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  • Posted By: Veritus @ 09/16/2008 11:14:46 AM

    why you don't get it.

    every politician for national office as well as the national media make far more money than us. claim to be better educated {i prefer wisdom... remember "junk genes" the junk empirical science masquerading as religion we force our kids to learn each year as evolution... a static "theory" over 100 yrs old) read end of "The genetic strand" - the 2 page conclusion or The Trouble with Physics" tell me scientists aren't our modern priesthood. search for words like faith by these atheist Nobel-winning scientists... in science...its their religion and our taxes pay for it. so much for no government establishment of religion!) i have advanced degrees in science and did R&D in a hard science chemistry.

    only Palin looks like middle America. Jonathan Alder... you don't, yet you claim to objectively speak for us. hmmm. how much do you make?

  • Posted By: Veritus @ 09/16/2008 11:12:10 AM

    why you don't get it.

    every politician for national office as well as the national media make far more money than us. claim to be better educated {i prefer wisdom... remember "junk genes" the junk empirical science masquerading as religion we force our kids to learn each year as evolution... a static "theory" over 100 yrs old) read end of "The genetic strand" - the 2 page conclusion or The Trouble with Physics" tell me scientists aren't our modern priesthood. search for words like faith by these atheist Nobel-winning scientists... in science...its their religion and our taxes pay for it. so much for no government establishment of religion!) i have advanced degrees in science and did R&D in a hard science chemistry.

    only Palin looks like middle America. Jonathan Alder... you don't, yet you claim to objectively speak for us. hmmm. how much do you make?

  • Posted By: Davole @ 09/16/2008 10:43:47 AM

    The Obama Campaign Sinks to a New Low in Decency

    The Obama campaign, as it continues to flounder and sink in the polls, has descended to a new low, even for itself.

    Recently it has launched a new TV ad in which a mocking narrator alleges that John McCain is so out of touch with the current generation because of his inability to use a computer.

    The narrator does not admit that the reason John McCain doesn???t use a computer is because 5 and a half years of torture as a POW in the Vietnam war cause him to experience severe pain by attempting to do many of the day to day menial tasks which most of the American population take for granted.

    Obviously the Obama campaign does not demonstrate any appreciation and respect for the veteran and current members of the US military!

    The obamabot ship is sinking, and the crew are sure grasping at straws in their pitiful attempt to deceive the voting public. Yes, Obama approved that deceitful ad - it is consistent with his decrepit morally corrupt standards.

    Obviously that empty suit has no heart, courage, sincerity, honour, and respect!

    Do you expect a presidential candidate to be truthful in striving to win the election?
    If so, Obama just doesn???t ???measure up??? in that consideration!

    Obama is an unscrupulous do-anything community agitator who has revealed his true previously hidden self!

    On November 4, you, the legal American voting public, have the opportunity and ability to cast Obama back to that slag heap of Chicago manipulators who permeate the slum areas of that city.

  • Posted By: neocon @ 09/15/2008 4:20:00 PM

    Joe Biden, the gift that keeps on giving.

    Senator Joseph Biden Jr., the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, is an experienced, serious and smart man. But he does say some curious things. A day on the campaign trail without some cringe-inducing gaffe is a rare blessing. He has not been too blessed lately.
    Just this week, he mused that Senator Barack Obama might have been better off with Hillary Rodham Clinton as his running mate.
    "Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America," Biden said Wednesday in Nashua, New Hampshire. "Quite frankly it might have been a better pick than me."
    Earlier in the week, in Columbia, Missouri, Biden urged a paraplegic state official to stand up to be recognized.
    "Chuck, stand up, let the people see you," Biden shouted to State Senator Chuck Graham, before realizing, to his horror, that Graham uses a wheelchair. "Oh, God love ya," Biden said. "What am I talking about?" But it was the Clinton remarks that touched a potentially sensitive spot for the Obama-Biden ticket. With Sarah Palin's addition to the Republican ticket potentially energizing some women voters, Biden's remarks raised anew a legitimate question of whether Obama would have been better off picking the former first lady as his running mate. One could imagine Senator John McCain's campaign even using Biden's remarks in their own ads to exploit female misgivings about the Democratic ticket.
    Obama knew what he was getting when he picked Biden as his running mate: A veteran of six terms in the Senate, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and former chairman of the Judiciary Committee, an Irish Catholic with working-class roots, a guy who had twice been tested in the arena of presidential politics.
    And a human verbal wrecking crew. This is the fellow who nearly derailed his nascent presidential campaign last year by calling Obama bright and clean and articulate and who noted that you needed a slight Indian accent to walk into a Dunkin' Donuts or 7-11 in Delaware.
    The guy who, reading his vice-presidential acceptance speech from a TelePrompter, bungled McCain's name, calling him "George" ("Freudian slip, folks, Freudian slip," he explained).
    The guy who, on the day Obama announced him as his running mate, referred to his party's presidential nominee as "Barack America" and noted that his own wife, Jill, a college professor, was "drop-dead gorgeous" but who, problematically, possessed a doctorate.
    The guy who has said he is running for president (not vice president) and who confused army brigades with battalions. Who referred to his Republican vice-presidential opponent as the lieutenant governor of Alaska.
    Aides to Obama said that Biden's propensity to misspeak could pose problems, particularly in the vice-presidential debate on Oct. 2. They are watching his performance on the trail warily, but so

  • Posted By: Iota1963 @ 09/15/2008 3:57:45 PM

    Considering Republican Presidents have appointed 7 of the current 9 Supreme Court Justices, 5 of the last 7 Presidents have been Republicans, and until 2 years ago, controlled both houses of congress, I understand why so many voters feel the Republican Party represents their interests. With all the prosperity the Republicans have brought to our nation, I don't blame them for sticking with what they see as the party that represents their values. (I admit to being an east coast liberal "elitist" with a Masters Degree and 100K salary). When the last bank has failed, home foreclosed, bankruptcy filed, maybe voters will................, no, regardless of all evidence to the contrary, they will still vote Republican under the mantra of "values".

    sad.

  • Posted By: Anniep @ 09/15/2008 3:33:07 PM

    Comment: I don't hate Sarah Palin, but I will not vote for her and I don't want her to have power over my life or the lives of my children. My distaste for her stems from her views, not her sex. I do not believe that women or children who are raped or the victims of incest should have to bear the offspring of such union; I do not believe that Creationism is appropriate in the science class; I don't believe in shaping courts to fit the private views of
    the person who happens to be in charge; I abhor croneyism and the sacking of qualified people who do not agree with the boss. I don't like people who lie unashamedly and repeat untruths over and over again. I don't like sneers against community organizers or education. I don't think assuring everyone that your daughter will get married because she is pregnant is admirable or a solution to bad advice. I don't like people who hold up their parenthood as a big part of their resume and then cry 'foul' if anyone takes a closer look at the nature of that parenthood. I don't like people who claim that drilling offshore will solve our energy problems and repeat mantras they know to be untrue so that they can get into a position of power. That is not putting the country or the american people first.
    Anyone acting the way she has done would earn my disapproval and dislike and male or female I do not want him/her in positions of power on the national stage. Obama as head of the Harvard Law Review had his pick of safe, high paying jobs anbd elected not to follow that path. I sincerly believe that while Palin's ambition is self motivated above all else, Obama believes that we can work towards making the world as we know it could be and as President he will be instrumental in turning that dream into reality.

  • Posted By: sparkling @ 09/15/2008 2:09:41 PM

    Sarah Palin puts the people first... this article needs to print the entire truth about the fact that the Sports Complex built in Wasilla was VOTED IN BY THE VOTERS... they chose to build it with a Bond Vote.

    Sarah Palin gets my vote. She quit a $130,000 a year job appointment by the Gov. because there was corruption that she would not stand for. How many politicians actually walk the talk like she does??

    Palin - McCain will be elected into the White House on Nov. 4th.

    Signed: College Grad, Conservative Woman who doesn't shop at Walmart

  • Posted By: Phoenix AZ @ 09/15/2008 1:00:44 PM

    Let's wait for the debates before we make a decision. Keep and open mind and LISTEN to what the candiates will say then. After that we will all reap what we sow. That's the bottom line. Hopefully for all our sakes the person with the ability to take on this enormous job will end up in the White House. Everything in the Media is pure speculation and we hear their take and bits and what they want us to see. Keep your eyes and ears open to the facts.

  • Posted By: bammer @ 09/14/2008 1:07:41 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 HOWARD, NO AMOUNT OF OLBERMANN/MADDOW/MATHEWS HISTRONICS CAN CUT THROUGH WHAT THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD ELECTORATE SEES IN THE "MSM"

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 09/13/2008 1:38:49 PM

    Well, here is some information on Obama's tax cuts for the middle class. And the tax code will not be thousands of pages long with Obama.
    http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/18/obama.taxplan/index.html

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 09/13/2008 1:38:37 PM

    Palin has disgraced her entire family with all her lies. It's sad.

    By the way, Biden has an excellent family: Very happy and stable: Dispite the enormous tragedy they have had in their past.

  • Posted By: Mirabhai @ 09/12/2008 4:37:38 PM

    Palin should not be an elusive target at all, as all her claims of fiscal reform and energy policy expertise are clearly and factually false. Voters need to know that, while making hollow claims to oppose earmarks, Palin brought home more bacon than went to any other state -- twenty times as much federal pork per Alaska citizen as went to the average American. Her claim to have "stood up to big oil" is also false -- she did represent the interests of Alaskans in tapping a small share of the oil giants' windfall profits, but most Americans are not profiting from high oil prices -- we, and the economy, are suffering. The more Americans know about Palin's actual record, the better the Dems will do.

  • Posted By: tender @ 09/11/2008 11:18:14 PM

    To Floridave.......... So now it comes out.
    The only thing.... that even matters to you, and people like you, is the abortion issue.

    Eight years of living with the worst administration in history.
    We have a useless war that has killed thousands on both sides, and a stupid idiot for a prez, that decided he wasn't going after the true killers responsible for 9-11.
    Bin Laden is a member of the Saudi Royal family, that's why it hands off man.
    Jobs going overseas, a poorly educated population, big corporations out-sourcing jobs.
    The division between the rich and poor growing wider.
    Barrowing money from China to buy oil from people that hate us.
    Great just great.......
    But all the republicians have to do is play you like the fool you are for "your values" and we get stuck with more idiots running this country.

    You are truly the "dumb vote."

    • Posted By: jowalker48 @ 09/12/2008 3:03:39 PM

      For anyone to continue with the insults against GW Bush, only shows the immaturity levels of those individuals. Thtank God Bush was in office on 9/11! IF it had been Gore or Clinton we would be wwearing the rags on our heads and cowering down to the facists terrorists that only want to destroy our great country!

  • Posted By: jowalker48 @ 09/12/2008 2:57:55 PM

    Another venue for the dems to attack. They continue to cry out that it is about the issues...yet they look for, and if they don't find it , they make up things to try and make a person look bad. Dems continue to trash the characters and records of others in such a way as to turn anyone's attention from the faults and serious problems of themselves. Anyone who has a brain and knows how to use it, sees through the attacks that come from the dems, and the reps. Look at the people running for office....do they represent you and what you want for our country? If so, then vote for them, if not, then vote for other guy. It is simple! This is not a popularity contest people! This a run for the most important offices in our country. All BS aside, the only two people that will represent America in a proud way and look after the people, as it should be, is McCain/Palin! Obama/Biden will only follow the lead of those who have put them in the position they are in, not the American People! Wake up and smell the coffee!!!

  • Posted By: systems88 @ 09/11/2008 11:22:12 PM

    To all men:

    Please stop commenting on abortion, a teenager's pregnancy or pregnancy resulting from rape and incest. Unless you are the perpetrators - you have no concept of anything. You have no idea what it is like to be incested, raped or becoming pregnant, especially when your mother is staunchly pro-life. You don't know what went through Bristol Palin's mind (or the circumstances of her getting pregnant) or Gov Palin's mind during her pregnancy with Trig -- some of you were accusing her of never being pregnant. It's disgusting.

    None of you have been pregnant. None of you have had to make a choice and none of you can understand what goes through a teenager's or adult women's minds. It's disgusting what you are writing here. It's pure ignorance and hypocrisy. How many of you men out there who can pontificate and make judgments had sex before you were married? How many times did you have sex with a teenage girl? How many of you used contraception? How many of you got your female partner pregnant? How many of you ran away and never took responsibility? How many of you would want your teenaged daughters and granddaughters reading your words - whether they were pregnant or not? And those of you who are discussing and making judgments and insensitive and caveman comments about a child with a special soul should be ashamed of yourselves. Do you realize that Gov Palin's children have access to your words? And for you cavemen, people with Down's Syndrome can read and Trig may someday read your words about him, his sister and his mother. It's absolutely appalling.

    Discuss the issue of pro-choice and pro-life as just that: issues. Do not render judgment on teenagers or mothers or anything else. And those of you who are throwing around the words: rape and incest are beyond disgusting. Those words mean a great deal to one who has been.

    • Posted By: catspaw @ 09/12/2008 1:14:42 PM

      System88, your words are load and clear. But one thing you must remember that there are men out there that have been rape by other men AND by women, though not heard of because of all that often because of male pride. And incest can happen to male children as well as female children.

      I do understand what the core meaning of your words and I agree with you.

    • Posted By: tender @ 09/11/2008 11:47:46 PM

      I know something about "the issue"

      Please go away with your crap.

    • Posted By: oklok @ 09/11/2008 11:44:22 PM

      You should write one to the women too. The amount of hate and filth is unbelievable. It's 9/11. Might you all take a night off and think of and pray for the children who are fatherless and motherless and the people who never got to become mothers or fathers because they were murdered by pure evil seven years ago. You might also want to remember the foreign nationals who were also murdered on that day. Wasn't there enough hate spread then? Is there a need to continue it on this day of remembrance? Remember the brave souls who were not in the planes or Twin Towers but went in at their certain peril to save their fellow humans. Think of their families. Why not use your blogging time to go to the many sites and leave a message of hope, gratitude or love for those whose lives changed immediately and forever the moment that evil struck. Thank you for listening. God bless you. And God Bless America.

  • Posted By: tender @ 09/11/2008 11:41:24 PM

    Did you see the interview with Palin on ABC.
    You want this person to be VP?
    You have got to be kidding me.
    A dunce, a total dunce.

  • Posted By: Wayne Paquette @ 09/11/2008 2:24:28 PM

    A better nickname for Sara Palin, considering all the cosmetics she wears, is "Half baked Alaskan bimbo. Remove all the makeup and we will find not a barracuda but a minnow.

    • Posted By: jjkk @ 09/11/2008 8:18:14 PM

      Sounds like you have some issues...impotence mabye?

      • Posted By: tender @ 09/11/2008 11:38:52 PM

        Sounds like your stupid.

  • Posted By: Stac73 @ 09/11/2008 11:37:33 AM

    The comment about his race and ethnicity in regards to women just shows your complete ignorance about Obama. Maybe you should just not speak about issues you obviously know nothing about. He has only met his father ONCE moron. he wasn't in his life. He was raised by his WHITE family too and they certainly don't condone hatred against women. It's people like you that scare me about voting since you obviously don't educate yourself on the choices. You make decisions based on rumors, ignorance, and racism. You are one of the reasons why our country is in such a terrible state. Wake up and join the 21st century.

    • Posted By: jjkk @ 09/11/2008 9:27:02 PM

      Have you read barry's book about dreams of a father he never knew? Here's a few quotes that might give you a little insight into his thoughts on typical white folks:

      "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."

      "That hate hadn't gone away, blaming white people - some cruel, some ignorant - sometimes a single face, sometimes a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.'

      "Never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, the son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself."

      'Our rage at the white world needed no object, he seemed to be telling me, no independent confirmation; it could be switched on or off at our pleasure."

      "I ceased to advertise my my mother's race at the after of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."

      "That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn't know they were being cruel in the first place. Or at least thought you were deserving of their scorn. White folks."

      "Ray assured me that we would never talk about whites as whites in front of whites without knowing exactly what we were doing."

      And my fav:

      "IN FACT, WHITES ARE SO HEARTLESS AND DEVIOUS THAT WE CAN NO LONGER EXPECT ANYTHING FROM THEM."

      go to you tube and hear him read them himself. You won't hear the sentence about ceasing to advertise his mother's (and his and his children's 1/4 white) race. Or the last quote about the devious and heartless (and bitter?) "whites".

      rant away if it will make you feel better...his words will remain his words.

  • Posted By: jjkk @ 09/11/2008 8:34:58 PM

    ==indeed, her newfound celebrity has made even Obama look dull==

    Newsflash. For the nonmesmerized masses the messiah has always been a dullard and a fraud. Now his cult followers in the MSM are getting a glimpse into their own mancrush madness. He's lost his barrock star and novelty status and no more covers for him. It's hysterical. He's gone from the popular cheerleader back to (the first black) president of the chess club and library monitor. Who in the hell put him in front of all those books? Can he get any more eccentric elitist Harvard professor lecturing to the bitter students? Who is running this campaign? Axelrod is so far out of his league it's laughable. His ego is only slightly outmatched by the messiah's. Where's Jame Carville and other Pres Clinton operatives who have actually and successfully taken on the GOP machine - something the messiah and his minions have absolutely no experience with. Hello. He's ties with republican who would follow 8 yrs of disaster. Whose fault is that? And where's the "youth vote" now that school started? Oprah? Govs Napalitano & Sebulius? Sens Klobuchar & McCaskill? Asking where "Hillary" is. And Caroline Kennedy and Barbie Pelosi? They don't care if their chosen wins - they just wanted Sen Clinton not to. Where's Judas? Out working the Latino vote? Wasn't that why he was called on? Or was that just another of the messiah's revenge moves? How many have panned out? Word to Sen/Pres Clinton: Don't go anywhere near the rotten sushi wrapped in his own messiah complex. What goes around comes around -- even to Jesus the community organizer. Pontius Pilate from Alaska? HIs surrogates have gone mad trying to stick up for the skinny geeky smart kid. If only you/he would have listened to the non cult followers...

  • Posted By: jjkk @ 09/11/2008 8:16:37 PM

    Howard Fineman: Gov Palin is freaking all you messiah manlovers out. You got to see what real charisma and hope looks like -- not crying mesmerized followers shouting in unity Change! Well they got their change and now they're waa-waa-whining instead of baa-baa-bowing to the chosen one.

    ==And as a woman and the mother of five, Palin is an opponent whom male rivals need to be careful about attacking.==

    Do you realize what you are saying? A woman and mother of one it's ok to attack? Add four more children and it's not ok? What have they already done? Her child has forever been changed by what KOS and the rest of you pigs did - lipstick or not. And yes that was intended just as delivered. The MSM selectively leaves out the old fish comment. You think voters are morons? The MSM's bias and sexism is on full display and you can't explain it away as it's just THAT woman. You really are a pathetic "man". Biden out there on the stump pandering to women saying Hillary is qualified to be president and certainly VP and that she was a better pick than him. Duh. Coming from him is worthless. It has to come from the messiah himself. Look how he runs to Pres Clinton now that he's tanking. What a loser. And the MSM is all over Sen Clinton to get out and attack Palin and do this and do that. Is she back on the ticket? What in the hell does she owe him for his trashing her for 19 months? He was too arrogant to pay down her debt and now he's running to her donors to beg. Well they begged for respect (not just a request for their rolodex) and were dismissed. Sen Clinton still hasn't been respected. The Clinton's came forward and did everything anyone could ask during the convention even after they were bashed for 19 months and especially the week before the convention. And what did the messiah in his own mind do? He couldnt look Sen Clinton in the eye (he really does have issues with powerful white women) and gave them both 17 words of "lavish praise" in his styrofoam speech for the ages. Which by the way was out rated by a 72 y/o man and equaled by a typical white women governor from Alaska. And now he needs the Clintons and the MSM is wondering why they're not out there everyday campaigning for the arrogant one. Hello has the Transcender of Race and self-proclaimed unifier reached out to the black community like Sen Clinton did hers. NO. That says it all about the messiah's "judgment". It proves once again that his words are just that. That Philly speech? Guess he didn't think it applied to him - just one for the textbooks. Everyday he shows more of his (lack of) character and falseness of authenticity. He is not a man of the people because he is not interested in them as people just as an audience he can rise above and pontificate to.

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