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  • Posted By: MALBERTE @ 09/14/2008 12:50:26 PM

    I am a 72 years old white woman and my husband hard core republican by taking a woman unqualified for the job i will never vote for mccan the news media can say anythings they wanted.
    my husband think we the republican we mess the country is time to have somebody chance to fix he felt Obama have better chance to restore our prestige and economic better than mccan
    and him and I will vote for Obama
    he has been predict the e;lection for 30 nyears this year he said Obama will win the election Palin fame will fade away because mc can have 26years in washington did do nothings suddently he is a reformer
    No jobs/economic is bad = news media are talking about lipstick an old joke being there for so many years
    mccain is running a dishonesty campaign where himself states he will not this is why he will never vote for mccan
    my husband is the mean racism republican 88 years old man he choose Obama over mccaIN
    we pray for Obama

    • Posted By: casher 22 @ 09/14/2008 1:03:14 PM

      God Bless You; A elderly women with common sense. I'm 63 yrs. old and havn't voted in 30 yrs, been kinda difficult, can't tell the difference between a Dem or Rep. lately both self serving , backing corportate America. I'm sad to say that a generation that stopped, a unjustice war, sacrificed 4 dead in Ohio, Kent State. could produce a Bush, and other corportate leaders, that settle for greed and not the welfare of the common good of America, leaves me to believe they didn't smoke enough weed, or where closset Hippie with no foundation. Just Kidding, or not Love your Ways. JGhost

  • Posted By: Fairness advocate @ 09/14/2008 9:36:20 AM

    Who is Obama's Vice Presidential running mate again? It's been so long since anyone said anything about him, I can't remember who he is or what HE stands for.

    • Posted By: KnightHawk @ 09/14/2008 10:10:56 AM

      I feel a great swell of pity for anyone who doesn't know who Joe Biden is. As a candidate for the nomination for the presidency, Biden made his polictics well known and it just so happens that Sen. Obama's intentions for the future of American closely coincides with those of Sen. Biden. John McCain-Bush chose a white female as a running mate to pull the white female vote hoping that females all across this nation would rally around someone like themselves; she is in effect a token for women voters but sadly lacks any real political skills. Obama is more than a mere orator but because he's half black many white voters see only the color of his skin. America is yet to grow up or own up to its credo that "All men (and women) are created equal!

      • Posted By: ritasee @ 09/14/2008 11:06:15 AM

        Senator Joe Biden is so well known for his foreign policy experience I can't believe anyone doesn't know him. I have been following him since the 80s when he was in charge of the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings, and was greatly impressed by his intelligence and sensitivity during a difficult proceeding. Try researching his record and you will find how impressive and what a great man Joe Biden is. Palin who?

        • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 09/14/2008 1:01:02 PM

          I agree..only the hearings happened in the early ninetees..1991 I think.

    • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 09/14/2008 1:00:09 PM

      Who is Palin's running mate? Old McCain who once again has dissapeared into the woodwork...

    • Posted By: bbbob @ 09/14/2008 9:55:11 AM

      That only speaks to your stupidity when you do not even know who may be leading our country in the future.

  • Posted By: Fleake @ 09/14/2008 9:37:10 AM

    The only reason the polls are even is because of racism. Some white people are not going to vote for Obama just because he is black. Yes , he should be ahead, but their are some whites who would rather vote for a failed administration, stand in soup lines, and go on welfare, before they will vote for a black man. Palin knows absolutley nothing, but she is on the blue collar whites level. They identify with her. She is just like them.

  • Posted By: cm4297 @ 09/14/2008 10:26:18 AM

    Mainstream Media has really dropped the ball. The Obama campaign is reformatting their strategy to deal with McCain instead of Palin. Palin is not the issue, she is a distraction, but not an issue. This too will pass President Obama.

    • Posted By: HotTopics @ 09/14/2008 10:56:48 AM

      I totally agree. Anytime they can't deal with the issues, they create a distraction. Palin was a distraction,and if you ask me a sexist ploy. What McCain counted on happening is happening. Women, most if not all who have suddenly juimped on McCain's wagon, were counted on by McCain to be so emotional that they could not focus on how little they could buy at the grocery store this year than last year. And they were counting on the reaction to her "mothering instincts" to drive the population of women to be this distracted. Sort of makes you wonder what' on the mind of that second oldest daughter. When they panned to her, the look on her face was "I can't believe they are buying this".

  • Posted By: Gemstate @ 09/14/2008 12:36:05 PM

    This is a ridiculous poll. Where did _Newsweek_ gather the sample of white women for this poll...at a Republican rally?

    I cannot believe this past week. with all of the crap that went on between the two candidates. Arguing about "lipstick on a pig." What a distraction for voters and a waste of time for both campaigns. With two weeks before the first debate and they are arguing about cosmetics.

    Another that if both campaigns want to attract women voters, they need to get beyond the issue of abortion and talk about topics such as the economy, insurance and other related domestic issues.

    • Posted By: casher 22 @ 09/14/2008 12:54:57 PM

      Hey Gemstate: Beleive your a Idahoan?? Let get novel, ELECTa Democrat to Congress- Recall Closet Qween Larry and Crapo- Thats exactly what he has done in Congress. How do you like the 9 Nuclear Waste Sites that have been ordered to clean up the mess, and no press, no nothing. SEC. of Interior, Kempie, what a pick by Bush, 9 Nuclear Waste sites, The Right to Work State( Rich get Richer &payscale stays the same $8-10 hr) WE need to get Obama elected and start a Recall Movement to Recall all Republicans, including do nothing, Go Back to your Ranch, Gov. Otter or is that Sea Otter? Ghoster in the Gemstate

  • Posted By: Mac2008 @ 09/14/2008 11:16:05 AM

    Whats up with the media attack dogs? Did they forget that Joe Biden is in this race as well? Come on, let's dish the dirt on Joe as well. I love nothing more than CNN saying "No Bias, No Bull". The media has been silent when it comes to Joe, I'm sure the attack dogs can come up with some juicy tidbit.

    • Posted By: spinks @ 09/14/2008 11:46:21 AM

      WELL IT COULD JUST BE WE (US) FINALLY HAVE SOME DECENT MEN THAT ARE GODLY MEN AND NOT MONEY HUNGRY REPUBS WHO CLAIM TO BE CHRISTIANS AND THEN STONR THEIR FELLOW MAN....TYPICAL OF REPUBS--HIPOCRITS........

      • Posted By: jesecom @ 09/14/2008 12:06:06 PM

        If Biden is so Godly, why does he proclaim to be a Catholic and then makes up his own rules on issues such as abortion and stem cell research which are in conflict with the teaching of the Catholic Church. Same is true of Nancy Pelosi. If they can't be true to their religion what makes anyone think they are true to their country.

        • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 09/14/2008 12:54:16 PM

          If hypocrite Palin is so Godly, why did she get pregnant before marriage? Her Rep values are against that. She pretends to be this Holy person.. phony.

  • Posted By: emsst10 @ 09/14/2008 12:11:25 PM

    I really have to question the american population when the appointment of a governor with no foreign (let alone national) experience to the vice presidency of what would be the oldest first term president in our nation's history, creates a boost in the republican poll numbers. we pretend to be informed citizens but this has really makes me question our political system. when she becomes vp, am i supposed to be proud, as a woman, that the first of my gender is advocating book burning and overturning roe v. wade? and this is the new face of feminism? i am offended.

    • Posted By: Gemstate @ 09/14/2008 12:54:14 PM

      Great post! It's a shame that Governor Palin is being used in order to attract women voters for McCain. As a woman, I have nothing in common with her except that we are of the same gender and sexuality. After my initial shock and anger over McCain's choice for VP, I am starting to feel very bad for Governor Palin. She is only allowed to participate in selected interviews. This sends the message that he and his campaign do not trust what she has to say. They are undermining her and this suggests that not even they trust her fit to be a vice president, much less a president.

    • Posted By: idcountry @ 09/14/2008 12:16:37 PM

      I agree with you!!! She does not represent me or the things I stand for, so why should I be thrilled a "woman" is the vp?

      • Posted By: ThinkingBeing @ 09/14/2008 12:41:05 PM

        Agreed. As a woman, I'd love to see a women VP or President. But, not just any woman and definitely not Palin! The idea that I would ignore my political principals that I have spent a lifetime developing through open-mindedly listening to all sides and observing the long-term effect of different strategies and instead just vote on gender is insulting.

    • Posted By: shell-ii @ 09/14/2008 12:31:43 PM

      Just like the president, the governor of a state has to have the approval of the people. Unlike the president, the governor of a state must have a balanced budget at the end of a fiscal year. That experience alone gives a governor a leg up in my opinion. Senators do not demonstrate fiscal responsibility unless they are members of the Ways and means committee.

    • Posted By: SEA Observer @ 09/14/2008 12:20:34 PM

      Well written! you lumped experience, age, gender, & ideology into one short blurp! The only few things that you left out is race & your own ignorant, mis-informed, self-centered, and obvious jealousy... To think that you are well informed would problably cause quite a few farts on the board!

  • Posted By: knonemus @ 09/14/2008 12:50:50 PM

    The Democracts do not control the Congress...They have a majority, but not a majorityt hat can override a veto, until they have that, they have only the appearanc of power....

  • Posted By: yassinsamer @ 09/14/2008 12:41:45 PM

    i cannot understand why americans want to go thru what they went thru for the past 10 years, wars,troubled economy, more enemies, cold war, recession, stronger terrorists and most of all, more death. it requires more than a cowboy to solve the world's problems. dealing with different cultures, pride, ethnic groups require a more open minded adminstration than tthe existing one

    • Posted By: cameronsmiley @ 09/14/2008 12:50:33 PM

      That has been experience since the declaration of independence. We have less killed in Iraq than in any other so called "war" in our history and your are wringing your hands in despair? Less than 4000 over 5 years is not a war! It doesn't even rate as a highway death statistic. Get REAL here democrats. How many terrorist attacks have we had since 9/11. HMMMMM.... silence? I thought so.

  • Posted By: benkrapf @ 09/14/2008 12:17:10 PM

    Wow.

    Do Newsweek readers really drink this much hate-filled Republican Kool-Aid?

    SHEEP!

    SCHNELL!! TOE ZEE PARTEE LINE, OR ELSE!!

    HEIL MCCAIN!!

    • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 09/14/2008 12:50:19 PM

      Hail McCain? Interesting. Is there a hidden meaning in your "Hail" which btw, you mispelled? Hail as in Hitler?

  • Posted By: hiuyu @ 09/14/2008 12:49:14 PM

    I don't want this I don't want that. What do you people want? Heaven.. well you ain't gonna get it here.Try a little kindness, and keep it clean. i want a president that will uphold the laws written long ago by our forefathers, and someone not trying to bring this "new wave" Holly wood bull crap image to themselves, with good values and MOST OF ALL gan be good for AMERICANS!!!! Before you know it we will be packing our bags and moving to another country and maybe we can do like we all used to GO TO WORK and work for things if you want it, it really does work, if the government doesn't try to take it all from us to give to those that won't get up and work. I would give a weekly pay to someone that truly needs it, and their are people that do, but any of you out there wonderiing when your ship is coming in IT IS NOT ... go swim for it!

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/14/2008 12:48:39 PM

    KAY B. HUTCHINSON: VERY QUALIFIED TO BE MCCAIN'S VP RUNNING MATE.

    CONDOLEEZA RICE: VERY, VERY, VERY, [QUALIFIED] TO BE MCCAIN'S RUNNING MATE !!!

    OLD ELIZABETH DOLE: MUCH MORE [QUALIFIED] TO BE MCCAIN'S VP RUNNING MATE

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    SARAH PALIN: NOT A DAMN CLUE TO WHAT THE VP IS AND RESPONSIBILITIES, NO [NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE] AT ALL ....

    SHE PUT HER [TOWN OF WASILLA] IN DEBT AN IN LESS THAN [2 YEARS] AS ALASKA'S GOVERNOR, SHE'S THE [EARMARK QUEEN OF THE FROZEN TUNDRA] INVOLVED IN A SCANDAL [TROOPER GATE] AND LOBBYIST TIES TO INDICTED ALASKAN SEN. STEPHENSON AND USED HIS SERVICES, SHE HAS NOT REVEALED HER TAX RECORDS OF THE PAST [10 YEARS]...

    AN YOU DESPERATE RACIST AND BITTER FEMINIST WANT HER IN AS VP...PUH-LEASE !!

    SIMPLY NOT QUALIFIED....

    THOSE THAT VOTE FOR JOHN MCCAIN & SARAH PALIN ARE THOSE THAT ARE SO DAMN DESPERATE TO KEEP THE WHITE HOUSE [WHITE] TEY'LL VOTE FOR THIS BORDERLINE-BULL-SPIT TICKET....

    THEY DON'T REALIZE THE [ELECTORAL COLLEGE] DETERMINES THE ELECTION AND WHO GETS TO THE MAJIC NUMBER OF [270] OBAMA IS CLOSEST TOTHAT NUMBER, HE'S CURRENTLY AT [240] MCCAIN ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES ARE [189]

    JOHN KERRY, BUSH'S BLOOD COUSIN WON THE [POPULAR VOTE] AND LOST THE ELECTION, TO HIS BLOOD COUSIN, GEORGE W. BUSH JR IN THE [ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE]
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    YOU RACE HATERS AN BITTER FEMINIST HAD BETTER STOP YACKING ABOUT THE POLLS AND POPULAR VOTE BUNK AND BALAONEY...

    FOCUS ON THE [ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE]

    DUMB A!!

  • Posted By: johnpotus @ 09/14/2008 3:27:27 AM

    Palin has more executive experience that Nobama and Biden put together. Voters don't want an African muslim man without experience to be their President.

    • Posted By: spinks @ 09/14/2008 12:48:39 PM

      YOU SOUND PREJUDICE AND ILL INFORMED----MAYBE YOURE NOT QUALLIFIED TO VOTE.....OBAMA IN 08!!!!! SHELLY INDIANA.

    • Posted By: dawnbc1 @ 09/14/2008 9:43:50 AM

      Another ignorant bigot for McCain. Obama isn't a muslim but of course you know that. Just spreading crap.

      • Posted By: ritasee @ 09/14/2008 11:24:14 AM

        Yep, more ignorance - I like how they ignore the fact that Obama is also half white. How convenient for the racists and typical of them to just see what they want to see instead of all that is there, and Obama/Biden is better than this country deserves anymore in its stupidity. I fear we will become like Sodom and Gomorrah and God will have to just destroy us to put us out of our pitiful misery.

  • Posted By: hamsa @ 09/14/2008 12:19:49 PM

    My own Palin bubble has burst and I suspect that a lot of other independents will follow soon. She is becoming creepier by the day, as McCain fawning over a female cowboy carbon copy of his rival George Bush, creepy, like her husband's role in her work and the fact that Alaskans are afraid to talk about her because she might come back and punish them one by one is creepy. And things like McCain suddenly becoming an unabashed liar. I always felt bad for McCain for the way he was treated by the Bushies in 2000, but I think I also held it against him for coming back to Bush and the GOP afterwards. His use of their Rove style politics in 2008 is really the final straw for me and that man.

    • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 09/14/2008 12:48:35 PM

      Excellent analysis. I believe the media love fest with Palin has ended..next, the media will turn on her just like the media has done with every other popular candidate including Obama, Hillary and others..

  • Posted By: ojibwa @ 09/14/2008 7:22:36 AM

    I thought it was Palin/Obama. So, McCain is still running, is he (?)

    • Posted By: chrisphx66 @ 09/14/2008 10:28:08 AM

      Well, I wouldn't call it running - more like, "go ahead Sarah, I'll catch up with ya later." He's got his b*tch doing his dirty work for him.

      • Posted By: spinks @ 09/14/2008 12:47:01 PM

        LOOK IT UP PALINS RECORD ON ANIMAL ABUSE---OFFERING 150.00 FOR EACH FORELEG OF WOLVES KILLED BY MEN IN LOW FLYING PLANES IN ALASKA....WORLD WILDLIFE FEDERATION....SHES SUCH A DEVOTED CHRISTIAN---PROTECTING GODS CREATION.....SHELLY INDIANA.

    • Posted By: ritasee @ 09/14/2008 11:21:53 AM

      Not really anymore. All he has to do is follow the loser Palin around and doesn't have to do anything anymore. He needs his naps, you know.

      • Posted By: spinks @ 09/14/2008 12:45:07 PM

        YOU GO---MCCAIN IS IN PAIN SEND HIM HOME---WHICH HOME HE HAS 7 YOU KNOW----SHELLY INDIANA.

    • Posted By: spinks @ 09/14/2008 12:43:53 PM

      THAT IS EXACTLY WHY MCCAIN CHOSE HER TO TAKE THE ATTENTION OFF OF HIS OLD OUTDATED FRAIL-ASS---GO HOME MCCAIN YOUR IN PAIN.....OBAMA IN 08...SHELLY IN INDIANA.......

  • Posted By: starrider @ 09/14/2008 11:45:35 AM

    Obama? Battle tested? He's never had a job that didn't rely on tax dollars for a salary. During his short tenure as a senator, he has never drafted a single piece of bipartisan legislation. His voting record shows that he votes with his party over 98% of the time, the same party that has an even lower approval rating than the president. Change??? I think not!!!

    • Posted By: SEA Observer @ 09/14/2008 12:05:10 PM

      Who cares about what you said, you super stupid white trash racist! We vote for BO because he's the smartest Black guy in America, he can and will beat the crap out of women (see what happen to Hillary & Sarah!). All the newspaper & TV networks love him, all of the other countries love him....it's time that this country vote for a guy that know how to spend other people's money, a guy that can do a lot and talk little..... get it now you far right neocon church goer idiot!!!!

      • Posted By: PoorRichard @ 09/14/2008 12:44:33 PM

        Posted By: SEA Observer @ 09/14/2008 12:05:10
        "Comment: Who cares about what you said, you super stupid white trash racist! We vote for BO because he's the smartest Black guy in America, he can and will beat the crap out of women (see what happen to Hillary & Sarah!). All the newspaper & TV networks love him, all of the other countries love him....it's time that this country vote for a guy that know how to spend other people's money, a guy that can do a lot and talk little..... get it now you far right neocon church goer idiot!!!!"

        Wow. A poster expresses disapproval with Obama in a manner that in no way suggests his or her race and this is your response? Your are saying that if you are against Obama you must be a white racist while in the same paragraph you support Obama because he is the "smartest black guy in America" and knows how to spend other peoples' money. Please, admit that you are a republican trying to discredit democrats. I cannot stomach the idea that someone from either party can be so angry and hate-filled.

  • Posted By: jipnz @ 09/14/2008 12:44:08 PM

    How uptight are we? And do we want a handsome president.. do we want a white president do we want a African American president... or do we just want a bi-racial president and Make nice to everyone and would that please all of you.. too many are making too many cruel and some racist comments in our country. I am going to vote for the man that I think will be a good candidate, uphold the laws of this country (something that is going by the wayside) punish the criminals and stick to the laws our forefathers created for us, and yes God was mentioned in those laws!

  • Posted By: danic @ 09/13/2008 9:23:00 PM

    I agrree with Pia1981! I feel very strong about aboriton when it comes down to being raped! When she talked during her interview with "Charlie" she back tracked on everything she originally stood for before she became the vice presidental elect! I don't think she even knows where she stands! As a women who wanted Hillary I would strongly recommend women read before and after bios on what "they" call a small town hockey mom!

    • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 09/13/2008 10:12:12 PM

      Thank you, danic.. I agree with you too. I pray to God this woman does not get elected. Say NO TO McCAIN/PALIN!

      OBAMA/BIDEN 08!

      • Posted By: danic @ 09/13/2008 10:29:50 PM

        agreed!

        • Posted By: chrisphx66 @ 09/14/2008 11:16:35 AM

          Agreed! The only reason this Palin thing has backtracked is because she, like most of the Republikanischers, know that there are huge amounts of people in this country who will blindly follow them so long as they say what they want to hear. Once their 'prophets' have spoken, it must be true, right? Hell, I could run for election here in AZ, all I have to say is, "oh, I've found Jeeeezus! Vote for me! :)" and I'd get elected. Of course, I could then do what I wanted - AFTER the election.

          • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 09/14/2008 12:42:39 PM

            Ditto! I have voted Rep the last three elections...Never again..

  • Posted By: jipnz @ 09/14/2008 12:41:53 PM

    How uptight are we? And do we want a handsome president.. do we want a white president do we want a African American president... or do we just want a bi-racial president and Make nice to everyone and would that please all of you.. too many are making too many cruel and some racist comments in our country. I am going to vote for the man that I think will be a good candidate, uphold the laws of this country (something that is going by the wayside) punish the criminals and stick to the laws our forefathers created for us, and yes God was mentioned in those laws!

  • Posted By: luckylarry @ 09/14/2008 12:41:18 PM

    You are correct in the fact that we are in danger. If for some odd reason McCain died and she took over I believe for one she would be capable and two The Presidency is only slightly more than a figure head. It is Congress who runs this country and quite ironic that our economy has dived in the last two years that the Democrats have contolled it. We just cannot afford to let the three headed monster of Pelosi, Ried and O.B. (In that order) control this country. Pelosi and her do nothing strategy is strangling this country. Congress has a much lower approval rating than G.B. and its time for people to direct their attention to this bunch of loosers.

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