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  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/02/2008 2:09:10 PM

    More on the voter fraud in Ohio:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3128354&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: quasqueton @ 10/02/2008 3:43:41 AM

    Personally, I would rather be linked to Teddy Roosevelt, than any of the Kennedys!!

  • Posted By: quasqueton @ 10/02/2008 3:38:40 AM

    Oh, you don????t wan/???t to come out and play?

  • Posted By: quasqueton @ 10/02/2008 3:28:14 AM

    To russia with love???? I don???t think you understand. I love my country, and don???t
    Why are you here in the first place???

  • Posted By: quasqueton @ 10/02/2008 3:24:09 AM

    Do the same people write these? Always ??? for a simple hyphen, or period. Of course, NewsWeak, will never sort it out, as long as they agree with them. Perhaps, they are working for you?

  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 10/01/2008 11:55:20 PM

    McCain with all his phenomenal non-wisdom has told us that he has looked Vladimir Putin in the eyes. How about that??? However, McCain can???t tell us what Putin saw when I looked back.. That???s really what counts.
    For all of his expertise on Russia, McCain can???t seem to understand what Russia is really telling us. So, I decided to share this quote that I got from LA Weekly (August 14) by Steven Leigh Morris who is quoting his father-in-law, Yuri Yuyevich editor of The Red Star, former official Soviet military newspaper, and of course our former adversary:
    ???We (in Russia) are in the privileged position of understanding all the mistakes you are making because we made exactly the same mistakes just before our empire collapsed.???
    :Our mistakes all stemmed from our rigid adherence to idology rather than finding a balance between principles and practicalities. Our ideology was very different from your, but you too are wedded in idology - a privitazation/free market idology - as an economic template for the entire world. As you are discovering, it may not be a good fit for the entire world. You now look very tired, perhaps from trying to govern the entire world by yourselves, as we once tried to do. And when a nation is tired, it makes more and more foolish mistakes. Rigid idology is a symptom of such fatigue.???
    McCain is no way fit for the job of presidency. If we elect McCain, we join the late Great USSR, which also had formidable military machine. We need some one who lives in the future not the past, some one who can inspire courage, change and hope, not fear, war, and hatred. That???s Barack Obama.

  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 10/01/2008 11:51:03 PM

    Thanks very much for this insightful article.
    Throughout this article, one theme constantly reoccurs with McCain???s campaign. We could have won the war in Iraq if we had not been stabbed in the back. Does that sound familiar? Adolf Hitler used the same ploy. For McCain, we must avenge the loss of Vietnam by fighting and winning another war. That was one big reason McCain helped push us into Iraq, If Iraq does not satisfy McCain???s desire to win a war, we can fight Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Russia ??? the list goes on.
    Obama sees the world differently. As a former Peace Corps volunteer (to Cameroun), I know there is a vast difference between living in a country on a day-to-day basis, as opposed to crossing capital city in an air-conditioned limousine surrounded by a small army of security personal, as if you are some sort of alien in a space capsule.
    There???s a difference in viewing people in other countries as a "we" as opposed to a "they" whom we must bomb back into the stone age.
    Obama understands this sense of ???we/". Obama understands that we are not safe as long as half of the world must subsist on less than $ 2 a day. Obama understands that we cannot hope to win a war against terrorism by military means. We have tried that and all we are doing is creating enemies faster than we can kill them,
    Obama understands that we live in a young world. Demographically Iran is a young nation. So is North Africa, so is sub-Saharan Africa, so are the inhabitants in the high rise slums that surround European cities, like Paris or Marseilles.. These are the people we must reach. Obama understands that we can win the war on terrorism only if we offer a message of change and hope. And, if we back up this message of change by creating an equitable and sustainable world economy. (A economy based on fossil fuels will self-destruct within 10 to 20 years.).
    . McCain with his fixation on good and evil just doesn???t get it, and I do not want some one like McCain representing me. I want a leader who is not afraid of the rest of the world, a leader who reaches out to all - that is Barack Obama

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 10:29:59 PM

    voter fraud in Ohio:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3126975&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 10:04:50 PM

    A man of great wisdom:
    http://www.atlah.org/broadcast/manningreport.html

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 9:39:21 PM

    Obama's dirtiest, darkest secret!:
    http://larrysinclair.org/

  • Posted By: the_shelton @ 10/01/2008 9:09:18 PM

    If anyone thinks that talking on one of these posts is going to change anyone's mind, you are sadly mistaken. The people that write on these are not into finding facts, they are into spreading their opinion. Sadly so, because these things could really be a good approach to finding a few things out.

    I was really wondering about McCain and what he did after the war. I was in that war and I too wondered why in the world we lost it. They wouldn't let us bomb anything. I was on a carrier and our first strike after Tonkin Gulf, we wiped out 10 percent of the oil reserves of North Vietnam. We were loaded and ready to go the next morning and got the word from CincPacFleet to stand down. We were given specific targets that could be attacked, and which ones couldn't. It finally boiled down at one point that our pilots could shoot water buffaloes and outhouses. That was about it.

    Now I don't know about anyone else, but if I had been locked in a cage for six years, fed slop and treated badly, and not gotten out except through a lot of fancy talk and maneuvering, I would be so pissed at this country, I certainly wouldn't want to come back and serve it any more. Not when we walked through the airports and were spit on by all the good people and treated like a bunch of war criminals. Then forgotten by the military for any kinds of medical treatment and genuinely looked down on. So tell me how much real unanswered animosity does this man carry around with him everyday?

    Sorry folks, this guy is a hawk looking for some payback. I don't want him near any buttons.

  • Posted By: Freedom Wolf @ 09/30/2008 5:11:07 PM

    I do not see McCain as a hero or a maverick or whatever you Repos want call him. He is just a man, running for a position that he is not qualified for, wake up. Romney would have been a much better choice. Weak minds can be easily manipulated, just call myself a "Maverick" they will follow. Use my POW card and they will follow, pick a female VP, they will follow. My prediction is it is the end of the Republican Party.

    • Posted By: Jmon @ 09/30/2008 7:13:19 PM

      Really? And Obama is qualified? Please don't give me that BS about Obama graduating from Harvard, or working as a community organizer, it does not equal expierence. McCain has a record of bipartisanship and service to our country. Obama is a liberal jackass that has voted with the Democrats 98% of the time. Who do you trust? A man who makes arbitrary and meaningless speeches and promises change, or a man who has a record of getting things done in the interests of the country and the expierence necessary to solve problems?

      • Posted By: flamingo123 @ 09/30/2008 10:42:51 PM

        I thought Mr. Obama voted "present" most of the time.lol.

        • Posted By: the_shelton @ 10/01/2008 9:00:08 PM

          Per the latest report, McCain voted 36 times, Obama 72 and Biden 175. Now who was present?

      • Posted By: kshortSD @ 10/01/2008 2:46:15 PM

        I prefer someone who does what he says, not lying constantly like McCain. Last week, McCain ran around talking to reporters (in other words, campaigning) and tell everyone that he was going to suspend his campaign to work on the crisis, while Obama just did it. Using a crisis as a campaign stunt is inexcusable. And if McCain's record is one of supporting the conservative right, then no thanks. It's time for a change...

  • Posted By: TexJAG @ 10/01/2008 12:35:21 AM

    Barack is right that poverty and hoplessness breeds extremism. The answer is to address develpment worldwide from the ground up, instead of jus propping up the "right" dictators everywhere, which always makes the problems worse with the attendant corruption and repression. Cowboy diplomacy has cost us our standing in the world, bankrupted us, and hollowed out our military. We have absolutely no money, forces, or credibilty to launch the Neocon adventure against Iran that McCain clearly welcomes.

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 09/28/2008 10:51:47 AM

    Governor Sarah Palin supports John McCain in the fight against terrorism and his support for our efforts and the surge in Iraq.

    Some Democratic leaders including Obama but not Joe Leiberman have asked what have we accomplished in Iraq? John McCain was right in his support for the Iraq surge. Iraq today is in relative peace and is no longer hostile to the United States. Iraq is currently producing two and a half million barrels of oil a day and is capable of producing four and half million barrels a day. At $120 one hundred and twenty dollars a barrel Iraq has current oil revenues of $300 three hundred million dollars a day. Those revenues can grow to $500 million dollars a day with increased production. Thanks to the John McCain support of the war and the surge $300 million dollars a day are not being funneled to enemies of the United States to support terrorism around the world and to buy missiles and nuclear weapons that can be used against the United States. With an income stream of three hundred million dollars a day, Iraq was capable of purchasing hundreds of nuclear weapons. Our current progress with North Korea on nuclear issues is a result of cutting off the money flow and purchase of missiles and nuclear technology from North Korea to Iraq.

    • Posted By: Bona Phide @ 09/30/2008 6:37:34 PM

      Are you for real? Progress with North Korea? I hope that's a joke. The fact is Iraqi's were being interviewed on 60 Minutes the other day saying they were better off before we came into liberate them. We have found zero evidence of them even starting a nuclear program. We have found zero WMDs. They didn't even have any of the biological weapons we sold them left. You are making huge leeps in logic with very little evidence to support you at all...

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 09/28/2008 10:55:59 AM

    With Iraq???s continuing arms purchases under Sadaam Hussein, the loss of American soldiers casualties in wounded and dead would have been greater if we had waited until our efforts in Afghanistan were concluded. It is simple common sense. If you are alone and in a fight with two people, it makes sense to focus on the stronger fighter because that person can knock you out and it is all over. Barack Obama and Joe Biden seem to have difficulty with this concept. They apparently believe that it is a sure bet that we are going to win the war on terror and that we do not have to be careful in how we sacrifice American military lives in winning the war on terror. I doubt that Barack Obama or Joe Biden will be preparing any letters of resignation when their grand strategy on the war of terror fails and American soldiers have to pay with more blood. Barack Obama???s strategy is only to wait until Iraq is armed to the teeth and only if you see Iraqi marked warplanes attacking the World Trade Center and only then is it okay to send our men to storm their beaches. Of course at that point our casualties will be ten times greater.

    • Posted By: Bona Phide @ 09/30/2008 6:29:05 PM

      You have no idea what you are talking about lol. The longest range missle we found in Iraq's possession had a range of 149 miles. You really consider that "armed to the teeth"? Iraq had no intentions of attacking us after the first war. To believe so is paranoia.

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 09/28/2008 10:56:54 AM

    John McCain???s comments about Dwight Eisenhower during the debate were insightful and revealing not only about accountability in leaders but what the United States??? approach should be toward Iraq and to Al Qaida in Afghanistan. John McCain said that Dwight Eisenhower wrote out two letters the night before the D-Day invasion of Normandy. One letter was praising the success and valor of our troops for their successful landing at Normandy and the other letter was his resignation and acceptance of responsibility for our defeat. Whether Eisenhower actually wrote a letter of resignation is not that relevant. The larger point is that we faced tough opponents during World War II and it was not preordained that we were going to win the war. Our war effort and strategy during the early years of World War II was to defeat Nazi Germany and then go after Japan. Remember at that time, it was not a sure bet that the United States was going to win World War II. The United States made preparations for an invasion of California and Alaska. We built the Alaska transcontinental highway from Canada to protect Alaska because we did not know for sure that we could control the sealanes off our Pacific Coast given the strength of the Japanese Navy. In 1941, Germany had not attacked the United States but was allied under the Axis Pact with Japan and posed an immediate threat to the United States. Germany was considered the stronger threat and therefore it was appropriate to focus and beat Germany before Japan was ultimately forced to surrender. Remember German warplanes did not attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941. The strategy is the same for Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq under Sadaam Hussein had the fourth largest standing army in the world and was arming its army to the teeth with its then roughly two hundred million dollars a day in oil revenue from nearly four million barrels a day in oil production before the war. Just as FDR went after Germany before focusing our efforts on Japan, it was appropriate to go into Iraq before we turned our attention to Afghanistan.

    • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 09/30/2008 5:37:19 PM

      Check factcheck.org, he did not quote Eisenhower properly. They have a copy of the letter.

      • Posted By: Bona Phide @ 09/30/2008 6:25:20 PM

        Comparing Japan's alliance with Germany to Afghanistan and Iraq shows how little you know about the middle east. Afghanistan, at the time, was under the control of the religous extremist Taliban. Iraq, at the time, was under the rule of the secular dictator Saddam Hussein. There is no way the two would be allied, and therefor your argument that attacking Iraq somehow was necessary is completely false.

        Now had we attacked Saudi Arabia, because all 16 terrorists were Saudi nationals, then you might have a point, but the Saudis are our buddies over there. We couldn't attack them...

  • Posted By: This Complicated World @ 09/28/2008 4:57:23 PM

    Let's be honest here. McCain imagines a world of stark black and white, wrong or right choices. He cites dramatic examples and makes risky gambles. But let's be honest here. In the real world, where you and I live, where most of us are damn well certain of how many homes we have, the consequences of our choices aren't quite so stark as he imagines. We live in a world of nuance, a world of technology and open knowledge, we live in a place where every possible consequence has to be imagined and anticipated. Where victory and defeat are empty words when we can't afford to pay our rent or go to the doctor.

    • Posted By: Bona Phide @ 09/30/2008 6:07:53 PM

      Wow greatest thing I've read on here so far!

  • Posted By: Denise01 @ 09/30/2008 12:19:09 PM

    Here's something I think everyone should read before they cast their vote in NOV. I am a Democrat however, for the first time I think I'm leaning towards voting for a Republican. I'm very upset at some of the things I have been reading on Obama. PLEASE TAKE TIME TO READ THIS. PLEASE! WE ALL NEED TO BE AWARE OF THIS BEFORE WE PUT HIM INTO THE WHITE HOUSE.

    www.michellemalkin.com

    Denise

    • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 09/30/2008 5:39:04 PM

      Fox website, with no meaning.

    • Posted By: Montana450815 @ 09/30/2008 3:23:17 PM

      I went to the site and frankly I don't know what you are referring to that would truly make a Democrat vote McCain from that site. ASfter living in Alaska for a very long time, I know I do not want Sarah Palin anywhere near the White House unless she is on a tour. So unless you put serious consideration into what a Palin presidency would look like, because with a 72 former POW 4 time cancer survivor in the office, a Palin presidency is a real possibility if they got elected. I have read so much crap from people trying to discredit Obama, but it is just that- crap. If you are really a democrat and believe in the principles of the party you must have underlying issues toward Obama to vote McCain/Palin.

  • Posted By: quasqueton @ 09/27/2008 10:34:28 PM

    My, my, my, Patty! You are so brain-washed! You would vote for a "yellow dog" for President. You are probably 18 at most. So, you don't even know what a "yellow dog" is, or what it means.

    • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 09/30/2008 5:36:24 PM

      So you start trouble here too. Listen junior b4 u call anyone else on their age, shows one thing that is glaring in my eyes, lack of character. So keep being a jerk about it. There are other people besides myself who will continue to call you out on your bs.

  • Posted By: justanothervet @ 09/30/2008 4:50:43 PM

    McCain's front starts in October something else Obama and followers don't understand. You had better be holding your privates because you will need all the protection you can get.Obama needs a hole to hide in much deeper than that of his namasake Hussein.Obama won't have time to recover or cover-up with only 4 weeks remaining to election day and his failure.

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