God. Hockey. Drilling. Troops. Moose.

Look, it is going to be a very close race , just like the last two. We have very divided country With idealogues on both sides who believe the end justifies the means. So this campaign will again turn ugly, and we have 3well over 30 years of proof that noone gets uglier or stretches the truth more than the republican party. So we can enter the booth and choose 4 more years of avoiding the facts, praising deregulation, privatizing everything, diminishing workers rights, allowing coperate tax evasion and irresponsability, or we can vote for something else. Let us have one election where we don't allow petty exagerations and half-truths blind us to what works towards the good of most of us and what doesn't work but for only a few.

When George W. Bush told the American people, the world and the congress that there was sufficient justification for attacking Iraq, he lied. Today the American people realize that, just as the world has all along. When he said that American drugs brought back into the U.S. would be unsafe, he lied to support his position, as he did when he said Global Warming wasn???t a real problem. He lied, as did many others in his administration, when he said his administration had nothing to do with releasing the CIA agent???s identity and again when he stated that squelching the wiretapping story during an election year was done for national security reasons and not just for political reasons. When he offered that Afghanistan was relatively secure, the War on Terror was succeeding and it wasn???t a problem to focus instead on Iraq and then frequently again throughout the Iraq campaign he used ???rational lies??? in reporting status. On and on, private accounts for Social Security, Tax Cuts for the wealthy, trade agreements resulting in exported American jobs and taxes, the humongous deficit isn???t a problem,,, George W. Bush and his staff have freely reverted to exaggerations, rationalizations, intentional deceptions,, simply lies while they pursued their own private agenda and now today everyone understands that to be the reality ??? but how often have we actually heard it said? When have you ever heard a reporter say, ???Well the president (or his staff) has told another whopper today???? Not the media, not the Democrats, not any whistle blower with merit, not any responsible Republican with a conscience, not even any Christian or community leader, not anyone with credibility has ever come out and exposed or condemned the flagrant and arrogant lying that the Bush administration has so consistently indulged in. Why? Is there that much power behind them, to control the media and put fear in everyone else? And if that is true, where does that leave us? One by one, separately the individual lies can be taken and rationalized, covered over and explained using more lies but together they tell the real story ??? we are simply being taken for granted and repeatedly lied to. Maybe it is felt that calling them on their lies or disrespectfully calling the President a liar would serve no purpose and might even be counter-productive but, as we have drastically seen, that then only condones and encourages more of the same. It is well past time for change! We desperately need change from the Bush-Cheney abuse and private use of our government and we really need change from Washington as usual!

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The above is something I wrote awhile back and now today we even have John McCain, the Republican nominee for president, sternly declaring that the last eight years 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??? BUT ??? he 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. Then he, 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 only flip-flopped and then as it personally benefited him. And Palin is obviously their attack dog, she calls herself ???a pit bull with lipstick???, as she is extreme, aggressive and feisty and offers little else, including no diplomacy and only unrelentingly and without conscience attacks on Obama. McCain-Palin boldly state that the campaign is about personalities and they avoid talking about the issues where change is suppose to take place. There really isn???t much hope for the much needed change there, 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 effort to disguise more of the same. Hopefully the people are less apt to be deceived this time.

McCain/Palin is only a Maverick ticket in name and not substance. Beware of the Trojan Horse.

One thing I know. Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton.
The first time I saw her on T.V.she was wearing the cross on her earlobes.
Was this neccesary? Who was she trying to impress?
How iser family Typically american?
It is O. K. That she accepts her daughters lack of judgement, but to expect ther families to accept it?
Is adultery O. K.? with her.
We have not heard rom the boy parents. No future for this young boy. No college no youth
A future with no hope for living a normal life. After all. he is a child himself.

palin who? what was mcain smoking?? at least i know where obama and biden stand on whats important to me and my youbg family

palin who!!!??? what was mcain thinking?? iam voteing for obama and biden those 2 have a vison of what america can be

"a Muslim" As I understand it, the Constitution of the United States forbids religious litmus tests for public office. Even if it did not, this little piece of misinformation has been shown to be a lie over and over again. As for debates, debates are not determinative of the vote in November, but it is interesting that McCain was on a debating team in HS, been a long time ago but he will be familiar with all the weaving and bobbing debaters use to make it sound like they have an answer to the question when they really don't. Ought to be really interesting debates, Obama doesn't particularly like McCain and isn't particularly scared by him so the fur may fly. Terrorists, extremists, and bears, Oh My! Next you'll be whipping out that tired or saw that GW Bush kept terrorists from attacking since 9/11; something that is completely unprovable by any logic, and only swallowed by those that love the taste of Karl Rove's swill. One really has to ask why Dubya's FBI ignored the report of its on agent on suspcious foreign nationals in flight schools, and is it really any better post 9/ll. One also has to remember that Dubya had to have his arm twisted by the Congress to even have an Office of Homeland Security. Something is wrong with this picture though, if you really are a Canadian, which I doubt, I think you have no place in our internal political debates. I find it repulsive and butinski.

The democrats have to prove they are patriotic, but everyone knows the republicans love their country, they just hate half the people in it.

Barack Hussein Obama.....a Muslim....with no experience and qualifications....can't win in debates and is lousy in one on one interviews...has terrorists , extremists and racists as friends....and Americans say McCain is a maverick !! ......something wrong with this picture !

Perusing-through, Well said.


Them Right Wing Religious Nut Cases they actually think they are better than all who have proven them wrong time after after. With their cynicism, criticism and divisiveness they actually believe they are saving the world from itself. I just don't get how you save the world through their constant crusade of death and destruction. Extremely scary knowing they are actually running and ruining our country and they are looking for another 4 more years of crusading and promoting more death and destruction.

6.1% unemployment 84,000 more jobs lost to out sourcing just this last month alone, retailers who sell American products showing dismal sales records while retailers who sell foreign product showing books in the black, our air quality and water quality being rushed to the point in which the levels will soon be unfit for consumption buy the life that inhabits our planet and all they can talk about is using more fossil fuels, escalation of wars all around the world, VP picks who have declared wars in which our country engages in as Holy Wars. These people aren't just predicting Armageddon they are working on it and promoting it trying desperately to make it happen. We need to get these people not only out of office but off the streets. back into the system that the Feds let slip through the cracks. We need to get them at least into therapy.

Me thinks they have gone a road and bridge to costly and to far. I would LOL but it isn't funny anymore!

"McCAIN / PALIN / GOP" HYPOCRISY #1: THE "WE DON???T KNOW HIM" LIES
After 19-months on the campaign trail, detractors of Senator Obama (mainly GOP constituents), claim they "still don't know Obama" well enough to make an informed decision as to how they should vote. But within 48-hours of Sarah Palin's introduction to the GOP, Obama's critics suddenly knew everything there was to know about Sarah Palin. How is it that the religious-right cannot know Obama after he endured 18-months of brutal media scrutiny, but suddenly 'know' Palin within 2-days of popping up on the national stage and without one public interview?

"McCAIN / PALIN / GOP" HYPOCRISY #2: THE "EXPERIENCE" LIES
After Senator Obama spent 19-months running a campaign that has totaled $350-million; and after 3 ½ years in the Senate negotiating legislations for the nation and for his 12.8-million Illinois constituents; and after 8-years in Illinois State Senate fighting for the middle-class; and after 3 ½ more years fighting as a community activist and organizer; it is genuinely hypocritical for McCain to pound Obama on the experience factor, and then turn around and install Sarah Palin with NO national and foreign experience, to be a single heartbeat from Commander-in-Chief of the United States. This is a GARGANTUAN HYPOCRISY and a RECKLESS decision that puts the nation at risk just so McCain can win the presidency.

"McCAIN / PALIN / GOP" HYPOCRISY #3: THE "CHANGE" LIES
Up until last week, McCain's campaign has been on "EXPERIENCE", while Obama's mantra has always been on CHANGE. After watching the DNC performance, McCain 'blinked' and changed his campaign to run on the same mantra as Obama's which is CHANGE. This is after McCain accused Obama of saying anything to win!!

"McCAIN / PALIN / GOP" HYPOCRISY #4: THE "APPEASEMENT" LIES
Bush and McCain accused Obama of wanting to "appease" Iran so they would stop their nuclear program. Obama blasted back and said McCain and Bush hold hawkish views and poor judgment, and their refusal to open diplomatic channels with Iran amounts to failed international policies. Ironically, Bush followed Obama's strategy and began backdoor talks with Iran. As it has turned out, neither Bush nor McCain are calling their own talks with Iran "appeasement", or given Obama credit for what Americans wanted the Bush-McCain leadership to try prior to military exercises. And by the way, Bush and McCain supported 'appeasements' to North Korea in exchange for shutting down their nukes. Again, how ironic, appeasement was the very thing Bush / McCain hypocrites accused Obama.