A Reality Check On ‘Change’

Thank you for writing this article. I hope that the vast majority of people will read this newsletter and learn who Palin really is and what McCain really stands for on political issues. I learned quickly on during this election trail who would best lead our country which I will be voting for Obama. Not only that but I wasn't going to vote for another Republican after the fact that this country had failed since Bush was in office. But for most people who is still not convince that McCain/Palin is just more of the same, hopefully your article will help more people in opening up their eyes to realize what is best for our country. Thank you!

Record and temperment? I guess the fact that Obama's entire network of friends from college to present seems to be mostly radicals and racists doesn't merit a mention. Ayers, Rezko, Wright, Jackson, Sharpton and on and on. I'll take the anrgy P.O.W. any day over a guy who by his own admission gravitated toward the socialists in college.

Can you imagine the media circus if it would have been Hillary Clinton who would have designed her own presidential podium?

The media was so busy hounding Hillary Clinton like a pack of mad dogs that NObama was given a free ride, but then he has gotten this far with a free ride, so his arrogance is understandable.

Is it not strange that NONE of the Columbia students remember NObama? Is it not strange that the press fails to question NObama's absence for the past two years from his Senate job. NObama started to run for president as soon as he arrived in Wasihngton.

NOW, the press challenge the executive experience of Sarah Palin while ignoring the slim resume and the poor judgement of NObama. This is dejavu time. We have seen this before with Hillary Clinton who was far more qualified than this empty shirt NObama. Although, you would never think that given the hullabaloo that the press make over NObama.

Remember Hard Ball Mathews and the tingles running up his legs while watching NObama? Charlie Gibson now wants to join the Hard Balls club with his questioning of Sarah Palin. How many countries did NObama visit before this campaign? How many heads of state did NObama meet before this election campaign?

Thank you for a concise and concrete assessment of both candidates??? records. After the avalanche of lies propagated by the McCain campaign and parroted by much of the media, even some of Obama???s supporters are defensive on his accomplishments and believe the puffery on McCain. I will email this far and wide. Keep up the good work. It is appreciated.

The time has come for Obama to start leading his own campaign. He has all the supporting structures in place: great campaign staff, grass roots support, money, and issues. But the final necessary key ingredient is his ability to excite the 5%-10% of the electorate we need for victory. His supporters have done everything and more to make this a success. The rest is up to him. He can no longer pace in front of audiences trying to persuade with logic and the facts. He has to confront the attacks, the lies and the spin with authority, outrage and fire. He must become passionate from the gut. If he doesn't have this in him it's over, no matter how well he does in the debates. The final movement of voters to his side will come from non-spoken language of attitudes, energy, power, emotions and feelings. He has to show how he feels, that this matters to him. Not that it has to matter to voters; it must matter to him. If voters don't see him fighting for his life they will be unmoved. He has to lose his cool. Big time!

One more thing, to your claims of McCain record, which is so easy to check, something tells me that Feinstein, Kennedy, Kerry (if he had any decency), and a few other Democrats that co-sponsored with McCain ground breaking legislations would may easily disagree with your left-wing lying depiction of McCain's record. John McCain would not be my first choice for the President, but given the "competition," it's no context, sorry.

Those of you who suggest that McCain is still a Maverick, &/or believe the self-proclaimed "Straight Talk," have not done any research into his real record past media & campaign spin. I respect McCain's service to this country, and I once respected the man a great deal, and would have seriously considered voting for him. However, the FACTS show he is neither Maverick nor change agent, and his "Straight Talk" these days is mostly falsehoods & lies.

Hey obamamohammeds...got some good news...it's not ya'lls fault....you are all victims.....it's a sickness....

Psychiatrist Confirms: Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder
As a clinical and forensic psychiatrist, Lyle Rossiter has treated over 1,500 patients and examined over 2,700 civil and criminal cases. Turning his hand to political psychopathology, the author of The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness, has diagnosed an alarming percentage of the population as suffering from the grotesque form of mental derangement known by some as moonbattery.

Among Rossiter's observations:

Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded. Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.
A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity ??? as liberals do. A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population ??? as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation's citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state ??? as liberals do.
The roots of liberalism ??? and its associated madness ??? can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind. When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.
Basically liberalism is a willful failure to mature beyond adolescence that can have catastrophic consequences for society. With luck, the official diagnosis of this disease by a mental health professional will facilitate the search for a cure.

NOBAMA!!!

I can honestly say that Jonathan Alter can tactfully articulate exactly how the situation is and I have to commend you for your last 3 stories I read. You have a 100% accurate depiction of how things in this election are playing out. You deserve a Pulitzer Prize. I read an article in an Ohio paper that the Ohio Secretary of State (Jennifer Brunner) is chewing spikes over the Republican base sending a million absebtee ballots to Ohio voters with a micro small like at the bottom to answer yes or no if they are registered to vote. Most who get them won't read that little tidbit and it automatically be considered an invalid vote and be destroyed. This is the epitimy of the low life tactics of Republicans. The attorney general will be raising ?ell to nail them on this. If people would just accept the truth. I'm sure the Democrats are holding 4 aces yet and can keep the republicans guessing. Barrack Obama will be our next President.

Well written article about something that,few are bothering to seriously look at! History shows, over and over that the success of a President has little to do with "experience" (especially since the definition seems to be so subjective, altering dependent on who one supports), and a lot to do with temperament. How one runs his/her campaign has also been a clear indication of how one will govern.



country,

Thanks for putting some attention back on the issues. The media's (not to mention, the pubic's) focus on such distractions as the faux lipstick on a pig controversy and the rest of the McCain campaign's distortions only harms America.

There are real problems to be solved. While I admired McCain in 2000, I find it hard to have much respect for McCain today.

I've got more to say at my blog Torqopia.

This election gets funnier every day. Articles like this are why McCain is going to win very easily. The public sees through this garbage.

McCain Feingold doesn't count? You come across as desperate, either about the election or keeping in the good graces of MSNBC.

McCain Feingold doesn'y count? Jonathan, you come across as desperate. Worried about the election? Trying to keep your spot on MSNBC?

Obama...temper? Obama has been throwing a huge temper tantrum since the GOP convention, HOW DARE MCCAIN PLAY IN HIS SAND BOX!!! As for why become a community organizer, to drive the Chicago political machine you must first become a cog.....McCain has been an obstructionist to bills for both sides that would have been bad government. 1 of 100 makes it a difficult place to lead, he still made huge change (ei McCain-Feingold).