Oral Exam

THe standard of living in Europe is way below America NOW. And it sounds like you aren't too familiar or educated on economics. We have around a 6% uninflation rate NOW. That may sound high to you and its higher than it was during most of the Bush years but in Europe most countries have 8% to 14% unemployment!

So if you want the US to become like Europe with a lower standard of living then its going to take MILLIONS of MILLIONS of job losses to get there. Don't worry though with Obama's $280 BILLION tax increases and 1 TRILLION over 10 years Social Security tax INCREASES we will get to the European standards. You may not have a job, but you will have your WISH.

I have no idea if assassins are Republicans but to say their platform is based on fear and hate is ridiculous.
What they are focusing on right now, and rightly so, is FEAR of any man who creates sensation by mysteriously mesmerizing crowds and erecting TEMPLES to himself. Yes, that is scary.
Did you ever hear of "Moonies" back a few decades ago? This is eerily similar.
When THE ONE instructs his flock to take poison at midnight, how many will listen?
Yes, I FEAR and HATE that.

No, but Obama has been a drug user--which is much more important that a wife's involvement with drugs!

Now, you should take your crazy pills and get a new line of attack from Karl, because this has expired. And you better get plenty of them, because you'll have a chance to use them for the next 8+ years as the Obamas will be living in the White House. You better get your blood pressure check regularly, because 8 years is a long time, and it will seem as an eternity to you, just as the nightmare of the last 8 years have been for the rest of the country and the world. By the way, how do you like that the Bush administration is going down in history as the worst, most corrupt, most ineffective, most incompetent and most ignorant and Bush himself as the worst President to date?

If she only said it once - that would be impromptu, but again and again in different speaches.... come on....

I've also noticed that right-wingers posting on here are so full of hatred. It's sad, really. I'm not saying we should all link arms and sing campfire songs, but the level of intolerance and hatred is quite shocking...not to mention the lack of intelligence and education. Many of them just keep spewing the same lies that have been disproven time and time again, and then start slinging insults when they run out of lies.

McCain is going to announce his VP Friday, maybe he will Hillary. Won't you be excited!

When did the constitution tell you that a job was your God given right? We believe that live liberty and the persuit of happiness is an inherent right, but when did it ever promise you a certain job???? You want a specific job - that is your responsibility to make sure you are capable and competent enough to do the job and then seek it out. Your problem is that you want someone else to hand you everything with no effort on your part.

Why not do a little reading instead of blogging the same stuff? You have no idea how Obama is disrespecting the Clintons. Why isn't the candidate not in town for his own convention? Why is he sitting in the living room of blonde people? Why is he not even in Denver to talk to his own delegates? Why is he only going to appear in front of Roman columns like the great Cicero?

Google Jonathan Capehart and read. And by the way? Mr Clinton does not know Obama because Obama has not reached out to him.

Well dont buy the Christian Obama kids any Christmas gifts cuz their parents do not give presents out to open up when they get up on XMAS morning.

Here's another Obama tale about how he takes care of business:

Obama has lambasted lobbyists and moneyed interests who "have turned our government into a game only they can afford to play."

"It's an entire culture in Washington -- some of it legal, some of it not," the Democratic hopeful told a New York crowd in June. But last year Obama introduced nine separate bills exempting foreign chemical company Nufarm from import fees on a range of chemical ingredients it uses in the manufacture of pesticides and herbicides.

Nufarm wasn't the only beneficiary of Obama's efforts to reduce customs fees and duties. In early May of 2006, two Washington lobbyists registered to work on behalf of Astellas Pharma, a Japanese-owned drug company which also has offices in Illinois.

Together, Obama's obscure measures -- known as tariff suspensions -- steered more than $12 million away from federal coffers, according to government estimates.

While legal, Obama's bills on behalf of Nufarm and other companies are part of the special treatment machine Washington rolls out for special interests, say good-government watchdogs. With a dozen tariff suspension bills to his name, Obama stands out as the most prolific of any presidential hopeful on the topic. Sen. John McCain introduced none.

"If you have a company...there's a whole factory set up to help you get these suspensions," said Steve Ellis, president of the Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense. "It's a pay-to-play system you have to rev up and work." Hire the right lobbyist, pay the right fee, and you can save millions, he explained.

Some say the tariff suspension process isn't how Washington should operate.

In his speeches, Sen. Obama seems to agree: "We need a president who sees government not as a tool to enrich well-connected friends and high-priced lobbyists, but as the defender of fairness and opportunity for every American," the candidate said in his June speech. "That's the kind of president I intend to be."

But his actions speak louder than his words.

Junker defended tariff suspensions as good for American businesses. "It's nothing to be embarrassed, ashamed or suspicious of," he said.

justifying the breaks for Nufarm to import a chemical known as 2,4 D and other ingredients by claiming they would "eliminate these unnecessary and avoidable...costs to [Nufarm's] consumers."

But the company's financial reports, issued just two months after Obama introduced Nufarm's numerous tariff-lifting bills, indicate Nurarm was making more money than ever before in North America because it had increased its prices on its U.S. and Canadian customers, predominantly farmers, in particular on "phenoxy herbicides," a family which includes 2,4 D.

Economics aside, some medical researchers have purported to find a link between high exposure to the chemical and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cance

You all keep talking about no bounce for Obama, but there has not been any bounce for McCain either. The polls have stayed fairly consistant over the last weeks for both of them.

I really thought after Hillarys speech last nite that he would get at least a 5 or more bump. Instead a teeny-weenie bump. Obama made a huge mistake not picking Hillary. But then, I couldnt see the Obamas and the Clintons together having breakfast each day either in the white house. LOL. Either way, it is starting not to look good for Obama in the polls given we are right in the middle of the DNC. .

That was about as stupid as telling a girl the old line..."If you love me you will sleep with me..." Before you question someone's love for America, let me ask you this: WHAT IN THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE FOR AMERICA? Like McCain or not, he served his country in the military as well as in public service, while you sit bac and criticize, yet do nothing. If you aren't contributing and aren't trying to be a part of the solution, then you most definitely are part of the problem. Some of you sit back and enjoy your freedoms, you enjoy your right to criticize which you should.... after all it is those honorable people (unlike like you) who gave up much of their time, sweat, tears, blood, and some their very lives in order to purchase those rights for you. But unless you have anything of substance to add, maybe try to sit back and think before you throw mud at the very people who ensured your rights to throw the mud.... But alas, it will never happen because some are too self centered and unappreciative of what they have....