Here They Go Again

Keep your fantasies to yourself.

No doubt Leroy999. I dont understand it thought. I live in the south near boarders of GA, TN, AL. I'm surrounded by people I like in a part of the country that I love, but these same people confound me. Year after year they vote against their economic and social interests. They are bright and hard working in their daily lives but to this day slap the Bush/Cheney bumper stickers on their cars, right below their stickers that say 'W - the President'.

I dont understand it and it seriously breaks my heart. Even stranger is this election cycle. Obviously wrong to vote republican since 1994 and vote Bush into office twice, instead of thinking 'I made mistake voting for bush the past two elections, maybe I should try a different path' they are all waving the McCain flag now. I swear to god (who doesnt exist by the way) that a good percentage of the people I work with and see regularly believe Obama is musslin, that republicans are financial conservatives, that there taxes will go up (instead of the fact they would go down) if Obama is elected, that Iraq had heavy involvment in 911 and had weapons of mass destruction, and the list goes on.

I truely dont understand it but my home state (TN) will vote Red yet again, as will all the southern states.

We will judge them by there deeds and Sen McCain will be exposed as the liar he has turned himself into in order to try and (fail to) steal this election. This once honorable man has forgotten everything he learned during his military service and his failed 2000 run. Sarah Palin is a prime example. He is a sad shell of his former self who needs to step back and remember that " country first " isnt just a campaign slogan. How can justify having Gov Palin this close to leading the entire free world? And then he gets on 60 min. and say that he has " no problem seeing her as President "! Was he really talking about President of The United States of America?
How is it that you Republicans can act as if your party has nothing to do with what is happening to this nations economy? Are there two Republican parties now? Did G. Bush change his party ? Who had control of Congress for nearly the last decade? 23 years in Congress and MCain got it right twice? Look at the failures your party and it's big buck corperate handlers has enabled, Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Anderson, FannieMay, FreddieMack, Lehman Brothers, etc.
How can you say that Sen McCain is a centrist, he changes his position more then a porn star! He cries that Congress was "asleep " during all of this while he and his chief finiancial advisor were the ones pushing thru all of the deregulation legistation that took away the power to watch the businesses that we now have to bail out. How can you say he fought his party when he voted with them 90% of the time he has been in office. Must have been a short fight. Just because he called out the religious right fringe as "agents of intolerance " before he reversed course (AGAIN) and went to speak at Bob Jones U, activly sought the endorsement of John Hagee (who gives Rev. Wright a run for his money but you dont want to talk about him do you?), and nominated Gov Palin for V.P.
You keep supporting this type of governance and wonder why this nation is in the shape its in? You talk about records and refuse to look at RESULTS! Sen Obama is called a socialist because he wants to provide all Americans with an opportunity to have access to affordable healthcare while this Republican administration has socialized the entire finiacial system!!!
Obama/Biden 08. Its our only hope!



I have one question

McCain moderate? Please. Anyone who makes light of bombing other countries as a political solution is not moderate. John McCain delights in singing Bomb,bomb,bomb, Iran to the tune of Barbara Ann. That is not moderate. He is simply incapable of negotiating with either friends or adversaries because he does not respect anyone with a differing view than himself. Just ask his fellow Senators. They do not think he is "moderate" at all.

I'm a conservative Reagan independent, and I will be voting for Senator Obama. The other guy is frightening, immoderate, irrational, and forgetful.

Mondanofan brings up an interesting point. What exactly is an ordinary person in my United States these days? Are they the people who dont know the definition of the word elite, to the point where the ordinary person believes that to be elite is a bad thing?

Let me help you with the definition:
- The best or most skilled members of a group
- A group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual status

So the your definition of the 'ordinary' person is one who doesnt want an elite (superior intellect; most skilled in a group .. in this case politics; leadership) as president of my country the United States of America?

If the answer is yes then you are a party before country partisan; the opposite of a patriot. At the minimum do the world a favor and dont vote ever again. An added bonus for us Democrat bigots (your words) why dont you run along to some other country that prefers dullards as their leadership. Not sure where that is exactly but maybe you could start a country on an uninhabited island somewhere. You could call it McPalinVille or something.

(Kevin Hassett, director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, is a Bloomberg News columnist. He is an adviser to Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona in the 2008 presidential election. The opinions expressed are his own.) Explains everything....

Let me get this straight. For six years between 2001 and 2007, Republicans had unprecedented presidential power and controlled both houses of Congress, yet somehow this is a problem that Democrats did not want to fix? Democrats have never been in control of both the legislative and executive branches during this whole buildup? The Republicans have. Think for yourself instead of reading Republican propaganda. What is their solution now - the biggest socialist expansion of government in history spending a billion dollars to bail out the financial sector. That is not conservatism. A true conservative would let the market take its course.

I would defend to the death my country the United States of America, to defend its core values including freedom of speech.

That said, has something happened to my country or has it always been this way? Now that I am in my early 40s I've been around long enough to see many election cycles and vote in elections since 1984. What I am referring to of course is the party before country that you see the past two election cycles (including the current election in progress).

A comment I read states that McCain has the heart and experience while Obama brings nothing to the table. This is of course inaccurate and is prime example of party before country. As factual reality, party before country is the opposite of being a patriot. In this pivotal time in our country's history I believe that loyalty to party before country is boardering on traitorous.

McCain is not only not a patriot hero, with selection of palin for his vp running mate he has crossed into traitorous territory. No matter what his supporters state, splin, fabricate, etc, palin is not intellectually qualifed vp or president of our great country. I could list the reasons why she is not qualified but every person who reads this already knows, and that includes her supporters (or more to the point, supporters of the republican party who place the party above the country in regards to loyalty.)

So as there is argument back and forth between democrats and republicans on merits and demarits of Obama and McCain, the bottom line is this:

The moment McCain selected Palin as his running mate he became a traitor to the United States of America and should immediately withdraw from the presidential race.

Obama is not a perfect candidate, but he is bright enough to pick a running mate who could lead our country if something happened to him, while McCain picked someone who is not up to the task.

I would defend to the death my country the United States of America, to defend its core values including freedom of speech.

That said, has something happened to my country or has it always been this way? Now that I am in my early 40s I've been around long enough to see many election cycles and vote in elections since 1984. What I am referring to of course is the party before country that you see the past two election cycles (including the current election in progress).

A comment I read states that McCain has the heart and experience while Obama brings nothing to the table. This is of course inaccurate and is prime example of party before country. As factual reality, party before country is the opposite of being a patriot. In this pivotal time in our country's history I believe that loyalty to party before country is boardering on traitorous.

McCain is not only not a patriot hero, with selection of palin for his vp running mate he has crossed into traitorous territory. No matter what his supporters state, splin, fabricate, etc, palin is not intellectually qualifed vp or president of our great country. I could list the reasons why she is not qualified but every person who reads this already knows, and that includes her supporters (or more to the point, supporters of the republican party who place the party above the country in regards to loyalty.)

So as there is argument back and forth between democrats and republicans on merits and demarits of Obama and McCain, the bottom line is this:

The moment McCain selected Palin as his running mate he became a traitor to the United States of America and should immediately withdraw from the presidential race.

Obama is not a perfect candidate, but he is bright enough to pick a running mate who could lead our country if something happened to him, while McCain picked someone who is not up to the task.

I respected McCain before his campaign. I would've gladly have had him beat Bush in 2000, where he surely would have gone on to win the presidency and would probably be president right now. But during this campaign, he has constantly relied on lies and smears. He's also chosen a grossly under qualified VP just to show pony around and take the votes of emotionally driven mother and men who just think she's hott. It's disgusting the lengths that McCain is trying to go to to win. I'd like to blame Bush's "black baby" tactics when he beat McCain for spoiling McCain's belief in integrity, but that still doesn't pardon him from his despicable behavior this campaign. An honest man no more.