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  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/22/2008 5:10:17 PM

    FactCheck.Org is owned by the Annenberg group of Chicago! Talk about a conflict of interest! And Obama has been telling people on the trail to check out the site to verify his opponents claims. Funny, every time that he endorsed something, it turns out to be a part of his spin machine! Like he raised objections in the primaries when Indiana required photo I.D. to vote. He Protested that It took away people's right to vote! I
    knew then and there that he was up to no good! America, wake up from the MASS HYPNOSIS!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTs1YyhFRg&feature=related

  • Posted By: caspar56 @ 10/22/2008 8:05:05 AM

    Do you people realise 40 % of people making $25,000. Do pay taxes the outher 60 % pay no taxes on account of loop holes in the tax code.

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/21/2008 12:26:48 AM

    This is so true about how the election is already bought and paid for:
    http://www.againstobama.com/2008/10/what-is-it-that-barack-obama-knows-that-the-rest-of-us-don%E2%80%99t/#comment-1929

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/20/2008 8:56:08 PM

    Obama, the excuses are wearing thin. what excuse do you have for this one?:
    http://www.againstobama.com/2008/10/obama-praised-searing-and-timely-book-by-ayers/

  • Posted By: krcox1205 @ 10/20/2008 5:20:43 PM

    what the people are forgetting is that the small business owners that make over 250k are the ones that employ over half of americas workers, so raise their taxes they have to cut jobs thenits really going to get bad.

  • Posted By: Shhh @ 10/13/2008 1:57:28 PM

    GO MCCAIN!!!! OBAMA IS A LIAR AND A CLOSET TERRORIST!! TOO MANY SOURCES AND TOO MUCH INFORMATION TO TURN YOUR HEAD !

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/12/2008 8:28:47 PM

    THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CANDIDATE!

    NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY HAS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BEEN GIVEN SUCH A FREE PASS BY THE PRESS AND JUST ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE!

    I AM WAITING FOR A BLACK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO MAKE IT ON HIS OWN MERIT.

    COLIN POWELL COMES TO MIND!

  • Posted By: whoiamnow @ 10/08/2008 10:27:37 PM

    Beauty and the Beast unleashed their inner pit bulls and are attacking Obama with their same old tricks- character assassination, lies and distortion. But Joe Six Pack isn't fooled.

    This is a quote from foxnews.com:

    "The analysis also concluded that in the latest period, nearly 100 percent of the McCain's ads were negative, compared to 34 percent of Obama's ads."

    McCain has nothing good to say about himself. How pathetic.

    • Posted By: free-america2008 @ 10/12/2008 3:07:53 PM

      I have noticed as early as 1980 that the major news organizations have distorted facts and have just out and out lied to get the ratings. Do you really believe anything that you see or hear on these programs. Unfortunately this habit has now crossed over to printed materials and to the internet.
      The bottom line is that it dosen't matter who is president, if congress does not support them nothing gets done.

  • Posted By: imrfc2008 @ 10/04/2008 8:40:13 AM

    As a Christian, I will happily cast my vote for another Christian, "Barack Hussein Obama". Man, this campaign has really brought out the hatemongers of the world. But let's get back to Sarah Palin and gaffes. Boy, she really made a big one Friday in Texas, where she was hosting a fundraiser at the Fairmont with the wealthy elite.

    In the Dallas Morning News, an article was published on her visit where Palin referred to the state of Texas, and I quote as "Alaska's little sister state Texas". A flood of comments by Dallas readers flooded in on her comments, however late last night the Dallas writer went in and REMOVED most content of the article and re-wrote another article that makes Palin sound like she is manna from heaven. The Republican camp jumped on that mistake real quick. But for those of you who are actually interested in the truth, this is how the aritlce started.

    Sarah Palin follows debate with Dallas visit
    07:01 PM CDT on Friday, October 3, 2008
    By GROMER JEFFERS JR. / The Dallas Morning News
    gjeffers@dallasnews.com

    Dallas Republicans enthusiastically greeted Sarah Palin on Friday, fresh off her debate with Joe Biden.

    "It is good to be visiting here in Alaska's little sister state Texas," the Republican vice presidential candidate told more than 1,000 people at a fundraiser at the Fairmont hotel.

    She spoke for about 20 minutes, discussing energy, government reform and the tough sledding for the McCain campaign, which trails Barack Obama in most polls, in the final few weeks before Election Day.

    • Posted By: Pallisor @ 10/04/2008 11:15:00 AM

      I'm curious why you pointed out that you'd be happy to vote for another Christian, Barrack Hussein Obama. As if McCain and Palin aren't? They are Christian also and always have been. Obama was actually a Muslim who states he became a Christian.

      And you wanted to get straight to Palin's so-called gaffe. I'm sure her comment of Texas being the little sister state was in reference to the state's size. Although the second largest state, it is only about 40 percent the size of our largest state, Alaska. In any case, I'm certain she didn't mean any ill will, and as a Texan, I didn't take it as such. BTW, if its gaffes you want, watch the debate again. Both made them, your VP pick numbering 16 I think, and he's the one 30 years of experience!

      • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/04/2008 4:01:32 PM

        If you are a Christian, isn???t Lie a sin? Palin have been lying over and over even when the media proved she was lying (bridge to nowhere, earmark, 20 % energy provider, gaz pipeline etc), same for McCain who keeps lying to people and who cheated on his wife and left her handicap, who laugh when a women called Hillary the B word, who called Chelsea ugly because her father was Janet Reno...Are those the Christian values?
        God help us if those are the so-called Christian!!!!

        • Posted By: Pallisor @ 10/04/2008 5:26:41 PM

          Stop your ignorant ranting before you start foaming at the mouth! Your post is riddled with your uneducated, unsubstantiated and skewed opinion! For instance, you have no idea about why Palin got on the plane from Texas. Only a hateful, unknowledgeable twit like yourself will label her with your own version of a story you know less than nothing about! Get educated before you assassinate someone:

          http://www.newsminer.com/news/2008/apr/22/palins-flight-labor-falls-under-scrutiny/

          • Posted By: voiceofmany @ 10/10/2008 1:14:47 PM

            you seems to be able to point out when people needs to be educated and yet you sing sarah palins praises how bias can you be it does not take a genius to know she does not have the knowledge to be the vp or the president my 7 year old daughter asked me "how come this lady says the very same thing everytime she speaks?" she sounds like a programmed doll she cant even change the wording her speach at least sound innovative. people are in such position when they do not understand what the read
            if she understood it she will be able to deliver it in many different forms and not sound like she was programmed here's education for you. the mere fact that you and mccain will jeopardise the future of an entire country just because race yes thats what it is

            • Posted By: Vypurr @ 10/10/2008 5:58:05 PM

              This is simply your uneducated, biased opinion.

      • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/04/2008 4:13:44 PM

        I must add that I am a Christian but a true Pro-life and pro-choice Christian NOT a pro-birth only. (meaning once the child is out forget about him, no food, no insurance, no home, no education, no parents, no future, not our business, he is on his own!!!!)
        Pro-life: No unnecessary war killing thousands; Healthcare to cover thousands dying for lack of medical attention or timely medical attention; Protection of the environment and the water we drink, the air we breath, the food we eat, that are all making us ill and yes killing us too (and the animals and plants as well which are God???s creation as well and depend on us as superior to protect them), the whole planet is our responsibility; unfair capital death, killing innocents too; Providing economic growth and employment so families flourishes instead of divorcing and children could have a stable home to grow and go to school and college; Providing the economic conditions that historically proven lowers ???abortion rate??? instead of increasing it like with republicans; Supporting stem cell research to save lives, the same that in-vitro fertilization and organ transplant (make the parallel with organ transplant and embryonic cells that are going to be discarded, what is the difference?). Let alone people that eat animal products and then say they respect every living cell.......(I am a vegetarian for over 22 years...).
        Pro-choice, (which is not mutually exclusive of pro-life in specific circumstances): it only refers to the right of the mother to decide with her own conscience, family, doctors and her faith what is best at a specific moment in her life. The same right to chose that have certain mothers that decide to take a plane for 8 hours after the fountain has broken.......If you look the statistics the great majority of woman having abortion are MOTHERS!
        The issue should be how to make it safe and how to ???reduce it???....There are laws banning killing, drug use, you name it and people do it...so will abortion even with all the laws, so it is a matter of ???protecting life as well??? at the same time that we respect woman???s decision to choose.
        Since abortion was legalize it grew a bit and then have been in DECLINE! And from the hundred of death related to abortion, there a just few today. This issue should be looked all the way around with objectivity and realism.

        • Posted By: Pallisor @ 10/04/2008 5:04:15 PM

          Glad you love your boy Obama! Go ahead vote for him there Christian! He supports infanticide!

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 10/04/2008 2:51:35 PM

    American VOTING for this piece of crap??? Take a look folks. You want this as your Commander-In-Chief???

    Obama: troops just airraiding villages and killing civilians

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrW4fOGIMVY&feature=related

    NOBAMA!!!

    • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/04/2008 3:21:19 PM

      You should see the craps you are voting for first:
      A men that laughed when a woman called Hillary with the B word,
      A men that said that Chelsea was so ugly because her father was Janet Reno ( believe she was only 12 years old at the time). Imagine someone said that to your daughter or mother or sister...........
      A men that cheated on his wife and left her handicap
      I have no respect for such a man, I take Obama anytime!

      • Posted By: Vypurr @ 10/10/2008 5:56:25 PM

        WTF are you talking about?

  • Posted By: Nins @ 10/04/2008 10:50:31 PM



    Sarah Palin is a fraud. She was pregnant before she got married, has had an affair with one of her husband's friends, her 19 year old son is rumored to have serious drug problems, her 17 year old unwed daughter is pregnant, and she has used her political power to get even with people who disagree with her, yet all she talks about is being a "good Christian" and doing God's will. As a Christian she is a hypocrite who can not walk her talk, and as a politician she is completely unqualified to be Vice President. Her interview with Katie Couric showed her to be a woman with a disorganzied mind, a woman who is in over her head, utterly unprepared for the twist her fate has taken.

    Even committed Republicans who support McCain have to ask themselves if they really would take the risk of putting our country into Palin's hands. Sure, being VP doesn't necessarily take a lot of skills, but being President requires great intelligence and a clear-eyed world view, one untainted by religious fanaticism. Look at the mess we got with the under-qualified Dubya, and even he seems smarter and less fanatical than Palin. McCain is 72 years old, with high cholesterol and high blood pressure; his father and grandfather each died of heart attacks at age 72. McCain's Vice President HAS to be ready to lead. And by lead, I am not referring to a full speed charge into Armageddon.

    For those of you who don't know, Palin belongs to a fundamentalist church that believes the end of the world is near: that war, financial distress and famine will kill off the sinful non-believers, and that when this holocaust occurs all good Christians will be taking refuge in Alaska. Furthermore, her church conducts witch hunts -- they actually use prayer to locate "witches" in their community, then publicly brand them as witches, and hold them responsible for everything that goes wrong in town. (Honestly, I think the long winters must be getting to their minds.) You can go on YouTube and watch videos of Palin participating during sermons like this. She stands on the altar facing the members. The congregation stands with outstretched hands, trancelike, speaking in tounges while the priest prays to "keep Sarah safe from all forms of witchcraft."

    Could you REALLY feel comfortable knowing that a woman who holds these beliefs would have the power to declare war and deploy nuclear missiles?

    • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 10/05/2008 9:57:42 AM

      Still spewing fabricated lies I see....of course you have no links to back up your claims.
      If I went around saying Obama was sleeping around on Michelle, I'm sure you'd have nice little nasty response...or maybe you'd just report me to the Obama Truth Squads already out in Missouri and Ohio.

      Hey guess what Palin got over 10,000 people in attendance in LA, and was introduced by a former President of the LA NOW chapter....you hate her because she is authentic...so you have to fabricate all these lies in order to discredit her....yet you don't seem to care about Obama laundry list of friends and advisers.

      Get a grip....we now your a paid blogger, we know you were never a Republican like you say you were. Get a clue....get your facts straight. Going to the Kos to get your talking points doesn't make you smart. It makes you a sheep

      Baaaaaa!!!

      • Posted By: Vypurr @ 10/10/2008 5:55:30 PM

        You are right on each point....

  • Posted By: WAKE UP USA @ 10/09/2008 3:42:18 PM

    WAKE UP AMERICA! Do any of you honestly believe that McCain or Obama cares about YOU? What president in your lifetime has stopped by and said "Hi, (insert your name here) how are things going for you today? Did you get your electricty bill paid? How about the car payment?" NONE! Do you know why? Because no president in the history of this country has ever cared how the citizens of this country are really doing. If you honestly think either of these two "POLITICIANS" is going to be concerned with how YOU are doing you need to go to the nearest hospital and be admitted to the padded rooms. On the bright side, if McCain gets in you will get a $5000.00 tax credit, and if Obama gets in your employer will be forced to pay the bill. Ummm, you'll still be in an insane assylum, but rest assured, neither McCain or Obama will care. The only one that's going to help you and your family, is you and your family. the sooner people start to realize that the faster this country will return to glory. Until then, lock your doors, the crime rate will go up as the stock market goes down.

    • Posted By: Vypurr @ 10/10/2008 5:44:45 PM

      You sound exactly like you want the government to take care of you! Wake up, wake up! You live in a capitalist nation, not a socialist nation. I know you think Buttock Hussein cares about you and will take care of you, but don't hold your breath. Any man cares nothing for his own brother to the degree that he allows him to live on 12 dollars a year is very unlikely going to care about you.

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 10/10/2008 10:51:23 AM

    Has anyone noticed the inverse relationship and correlation between the Barack Obama-Joe Biden campaign ticket stock seemingly going up and every stock on Wall Street going down. Is there a cause and effect between any seeming growing momentum behind an Obama election and the continuing recent real stock market crash? Wall Street is about future expectations and the expectations are that Barack Obama will not help our economy if he is elected. Wall Street and the world knows that an Obama election will not be good for business. A vote for John McCain will be a vote for our economic recovery. If you want to keep your job or have a future please vote John McCain. Get out there and vote for John McCain. Get your friends to vote for John McCain. Vote John McCain!!!!!!!! Vote John McCain!!!!!

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 10/09/2008 10:44:10 PM

    Vote John McCain !!!!! Vote John McCain!!!!!!!!!!

    Is Barack Obama blowing smoke or not? Is Barack Obama a chain smoker or not?

    If he is only a closet smoker and not transparent by smoking in public and admitting that he has a nicotine addiction then how can we trust him on other issues that are truly grave?

    Does he smoke a lot of cigarettes only when he plays poker with his Chicago friends or is it a daily habit?
    How can we trust him on health care if he is a smoker. Would not someone who really wants to hold down healthcare costs want to quit smoking.

    We want to know if Barack Obama is going to promise to not chain smoke around Joe Biden because Joe Biden had asthma as a teenager. The reason that Joe Biden could not fight for his country in 1968 during the peak of the Vietnam War was that he had teenage asthma.

    Vote John McCain !!!!! Vote John McCain!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 10/09/2008 10:43:08 PM

    Vote John McCain !!!!! Vote John McCain!!!!!!!!!!


    Joe Biden had horribly bad luck, ninety percent of all children are diagnosed with asthma before age six but Joe Biden was unlucky enough to be in the ten percent group of children who acquire asthma after age six and became asthmatic when he was a teenager. After five student deferments while he attended college and law school, his teenage asthma finally came to the attention of his local Selective Service Board and he missed the opportunity to serve his country during time of war as an officer. But for his bad luck with his teenage asthma diagnosis, Joe Biden could have gone in and served his country honorably as a officer and a gentleman and perhaps as a Judge Advocate Law Officer similar to his son. Most Americans would be concerned about Joe Bidens health if he had to step into the Presidency. We hope that Barack Obama will promise to not smoke in front of Joe Biden because the smoke could aggravate Joe???s asthma that prevented him from serving his country during time of war.




    Vote John McCain !!!!! Vote John McCain!!!!!!!!!!
    Vote John McCain !!!!! Vote John McCain!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/09/2008 7:56:10 PM

    From: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/rnc-obama--acorn-fact/story.aspx?guid=%7B29569FA1-136D-4B95-9D51-4EF9E87ED547%7D&dist=hppr

    Obama's Campaign Paid Over $800,000 To ACORN For Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts, But "Mistakenly Misrepresented" Their Work To The FEC:

    Obama's Campaign "Paid More Than $800,000" To ACORN For Get-Out-The Vote Efforts; The Campaign Originally "Misrepresented" The Group's Work To The FEC. "U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for services the Democrat's campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports. An Obama spokesman said Federal Election Commission reports would be amended to show Citizens Services Inc. -- a subsidiary of ACORN -- worked in 'get-out-the-vote' projects, instead of activities such as polling, advance work and staging major events as stated in FEC finance reports filed during the primary." (David M. Brown, "Obama To Amend Report On $800,000 In Spending," Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 8/22/08)

    The link below describes how some in Congress tried to use the original version of the bailout bill to divert money eventually recovered to groups like ACORN, a group Obama has a long association with. See:

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122247015469280723.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/09/2008 7:19:54 PM

    They harassed her until she registered to vote six times!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3145562&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/08/2008 11:29:39 PM

    "Not all Democrats agree with Mr. Frank that such policies are off-limits to criticism. Last week Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama said in a statement: 'Like a lot of my Democratic colleagues I was too slow to appreciate the recklessness of Fannie and Freddie. I defended their efforts to encourage affordable homeownership, when in retrospect, I should have heeded the concerns raised by their regulator in 2004. Frankly, I wish my Democratic colleagues would admit when it comes to Fannie and Freddie, we were wrong.'

    "Mr. Davis is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus."

    'Rank snobbery'

    Camille Paglia, who supports Sen. Barack Obama, has nothing but scorn for the way the media has treated Sarah Palin.

    "The mountain of rubbish poured out about Palin over the past month would rival Everest. What a disgrace for our jabbering army of liberal journalists and commentators, too many of whom behaved like snippy jackasses," Miss Paglia writes at www.salon.com.

    "The bourgeois conventionalism and rank snobbery of these alleged humanitarians stank up the place. As for Palin's brutally edited interviews with Charlie Gibson and that viper, Katie Couric, don't we all know that the best bits ended up on the cutting-room floor? Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality."

  • Posted By: whoiamnow @ 10/08/2008 10:33:46 PM

    Beauty and the Beast unleashed their inner pit bulls and are attacking Obama with their same old tricks- character assassination, lies and distortion. But Joe Six Pack isn't fooled.

    This is a quote from foxnews.com:

    "The analysis also concluded that in the latest period, nearly 100 percent of the McCain's ads were negative, compared to 34 percent of Obama's ads."

    McCain has nothing good to say about himself. How pathetic.

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