

      Wow a career day trader that admits to it. Don't people like you fear re-education camps?

  • Posted By: RO in Reno @ 08/23/2008 2:21:00 PM

    Not one but two guys with common sense, brains and a interest in America instead beyond their bottom line, There may be hope for America yet.

    • Posted By: toobad4us @ 08/23/2008 2:51:51 PM

      What direction are you looking? Have you been able to buy property at a value that you understood to be not less than 1/6th of the cost to the person you bought it from? That's what Obama said about his purchase of property from a now convicted felon who was a political fund raiser? Does that sound concerned about America and not concerned about self? Hey Pa, get out the political blinders, I don't want to see what's really happening! Just give me a handout. It's all good as long as I don't have to take any responsibility.

  • Posted By: Americansforabetterusa @ 08/23/2008 12:41:09 PM

    Osahma Obahma, Biden Binladen kinda hard to tell who the real threats are to America. Can't trust them either. Either way they all rob you of something, your Freedom and Your money. As it was said do you allow the war to come to you or do you take it to them. Obahma does not want the job to do good for the country, he simply wants it for the money and no more. he wants the residual checks after leaving office. He could care less about America or its values, Anyone who cannot be proud of the Flag of this nation and what it represents does not deserve to to lead it. Plain and simple, many have given their life to defend this country and anyone making a mockery of it should never lead it.

    • Posted By: avondale @ 08/23/2008 12:53:20 PM

      Please provide evidence of any kind (factual article, video) that actually shows a situation where Obama said or did something that shows he made a mockery of the US Flag.

      • Posted By: ladalgard @ 08/23/2008 1:01:14 PM

        How about where he took the US flag off his plane and replaced it for a symbol of some kind.. or how about when he did not honor our national anthem when it was playing, instead he chose to not put his hand over his heart and look around at everyone else. Maybe he just does not understand what a symbol of this country means to some of us.

        • Posted By: jjkk @ 08/23/2008 1:38:34 PM

          Never had a flag on his plane. He had his Barry-O seal (not his faux presidential seal) on the tail. And the ubiquitous CHANGE!

          • Posted By: katvan @ 08/23/2008 2:50:33 PM

            barry: i want to improve america's standing in the world!! So I went abroad on my mission with no American flag on my Official Campaign jet.

            barry: I want to check how things are on the ground! But I couldn't find time to talk with the brave soldiers who were injured in that very ground.

      • Posted By: Americansforabetterusa @ 08/23/2008 1:13:52 PM

        Simply look at the fact of removing a lapel Pin of the American flag. Maybe he should run in some other country. Simply put he is not qualified to lead the country, even Joe himself stands by this comment.

        • Posted By: chrisphx66 @ 08/23/2008 2:31:23 PM

          Big deal. More concerned about some 50-cent pin than the men and women who are dying in a useless war. A BETTER USA, your name says? HA!

      • Posted By: jjkk @ 08/23/2008 1:07:20 PM

        IOWA 2007 Steak fry. Barry refuses to honor the flag during the National Anthem.

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8QCkgg5Kjo

        All the Republicans have to do is show that video and put COMMANDER IN CHIEF? as the crawl.

    • Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 08/23/2008 12:51:48 PM

      You sound like a uneducated redneck.. no wonder the country is in such trouble becaus of people like you.

      • Posted By: Americansforabetterusa @ 08/23/2008 1:33:49 PM

        This country is in trouble because of the Democratic controled DO NOTHING CONGRESS that has done nothing since gaining control. Yet they want to blame everyone else. Oh look suprised that they want to now raise your taxes. Gee that sounds more like a Redneck action than actually trying to solve the situation, Instead of working to a solutuon it's more a quick jump to the quick fix. Maybe instaed of funding stupid projects and wasting taxpayer dollars, the Democrats could do something new and look at serious wastes of money before they tax us to death. Put the people first and not the Government and themselves.

        • Posted By: chrisphx66 @ 08/23/2008 2:35:22 PM

          You're a liar. The reason the Dem's haven't been able to do anything is because your Republikanischer aZZholes block anything they come up with - and if they don't, your Fuhrer vetos. Same crap, different day.

    • Posted By: Hope 2008 @ 08/23/2008 12:59:06 PM

      the real threats to our country are people who care more about spreading lies and hate speech than they do about helping to unite our country through thoughtful critical thinking and use of FACTS instead of the same old nasty propaganda. Obama is trying to present a positive campaign to help unite our country and offer much needed economic relief to the middle class and leadership desperately needed in this country!
      It is sad that too many people choose extreme positions which are destructive to our country.

      • Posted By: jjkk @ 08/23/2008 1:36:48 PM

        step away from the Barack Obama Soda...your post is crazy throughout. And your last line? Define "extreme"? Do you consider being the most liberal senator, extreme?

  • Posted By: Hope 2008 @ 08/23/2008 12:42:32 PM

    Joe Biden is unique in that even though he has been in the Senate for many years, he has never become an inside game planner; he has always used his knowledge and experience for the greater good of the country and this is the CHANGE that Obama will bring to the American people! Congratulations Senator Biden Obama/Biden is a Winner!!!

    • Posted By: jjkk @ 08/23/2008 12:59:05 PM

      Biden spoke out louder than Sen Clinton that barry was not experienced to be president. Check out the September debate.

      • Posted By: Totto @ 08/23/2008 2:03:31 PM

        Check out Romney's criticisms of "Hothead" McCain during the primaries.

        • Posted By: katvan @ 08/23/2008 2:47:15 PM

          what does that have to do with Biden?

  • Posted By: leepdx @ 08/23/2008 2:46:53 PM

    For all those Obama supporters who posted that they were not informed first I got my e-mail before the news wire so not sure you are correct, maybe you need to see what time your message arrived.

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