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Barack Obama plans to aggressively court women voters by focusing on issues like equal pay, health care and the economy.

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  • Posted By: bammer @ 09/14/2008 12:59:38 PM

    WHEN THE LIBERAL ELITE "MAIN STREAM MEDIA" INJECTS ITSELF INTO A NATIONAL US ELECTION, IT LEADS TO THE "LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES"

    IF THERE'S WAS NO "MSM" BIAS AGAINST HILLARY, HILLARY WOULD BE THE US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND OBAMA WOULD BE THE VP CANDIDATE

    IF THE TICKET IS CLINTON/OBAMA.....THERE IS NO SARAH PALIN EFFECT

    IF THERE IS NO SARAH PALIN, THERE IS MCCAIN/ROMNEY REPUB TICKET

    THEREFORE, THERE WOULD BE 8 YEARS OF CLINTON/OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

    THEREFORE, THERE WOULD BE 8 YEARS OF OBAMA/KEANE ADMINSTRATION

    BY US LIBERAL ELITE MEDIA BACKING OBAMA AND TRASHING HILLARY, THEY LOSE A POSSIBLE 16 YEARS IN POWER AND WILL PROBABLY NOW LOSE 8 OUT OF THE LAST 11 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.

    FOR YOU MR. WOLFEE, NO AMOUNT OF OLBERMANN/MADDOW HISTRONICS CAN CUT THROUGH WHAT THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD ELECTORATE SEES IN THE "MSM"

  • Posted By: imposter @ 09/04/2008 12:50:12 AM

    RICHARD WOLFFE:

    Here's another argument that the Obama campaign won't make in public but that nonetheless could halt the wedge strategy in its tracks: the impeachment of Bill Clinton. McCain voted for Clinton's impeachment???a track record that should make him hard for diehard Clinton supporters to stomach."

    There's nothing you won't do - no level you won't descend to to help your messiah is there? That's the scummiest thing yet from all you cult followers. And you write:"The Obama campaign won't make in public". You just did. Newsweek is part of the Obama camp. You are the proObama propaganda newsletter. The fact that you still don't Include a disclosure of your proven beyond a shadow of a doubt corruption shows you lack any semblance of jjournaliistic integrity - just like everyone at Newsweek and MSNBC.

  • Posted By: Leonardgrundyforpresident @ 08/29/2008 6:54:37 PM

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  • Posted By: NewsWkDickG @ 08/29/2008 4:59:25 PM

    Once again the Republicans have made a very aggressive move to manipulate voters??? opinions based on emotions, while keeping their positions on the issues out of scrutiny. If the voters are once again, like in 2000 and 2004, swayed based on appeals to their emotions, prejudices and biases or by any single issue and neglect putting full consideration and weight on all of the issues, we could end up with four more years of nothing but more of the same. Imagine more of the same. This country really just can???t take more of the same and voting for John McCain-Sarah Palin, for whatever reason, just guarantees more of the same!

  • Posted By: the_shelton @ 08/29/2008 4:27:45 PM

    All I can say about McCain's choice is "Are you out of your F***ing mind?". That has to be the most outragious and demeaning gesture any goof ball politician has ever made.

    Do you really have such disregard for the American woman that they won't see this as a ploy to get their vote?

    Do you have so much disregard for the intelligence of the American woman that you think they can't see what you are trying to do?

    Do you have so much hate and disregard for the American people that you would even consider putting someone with absolutely no experience in an office that could by a great deal of statistical probability take over in the event of your death?

    Is your level of reasoning so far over the hill that you can even imagine that she would be able to handle any of the problems facing this country in the likely event you won't survive your term?

    I don't know about anyone else, but this is definitely the straw that broke the camel's back for me. This man is senile and unable to rationally approach any kind of reasonably intelligent decision concerning the fate of this country. Any one that votes for this ding dong, is going to get exactly what they deserve, but what the rest of the world has done nothing to deserve.

  • Posted By: bereal @ 08/27/2008 11:59:44 PM

    Just how is Obama going to guarantee that women get paid the same as men? I'd like to hear the specifics on this one. Saying it and doing it are two entirely different things.

    • Posted By: loriw @ 08/28/2008 12:25:29 AM

      My understanding is that the women on his campaign are not as high ranking as the men in either position or pay grade. And remember he knows all about "pay grades"

      • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/29/2008 4:22:12 PM



        Barack Obamas for Equal Pay, Yet Pays Female Staffers Less Than Males
        Monday, June 30, 2008

        On average, women working in Obamas Senate office were paid at least $6,000 below the average man working for the Illinois senator. That's according to data calculated from the Report of the Secretary of the Senate, which covered the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 2007. Of the five people in Obamas Senate office who were paid $100,000 or more on an annual basis, only one. . . Obamas administrative manager - was a woman.

        The average pay for the 33 men on Obamas staff (who earned more than $23,000, the lowest annual salary paid for non-intern employees) was $59,207. The average pay for the 31 women on Obamas staff who earned more than $23,000 per year was $48,729.91. (The average pay for all 36 male employees on Obamas staff was $55,962; and the average pay for all 31 female employees was $48,729. The report indicated that Obama had only one paid intern during the period, who was a male.)

        McCain, an Arizona senator, employed a total of 69 people during the reporting period ending in the fall of 2007, but 23 of them were interns. Of his non-intern employees, 30 were women and 16 were men. After excluding interns, the average pay for the 30 women on McCains staff was $59,104.51. The 16 non-intern males in McCains office, by comparison, were paid an average of $56,628.83.

        http://blog.changeandexperience.com/2008/06/barack-obamas-for-equal-pay-yet-pays.html

      • Posted By: metzlerd @ 08/29/2008 6:49:57 AM

        Equal rights does not mean that men can't be in the high paying position. It means you don't turn down a woman who is more qualified because of her gender, and you don't pay her less because of her gender.

    • Posted By: Esencia08 @ 08/28/2008 4:29:22 PM

      Good question, he can't, all politicians make promises during their campaign that they cannot deliver. The legislative branch has the most power of all three branches of government. You can't blame Bush for the war in Iraq when congress gave him the authority to invade that country. The scapegoating that occurs among these political candidates really needs to stop, they are basically all in bed together and frequently cooperate to screw over the average american citizen. Obama is no different, a little research will reveal that he supports the NEOCON agenda to expand the military industrial complex, so does Biden. Hillary did not and I supose that is why she is not the presidential nominee for the democratic party. Open your eyes Americans!

    • Posted By: metzlerd @ 08/28/2008 3:01:14 PM

      Aside from talking to him and his supporters to find out what he would do, you can check his voting record.
      Just make sure you talk to Obama about Obama's solutions and not FOX or the Republicans.
      Make sure you talk to McCain about McCains solutions and not the Democrats.
      Then check the facts on both sides.

      Two recent bills that I recall were. You can go to any of the voting record sites, and see what each candidates voting records are.
      Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (2007?)
      Paycheck Fairness Act (2008?)

      You won't wake up one day and find that all of the sudden everything is fixed, but if this is an issue you are concerned about, you should care about legislation that involves things like court rulings under certain circumstances where, for example, a woman is just as qualified in terms of training, and experience, but makes less money than a male coworker. Typically this would be sueing for damages.

      If the laws work, then over time, as women change jobs, they should be offered more fair salaries, and in some cases companies would make sure they are paying women fairly to avoid future lawsuits.

      As far as I know, Obama has supported legislation that amends the Civil Rights Act, which is typically where this stuff falls under, that tries to solve equal pay issues directly.

      In general, McCain has come down on the stance that women will get better pay by getting more education and training, as he appears to view it as an issue that women just aren't as well qualified as men, so that, in his opinion skews the statistics..

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/28/2008 12:09:50 AM

      Obama supporters, I am curious about this one too. Maybe I can see him being able to address the womans pay with government jobs, but even then(?). Talking about it is one thing, but does he have a policy written up as to HOW?

  • Posted By: Phil08 @ 08/28/2008 1:23:25 PM

    BARACK'S CLEOPATRA__

    Nanny Pelosi (Cleopatra) blamed the president for the energy crisis. Now, instead of providing any solutions at all, she still is blaming the president. Nanny Pelosi is NOT spending her valuable time leading Congress in resolving our energy crisis, she's kicking off a NATIONAL TOUR to support her new book, "Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters." Is she in political la-la land?! http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/i/c/1/pelosi_cruella.jpg



    Pelosi shut the lights off on The People's House and took off to make money on a book. She knows she's done with the Rabid approach to destroy America with Harry Potter Reid.

    Nanny Pelosi (Cleopatra) blamed the president for the energy crisis. Now, instead of providing any solutions at all, she still is blaming the president.

    Nanny Pelosi is NOT spending her valuable time leading Congress in resolving our energy crisis, she's kicking off a NATIONAL TOUR to support her new book,

    "Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters." Is she in political la-la land?!

    http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/i/c/1/pelosi_cruella.jpg


    OBTW__Nanny's book is about number 1100 on the New York Times Seller List __

    Some advice to Nanny - Glory is fleeting - Glory Is Fleeting - Glory is Fleeting and George Soros's Moveon.oRG IS FOR GEORGE SORO'S 'POCKET BOOK ONLY' - iTS NOT FOR REAL - oH AND WHILE YOU'RE AT IT GEORGE MADE AN ASS OUT OF SHEEHAN TOO

    BUT DON'T TELL BARRY - HIM AND GEORGE CLOONEY HAVE A 'THING' GOING ON :o)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0bm1QHXAig&feature=related

    • Posted By: metzlerd @ 08/28/2008 2:16:03 PM

      I believe they tried to deal with energy and a whole host of issues, and as I recall, all the Republicans wanted to do was block it or vote it down.

      In 2007, they tried to pull the oil subsidies out of the 2005 energy bill, and replace them with incentives for alternative energy. Hillary and Barack were there to support it. McCain would not support it, and would not even show up.

      He wouldn't participate in ANY energy votes in the last 2 years, so don't pretend to care about energy!

      • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/29/2008 3:52:20 PM



        ASSOCIATED PRESS
        Critical of McCain, Obama QUIET on own Energy vote
        By TOM RAUM

        YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) - Democratic candidate Barack Obama criticized Republican John McCain on Tuesday for taking a page out of the Cheney playbook on energy, overlooking his own support of oil-friendly policies that the unpopular vice president helped to craft.

        Vice President Dick Cheney, a former oilman, early in the Bush administration helped draft an energy policy that Obama asserted is biased in favor of tax breaks and favorable treatment for big oil. Obamas remarks were an attempt to capitalize on Cheneys unpopularity.

        President Bush, he had an energy policy. He turned to Dick Cheney and he said, Cheney, go take care of this, Obama said. Cheney met with renewable-energy folks once and oil and gas (executives) 40 times, Obama said. McCain has taken a page out of the Cheney playbook.

        In stumping Tuesday in this key battleground state, Obama sought to link the troubled economy with Republican policies and offer his own energy plan in contrast. He has tried to cast McCain as more concerned about oil company profits and drilling than an overall energy strategy.

        However, OBAMA HIMSELF VOTED for a 2005 energy bill backed by Bush that INCLUDED BILLIONS IN SUBSIDIES FOR OIL and natural gas production, a measure Cheney played a major role in developing. MCCAIN OPPOSED THE BILL on grounds it included billions in unnecessary tax breaks for the oil industry.

        The Obama campaign has said the Illinois senator supported the legislation because it included huge investments in renewable energy. McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds, said, Barack OBAMA IS OPPOSED TO OFFSHORE DRILLING AND IS ALSO OPPOSED TO ADMITTING THAT HE VOTED FOR THE SAME CORPORATE GIVEAWAYS FOR BIG OIL THAT HE IS CAMPAIGNING AGAINST TODAY.

        With polls showing concern over gas prices a prime concern of Americans, Obama has been depicting energy as the nations most pressing national security and economic issue.
        Obama has proposed a $1,000-per family energy rebate to be paid for by a tax on excessive energy-company profits. He called for ending U.S. reliance on oil from the Middle East and Venezuela over the next 10 years, a project he said would cost the U.S. $150 billion.

        Obama has also proposed borrowing oil from the strategic petroleum reserve as a short-term measure to reduce gasoline prices, a conditional and limited resumption of offshore drilling, and a new emphasis on alternative energy sources and hybrid vehicles.


        (Continued in my post below) - Critical of McCain, Obama QUIET on own Energy Vote

      • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/29/2008 3:48:24 PM

        Our economy is in turmoil, I do not have to tell the people of Youngstown, Obama told a high-school gymnasium audience in this rust-belt city. People here have known some hard knocks and hard times.

        Ohio is a bellwether state, having voted for the winning candidate in all 11 presidential elections since 1964, including handing Bush a close re-election victory in 2004. Increasingly, with his appearances this week and with a new ad, Obama has been seeking to tie McCain to the oil and gas industry, although McCain, unlike Bush and Cheney, did not previously work in the industry.

        (Continued from my post above) - Critical of McCain, Obama quiet on own energy vote

        A new Obama ad says Big Oil filled McCains campaign with $2 million in contributions and that he wants to give them another $4 billion in tax breaks. That $4 billion consists mainly of potential revenue from a McCain proposal to lower corporate taxes on all American businesses.

        The McCain campaign pointed out that the ad does not mention OBAMA HAS TAKEN SOME $400,000 FROM OIL COMPANY EXECUTIVES. We have to end the age of oil. Obama said. If we fail to act, there are severe indications for national security, our economy and our environment.

        OBAMA has had TROUBLE CONNECTING WITH WHITE WORKING-CLASS VOTERS, who are a major factor in Ohio. Clinton won the state in its Democratic primary earlier this year. Gov. Ted Strickland, who had been a Clinton supporter, gave a rousing endorsement of Obama, calling him bright, young, energized and compassionate. Obama is focused on economic issues. He said that oil giant Exxon-Mobil makes in 30 seconds what the typical Ohio worker makes in a year.

        Obama said, We need more jobs and economic development. Why dont we focus on clean energy and reopening factories and putting people back to work? Nobody is benefiting from jobs that are leaving the community, he said.

        Obama has proposed a $15-billion-a-year program to help promote clean-energy jobs.
        In a question-and-answer session, Obama was asked if he would support term limits for members of Congress by a questioner who noted that many senators were elderly.
        Obama said I've got colleagues in the Senate who are doing absolutely outstanding work, and they are well into their 70s, Obama said. He praised ailing Sen. Edward M. Kennedy as one.

        I am generally not in favor of term limits, he said. Nobody is term-limiting the lobbyists or the slick operators walking around the halls of Congress. I believe in one form of term limits. They are called elections.

        http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5isOFwdbq0tsqatW6vJpkDRTI1gMgD92C94JO0

      • Posted By: bojack27 @ 08/29/2008 10:11:50 AM

        It is funny that you mention Hillary and Barrack were there to support the bill.... If Barack was so concern then why did he support the bill when John McCain opposed the energy bill of 2005? So are we trying to say Obama cares about energy when he supported the bill in the first place? Why should McCain show up to undue what Obama and Bush have done.... maybe you should be more concern why the democrats went on vacation with out giving a up or down vote on the current energy policy.. ... read below... here is the link .... http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2005/08/08/little-energy/ notice that half of the democrats voted for this energy bill and now they are crying foul....

        Senate Energy Committee ranking member Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) beamed that the post-conference bill has "many more bright spots than flaws and deserves passage by the Senate and signature by the president."

        Harder for progressives and enviros to swallow was the support it got from Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who expressed disappointment that the bill wasn't more bold but still went so far as to call the legislation "a first step toward decreasing America's dependence on foreign oil." It could more credibly be described as yet another step toward subsidizing Illinois corn farmers for ethanol production that will be of dubious environmental benefit.

        Bingaman and Obama were far from alone: Over half of the Democratic caucus in the Senate voted for the bill. Most of these yea votes came from senators whose states stood to benefit markedly from the subsidies, while most of the nay votes were cast by senators from non-energy-producing states.

        Critics argue that this split among Dems wasn't just a practical failure that gave way to shoddy energy policy; it was also a symbolic failure for the Democratic Party at large.

  • Posted By: tslog @ 08/29/2008 12:32:27 PM

    Having Sarah Palin as his running mate, McCain proved again that he is a doer, not a talker.

    • Posted By: cferns1530 @ 08/29/2008 1:10:02 PM

      Everyone knows McCain made this last minute judgement knowing Obama did'nt select Hillary. Hillary herself has stated she did'nt want to run, so Palin is still far behind in comparison to Biden.

      • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/29/2008 3:28:04 PM


        With this pick McCain gets TWO FOR ONE. . . Sarah Palin is a reknown successful Governor in Alaska and has turned her state around. With her respected and proven background, she will be a huge plus towards turning the economy around. . . AND she is a woman. . . Great ; 0 D LOL

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/29/2008 3:21:58 PM


    All I can say about McCains VP choice is WOW!


    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

    For Immediate Release
    August 29, 2008


    John McCain Selects Alaska Governor Sarah Palin As Vice Presidential Running Mate



    ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain today announced that he has selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate and to serve as his vice president.

    Governor Palin is a tough executive who has demonstrated during her time in office that she is ready to be president. She has brought Republicans and Democrats together within her Administration and has a record of delivering on the change and reform that we need in Washington.

    Governor Palin has challenged the influence of the big oil companies while fighting for the development of new energy resources. She leads a state that matters to every one of us, Alaska has significant energy resources and she has been a leader in the fight to make America energy independent.

    In Alaska, Governor Palin challenged a corrupt system and passed a landmark ethics reform bill. She has actually used her veto and cut budgetary spending. She put a stop to the "bridge to nowhere" that would have cost taxpayers $400 million dollars.

    As the head of Alaska's National Guard and as the mother of a soldier herself, Governor Palin understands what it takes to lead our nation and she understands the importance of supporting our troops.

    Governor Palin has the record of reform and bipartisanship that others can only speak of. Her experience in shaking up the status quo is exactly what is needed in Washington today.

    http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/Read.aspx?guid=b1a33b7f-5388-4ab9-99a4-95d9d35268ce

  • Posted By: cferns1530 @ 08/29/2008 1:07:51 PM

    McCain has done this knowing that he might have a possibility with the Clinton supporters. Palin had to read out her resume today.
    She had to mention Hillary. Palin's proclaim of detachment from foreign oil by drilling in Alaska is absolutely futile and only makes more money for the big oil companies. I hope Americans realize that drilling offshore or in Alaska proves nothing to detach from foreign oil. Look at McCain's face light up when she mentions Hillary's supporters.

  • Posted By: NewsWkDickG @ 08/29/2008 12:53:43 PM

    John McCain just made a gutsy and smart move with his pick for vice president; not gutsy because it was a woman but rather gutsy because it was an unknown and smart because it was a woman. He has been trying to cultivate those Clinton supporters not yet reconciled with Obama and he intends for this move to help him there and with women in general. He has been getting static from his extremely conservative base and Gov Sarah Palin, being a strong conservative advocate, could appease them. Once again the Republicans have made a very aggressive move to manipulate voters??? opinions based on emotions, while keeping their positions on the issues out of scrutiny. If the voters are once again, like in 2000 and 2004, swayed based on appeals to their emotions, prejudices and biases or by any single issue and neglect putting full consideration and weight on all of the issues, we could end up with four more years of nothing but more of the same. When you look around at the economy, the deficit, the jobs, the cost of medical, the War in Iraq, the needs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the progressive decline experienced in all of these things and everything else and the embarrassing and costly gross dishonesty of our government, I don???t know how the issues can be ignored, yet it has happened before. After Obama???s great speech last night and the impressive Democratic convention, the Democrats and Obama, with regard to all of the issues and their plans and positions, are well known. We also know McCain and the Republican???s plans as we can look at the last eight years and at everything McCain says, which strongly commits to just more of the same. Imagine more of the same. This country really just can???t take more of the same and voting for John McCain-Sarah Palin, for whatever reason, just guarantees more of the same!

  • Posted By: Phil08 @ 08/29/2008 11:57:31 AM

    PRACTICING SAFE POLITICS?

    USE THE OBAMA CONDOM


    In October, the Swiftboater's will attack on several items
    and especially on Obama's documented 99 LIES -http://obamawtf.blogspot.com/2008/05/documented-lie-50-obama-claimed-he-had.html . Unlike the Media, Swiftboaters think that no Presidential candidate should have any Affirmative Action privileges or protections.



    OBAMA WTF (What's The Facts?) is the original, and most
    comprehensive, authoritative SITE about the life, votes, and
    positions of Senator Obama and his political backers. As his campaign
    is based on words... not on a proven track-record... if his words are
    not supported by facts, there is nothing left but an empty blue
    suit. 1,000 Clicks to detail info about
    Obama-http://obamawtf.blogspot.com/2008/05/documented-lie-50-obama-claimed-he-had.html



    300,000 people vote every week in AOL straw poll voting. sea of
    red map shows all 50 states favor McCain by about 2 to 1. All of the
    Republican Red states that helped Obama steal the primary are now all
    going to McCain, some by 4 to 1.

    KOOL-AIDE -http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?RsrcID=2036
    People are now beginning to tire of Obama's rhetoric; also his
    emotional preacher styled set speeches are becoming less impressive &
    more suspect. Media rock star status like another Brittany or Paris
    is a big media thing.

    JUDGMENT.. His Judgment is questioned because of some longtime
    radical friends & associates and his 20 year membership in a very
    radical church. Some also now question his Patriotism. faith, family
    values, background & Crime concerns. His city has as many Americans
    killed as in Baghdad;

    already this year, 29 Chicago school kids have been murdered at school.

    REPARATION.. $777 TRILLION Est.Costs >>
    http://www.aim.org/aim-report/obama-and-the-drive-for-slavery-reparations/
    Obama Church's video Promotes Slavery Reparation & Obama nomination &
    mocks Hillary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWigzBClEk8



    DIVIDING - NOT UNITING AMERICA --- Obama
    promises change & great unity. However, Oama is already creating
    cultural, racial, religious and generational, DIVISIONS. DIVISIONS
    may persist for decades. to the detriment of us all,



    McCAIN WILL WIN BY A L A N D S L I D E .

    • Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 08/29/2008 12:02:52 PM



      You're so desperate coz the GOP will lose.

  • Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 08/29/2008 12:00:16 PM

    You think McCain's choice of Palin will focus on women's issues? Haha. that's a huge laugh.

    Here is what someone wrote in comments on the Washington Post website today:

    Sarah Palin is in no way, shape or form anything of the stature and experience of Hillary Clinton. Most of her supporters will gladly vote for the Obama-Biden ticket. A formidable team, with complementary skills and capabilities, who inspire courage, optimism and respect around the world.

    Contrast that with a 72-year-old man whose health is not robust, coupled with a 44-year old church lady with five kids and ZERO overseas travel, no foreign policy credentials. Guess who will be calling all the shots? McCain!

    We will be the laughing stock among our enemies - easy target for picking off our president and allowing a totally shallow, inexperienced church lady to become our President.

    All for the sake of the Religious Right and the option to drill in Alaska. Once again, the GOP putting us in jeopardy with a misjudged choice and greed to appease the major oil companies.
    _________________

    McCain-Palin will be a disaster. Nobody in their right minds will vote for an aging President coupled with a token female who's only there to allow drilling in ANWR. She won't champion equal pay for equal work, women's rights or anything remotely connected to Hillary Clinton's platform/interests.

    She will be another Church Lady. Where is Dana Carvey? He did such a good job on Bush Sr.

  • Posted By: Dare270 @ 08/29/2008 11:18:13 AM

    Barak pretty much kicked ass like he always does and will always do. It's nice to have a president who will look after everyones intrests, unlike McBush who will only look after the rich and mega corporations of this country. He has completely sold out to the right wing conservative ways of destroying America and it's citizens lives, just so the rich can become richer. H
    How sad he used to be a great man, now just a puppet being manipulated by the right wing conservatives who have been destroying this country.

    No more McBush 08

  • Posted By: MarieDevine @ 08/29/2008 10:02:08 AM

    Women???s issues and alliances would not be need if we turned from our lifestyle of building military weapons, manufacturing, processing, and transporting food, goods, and people around the world to creating a garden paradise that supplies our needs in our communities. God's original plan is ours when we want it and release the past polluting, bondage and stress producing lifestyle behind.

    Barack Obama would be a charismatic leader who would make us prosper like Bill Clinton did; but we would still be working away from families, buying insurance, dealing with daily stress of child care, college tuition, sons in military, conflicts over abortion, homo-sexual marriages, and religion. There is no change we can believe in here. Other candidates are the same. Another leader can arise if we want one.

  • Posted By: neda @ 08/27/2008 8:17:35 PM

    You know I don't mind givng my fair share, but under obama my back will break. Oh, wait a minute. I'm not rich. We are in a democratic society. let's do the democratic thing and make the rich pay for it. And once we tax ed them and it is not enough let's tax them more. Somebody got to be responsible for poor fiscal spending.

    • Posted By: metzlerd @ 08/29/2008 7:14:04 AM

      If you don't mind doing your fair share, then vote Obama because that's all we're asking. You survived the 90's without a broken back didn't you? And if you really aren't rich, (by Obama's standards, not McCains), then you're probably going to get a bit of a lighter load not a heavier one.

      When Clinton was in office, we balanced the budget, and we all survived, so don't act like being fiscally responsible is just too much to bear.

  • Posted By: Rocky2001 @ 08/27/2008 9:19:39 PM

    Good luck Barry...your going to need it!!! BaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaYaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

    • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 08/27/2008 9:31:38 PM

      Here's a raspberry for you Rocky! Obama wins..McCain loses! He is a loser in more ways than one, he's shameless..he attacks Obama with smears. At least Obama didn't cheat on and abandon his children and his crippled wife.

      • Posted By: Rocky2001 @ 08/27/2008 9:49:49 PM

        Better check the polls P.....Barry is losing......LMFAO!!!

        • Posted By: loriw @ 08/27/2008 11:24:57 PM

          This convention is so weak so far that I doubt Obama will see a perceivable bump after it is all over.
          A big thunderstorm as the convention ends could bring some excitement to the campaign tho....
          It's not nice to fool with mother nature Sen. Obama....a living baby should be allowed to live!

          • Posted By: metzlerd @ 08/29/2008 6:54:18 AM

            Sorry. Professional wrestling is on the other channel. That convention is just about Americans taking our country back.

      • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/27/2008 10:35:54 PM


        Not as far as we know . . . how would we know given he has the MSM protecting him. Either way, it does look like he has the propensity of engaging in adultery. Whether he does in the future time will tell. The signs are there. Be good, Obama:

        Psychoanalytic Dialogues,
        Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy: The Dark Side of Charisma
        By Sue Erikson Bloland, C.S.W.

        Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy are both exceptionally charismatic figures who achieved enormous popularity as U.S. Presidents. And both have been revealed (one posthumously and one while still in office) as compulsive womanizers who risked their political careers (if not the welfare of the country) in the addictive pursuit of sexual gratification. Should we be shocked to learn that these well-loved leaders, or that Mao Ze-dong, Gandhi, or Martin Luther King, qualify as sexual addicts?

        What we have come to know posthumously about the personal conduct of many of historys most extraordinary political leaders suggests that a combination of charismatic personality, a drive to attain power, and sexual compulsivity is a common pattern among heads of state.

        http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=pd.010.0285a

        BTW, Pia, Obama has started his negative ads too. Dont be such a pansy. . . that is politics. ; 0 D

  • Posted By: cobalt6 @ 08/28/2008 12:26:23 PM

    It still comes down to experience and no experience. Obama has no experience. The DNC picked the wrong candidate! Women are not stupid, and will not fall for Obama's crap!!! Obama had one chance to get women voters to vote for him and he missed that opertunity too! McCain is the better choice!

    • Posted By: Wisconsin Voter @ 08/29/2008 2:34:24 AM

      So you think the guy (McShame) that voted no on a bill to make sure women have equal pay is BETTER for women???

      You want to push experience? You know who didn't have much experience? Roosevelt, Roosevelt (both of them) and Wilson.

    • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 08/28/2008 3:00:07 PM

      You make these blanket statements that WOMEN will not vote for Obama!

      thank you so much for speaking for me and the millions of women in the US. I really wasn't aware that as a woman, specifically that I am not SUPPOSED to vote for Obama.

      I mean really "You gotta love a man who enjoys a really Good RAPE JOKE"!

      • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/29/2008 1:18:02 AM


        Well you would take it that way. S/he obviously is talking about a significant segment of women voters that have their own mind and will not have Obama shoved down their throat and will be a good part of why Obama will not win in the GE.

      • Posted By: pyramid @ 08/28/2008 11:28:53 PM

        OR NOT

    • Posted By: Jurr @ 08/28/2008 1:15:59 PM

      McCain has been in Washington 26 years yet what did all of his experience do to help the current crises? The economy is hurting and is only expected to get worse, companies are laying off workers left & right, our dollar is in the crapper, have a $500 billion budget deficit, oil prices are out of control, Russia is making noise and we have no available troops, Iraq is costing us a fortune in terms of lives & tax dollars, bin laden is still on the loose, plus all the standard issues of social security, immigration, health care, etc, etc.

      McCain hasn't learned jack from his experience except that it's really cool to have a $100 million sugar- momma

  • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 08/28/2008 3:39:19 PM

    Off topic but all things considered, funny as hell!

    Cindy McCain's half sister (same father Beer Baron) is voting for Obama. I just heard it on MSNBC.

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/29/2008 1:08:28 AM

      . . . and given that these two sisters have been estranged for years over money issues (what SJ says, so going on her claim) is unusual for the sister to vote against her brother in law?

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 08/29/2008 12:06:06 AM

    Well well...BREAKING NEWS ON LARRY SINCLAIR....we all remember his arrest at the NPC. Seems that Delaware Attn. Gen. Beau Biden...son of Joe...didn't fall far from the tree. The attempt to harass and intimidate Sinclair, into backing away from his claims against The False One, have utterly failed. Rumors abound that this is how Daddy Joe got the V.P. nod...make him VP candidate and he would shut up ex-loverboy Larry. Sinclair was threatened with a life sentence by the A.G. office. Sinclair stuck to his guns. Here is the result..........

    BELOW IS THE DELAWARE COURT CASE DOCKECT

    This is the latest DOCKET ENTRY ON YOUR CASE:01 SCORNC

    08/06/2008 13 SCHEDULING ORDER ISSUED
    THE FOLLOWING COURT DATES ARE ESTABLISHED:
    (A) FIRST CASE REVIEW 08/11/2008
    (B) FINAL CASE REVIEW 09/02/2008
    (C) TRIAL 09/11/2008

    02 CCR 08/11/2008 CASE REVIEW CALENDAR: SET FOR FINAL CASE REVIEW.

    03 SUBISS08/15/2008 14 SUBPOENA(S) ISSUED.___SHERIFF(2)

    04 NOLPRO 08/28/2008 15 NOLLE PROSEQUI FILED BY ATTORNEY

    GENERAL RSN: INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

    05 CASE 08/28/2008 CASE CLOSED.

    Larry is getting louder and louder......Boy, sure looks like Barry is going to be answering...LOTS of...questions really soon.

    NOBAMA!!!

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