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Sep 5, 2008 | Updated: 10:21  a.m. ET Sep 5, 2008

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  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/16/2008 8:03:50 PM

    Comment: Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!!


    Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.

    The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
    Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."

    Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.

    Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.

    Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.

    Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.

    It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.

    Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luck­being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}

    Capitalism is the only social system that rewards virtue and punishes vice. This applies to both the business executive and the carpenter, the lawyer and the factory worker.

  • Posted By: Payne23 @ 09/20/2008 1:26:47 AM

    Comment: What exactly do democrats hsve to explain. First; republican economic policies don't work unless you make more than 500,000 a year, second; what happened to Newt's contract with America and W's compassionate conservatism,hmmm, they lied. That covers 20 years of republican ideology and if you include the 30 years before that it only gets worse. Let us for once deal with facts in an election cycle and stay away from the inantile dribble like the Clinton runnin drugs thing, Gore inventing the internet thing, or Kerry being denounced by noone who actually served with him thing. Eventually family values must include truthfullness. Also we must decide if this is a strictly religous country or a free country; it cannot be both and our founders knew that, thus the first ammendment, which Bush and McCain have done well to trample. Remember the free speech zones and our right to peacably assemble. Republicans have much more explaining to do.

  • Posted By: CTCommuter @ 09/15/2008 9:36:11 PM

    Comment: John McCain will win, the truth will be told. He is the only real choice

  • Posted By: mccaincursingonyoutube @ 09/12/2008 7:35:42 PM

    Comment: Sarah Palin is a mom of 5, a soon to be grandmother, and loves to hunt. She is the Governor of a state of 600,000 and was the Mayor of a town of 6000. She hired a lobbyist to bring in earmarks over 28 million dollars, and as Governor has requested more earmarks than any other state per ca pita.

    She is tough. When the news media keeps telling everyone that she did not sell the state jet on ebay, or that she was not always against the bridge to nowhere, she sticks to her scripts. In the face of truth, she is able to repeat her stomp speech and not change a thing. Not many politicians can say that.

    She stood up to Charlie Gibson in her interview and said, "Yes, I am ready to be president." She is ready. How many people can say they are ready to be president. Why do the liberals want to ask her questions about her past or what she believes in? This is not fair. She has a right to be VP without explaining herself.

    She also stated that she did not blink when McCain asked her to be VP. This is proof that she is a patriot. She will take on Russia, and go to war if necessary to protect our great US of A. She is ready to be VP and even President.

    McCain knew it after meeting with her twice that she was his soul mate. McCain's gut told him- now that is the kind of guy that I want leading the country. A man that tosses reason and logic out of the window and goes with his gut. Unlike that wimp Obama; who wants to talk or use diplomacy first.

    Proven by all of the things I have listed. Who cares about The Bush Doctrine? She is a mother of 5, not a baby killer. She looks like the girl next door, and has a comprehensive energy plan that includes only drilling. She will not drill in Indiana, Ohio or Michigan, but there will be lots of jobs in Alaska- America's Last Frontier.

  • Posted By: slimpundit @ 09/11/2008 8:50:22 PM

    Comment: Find out how Palin compares to Stalin and what real untrained pitbulls can do to you or your kids at:
    http://slimpundit.wordpress.com/

  • Posted By: nweekreader @ 09/11/2008 1:16:03 PM

    Comment: I just don't get why liberals are so squeamish about seeing pictures/video of what was done to us on 9/11. This is not a celebration of those events, it is a reminder that we were attacked by Muslim extremists and that we are at war with them. Make no mistake, they would like nothing better than to do it all over again. If you hide these images away as if they never happened, it will be forgotten about and we will grow complacent again and open ourselves up to further attacks. I know it is politically incorrect but we need to see these images on a regular basis. It was NOT an attack against New York -- it was an attack against America.

    • Posted By: observer101 @ 09/11/2008 3:12:47 PM

      Comment: Hiding the truth about this tragic day is what dem/libs want to do..It goes against what Obama believes, which is all we have to do is negotiate and leave well enough alone and we wont be bothered..WRONG..Clinton did that tactic and look where it put us...Remember WTC episode one, 9/11, OKC and never forget that its what happens when we sit by and let ANY terrorist do as they wish...

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 09/09/2008 2:23:29 PM

    Comment: Baaaaaaryyyyyyyyyyyy. Tha old frog is up on the polls. How is this possible? You are better looking. You are more intelligent. You graduated from Columbia. You are younger. You are a citizen of the world. Europeans adore you. You had a wonderful coronation. Barry, if you loose, we are all going to be real sad.

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 09/09/2008 11:24:19 AM

    Comment: A dramatic scene developed today on the flight carrying Senator Obama to the campaign rally at the Rosenberg Memorial. He walked down the isle towards reporters and unexpectedly said: "How dare John McCain talk about his scars. As if to imply that I have not suffered. That I have not sacrificed. I too have scars." With that the Junior Senator from Illinois lifted his pants to reveal several scars on his knees. He then allowed reporters to look up his nose and examine his nasal septum. "I too have scars." Several reporters openly wept. A few asked if he had any scars on the palms of his hand and dorsum of his feet.

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/09/2008 11:20:37 AM

    Comment:
    Obamas Friends, Colleagues, Campaign fundraisers, terrorists, radical / racists, anti-America pastor, radical mentors, fundraisers, and/or endorser(s) . . . anyone see a pattern?:

    * RASHID KHALIDI (former PLO terrorist): http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-bomber-ayers-partied-with-former.html

    * FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS (infamous pro-Soviet Communist Party member who was a mentor to Obama in his earlier days - from age 9 or 10 to 18 yrs old - until he left to go off to college). Davis sent Obama off to college and later Barack would admit that he attended socialist conferences and picked Marxist professors as his friends. http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/09/obamas-communist-mentor-frank-marshall.html

    * BILL AYERS (Washington unapologetic terrorist): Colleague and friend of Barack and Michelle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV_h-XwchkY

    * BERNADINE DORHN (Washington unapologetic terrorist): Friend and colleague of Michelle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxRi4gfupi8

    * LOUIS FARRAKHAN (radical Islam, Racist): Obamas church honored this guy with an award; he also endorsed Obama (albeit he denounced him).
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOAi6PYHQNA

    * MRS. LOUIS FARRAKHAN and Michelle are friends and each serve on the Board for the Rainbow Coalition / PUSH.

    * REVEREND WRIGHT (former pastor, spiritual mentor, friend - like an uncle to me - for 20+ years) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M-kD0QdRJk
    Obamas former church ( www.tucc.org)

    * FATHER PHLEGER (another spiritual mentor and race-conscious, hateful pastor and friend of Obama for many yrs.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBvYICKJ3TI

    * KWAME KILPATRICK (Disgraced Detroit Mayor who resigned and subject to 4 mos. In Jail) - Obamas introduces his friend and colleague: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE6_zdeJ79E
    Article: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/09/08/2008-09-08_kwame_kilpatrick_sees_flames_of_desire_a.html

    * HAMAS (terrorist org): Endorsed Obama
    http://www.cfr.org/publication/8968
    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=64097












  • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/09/2008 10:49:29 AM

    Comment:
    Obamas Radical Roots And Rules
    By INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 4:20 PM PT

    Election '08: Most Americans REVILE SOCIALISM, yet Barack Obamas poll numbers remain competitive. One explanation: He is a longtime disciple of a man (Saul Alinsky) whose mission was to TEACH RADICALS TO DISGUISE THEIR IDEOLOGY.

    The Democratic presidential nominees choice of the word CHANGE as his campaigns central slogan is not the product of focus-group studies, or the brainstorming sessions of his political consultants.

    One of Obamas main inspirations, SAUL ALINSKY, was a man dedicated to revolutionary change that he was convinced must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward CHANGE AMONG THE MASS OF OUR PEOPLE. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are WILLING TO LET GO OF THE PAST AND CHANGE THE FUTURE.

    Saul Alinsky, circa 1946: Like Obama, he wanted CHANGE. Sen. Obama was TRAINED by Chicagos INDUSTRIAL AREAS FOUNDATION, founded in 1940 by the RADICAL ORGANIZER SAUL ALINSKY. In the 1980s, Obama spent years as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), which operated USING ALINSKYS STRATEGIES, and was involved with two other Alinsky-oriented entities, ACORN and PROJECT VOTE.

    On the OBAMA CAMPAIGN WEB SITE can be found a PHOTO of him teaching in a University of Chicago classroom with POWER ANALYSIS AND RELATIONSHIPS BUILT ON SELF INTEREST written on the blackboard ??? key terms utilized in the Alinsky method.

    The far-left Alinsky had no time for liberalism or liberals, declaring that a liberal is (someone) who puts his foot down firmly on thin air. He WANTED NOTHING LESS THAN TRANSFORMATIONAL RADICALISM. America was begun by its radicals, he wrote. America was built by its radicals. The hope and future of America lies with its radicals. And so, This is the job for todays radical . . . to FAN THE EMBERS OF HOPELESSNESS INTO A FLAME TO FIGHT. TO SAY, . . . LET US CHANGE IT TOGETHER!

    ALINSKY STUDENTS ranged from militant Indians to Chicanos to Puerto Ricans to blacks from all parts of the black power spectrum, from PANTHERS TO RADICAL

    http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303605575673142

    (Continued in my post below - Obamas Radical Roots And Rules)

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/09/2008 10:48:56 AM

    Comment: (Continued from my post above - Obamas Radical Roots And Rules)

    PHILOSOPHERS, from a variety of campus activists, S.D.S. and others, to a priest who was joining a revolutionary party in South America.

    CAPITALISM always was considered the ENEMY. Americas corporations are a spiritual slum, he wrote, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society. Is it surprising that an ALINSKY DISCIPLE SUCH AS OBAMA can promise so blithely to increase taxes on CEOs?

    Obama calls his years as an ALINSKYESQUE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER in Chicago THE BEST EDUCATION I ever had, and where I learned the true meaning of my Christian faith. But as radicalism expert Richard Lawrence Poe has noted, CAMOUFLAGE is key to ALINSKY-STYLE ORGANIZING. In organizing coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama caught flak for not attending church himself. He became an instant churchgoer.

    Indeed, Alinsky believed in SACRIFICING ETHICS AND MORALS FOR THE GREAT CAUSE. Ethical standards must be elastic to stretch with the times, Alinsky wrote in his last book, Rules for Radicals, adding that ALL VALUES ARE RELATIVE IN A WORLD OF POLITICAL RELATIVITY.

    Published a year before Alinskys death in 1972, Rules for Radicals includes a dedication in which he gives an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical . . . who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom . . . Lucifer.

    Alinskys writings even explain what often seems like OBAMAS OVERSIZED EGO. In New Hampshire in January, for example, the senator told an audience that A BEAM OF LIGHT WILL COME DOWN UPON YOU, YOU WILL EXPERIENCE AN EPIPHANY . . . and you will suddenly realize that YOU MUST GO TO THE POLLS and VOTE FOR OBAMA.

    It was a bizarre spectacle, but consider that ALINSKY BELIEVED that anyone who is working against the haves is always facing odds, and in many cases heavy odds. If he or she does not have that complete self-confidence (or call it ego) that he can win, then the battle is lost before it is even begun.


    http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303605575673142

    (Continued in my post below - Obamas Radical Roots And Rules)

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/09/2008 10:47:29 AM

    Comment:
    (Continued from my post above - Obamas Radical Roots And Rules)

    According to Alinsky, Ego must be so all-pervading that the PERSONALITY of the organizer is CONTAGIOUS, that it converts the people from despair to defiance, creating a mass ego.

    Alinsky also readily admitted that he did not trust the people themselves. It is the schizophrenia of a free society that we outwardly espouse faith in the people but inwardly have strong doubts whether the people can be trusted, he wrote. Seeking some meaning in life, the MIDDLE CLASS, according to Alinsky, TURN TO AN EXTREME

    (Continued in my post below - Obamas Radical Roots And Rules)

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/09/2008 10:45:17 AM

    Comment:
    CHAUVINISM AND BECOME DEFENDERS OF THE AMERICAN FAITH.

    This is evocative of Obamas remark during the primaries that small-town Americans are BITTER and cling to guns or religion.

    Obama is also following Alinskys instructions to the hard left for attaining power in America. In the last chapter of Rules for Radicals, titled The Way Ahead, is found this declaration: Activists and radicals, on and off our college campuses . . . people who are committed to change . . . must make a complete turnabout.

    Alinsky noted that our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and way of life of the MIDDLE CLASS. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt.

    According to Alinsky, They are right, but he cautioned his comrades that the power and the people are in the big middle-class majority. Therefore, an effective radical activist discards the rhetoric that always says pig in reference to police officers, plus other forms of disguise, to radicalize parts of the middle class.

    Obamas RHETORICAL WINDOW-DRESSING is easily recognizable as ALINSKYESQUE CAMOUFLAGE. New annual spending of more than $340 billion, as estimated by the National Taxpayers Union, is merely a wish to recast the safety net woven by FDR and LBJ, as Obama describes it in his writings. The free market is disparaged as a winner-take-all economy. Big tax increases masquerade as restoring fairness to the economy.

    Barack Obamas CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN is simply SOCIALISM . . . imposed by stratagem because Americans have never believed in Marxist economics. Saul Alinsky understood this, and his ghost is alive and well. . . and threatening to haunt the White House.

    http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303605575673142

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 09/09/2008 10:14:37 AM

    Comment: I can't believe McCain chose that trailer trash as his running mate. Oh vey. She probably has not even heard of the Ivy League. She probably thinks that Dartmouth is some kind of lake bass. That Penn something you write with. And that Cornell is something that grows on your little toe.

  • Posted By: msdx @ 09/09/2008 9:52:56 AM

    Comment: OMG I didn't know the KKK had people in it that could spell much less use a PC. Boy we're in trouble now we might be nauseated enough by the racist comments here to actually vomit or maybe we'll just ignore the racist nonsense for what it is, sheer stupidity that is unamerican drivel shoved forth from an incredibly ignorant and overly self important person, but thanks for sharing.

  • Posted By: bdhotwheel @ 09/09/2008 2:27:14 AM

    Comment: Comment: Sounds like a DEAL.....I'll go to Alaska and you can go back to AFRICA.....You're so unhappy with your life in this WHITEY world...Hell, if I felt as angry as you I'd have left a long time ago...I hear the scenery in Africa is absolutely WILD!!!!!


    That was awesome! LMAO!

  • Posted By: bdhotwheel @ 09/09/2008 2:26:22 AM

    Comment: OBAMA would rather listen to his Reverand that blow (up) a terrorist!

  • Posted By: bajan man @ 09/09/2008 2:20:47 AM

    Comment: McCain would rather lose a war than lose an erection.

  • Posted By: Yes! We ALL Can @ 09/09/2008 2:07:41 AM

    Comment: Hey Everyone - we could argue all day long about the tabloid stories and who's being picked on in the media and who's not - but utimately - this election is going to come down to the economy and asking yourselves if you are better off now than you were 8 years ago. And now that Sarah Palin has made it clear she intends to behave like a pit-bull with rabies combined with a mad-as-hell bucking bull (with listick), she's basically promising to play her part in 4 more years of partisan gridlock and fully supports Bush's policies 100% as does McCain. It's a real siimple choice and James Carville (who I don't always agree with) definately summed it up nicely:

    "By every economic measure known to man, Democratic Presidents have out-performed Republican Presidents. And by the way if you believe the economy was better under George W Bush than Bill Clinton you???ve got a real clear choice here.

    "If you think what America needs is a tax cut for people making over half-a-million dollars a year then vote for McCain. If you think middle-class people are struggling ??? that their incomes are going down and they need help ??? vote for Obama. It???s a very simple choice".

    - CNN's Late Edition

  • Posted By: dkeys @ 09/08/2008 10:55:05 PM

    Comment: Making fun of Sarah Palin and John McCain will not quell the groundswell of support they have recieved, not only from conservatives, but also from mainstream hockey moms, soccer moms, etc. The newfound upward direction of the polls shows that they are a breath of fresh air to most Americans. It is Obama and Biden who are the real 'mad libs' --- mad liberals --- anti-defense, anti-family, anti-budget, and pro-abortion!

    • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 09/09/2008 12:42:53 AM

      Comment: WOW! dykes, nice try at TALKING POINTS, I guess you want a cracker now...

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 09/08/2008 10:26:44 PM

    Comment: What McCAin is trying to ABORT a FEDERAL INVESTIGATION on SARAH PALIN as she is guilty of ETHICS VIOLATIONS, I mean if she were INOCENT, let the investigation go on, nothing to hide right. But if SHE IS GUILTY, stop the investigation before it's too late.

    Palin should stick to censoring libraries and trying to fire librarians, because Palin is afraid of Harry Potter.

    • Posted By: nweekreader @ 09/11/2008 1:22:06 PM

      Comment: Yes, she tried to ban the Harry Potter books -- before they were even books!!

  • Posted By: ICYEYES800 @ 09/08/2008 7:42:18 PM

    Comment: BARRY FINALLY SAID SOMETHING WE CAN BELIEVE IN....HE ADMITTED IN AN INTERVIEW THAT HE IS MUSLIM....WHETHER IT WAS A FREUDIAN SLIP OR WHATEVER....THE DUDE WAS TELLING THE TRUTH FOR THE FIRST TIME WE CAN BELEIVE IN SOMETHING HE SAID.....JUST SAY NO TO O

    • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 09/08/2008 10:26:14 PM

      Comment: Yeah how does Obama convert the racists and the chickenhearted of this country, concerned only of the WMDs and the "brown boogeymen" who will get you at 3am, what to do what to do. You se 80% of America believes that we are going in the WRONG direction, which McCain offers more of. Paint it with any brush you like and deny with all your might, it boils down to race, we ALL know it, we ALL see it, it's a clear as crystal. Not Hispanics, Not blacks, Not women, Not YOUNGER WHITE voters, just the old crowd, the ones who swallowed but did not accept the "civil rights movement, those who say they don't like Obama because he's a "Muslim" and that's laughable, the word MUSLIM has simply taken the place of another word that is no longer acceptable to the public, not that it ever really was, but for a time, the time of this ONE group of OLDER WHITE MEN, you could use that other word and hate for the color of skin, that time is now gone. A new hatred has come and it's not what they want, it's what they can get away with, SO, they (older white men) don't hate him because he's black, nope, they hate him because he's Muslim, and they'll barely admit to that, they'll have some other bullsh!t excuse, "Experience" Obama has experienced more in his life that qualifies him to relate to TRUE Americans than some born with a silver spoon up his a$$, my daddy is an admiral, my wife is a billionaire, wanna and self proclaimed "hero". Who has NEVER had to want for anything.
      What Obama may lack in "experience" he MORE than makes up for in "INTELLIGENCE" I hear nobody arguing his intelligence, especially not 894th out of 899 McCain.
      Obama also TRULY UNDERSTANDS diplomacy, not as McCain or Bush see it...that stupid step you have to pretend to go through before you bomb bomb somebody, but that diplomacy SAVES LIVES, American and foreign. Now I know that some of you blood thirsty chicken hawks think hey as long as more of them die than do Americans, we win, tell that to the nearly 4500 families that have lost their loved one in what John McCain described as a "WAR FOR OIL".
      Obama has ALWAYS maintained that the REAL war America should be engaged in is in Afghanistan, where those who attacked us make base. That war has been ignored by Bush and McCain for years, it was only a week ago that McCain first mentioned Afghanistan, pity. I guess Bin Laden is NOT a priority for McCain or Bush for that matter.
      Obama has dignity, he has and still sticks to his character, where as McCain SWORE he wanted a "clean" campaign, at the first sign of his impending doom, he resorts to stopping just short of calling Obama a traitor...nice and clean, and how does Obama respond..."I feel sorry for John McCain". No mud, no name calling, as that is the McCian way of campaigning as is evident by his adds, his words, his actions, brought forth from his DESPERATION.

      • Posted By: ICYEYES800 @ 09/08/2008 11:42:52 PM

        Comment: HARDLY, I'm growing weary of the repetition of this ISSUE...Obama IS NOT QUALIFIED!!!!! He is just black and any other second year senator(who happened to be white), who attempted to become President would have been laughed out of office...He is a joke....and it just keep getting funnier and funnier....WE still have to have discussions on the relationship that Obama has had since the '80's with al-Monsour, who just happens to be one of the people who helped Obama get into Columbia....and guess what, he is also the $$$$$ and the creator of the black panters.....He is an orthadox muslim, black nationalist and a outspoken enemy of Israel.... That shoe hasn't DROPPED just yet, but it will!!!! Hold on to your seat cause the ride is just starting to get ugly and Osama will be REVEALED AT THE MILITANT MUSLIM HE IS....

        • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 09/09/2008 12:41:31 AM

          Comment: If you're "weary" then give your racist sh!t! a rest sweetie ;) She left you for a black guy with a huge.....brain, get over it. You'll find another woman to beat and demean, don't worry. try Alaska.

          • Posted By: ICYEYES800 @ 09/09/2008 1:50:28 AM

            Comment: Sounds like a DEAL.....I'll go to Alaska and you can go back to AFRICA.....You're so unhappy with your life in this WHITEY world...Hell, if I felt as angry as you I'd have left a long time ago...I hear the scenery in Africa is absolutely WILD!!!!!

            • Posted By: msdx @ 09/09/2008 10:06:08 AM

              Comment: You know what. I'm done with this pedantic ridiculous crap from racist idiots in this country. I am white, I am from Alabama for crying out loud, but I am not actually stupid enough to believe that a man that has a pastor is a Muslim. All you guys sit there and bring up reverend Wright, and then bring up the Muslim thing. I'm not a brain surgeon, but even I can tell that it takes someone with the brains of retarded tree frog to not know that if a guy attends a church and not a mosque then he is , OH BOY, I know I'm straining those two tiny brain cells of yours, GUESS WHAT.... OMG... he is a Christian. I know its ok just breath. I know sometimes it hurts for folks with an IQ lower than 80 to try so hard. OH and guess what Sarah Palin's husband is a secessionist antiamerican gun toting radical who wants to burn books and takes taxpayer money for staying at home. Yeah she takes a per diem for staying at her own house. Sarah Palin is also a liar. I hear all you guys sitting there always complaining about all politicians lie its stupid. If you want someone to tell you the truth then quit voting for liars. Guess what else dude, no really guess what, this is a country for all Americans no matter their color creed or anything else and you know what. IF YOU DON"T LIKE IT WHY DON"T YOU LEAVE?! I know the world would fall apart without that one little racist blogger, but really why not give it a try you might like it.

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 09/08/2008 6:46:57 PM

    Comment: Barry. I can't believe McCain picked that trailer trash as his VP? Where are all those kids gonna go to school in Washington? My mom says none of the private schools serve moose. The nerve. She probably has never set foot on Central Park West. Probably has never heard of Zaabar. She claims that she is a hockey mom. What is that supposed to mean? The field hockey moms at Brearley and Chapin were nothing like HER. I can't stand her.

    • Posted By: observer101 @ 09/08/2008 8:08:35 PM

      Comment: Deal w/ it, she is helping to kick Baracks rectum...I wouldnt care if she was a football mom, hockey mom, swim mom or softball mom...If thats all you ppl can criticize her on is a bridge, firing ppl, or having a pregnant teenage daughter, then McCain has this election in the bag...I suppose Obama having dealings w/ known criminals and known anti-americans isnt bad by a dem/libs standards, its is perfectly acceptable...Face it, you dem/libs are getting worried that Obama is slipping and Palin has alot to do with it..McCain/Palin08'

      • Posted By: msdx @ 09/09/2008 10:10:21 AM

        Comment: Yeah Sarah Palin didn't build the bridge to nowhere, but you know what SHE KEPT THE MONEY. You know if it was me I would care if someone just kept the money. Not to mention she wants to ban books and collects tax payer money for sitting around at home. Her husband is a secessionist and she thinks the Iraq war is a task from God. You think that isn't radical. Man I need to sell you some swamp land. Your not on top of your game are you?

      • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 09/09/2008 12:47:09 AM

        Comment: "Deal w/ it, she is helping to kick Baracks rectum"...newby1

        After she and McBush get stomped, since at some point she will have to answer for her LIES (everything out of her mouth) she'll just be stuck wiping mccain's rectum, even if they won, that's what her job would be. that is the experience palin brings, what did she call her self? oh yeah a female dog, she's a female dog with lip stick, is there a shorter way to say that....

        • Posted By: observer101 @ 09/09/2008 11:41:21 AM

          Comment: Yes we know in reality she will be wiping McCains rectum..Thats pretty intelligent...Did your Mommy tell you that one?

          • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 09/09/2008 5:40:08 PM

            Comment: I don't have a mom, me and my dad use yours ;) LMAO, wanna keep going or you done with the repig attempt at sh!t talking...

            • Posted By: observer101 @ 09/10/2008 3:34:03 PM

              Comment: Oh NOW you dont have a Mom?...Well in other posts you stated your Mommy made a funny...Goes to show you cant trust what a dem/lib says. ...I wouldnt doubt if you and your daddy are out "Using" others moms...Thats typical of a Dem nowadays, natural born liars, unfaithful and make things up as they go...You should run for office somewhere..When you and your uncle daddy are out practicing the Dems natural habits do you wear protection? or do you plan on infecting the population w/ more of you and your uncle dads stupidity? Please dont let it be the latter...Bring it on clown shoes.

  • Posted By: Kboogie @ 09/08/2008 4:54:38 PM

    Comment: [ Note by web_admin: This was already posted on Washington Independent
    comments area and was meant by the author to be read by many, but
    readers need sourcing. The NY Times has talked with contributors since. ]

    ABOUT SARAH PALIN-

    She's not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas
    or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren't generated by
    her or her staff. Ideas weren't evaluated on their merits, but on the
    basis of who proposed them.

    While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected
    City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from
    the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents
    rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin's
    attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew
    her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the
    Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.

    Sarah complained about the "old boy's club" when she first ran for
    Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys". Palin
    fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as
    Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people,
    creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally
    grateful and fiercely loyal--loyal to the point of abusing their power
    to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the
    case of pressuring the State's top cop (see below).

    • Posted By: Kboogie @ 09/08/2008 4:57:30 PM

      Comment: About Sarah Palin -Pt. 2

      As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla's Police Chief because he "intimidated"
      her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska's top
      cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure
      and she had every legal right to fire him, but it's pretty clear that
      an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn't
      fire her sister's ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation
      for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen
      contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she
      later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to
      replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded
      for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew
      her support.

      She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in
      help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town
      introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council
      became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She
      abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn't
      like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.

      Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything
      publicly about her.

  • Posted By: Driver of wagons @ 09/08/2008 4:37:02 PM

    Comment:


    "Katrina, four dollar gas, a trillion dollar war, rising unemployment, deregulated housing market, global warming......."

    "N O M O R E"



    • Posted By: msdx @ 09/09/2008 10:14:15 AM

      Comment: AGREED REPUBLICANS CANNOT CHANGE REPUBLICANS OBAMA '08

  • Posted By: ICYEYES800 @ 09/08/2008 3:22:23 PM

    Comment: Scanning the TYPICAL response of the LIBERAL dems frame of mind, makes one wonder what these clueless dems are NOT GETTING.....FIRST, the basic and morst prevalent is the VICTIM mindset....that is the most predominant difference in a REPUBLICAN and a deo....While yall are sitting around waiting for somebody to GIVE you something...REPUBLICANS are rolling up their sleeves and DOING whatever it takes to make their lives better.....Secondly, REPUBLICANS are willing to put out more money to charities than all democrats combined....THIRDLY, Obama is a closet Muslim....finally admitted it and we've got it on TV for the WORLD to see...nobody who is CHRISTIAN would ever have a MOMENT where they would EVER make that kind of OOPS moment...Barack Hussein Obama???? IT IS WHAT IT IS and it's crazy and unbelieveable to most Americans that his name will even appear on the ballot in November....Considering the current situation in the USA's economy, the hostility around the globe, and the threat of nuclear weapons actually being USED withing the NEAR future....do you truly believe that Osama is capable of making sound decisons that will protect your children, grandchildren, friends and family???? I would much rather have somebody who knows how ugly things can get, and hope that he isn't FORCED to use that knowledge than having somebody who is CLUELESS about either the economy corrections that have to be made or how to deal with the BULLIES who wish to demolish our great nation!!!!!!!

    • Posted By: msdx @ 09/09/2008 10:24:36 AM

      Comment: CLUELESS? Are you absolutely out of your mind do you have eyes? Man unemployment is 6% and rising. Gas is still around 4$ groceries costs an arm and a leg. The Republicans will be giving tax cuts to people making OVER $150k. Do you make 150k? Or are you just an idiot. Obama's cuts would give people making less than $250k A LOT MORE MONEY THAN MCCAIN'S PLAN. Who are you to call anyone clueless. You show your lack of judgment just by voting for the same party that has screwed up the future for your children. Then again you probably don't care much about your kids do you? That is if you have any. The Republicans want to keep us addicted to buying oil from terrorists which is funding things like 911. Who is it thats clueless. You like giving money to terrorists? You know I remember GWB saying he would get us off of oil. How many times do Republicans have to lie to you. No really how many times do Republicans have to lie to YOU not me man. They are lying to YOU. Eight years and how are you doing? Don't tell me great because unless you work for OPEC your not doing so good are you? So how many lies do they have to tell you before you get it? Do you have to wait until you lose your house? What about when its one of your friends being endlessly deployed in a war zone? What about when your business goes under because Bush didn't help your town rebuild after a hurricane. What if its your kids that get sick because the homeland security dept sticks you in a trailer that has deadly chemicals in it because the guy in charge was someone's buddy? How many lies and screw ups is enough? Man your CLUELESS you just don't get it do you? How many people have to suffer before its enough for you. MISSISSIPPI is white and it is still destroyed from Katrina. whole towns are gone. You don't even care about that do you. How many screw ups is enough?

  • Posted By: Driver of wagons @ 09/08/2008 2:50:38 PM

    Comment:


    G E T O F F S A R A P A L I N !


    This is not about sara Palin this is about John Mccain and his irresponsible and irrational choice for his VP running mate.

    This is John McCains ball game and he is the one making the decisions. The Republicans have you all looking the other way by making you think this is about Palin and John McCain having his strings pulled with his campaign manager saying things like "This election is not about issues" or one of his surragates saying' "John Mccain does not speak for this campaign" or turning "Community Organizer" into a dirty word when we all know that is a great way to reach and help peple who are in greater need than ourselves. No sir This election on the Republican side is being run by the one and only John Mccain and nobody else. If you think otherwise you are a fool in your own skin.

    "IT IS NOT"

    This is all about John McCain and his extremely bad judgement.

    The republican party is playing Bushy with all of you all over again by making you think that he is a puppet and his strings are being pulled by Rove and company and the Republican party.

    W E L L I H A V E G O T N E W S F O R Y O U!

    Bush, Cheney and Mccain are dumb like foxes and we are all just fish on a hook and we are swallowing it hook, line and sinker and being reeled in all over again.They did it to everybody in 2000 and 2004 and they are right back at it again in 2008. As it stands right now they are winning and if we all keep talking about the wrong things till the General Election and lose focus of what is ailing our beloved country America will lose again.

    I hope you can live with that because i can't bear the thought and i can't afford another 4 or more years of the same and as it loks right now you are all helping to get us to that juncture.




  • Posted By: Yes! We ALL Can @ 09/08/2008 2:34:12 PM

    Comment: Hopefully "Softball" Gibson will ask Sarah Palin the tough questions that the American voters need to know and understand about her qualifications to be VP - which being a gritty mother of 5 is not one of them - respectful and demainding in it's own right - but certainly not a qualification to be VP of the United States!! Let's hope you write about this first I'm sure of many under experienced and unqualifed Sarah Palin will make. See below...
    McCain's judgement should be seriously questioned! He made a terrible mistake in picking Plain. Obvious fact: in the wake of the government taking over Fannie Mae and Freedie Mac - here's what Sarah Palin had to say below. Sarah Palin is seriously under-qualified for a job that McCain (should he win - which I don't see it happening) that she has ABSOULTELY NO KNOWLEDGE of national or foreign policy and lacks the understanding for a wide array of issues right now!! Palin is not ready to be VP for anybody!!
    Gov. Sarah Palin made her first potentially major gaffe during her time on the national scene while discussing the developments of the perilous housing market this past weekend.

    Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." The companies, as McClatchy reported, "aren't taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization."

    Economists and analysts pounced on the misstatement, saying it demonstrated a lack of understanding about one of the key economic issues likely to face the next administration.

    "You would like to think that someone who is going to be vice president and conceivable president would know what Fannie and Freddie do," said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "These are huge institutions and they are absolutely central to our country's mortgage debt. To not have a clue what they do doesn't speak well for her, I'd say."
    Even conservative analysts acknowledged that the statement simply did not hold true.

  • Posted By: Driver of wagons @ 09/08/2008 2:26:54 PM

    Comment:



    "Katrina, four dollar gas, a trillion dollar war, rising unemployment, deregulated housing market, global warming......."

    "N O M O R E"



    This race should be about whether the Republican Party is going to be dismantled or not after the borderline treason of the past eight years. But instead it is about making the word "community organizer" a dirty word and a beauty queen who shoots foxes from a plane. Someone is not in any way doing their job and it's the press. Or more specifically, that job no longer exists.

    Probably the worst offenders are the pundits who take the position that it's all just a game and say phrases like "getting a post-convention bump" or "playing to the soccer Moms." This isn't a game of Monopoly or Survivor. There are real truths that exist outside of the spin they are given and have an effect on lives. 250,000 Iraqi civilians are dead because we let our reality be distorted by the most effective propaganda machine in fifty years, the corporate American press. Money and jobs are flying out of this country as our currency becomes worthless and we're talking about the fact that McCain is a veteran. If someone busted into your house and robbed you would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?



  • Posted By: Hope Hill @ 09/08/2008 1:36:05 PM

    Comment: ONE QUESTION: What can you expect from bush-twin-mcCain and from Palin AFTER SHE FOUGHT SO HARD TO HAVE ALASKA SEPARATED FROM THE USA? Now she is a USA-patriotic person?

    Give me a break!!!

    Hope Hill

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 09/08/2008 12:39:09 PM

    Comment: What McCAin is trying to ABORT a FEDERAL INVESTIGATION on SARAH PALIN as she is guilty of ETHICS VIOLATIONS, I mean if she were INOCENT, let the investigation go on, nothing to hide right. But if SHE IS GUILTY, stop the investigation before it's too late.

    Palin should stick to censoring libraries and trying to fire librarians, because Palin is afraid of Harry Potter.

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/08/2008 11:51:41 AM

    Comment:

    NEW SITE: THE TRUTH ABOUT THOSE SARAH PALIN RUMORS
    http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/palin-rumors


    Today (9/08/08) on cable news they were reporting on a new site you can visit to find out the truth (or not) about the SARAH PALIN RUMORS hitting all of the blogs. The man that created it and is maintaining it (Charlie Martin) was interviewed.

    So if you want to see if a rumor is TRUE OR NOT or if you want to send a new rumor you are seeing to the site, don???t hesitate to contribute.

    The Truth about the Sarah Palin rumors: As of my posting of the link the site has captured 71 rumors about Palin . . . So far. Some of them are absolutely outrageous. LOL:

    Feel free to pass this link onto others:

    http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/palin-rumors



    Sampling of answers to Palin rumors:

    * Yes, she is Governor of Alaska. No, she is not the Lieutenant Governor. No, she is not currently Mayor of Wasilla. Yes, she was Mayor of Wasilla, some years ago.

    * Yes, as Governor of Alaska, she is the Commander in Chief of the Alaska National Guard. And yes, her professional military subordinate is quite impressed with her in that role.

    * And yes, the New York Times says the job of Governor of Alaska is one of the harder, and more powerful, jobs in state government.

    * Yes, there are people in Alaska who think she is too liberal.

    * Yes, she did giggle when someone called Lyda Green a bitch. Yes, Lyda Green is a cancer survivor. Yes, it was the same Lyda Green who tried to force a scheduling conflict that would make Palin miss her son???s high school graduation. Yes, this would also be the Lyda Green who complained no one had asked her about Palin during the vetting process.



    (Continued in my post below - The truth about the Sarah Palin Rumors - new site)

    • Posted By: Jurr @ 09/08/2008 12:37:55 PM

      Comment: You left out that Yes, Palin believes the US military is doing 'God's Work' in Iraq.

      Also you forgot that she is 100% pro-drilling anywhere a buck could possibly be made.

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

        Comment: Shoe opposes ALL womens rights. pay, choice, voting, leavingthe house (except for her). Also she only has 4 children and 1 grandchild, and one on the way.

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/08/2008 11:51:01 AM

    Comment:

    (Continued from my post above - The truth about the Sarah Palin Rumors - new site)


    * Yes, she did push for and approve the Wasilla Sports Center. Yes, it did cost a lot of money. (People keep saying $20 million, that article says $14.5 million, but then they also added a $1.2 million dollar food service/kitchen piece. This year, after Palin was out of office as Mayor.) Yes, the city went into debt to do it (how did you buy your house, bunkie?) and raised the city sales tax from 2 percent to 2.5 percent to pay for it. Yes, the city is paying it off early. Yes, there is an ongoing dispute about title (following a struggle with the Nature Conservancy and another buyer. And yes, at the time it was built, Wasilla had a Federal judge???s decision that they had title to the land.

    * Yes, she did want authority to have wolves culled from the air, because they were taking too many moose and caribou. Which people hunt for food in the back country in Alaska. No, she is not shooting them herself. I mean, not that she couldnt, but I am sure she does not have time. (Thanks to bluemerlin in the comments.)

    * No, the Downs baby (Trig) is not Bristols kid, and no, the kid was not born with Downs because (a) Palin flew on an airplane (b) went home to have the baby after an amniotic leak (c) because he was the result of incest between Todd Palin and Bristol.

    * No, Track (the kid who is leaving for Iraq) did not join the NG because he was a drug addict. He may have joined the NG because he was tired of people saying his Mom was getting him into the good hockey leagues. (Yes, that one was original reporting. I have got sources in Wasilla.)

    * No, Willow and Piper are not named for witches on TV. Among other things, Willow was born before Buffy came on TV, and Piper was born before Charmed.


    http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/palin-rumors

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 09/08/2008 11:49:16 AM

    Comment: What McCAin is trying to ABORT a FEDERAL INVESTIGATION on SARAH PALIN as she is guilty of ETHICS VIOLATIONS, I mean if she were INOCENT, let the investigation go on, nothing to hide right. But if SHE IS GUILTY, stop the investigation before it's too late.

    Palin should stick to censoring libraries and trying to fire librarians, because Palin is afraid of Harry Potter.

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 09/08/2008 11:47:04 AM

    Comment: What McCAin is trying to ABORT a FEDERAL INVESTIGATION on SARAH PALIN as she is guilty of ETHICS VIOLATIONS, I mean if she were INOCENT, let the investigation go on, nothing to hide right. But if SHE IS GUILTY, stop the investigation before it's too late.

    Palin should stick to censoring libraries and trying to fire librarians, because Palin is afraid of Harry Potter.

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 09/08/2008 9:23:19 AM

    Comment: Obama unsmaked himself yesterday on ABC when he spoke about his "Muslim faith." I had been willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but NO MORE.. Quoth the raven: NEVER MORE.

  • Posted By: NewsWkDickG @ 09/08/2008 9:01:33 AM

    Comment: The McCain-Palin ticket offers a perplexing image. John McCain really just wants to retire as having been president and shows signs that he is close to being there, even finishing a first term could be a challenge. That presents the prospect of Sarah Palin as president and that is really scary and not just because of her significant lack of applicable experience. As she describes herself, she is ???a pit bull with lipstick???, an aggressive, feisty and arrogant personality that demonstrates little knack or taste for diplomacy. She is extreme in everything. She bans books from the library, bans sex education in the high school, has the reputation for demanding everything be her way and then even the Republican powers are afraid to have her be a known quantity as they keep her from the media. She is being constantly coached by Senator Lieberman, by Bush???s speech writers and by image people hoping to make her presentable and only appears at controlled appearances where she can???t be questioned. They may be satisfied that she would be a good puppet for them but what about for us? For eight years we heard Bush???s speeches, often impressive, and yet we only have to look around to see what that has really cost us; now they are writing her speeches and expect us to be moved by them. Do we really want what that brings, being more of the same or even worse? It would seem that to vote for McCain-Palin one would have to be a certifiable masochistic lunatic. A little strong on the criticism? Really, I wonder.

  • Posted By: Saved2 @ 09/08/2008 8:42:00 AM

    Comment: THESE ARE NOT RELIGIOUS PEOPLE - THEY ARE THEIR GODS THEMSELVES. GOD WILL DEAL WITH MCCAIN AND PALIN IN DUE TIME.

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/08/2008 6:59:32 AM

    Comment: LMFAO McCAIN GOT A BIGGER BOUNCE! THE ROCK STAR OBAMA IS WISHING HE HAD PICKED HILARY FOR VP AND WILL REALLY WISH IT IN NOVEMBER WHEN HIS RUN TANKS! OR IT COULD BE ALL THOSE AMERICAN FLAGS THAT WERE THROWN IN THE TRASH AT MILE HIGH! WHO KNOWS BUT ITS CLEAR THAT THE POLLS SHOW McCAIN WITH A 4 PT LEAD AND HIS BOUNCE STILL GOT 2 DAYS TO GO UNTILL WE SEE IT ALL! HMMM BYE BYE OBAMA!

    • Posted By: NewsWkDickG @ 09/08/2008 9:02:18 AM

      Comment:
      Anyone who supports Gov Sarah Palin is crazy. She is literally an obnoxious person. John McCain showed how desperate and then irresponsible he was by picking her. Having her as Vice President would be a total embarrassment and ever having her be President would be white-knuckled scary, like playing Russian roulette with the country.

      • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/08/2008 9:57:08 AM

        Comment:
        Before the RNC, Obama had a19 pt lead over McCain when it came to the question with voters : which candidate do you feel will be able to turn our economy around.

        AFTER the RNC, Obamas lead of being the one to turn the economy around dove down to be now only 3 points above Palin. A 16 pt plunge after Palin was introduced to the national stage . . . Wow.

        • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/08/2008 9:59:28 AM

          Comment:
          . . . I mean 3 points over McCain (not Palin) above. ; - D

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/08/2008 6:10:54 AM

    Comment:
    Does anyone else see a pattern showing bad judgment when it comes to the circle of friends and colleagues that Obama has had in his life over the years?:

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

    KWAME KILPATRICK - Disgraced Mayor of Detroit who has since resigned was a friend and colleague of Obama:
    Video: Obama giving intro to Kilpatrick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE6_zdeJ79E


    NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
    Kwame Kilpatrick sees flames of desire always burn guilty
    Monday, September 8th 2008, 4:00 AM
    By Stanley Crouch

    Excerpts:

    Kwame Kilpatrick FIRED some city EMPLOYEES who DISCOVERED that he was having an AFFAIR WITH A WOMAN he had known since high school and who was later his offices chief of staff. Those the Mayor gave the ax did not pick up their severed heads and go into the darkness quietly. The city was sued. Kilpatrick LIED on the witness stand about the affair and later USED $8.4 MILLION OF CITY FUNDS to pay for the abuse but managed to keep the details off the public record.

    The Detroit Free Press obtained the text messages of Kilpatrick and his boudoir home girl teasing each other, planning their couplings and discussing the unfortunate but necessary decision to rid the city of those employees involved in investigating them.

    Full article: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/09/08/2008-09-08_kwame_kilpatrick_sees_flames_of_desire_a.html

  • Posted By: supermandan @ 09/07/2008 11:18:52 PM

    Comment: The republicans are so full of it. I just read this great article about how Rudy and Colon Powell are doing this thing on the side which is basiclly a scam. I just feel like it's all about money anyway. Here is the link if anyone wants to read it. It's pretty wierd.

    http://www.americansatellite.org/2008/08/down-rabbit-hole.html

    • Posted By: Driver of wagons @ 09/08/2008 10:36:35 AM

      Comment:


      I read it. True to form with these two and no one should expect anything more from a couple of losers whose only motivation has always been to rip the American people off. it makes you wonder how much they have made from these poor lost ones looking for a quick buck that never comes to be.

  • Posted By: Georgia-Dan @ 09/07/2008 8:59:17 PM

    Comment: Reporter Guy is either totally clueless or is purposely trying to deceive people. Obama was responding to Stephanopolous' queries about Republican operatives trying to plant stories that he is actually a Muslim and not Christian. It was George who was confused by what Obama was saying and Obama corrected him. Reporter Guy-why are Republicans like you so intent on dividing the American people? It seems like you get some kind of sick delight from it.

    • Posted By: Reporter Guy @ 09/07/2008 9:59:29 PM

      Comment: Check the Washington Times you drooling knuckledragger.
      Oh yeah - Obama is a Muslim and said so himself.
      How can a man who says he is a strong Christian use the word 'Muslim' with the word 'faith'?
      He's a follower of Farrakhan and hates whitey.
      Wake up and smell the towelhead.

      • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 09/08/2008 11:48:23 AM

        Comment: Hey RepeaterChic, bite me, you're a liar as always, and a racist. God Bless ;)

      • Posted By: Georgia-Dan @ 09/08/2008 7:15:37 AM

        Comment: I think I'll pick...totally clueless.

        • Posted By: Driver of wagons @ 09/08/2008 10:39:50 AM

          Comment:


          I would say you have drawn the correct conclusion.

  • Posted By: Reporter Guy @ 09/07/2008 8:35:26 PM

    Comment: Comment: Obama admitted this morning he's a Muslim!
    Total Freudian slip.
    When talking with Stephanopolous on ABC, he used the phrase, "my Muslim faith."
    I knew it. Check out Washington Times if you don't believe it: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/07/obama-verbal-slip-fuels-his-critics/
    No verbal slip there, you can bet on that.
    And you can bet that Americans are not going to elect a Muslim to lead this nation.

    • Posted By: mccaincursingonyoutube @ 09/07/2008 9:59:47 PM

      Comment: Try something else. This did not work in the primary nor will it work now. I am in Las Vegas and it has no traction. Here word is spreading that he is the Antichrist. Do some research on that and get back it us, but you can stop with the he is a Muslim crap.

  • Posted By: ohbiden @ 09/07/2008 7:06:41 PM

    Comment: I must say it beats Roman columns and an inexperienced presidential candidate (Obama) any day of the week.

  • Posted By: neos @ 09/07/2008 4:51:47 PM

    Comment: OK, Boys and girls ??? It's quiz time!!
    Of the last 5 Republican presidents - name which one(s) had budget deficits throughout their terms? (Even when Republicans held congress as well...
    And for the bonus round, which one(s) actually left the federal government larger than he/they found it?

    Jeopardy theme music......

    Actually the answer to both questions is all of them. So much for Republican promises of small government and fiscal responsibility. Instead of tax and spend we got borrow and spend. Expect more of the same with McCain.
    And so,how did we get the money to cover the deficits and increased spending for the ever-larger government? Did we increase revenues and responsibly pay our way? No, we did not. We put it all on the ol' VISA card. Yep, we borrowed a ton of money from our bestest buddies: China and Saudi Arabia, etc. and plan to leave this enormous tab to our kids. And now we get to divert hundreds of billions of dollars a year to our bestest buddies to service the debt. Money that could have spent at home repairing our crumbling transportation infrastructure, for example. Remember the Clinton surpluses???

  • Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 09/07/2008 2:37:02 PM

    Comment: Newsvine keeps deleting my posts... this is another thing they don't want you to know. foward it to your friends..
    http://propagandameatgrinder.magnify.net/video/Zeitgeist-s-hrvatskim-titlom/theater#theater_title

  • Posted By: hakken @ 09/07/2008 12:56:25 PM

    Comment: It is so true and sad that US presidential elections has degenerated to bar-room like lambasting of the opponent's character instead of hearing details on fixing the economy, healthcare, social security etc.

    It seems to me that this is the new style of politics from the Republicans to stay in power, whatever it takes.

  • Posted By: DavidCA @ 09/07/2008 12:20:05 PM

    Comment:
    McCain, the change candidate! Tell us, Senator, since you support Bush 95% of the time, which of George W. Bush's policies will you change?

    We know it's not tax policy. You want to make the Bush tax cut that helped only the super-rich permanent. 4 more years! [of record deficits and the rich getting richer].

    Not health care. Like Bush, you support taxing employer-provided health care benefits. Ouch!

    Foreign policy? Nope, no change there, just more saber-rattling bluster. Like Bush, all hat and no cattle.

    On education, you echo the same old public-school-bashing Republican party line.

    Social Security? You're for Bush's plan to privatize. I'm sure that would work just fine for you and your millionaire buddies, but that't not really the point of Social Security, which was always intended to give hardworking families the possibility of choosing to retire with dignity instead of poverty.

    McCain, the 5% change candidate!

  • Posted By: mccaincursingonyoutube @ 09/07/2008 12:10:38 PM

    Comment: Republicans have made a rope out of their agenda and strangled this country with a reckless disregard for America and what it stands for.

  • Posted By: NewsWkDickG @ 09/07/2008 10:52:21 AM

    Comment: John McCain, the Republican nominee for president, at the Republican National Convention sternly declared that the last eight years with the Bush administration have been a failure costing America greatly and that the Republican Party has lost the people???s trust and that we desperately need real change. He now says that he is for change (the Democrats long standing position) and that McCain-Palin is the ticket to shake up Washington. Wow, what is going on here? The real truth that clearly dawns is that there is and has been a Republican strategy, like a sick Karl Rove tactic, that is in play, which is simply bold and confident lying. Say it loud, say it boldly and say it often and it doesn???t need to be the truth. They do it arrogantly and with cocky persistence. I won???t go through the long list, actually an unending list of the Bush administrations lies as anyone can prove it to themselves: take most anything and objectively answer the questions, what was said to sell it?; who would actually greatly benefit?; and what would it cost America and the average American? They belligerently use the tactic in everything including attacking any opponent, taking credit, using excuses, seeking support and, as seen now, in campaigning. We even see it from supporters/volunteers/staff posting on the internet. It has been effective, as John Kerry will attest to. But what about McCain-Palin now being agents for change? Well the reality is??? McCain is still totally dependent on and is aggressively cultivating the support of all the same people and interests who supported and benefited from the Bush-Cheney positions and who really don???t want change. McCain, contrary to what he says, in all of his years in Washington has only given change some talk and no action and as a supposed ???Maverick??? has really just flip-flopped when it personally benefited him. And Palin is obviously just their attack dog, she calls herself ???a pit bull with lipstick???, as she is extreme, aggressive and feisty and simply offers little else, including no diplomacy and only unrelentingly and without conscience attacks on Obama. McCain-Palin misleadingly state that this campaign is about personalities, being their effort to avoid talking about the issues where the change is suppose to take place. There really isn???t much hope for the drastically needed change from them, only more rhetoric aimed to steal the Democrats??? thunder ??? and remember even Bush ran with the promise for change. The lies simply continue to add up in an aggressive effort to disguise more of the same. If we sincerely care about anything, then we have to reject McCain-Palin and elect Obama-Biden as the Republicans just don???t do anything but boldly lie!

  • Posted By: ICYEYES800 @ 09/07/2008 12:00:17 AM

    Comment: Ghost, You must be taking some great drugs....It hasn't been in such a dire situation UNTIL the Democratic Party took over the Senate......Pelosi and her DRUDGE leading (or lack of) the USA to the point we are..Bush has had a wonderful HISTORY till the demo came in....BY THE WAY, your point was right on que......YOU NAMED EVERY reason why Osama is UNABLE to lead our nation at this pivotal point in history....We have too many internal threats, too many enemies, and too much business to accomplish...WE cannot afford for his to cut his political teeth in the Oval Office..No experience, No international knowledge, well, we'll say except for his concert in Germany......, JUST NO WAY..osama!!!!

    • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 09/07/2008 1:34:02 AM

      Comment: And so Dems are going to be blaimed when they had a grand one vote majority in the Senate for the inablility to override a presidential veto, love your thinking. And to blame Pelosi as if she is the only person in the House that can override a presidential veto is also moronic. And not to say the Republicans in the House and the Senate showed no flexibility with issues is also being ridiculous. Experience like Bush had showed us what a disaster the WhiteHouse became for the last eight years. If the year was 2000 I would have easily voted for McCain, because at that time he was a "maverick"

      Vote your conscience, but stop the experience argument and the argument of the Democratic majority as something that is so powerful beyond belief.

  • Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 09/06/2008 11:17:30 PM

    Comment:

    Why religions? There is the answer.

    http://propagandameatgrinder.magnify.net/video/Zeitgeist-s-hrvatskim-titlom/theater#theater_title

  • Posted By: ghostcommander @ 09/06/2008 10:44:43 PM

    Comment: Lipstick on the pig or lipstick on the Hawg? There is no amount of sugarcoating on the "Big Lie" doctrine that caan veneer the results of the last 7 years and 77 months. The USA economy is at the back door of the "Great Depression", Iraq and Afghanistan is still a quagmire, there is no foreign policy, there is no real attempt at diplomacy, , and foreclosures are increasing, Fannie Mae and Freddie mac are being bailed out by he taxpayer, and all the mis-administration of the Republicans can do is Spin, Spin, and Spin. Fool me once, fool me twice, but there will be no third time. .

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/06/2008 9:06:32 PM

    Comment:

    JOHN MCCAIN AND HIS EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE AS A COMMANDER . . .A LEADER . . .IN THE U.S. NAVY:

    In the Spring of 1975 John S. McCain was given an opportunity to redeem his Navy career. He was first named the 2nd in Command and then on to Commanding Officer (CO)of the Navys largest Air Squadron, a massive Unit at Cecil Field in Jacksonville FLA. At Cecil Field, they trained pilots and maintained attack jets called A7s. This was McCains first measured entry into leadership.

    http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185143625/bctid1761979374

    McCain was revered by many on the base: Testimonials

    Carl M. Smith - fellow officer, Cecil Field:

    John was a commander who did not attempt to tell people how to do jobs (no micro-management) . . . instead he picked PEOPLE HE HAD CONFIDENCE IN and INSPIRED them to rise to the highest level of their own ability.

    Sharleen Hollenback, Navy enlistee under McCain:

    * He was a very ACCESSIBLE person
    * He was very KIND
    * He CARED ABOUT THE PEOPLE that worked in his Squadron
    * I very much ADMIRED him and felt like was part of something very important in that squadron.

    Carl M. Smith - fellow officer, Cecil Field:

    John would talk to the Sr. chief and KID him, given him a hard time, saying things like ???what about your behavior chief?, what about your drinking?, huh, huh, huh???? . . .which would rock them back on their heels while the rest of the crew and shop WATCHED IN FASCINATION at how McCain was interacting with their chief petty officer.

    That was part of his unorthodox HANDS-ON STYLE. John was not one to cloister himself away in his office on the 2nd floor of the Squadrons airplane hanger.

    Carl M. Smith - fellow officer, Cecil Field:

    Instead, on a DAILY basis he would WALK THROUGH the maintenance spaces, all the functional shops on THE BASE. He would go though the engine shop, the hydraulic shop, the fuel shop, the weapons shop - every one of them. He would GO IN AND TALK TO ALL the folks in the shops.

    Jim Lichtenwalter - fellow office, Cecil Field:

    I just think that he did a great job of making himself understand what other peoples jobs were and what their responsibilities were. . .

    In its heyday in the Vietnam era, Cecil Field was buzzing with THOUSANDS OF NAVY OFFICERS ENLISTEES, AND THEIR FAMILIES.

    J. B. Renninger, former Navy Pilot at Cecil Field:

    You would have anywhere from 10 - 12 aircrafts in a pattern at any one time, doing touch and go???s
    We would operate from 7am one morning thru 2am or 3 am into the NEXT morning. It was a very ACTIVE BASE then.

    Cecil Field was John McCains last posting with the Naval Squadron, but one that would CARRY RELEVANCE today as HE LOOKS TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY.





    http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185143625/bctid1761979374


    • Posted By: mccaincursingonyoutube @ 09/07/2008 12:01:25 PM

      Comment: Stop dry humping his war and POW experience. With all his years in the Senate, he still says he doesn't know much about the economy. Here is McCain's economic policy: leave your wife after she has been in a horrible accident and marry the richest women in town.

      • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/08/2008 3:11:24 AM

        Comment:

        BTW, the whole leaving the wife after a car accident she had is getting old, a good 28yrs. ago. When his 1st wife had that accident he was into his 2nd yr as POW. When he returned from 5+ yrs as POW, he didnt just take a look at her and go Ugh, Im divorcing you. He spent a good 8 or 9yrs with his wife before he ended up leaving her for Cindy. . .even though it was a bumpy ride during those years. Get over it. His wife did. LOL

      • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/08/2008 3:07:08 AM

        Comment:
        His military career and POW stint is a major portion of his life and shows his strength, endurance, compassion and character. That and the fact that he has an extremely comprehensive record of self-led (sponsored) legislature that has been passed in the past two decades + makes him well qualified for the POTUS job. Palin is the icing on the cake!

    • Posted By: NewsWkDickG @ 09/07/2008 11:29:02 AM

      Comment: John McCain, the Republican nominee for president, at the Republican National Convention sternly declared that the last eight years with the Bush administration have been a failure costing America greatly and that the Republican Party has lost the people???s trust and that we desperately need real change.

      There is where it is at