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As much as you hate Bush, your comments supports exactly why people shouldn't vote for Senator Obama, who I personally like. However, I have not heard anything substantial or solid from his side. His popularity is solely based upon his likability. Is he a good person? It appears so. Does he have charisma? Obviously. Does he have intelligence? Enough to market his ability to get masses to follow him. But what about his experience? His voting record? His actual plans for office? These things have been unclear and shady from the beginning. Like I said, I personally think Senator Obama is a good man who sincerely wants to help America and change it for the better; however, I cannot honestly say I have any confidence in him knowing how to do that. Saying is one thing, doing is another.

Once again Anna has proven why her publication is becoming the laughingstock of print media. They just can't seem to help themselves.

Greed. Greed. Greed. This country has a fundamental problem asking for zillions from its citizen while .....

December 12, 2007 [Less than 10 months ago]

Goldman Sachs shares $18.8bn bonus pool. Average payout for 30,000 staff is put at $600,000.

Rival, Lehman, is expected to reveal profits and bonuses tomorrow. Goldman Sachs staff began celebrating a record year for bonuses today as its rival Lehman Brothers awarded Richard Fuld, the bank's chief executive, a $35 million Christmas present.

Thousands of bankers on both sides of the Atlantic at Goldman were told today of their share of what is expected to be an $18.8 billion bonus pool, worth on average $600,000 for each of their near 30,000 staff world-wide.

Last year Goldman paid out $16.5 billion in total bonuses, worth on average $640,000. ??????.

Times Online (James Rossiter and Christine Seib) .

Quindlen acts as though the Democrats have not held the chairmanships of both houses of Congress'powerful banking,regulatory,ways and means,and finance committees for the last two years.
Liberals are trying to have it both ways. In one area,they note that Bush had ''eight months''to see the value of an al Qaeda terrorist threat and then do nothing about it.
Yet liberals have had total control of Congress for over twice as long as this period and similar warning signs were right in front of them long before the actual meltdown [and in the same city], and no-one acted,least of all,Barack Obama.[who arrayed himself against the 2005 Housing Regulatory Reform Act because it demanded oversight of FREDDIE and FANNIE]. We have the pages of debate in Congress itself to gauge how effective any ''reform''was going to be. If minority Democrats were against it in 2003-06 as the minority,how much more so would they stand against regulation once they became committee chairmen in their turn? Dodd wanted nothing to do with regulation of FANNIE.Neither did Frank,nor Rangel,yet all of these are chairmen of the nations most powerful financial committees in Congress.
How is ''getting the country back on track'',using Gergenese,going to take place when the lies and the ''Roveian''games continue? Over at todays FACTCHECK,Obama is taken to task for ''false'' fearmongering related to Social Security. In Tennessee,it looks like the feds have finally got their man in the Palin computer hacking crime. Bad luck that the hacker is the son of Obama supporter and Democrat congressman Kernell of the same state. In Michigan,four Obama supporters including the son of a Democrat congresswoman are arrested on felony vandalism charges when they slashed tires on GOP voter registration vehicles. The YOU TUBE ''Palin Was A Seccessionist'' video has been traced to David Axelrods pals at WINNER and ASSOCIATES,an ad firm.[if a more concrete tie can be made between WINNER and Axelrod,then a FEC violation has thus been committed]. Actress Sarah Bernhart,a staunch Obama supporter, was caught in audio railing at Palin in some of the most vile,racist language that anyone outside of the Klan has ever produced in this nation.The Democrats are out-Roving Rove. Quindlen is a partisan creature,and only displays half the loaf. The other half however,is becoming increasingly dark and even deranged in its content.

Younger women need honesty from older women...

Given the highly competitive nature of today's global economy and workforce, having a child before you graduate from High School is not something to strive for. It is not the "model."

For years, the Republican Party gave us a "model" of the American family as a "Man and a Woman, Married, with or without children." Their model for accelerated prosperity included being a college graduate and gainfully employed."

The Republican Party even demonized "Murphy Brown", who played a "rich, middle-aged, college educated, single white women," for having a child out of wedlock!

Now, it's okay for an "unemployed, 17-year old, unmarried female High School student" to be paraded across the RNC convention stage because she "plans" to get married?

Poor, single, unwed, and inner-city mothers who haven't graduated from High School should feel vindicated by the change in the Republican Party's "model" of the American Family.

Thank you, Senator Clinton...No Way, No How, No McCain!

I'm not wild about Obama, but I am terrified of McCain. His total opposition to any kind of regulation has contributed to the financial mess we are now in. If he has a chance to "deregulate" health care, we will be fighting for our life literally instead of just financially. And his gunslinger mentality may inadvertantly land us in WW3. The all attack all the time style does not bode well for the bipartisan work that is going to be needed to clean up the mess we are in on all fronts, not to mention the multinational and cross cultural effort needed to restore our position as a respected world leader. Yikes!

ANNA, YOU ARE RIGHT. THE DEBATES ARE CRUCIAL AND MAY DETERMINE THE RESULT OF THE ELECTION. I WAS AN ELECTED JUDGE FOR TWENTY YEARS AND I PARTICIPATED IN MANY DEBATES. THE REPUBLICAN TRICK WILL BE TO LIE THEIR WAY THROUGH AS MUCH AS THEY CAN WITHOUT DETECTION. THANK GOD FOR THE INTERNET AND A COUPLE OF TV PERSONALITIES SUCH AS RACHAEL MADDOW AND KEITH WHO ARE PRO-
OBAMA. THIS SHOULD NEUTRALIZE THE REPUBLICAN FAVORATE TACTIC: HALF-TRUTHS AND HALF-LIES. A PRIME EXAMPLE OF WHAT I MEAN IS THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE. PALIN WAS HAFL TRUTHFUL, BUT FAILED TO CLARIFY WHO STOPPED THE PROJECT FIRST. HOW ABOUT THE ILLOGICAL STATEMENT IN WHICH SHE CLAIMED THAT ALASLKA PRODUCES 20% OF THE ENERGY FOR AMERICA! HOW ABOUT McCAIN'S STUPID REMARK ABOUT HOW HE WOULD FIRE THE DIRECTOR OF THE S.E.C IF HE WERE PRESIDENT. THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE TO BE IN THE LOOKOUT FOR: LIES....WHAT? WHAT ARE ASKING? DO I WANT TO VOTE FOR THE PALIN-McCAIN TICKET TO NOWHERE? HELL NO! THANKS, BUT NO THANKS! HASTA LA VISTA CARNALES!