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  • Posted By: Iron Horse @ 09/15/2008 11:16:36 AM

    So Biden is now your "god" on foreign policy?
    Talk about a messiah complex.
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    No, Biden is not my God, he is my best hope for America's security and improved global image. But if you want a woman VP simply because she is anatomatically female, well have a doll/robot in the Oval Office instead....

    • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 09/15/2008 11:28:12 AM

      Is that all women are to you? Just props? Talk about intolerant.....

      • Posted By: summer4077 @ 09/15/2008 12:11:05 PM

        I'm a woman and am smart enough to see through the ruse. McCain chose Palin simply because she is a woman. She is nothing but a prop to MCCAIN, not Dems.

        • Posted By: Concerned Ctzn @ 09/15/2008 12:30:24 PM

          Re: McC picked Palin just because she's a woman

          That's like a Republican saying that the Democrats chose Obama just because he's African-American. Or initially Hillary just because she's Bill's wife or because she's a woman or both. C'mon now ... be fair.

  • Posted By: Iota1963 @ 09/15/2008 10:52:32 AM

    7 of the 9 Supreme Court Justices were appointed by Republican Presidents.
    5 of the last 7 Presidents were Republican.
    Until 2 years ago, both house of Congress were Republican Controlled.

    Why is Senator Obama even close against Senator McCain? Why would anyone NOT consider Senator McCain the FAVORITE?

    To my "East Coast Elite" mind, it seems "Middle America" prefers Republican governance on a national scale. So Senator McCain will take office, than after one term, Vice President Palin will be the favorite to carry the Republican ticket for the 2012 presidency. The race will be Senator Clinton vs Vice President Palin.

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/15/2008 12:28:11 PM

      Hillary would CLOBBER Palin (or McCain for that matter)

  • Posted By: Iron Horse @ 09/15/2008 12:27:55 PM

    Hey Iron Horse,
    I getting tired of you calling everybody here an idiot, etc. How old are you? Grow
    up would you!
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    What else should I call those Palin junkies who post blatantly ignorant posts (of
    course there are Obama folks posting stupid and ignorant psots as well, but not on
    the scale as the Palin thugs)? What else should I call those who care only to spread
    hatred and fear? And please don't use the word "everybody" because I am not calling
    everybody an idiot, but a few idiots.

  • Posted By: davidwayneosedach @ 09/15/2008 12:24:23 PM

    It is a little too late to pick Hillary for VP. The masterstroke of picking Biden failed. And continues to fail miserably.

  • Posted By: Iron Horse @ 09/15/2008 12:22:43 PM

    No Edwards didn't think he was gonna get caught. How many news organizations reported
    on his affair?
    Oh yeah none...only the National Inq...
    Obama lies too but of course you never will admit to that....
    What lies are you talking about? Or are you just parroting what your reading on the
    Kos?
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    Edwards likely didn't think ayone would catch him, but he had to be cautious enou that the conservative, loud mouthed media won't intrude into his privacy. But he figured he beat the media by confessing to the affair without any concrete evidence presented by the media before he did so.
    I am referring to the "Bridge to Nowhere", "se education", "lipstick on a pig" lies and distortions of the McCain campaign, IDIOT. Have you been asleep all month? Over the weekend, the NYT, the Washington Post, Bloomberg and others criticized McCain for being a liar despite the iamge he built as a Straight Talk Express... Where are his wheels now?

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 09/15/2008 11:47:02 AM

    This may be the beginning of the end for Mr. Biden. If he does not start delivering some body blows to McCain look for Obama to demand that Biden step down. Everybody will be watching Biden's perfomance today in Michigan. There is deep concern in the Obama camp that Biden's heart may not be into it given his long friendship with McCain. Look for Biden to feign an illness as an excuse for stepping aside.

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/15/2008 12:20:25 PM

      Regardless of policy, partisanship, or politics, Obama picked a boring VP and McCain an exciting one. Had Obama jumped off his high horse for two minutes and picked Hillary for VP, he would be clobbering McCain in Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and yes, Arkansas and possibly Tennessee.
      Biden is a career Washington insider.
      Since Obama didn't have the judgement to do so, Biden should have turned Obama down and recommended he chose Hillary.

  • Posted By: NewsWkDickG @ 09/15/2008 12:13:52 PM

    Here is another issue McCain-Palin will be avoiding. There will be a lot of detailed and technical opinions given explaining why America???s financial industry is in chaos but there really are only two reasons, simply greed and government neglect. Everything else is just a distraction from recognizing those two issues and to avoid laying the blame where it rightfully belongs. The run away greed by factions of the market, unchecked, uncontrolled and in fact encouraged by a government placating and patronizing Special Interests and a select few allowed this to happen and now the average American will pay the bill in so very many ways. The government???s responsibility is to protect the people yet our government focuses on allowing the market place to run free without adequate checks and balances, actually with encouragement for the full pursuit of their greed and with no concern for protecting the people???s interests. We have seen this occur several times with savings and loans, with banks, with hi-tech, now with investment banks and there have been other occasions, always the same, with the cycle of insatiable run away greed and then with government only acting after it is too late. The government rationalizes that they are facilitating free markets but in reality, as we have just seen again, they are being irresponsible for the benefit of a few and costing us greatly. We have an election coming and hopefully people will think of this when voting.

    • Posted By: Concerned Ctzn @ 09/15/2008 12:20:05 PM

      NewsWkDickG,

      We don't agree on much. But here you're spot on. I AGREE 100%!!!

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/15/2008 8:56:41 AM

    Former POW says McCain is "Not Cut out to be President"

    Spource: http://therealmccain.com/butler/
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFM1xqqTX_g&feature=related
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    Viet Nam Vet & POW: Dr. Phillip Butler

    Doctor Phillip Butler is a 1961 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a former light-attack carrier pilot. In 1965 he was shot down over North Vietnam where he spent eight years as a prisoner of war.

    After his repatriation in 1973 he earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at San Diego and became a Navy Organizational Effectiveness consultant.

    He completed his Navy career in 1981 as a professor of management at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

    Former POW says McCain is "Not cut out to be President"

    "To see McCain resort to playing the POW card when answering legitimate questions, in my mind, cheapens that experience. And by cheapening his own experience in war, he degrades all of our experiences in war.

    He turns the horrific incidents we've all seen, touched, smelled, and felt into a lame excuse to earn political points. And it dishonors us all."


    -- Brandon Friedman, a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan

    John McCain has been exploiting his prisoner of war experience every chance he gets. He has used this story to justify everything from not knowing how many homes he has to his healthcare plan to his marital infidelities to his taste in music.

    The McCain campaign is even using his POW story in paid ads. But now a veteran who was a prisoner with McCain in Vietnam is explaining loud and clear that being a POW does not qualify McCain to lead our country.

    We are sure this video will draw an onslaught of right-wing attacks, but we bring it to you because it is our job to continue to convey the truth together and give these issues national attention.

    As Dr. Butler has said, McCain does not have the temperament to have his finger near the red button. Get this video to everyone you know-friends, family members, coworkers, and especially those who don't share your political views. The video is designed to reach them. Get it on your social networking sites like Digg. And get it to every blog, newspaper, and TV station that has ever overplayed McCain's POW story. It is time to fight back with truth!

    The mainstream press has already begun to call out McCain for overusing his POW story. And it's cut across all political persuasions.

    "Whether he's deflecting criticism over his health-care plan or mocking a tribute to the Woodstock music festival, Senator John McCain has a trump card: the Hanoi Hilton. - Edwin Chen, Bloomberg

    • Posted By: SEA Observer @ 09/15/2008 9:53:30 AM

      Latest Rasmussen poll: McCain 50%, obama 47%

      bama/Biden 3008, go bama, go bama, go away bama!

      • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/15/2008 12:16:19 PM

        REPEAT AFTER ME....

        THE [ELECTORAL COLLEGE] DECIDES WHO WILL BE PRESIDENT AND BARACK OBAMA HAS A GREAT LEAD IN THE RACE TO THE [WHITE HOUSE]

        KARL ROVE'S MAPS AND FOX NEWS SAYS THE SAME THING AND BRIT HUME AGREED !!!

        OBAMA: [248 ELECTORAL VOTES] ALL HE NEEDS IS [270 ELECTORAL VOTES] A!! HOLES !!!

        JOHN MCCAIN: [188 ELECTORAL VOTES]

        YOU DESPERATE RACIST WHITE MEN & WOMEN ARE A JOKE....

        THE [POPULAR VOTE] MEANS NOTHING....ASK JOHN KERRY AND AL GORE, ABOUT HAVING THE [POPULAR VOTE]

        AND MOST OF ALL POLLS SAY NOTHING, THEY ARE CALLS BASED ON INCREMENTS OF [1000] !!!


        BIG NOTE....MCCAIN IS SUPPOSED TO BE LEADING BY 55-60% ESPECIALLY HAVING A WHITE FEMALE ON THE TICKET, THE RNC SUCCESS AND ALL THIS MEDIA COVERAGE AND YOU GUYS ARE...

        CELEBRATING [MCCAIN BREAKING EVEN, AFTER BEING BEHIND, ALL THIS TIME]

        EARTH TO WHITE RACIST A!! HOLES..LIKE YOU 2....

        "MCCAIN HAS JUST BROKEN EVEN IN THE POLLS" AN THATS ALL HE'S DONE ....PERIOD

        NOW GO SET YOUR FARM FIELDS ON FIRE AND DRINK A BIG JUG OF [WHITE LIGHTENING] OR SOME OF THAT GOOD OLE MOUNTAIN DEW !!!

        MCCAIN HAS PULLED OUT ALL THE STOPS AND HAS TAKEN THIS GAMBLE AND HAS [BROKEN EVEN]

        WHOOOO HOOOO !!!!


        THE SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN...I'M GONNA RAISE MY CONFEDERATE FLAG AND CELEBRATE...

        JOHN MCCAIN [BREAKING EVEN IN THE POLLS, AFTER ALL THESE MONTHS]

        FAIRYTAILS CAN COME TRUE...HUH


        CELEBRATE JOHN MCCAIN ..............BREAKING EVEN !!!!!!!!

    • Posted By: SEA Observer @ 09/15/2008 9:44:13 AM

      Latest Rasmussen poll: McCain 50%, obama 47%

      bama/Biden 3008, go bama, go bama, go away bama

  • Posted By: Iron Horse @ 09/15/2008 12:16:11 PM

    Oh of course not on the Palin scale...she is afterall just a useless woman
    to you....
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    I am not demeaning Palin as a woman; I am questioning her qualifications as a VP. I am one of the "employers" of the president, and I have a right to doubt anyone's qualifications. Palin just cannot stop lying, and her claims of experience are dubious. She is not a useless woman, as the GOP would think of women since they are only employing her as their window dressing irrespective of her qualifications. America remains a superpower and a complex society, so Palin's simple-minded leadership will not suffice America's leadership post.

  • Posted By: Iron Horse @ 09/15/2008 11:12:09 AM

    The Obama campaign is said to be deeply divided over the role that Michelle
    Obama should play over the next few weeks. Some are urging a more visible role for
    Michelle and would like to see Mrs. Obama take some swings at Palin. One strategy
    is to have Michelle point out Palin's lack of education by saying: "Palin probably
    has never even heard of the Ivy League. She probably thinks that Cornell is some
    kind of wart. Palin probably does not even know what is a liberal arts college. She
    probably thinks that it is where liberals send their kids to study painting."
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    You better apply for a job at the local dumperster and take all the trash to hell, not to this blog. If youcannot post a web link to back up your twisted thinking, you are a trash taker.

    • Posted By: josemarti @ 09/15/2008 11:23:03 AM

      The divisions are in fact very deep. There is a sense that Michelle is being underutilized. Many Obama supporters are wondering why she is not playing a more visible role in the campaign and in particular why she has not been out there attacking Palin. She is a Princeton graduate for goodness sake. And very articulate. Why isn't she more visible?

      • Posted By: summer4077 @ 09/15/2008 12:12:48 PM

        Obama is trying to run a clean campaign--by being as honest as possible and keeping family out of it. Unfortunately that will be his down fall. Americans believe whatever they see on TV--they don't bother to research the 80% of false, lying ads McCain has put forth. When Karl Rove condemns it you KNOW it's bad!

  • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 09/15/2008 12:10:33 PM

    You want an issue...you need to look at that NY Post article I posted below....looks like Obama is violating the Logan Act...if he isn't careful he'll be chareged with a felony.

  • Posted By: Iron Horse @ 09/15/2008 12:04:37 PM

    This may be the beginning of the end for Mr. Biden. If he does not start
    delivering some body blows to McCain look for Obama to demand that Biden step down.
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    You sound like a CLOWN to me! You think with a BIG HEAD FULL OF AIR. Why would America not want a foreign poliy buff? After all, McCain's camapign platform for much of the year was on experience, espeially foreign experience. However the punches agaisnt McCain are does not matter to us and to Obama, because this election is not about punchbags but issues.

    • Posted By: JohnPolitico @ 09/15/2008 12:10:22 PM

      Iron Horse,

      You need to pick up your last paycheck on Friday from Obama Headquarters.

      YOU'RE FIRED!

  • Posted By: Iron Horse @ 09/15/2008 12:08:43 PM

    By: josemarti @ 09/15/2008 11:43:06
    Comment: Hey. Carnal knowledge is still knowledge. Stop being so close minded.
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    In your own world and in your head, knowledge is only KNOWLEDGE as you see it, huh? In other words, you don't have to prove your arguments, and the best you can do is trash, trash, trash. If that is not the case, then everything said of Palin is knowledge.

  • Posted By: Iron Horse @ 09/15/2008 12:01:19 PM

    Zombiehero @ 09/15/2008 11:28:12
    Comment: Is that all women are to you? Just props? Talk about intolerant.....
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    What else should I call those Palin junkies who post blatantly ignorant posts (of course there are Obama folks posting stupid and ignorant psots as well, but not on the scale as the Palin thugs)? What else should I call those who care only to spread hatred and fear? And pelase don't use the word "everybody" because I am not calling everybody an idiot, but a few idiots.

    • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 09/15/2008 12:05:58 PM

      Oh of course not on the Palin scale...she is afterall just a useless woman to you....

      Where in that post did I say everybody?

      Stop reading the Kos and get some help.

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 09/15/2008 8:41:51 AM

    Has anyone realized that Palin does not want to help the environment? The thinks the problem will suddenly just go away. That means, no solar or wind power, no smog regulations, etc: Palin may close down the Environmental Protection Agency. (EPA).

    • Posted By: SEA Observer @ 09/15/2008 8:45:50 AM

      Do you have any proof that obama will be able to persuade Ted Kennedy to put a wind farm in his backyard?

      • Posted By: TruthForward @ 09/15/2008 12:05:57 PM

        Did you forget to ask you own party for proof? Or did you forget to ask your party about issues?

      • Posted By: TruthForward @ 09/15/2008 12:04:14 PM

        Do you have any proof about McCain or Palin... No they have not really promised anything.

        Obama is the new leader in the Democratic party, they love him. Unlike McCain, who can't persuade his party to do anything without Obama's help... And keep in mind that this is a Democratic Congress: And therefore Obama is 10 steps ahead on being able to get things done.

  • Posted By: Iron Horse @ 09/15/2008 11:55:51 AM

    Zombiehero @ 09/15/2008 11:28:12
    Comment: Is that all women are to you? Just props? Talk about intolerant.....
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    Don't keep taking everything out of context, idiot. By being skillful, I was referring that Edwards kept his privacy guarded against loud mouthed, Palin-type conservatives until he felt it was time to confess. But Palin will never confess to anything, she is too hypocritical as evidenced by her never-ending "bridge to nowhere" lies. She is too ambitious of a politician to admit anything, and she hired investigators to investigate ethical abuse agaisnt ehr own administration in hopes of quashing a real, unbiased investigation.

    • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 09/15/2008 12:04:24 PM

      Idiot...thanks really showing how classy you are.

      No Edwards didn't think he was gonna get caught. How many news organizations reported on his affair?
      Oh yeah none...only the National Inq...

      Obama lies too but of course you never will admit to that....
      What lies are you talking about? Or are you just parroting what your reading on the Kos?

  • Posted By: JohnPolitico @ 09/15/2008 11:55:09 AM

    Hey Iron Horse,

    I getting tired of you calling everybody here an idiot, etc. How old are you? Grow up would you!

  • Posted By: Iron Horse @ 09/15/2008 11:48:28 AM

    Zombiehero @ 09/15/2008 11:28:12
    Comment: Is that all women are to you? Just props? Talk about intolerant.....
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    No, that is not what I am saying. Like McCain, you keep taking my words out of context. I said, IF ALL THAT MATTERS TO YOU N A VICE PRESIDENT IS A WOMAN NO MATTER WHAT EHR QUALIFICATIONS, TEN YOU DON'T HAVE TO ELECT A WOMAN VICE PRESIDENT BUT HAVE A FEMALE DOLL IN PLACE. Bottom line: The presidency is not about gender, not about religion, not about race, not about gender, but about who is capable of leading ou nation during time of crisis and who is equipped to repair its image damaged by Bush and his GOP allies. Biden is the guy to go, not a window dressing woman (Palin). In fact, the GOP is only playing gender, sexualizing everything, using women as objectsfor political gain... And conservatives are the oens standing in the way of women's rights.

  • Posted By: Iron Horse @ 09/15/2008 11:05:16 AM

    The Obama campaign, perhaps in a sign of desperation, said that in an Obama
    presidency the Department of Education would become the Department of Sex Education
    and that Pamela Anderson would be named secretary.
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    LMAO at your stupidity and ignorance... Get a life, your scumbag. Don't waste your precious life spreading malacious lies.... You are so afraid of truth and you despise reality soooooo much that you are now resporting to email hoax-like mentality. That won't work... not this time. try in 2012. Oh, wait, it may work ebcause America is still a gullible nation.

    • Posted By: josemarti @ 09/15/2008 11:43:06 AM

      Hey. Carnal knowledge is still knowledge. Stop being so close minded.

  • Posted By: Iron Horse @ 09/15/2008 11:39:23 AM

    OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS' IRAQ WITHDRAWAL
    http://www.nypost.com/seven/09152008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/obama_tried_to_stall_gis_iraq_withdrawal_129150.htm?page=0
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    Hehehehehe. That shows how intellectually low you are! Notice the link is to an OPINION page, not a news release. And after reading it, it is a crappy cosnervative spreading the trash ... trying to scatter the trash all over the world. Also keep in mind that the NY Post is a conservative paper which endorsed McCain after the alin pick. Nonetheless, the question about Obama's Iraq trip is not a news release, but an opinion posted udner the NY Post to tease the brains of gullible voters.

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