Palin, McCain and the Weeks Ahead

At least for a while it appears that some kind of sanity is on the rise. The republican view of the world and how it ought to be is Neanderthal and oppressive. There is, to be sure, some danger in being too progressive and too supportive of a far left ideology...but Obama is close enough to the center on all of the important issues to give me comfort. McCain is erratic and irrational. Palin's fake folksy authenticity is vapid and wearing thin. I am ready for a change from the trickle down theory (which means the bottom of the heap gets something trickled down on them) but it???s not the good stuff. I am ready to see how we do building from the bottom up and McCain and Palin are not only more of the same but dangerously more of the same. God Bless A New Revived America.

Karl,Why haven,t you said any of this on TV? All you do is knock MCCain

Dick Cheney is "qualified" and "experienced," and you see what that got us.

The numbers don't lie. Obama is picking up about .8 percentage every polling cycle. He's jumped even higher since the VP debate. Rove is a wiz for numbers and I'm sure he's well aware of that. Heck, the only poll (Battleground) that's been favoring McCain is now +3 Obama. I respect Rove, and am a Conservative, but I'm not afraid to admit (as would Rove) that Palin is tanking the ticket. We don't need hockey moms, we need hockey coaches, or heck, even hockey players to lead this country. No one cares what the opinion is of the loudmouth parent who yells at the ref and the coaches and the kid who roughed up their kid etc...

The numbers don't lie. Obama is picking up about .8 percentage every polling cycle. He's jumped even higher since the VP debate. Rove is a wiz for numbers and I'm sure he's well aware of that. Heck, the only poll (Battleground) that's been favoring McCain is now +3 Obama. I respect Rove, and am a Conservative, but I'm not afraid to admit (as would Rove) that Palin is tanking the ticket. We don't need hockey moms, we need hockey coaches, or heck, even hockey players to lead this country. No one cares what the opinion is of the loudmouth parent who yells at the ref and the coaches and the kid who roughed up their kid etc...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows Barack Obama attracting 52% of the vote while John McCain earns 44%. This is the highest level of support ever recorded for Obama and is his largest lead of the year. It also continues a remarkable twenty-five days in a row where the Democrat???s support has never declined by even a single point. The Democratic candidate has gained six full percentage points of support since Lehman Brothers collapsed to start the Wall Street mess

Hello there Vic Winkler.While you are in fact check mode, possibly you can clear up when exactly the USA and France ( of all people) kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon as Joe Kinnock claimed they had during the debate? You know, the time that he and "Barack" , begged for some troops or other to "fill the void" ? Obama's foreign policy expert is apparently unaware that the US hasn't had troops in Lebanon since Reagan nor France since the Truman Administration. So you would think he and Obama must have been awfully young at the time. He likely heard that while visiting Katy???s Diner that closed in 1990.All sorts of things apparently happen in the diners of his mind

"This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America," Palin said.

You betcha.

Palin - and McCain - see America as a place where corporate greed is rewarded, health insurance benefits are taxed, and a woman can't make choices about her own body.

McCain/Palin see America as a country that uses it's military for questionable motives and unsupportable doctrines and suspends the writ of habeas corpus at will, a country that can alienate it's allies and refuse to negotiate with it's adversaries to the detriment of the American reputation.

McCain/Palin see America as a society where it is not necessary to use the internet (McCain) or read a newspaper (Palin), where intellectual achievement is regarded as suspect, and where it is acceptable to slander one's opponent's character without regard to anything related to the truth.

No. Barack Obama and Joe Biden don't see the same America that John McCain and Sarah Palin do.

And thank god for it.

Karl Rove did you ever look in the mirror and see the reincarnation of Himmler? He is your exact double in mind and spirit.

Does anyone doubt that the new attack ads were not sponsored by Karl Rove and Bill Kristol. It is the same kind of slime that the Repig's have used since they made Hubert Humphrey a Homosexual, Max Cleland a traitor, and John Kerry a s wimp. Chicken-Hawks, like Rove, Kristol, Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz who all took deferments are heros to the Neo-Cons.

The reason Americans don't believe that Obama has the experience to be President is that each political office he has held has only been a stepping stone to the next political office with nothing of substance to show for the time spent at each position. the legislation he supposedly introduced in Illinois, the most time spent anywhere, was handed to him by the party bosses for him to promote. he little or nothing to do with the substance. His time in the Senate was spent writing 2 books. In the nuclear non-proliferation legislation he claims to have part ownership with Senator Lugar, he was a Johnny come lately trying to add some meaningless additions that were rejected. The only across the isle legislation that he was remotely a part of was the immigration reform, which he stepped back from and left McCain in the lurch, leaving McCain hanging in the wind. The only thing Obama is consistent in is voting PRESENT, the safest, non-committal vote any spineless weasel can make. Not that I am calling Obama a weasel. It would be degrading to weasels.

Uh, Mr. Rove, did you forget about GOVERNOR Romney's experience when you said she had more executive experience than any candidate? Or did he purposely omit that? In any case, you can try to pit Obama's experience vs Palin's but it doesn't wash. Mr. Obama is a thoughtful man who has explored the history of the country along with a solid knowledge of the Constitution. Ms. Palin has not shown any intellectual curiousity about our country or our Constitution and has no historical references on which to make the kind of decisions that would be required by a President. She is an empty suit and times are too perilous for someone who's all flash and no substance.

Palin inspires those who would vote against Obama -- racists and the hater types. She doesn't inspire anyone with intelligence. I heard her announce today at a rally that she is reading.

Coming from you no surprise, Palin has shown by her canned speeches and lack of intelligence that she is not fit to be the VP or God help us President. The tactics of the Rovian Era worked see where they got us....
Lets be real the MCCain and Palin have learned well from the your camp, except the country in in up to its hip in mud and neither of them have the MORAL fortitude to undo what has been done in the past 8 years. We were fooled once... But it seems the tides are turning,,, so next resort ATTACK, McCain appears to do that well but he will not heal this country that is hurting. Biden has shown leadership for 35 years, Palin does the usual uses executive privalegde and disregards the laws she put her hand on the Bible and said she would uphold. Neither her experience and judgement give me any indications that she is fit to be in office.

This country is looking for HOPE and from the cynical, sarcastic mean spirited win at any cost. McCain and Palin you really do tell Americans who you care about. YOURSELVES!!!!!

Independent voter for OBAMA/BIDEN

I did not watch the debate because I refuse to dignify Ms. Palin or anything the GOP wants to say at this time by giving one second of my time. This is nothing short of dumbing down America! I am sad the lead is
> not 20+ points for Obama-Biden ticket. They have mastered the art of getting people to "living poor, voting rich" with Ragan. I do not know what tomorrow holds for America (and by extension the rest of the world). This is the ultimate price we must pay for putting "the guy everyone would love to have a beer with" in such a powerful office.

I pray for peace. I pray for Mr. Obama. I pray for sanity. Keep hope alive!