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  • Posted By: Cyprus @ 10/06/2008 4:42:00 PM

    Dan from Alabam' I don't think your ignorant because you are from Alabama, I think your ignorant because of what you say. Obama s mother was a single mom raising children, working and trying to finish a college degree. At times the family lived on food stamps but even through the worst of times she instilled in her children the need to become as educated as possible/. In spite of what you see, on TV. There many poor people in Hwaii. Sure it looks great as a tourist destination and is shown that way but if you had a modicum of interest in social injustice you would do a little research on the the plight of the economically disadvantaged in this country we call home .After all these are our people. I don't think that you are a racist because you are from Alabama, I think you are a racist from previous comments you have made. If you don't believe me scroll down
    I have lived and worked In Australia, The United Kingdom, and Sweden all of which have socialized medicine, education, pensions etc.etc ant the sky hasn't fallen down on them.
    Socialism is not communism. The basic tenet of socialism is do the best you can for all your citizens, even the least of them. They all have governments with oppositions and elections, capitalism, Mc Donalds and even moms with apple pie.
    You can have opinions and differ and no party tries to blame the media fr their mistakes, bad choices or being caught out telling lies. We have many brilliant people in our country and God love them. They are always branded as being elitist by the GOP, even though the party at the upper level is full of these real smart people. They sell this main street connection because unfortunately their posse is The super rich, Wall street, Big oil, The Saudis etc.etc
    Their vested interest is to stay in power so that they can help themselves and their pals to as much of the economic pie as possible
    I find it cynical beyond the pail that they introduced Sarah Palin into the mix, as she is there only to try and swing disaffected Clinton voters, and shore up the base, the majority of which have no love for John McCain.
    Surely in your heart of hears you have to admit that the party must have someone more qualified to be VP than Gov Palin.
    Do you ever wonder then why are they trying to con the public with this obvious piece of Flim Flam. In the past they would have been run out of town on a rail as carpetbaggers If they tried to fool everybody and got caught but they are so good at their job that they can turn the anger on the messenger (i.e the media) because they delivered the message.

    • Posted By: danfromAlabam @ 10/06/2008 4:54:59 PM

      Cyprus, you are full of crap. You are calling me a racist because that is your ignorant response to well thought out argument that I have presented. You sir are an idiot who's only recourse is to play the race card and give us this sob story of how Barak went to the the most elite prep school in Hawaii while his mother was off living a Hippy lifestyle and his father was off creating other children whom he would not care for. I never said Barak was a communist. You have now stated he is a Socialist. I agree. We just differ on whether socialism is fundamentally a good thing. I as a working class American am tired of the Socialism we already have. I too, was raised poor. My Step Father raised me and my 4 siblings on disability. Only difference is, I look as that for what it was, charity, not an entitlement. And certainly not a way of life to be perpetuated generation after generation. I will not answer your call to hatred any further. You Sir, are the racist!

  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/06/2008 4:54:20 PM

    In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
    The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.

    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.

    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
    even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
    If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why are the polls even close then ?



    Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time
    running the biggest smear campaign in history.



    They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
    Let's teach him we are smarter than that .
    Elect Obama Biden 2008


    Check out this video of sarah palins interview it will blow you away
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/06/2008 4:54:05 PM

    In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
    The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.

    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.

    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
    even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
    If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why are the polls even close then ?



    Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time
    running the biggest smear campaign in history.



    They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
    Let's teach him we are smarter than that .
    Elect Obama Biden 2008


    Check out this video of sarah palins interview it will blow you away
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

  • Posted By: sportlock009 @ 10/06/2008 3:09:49 PM

    Why is Obama missing his great chance to lead this nation. We are going through a financial catastrphy and it's mum from Obama. Funny how he is the one supposively best fit to lead but when the opportunity comes up, NOTHING! Why won't Obama say something to fix the economy? Is he waiting till he is elected so we don't figure out this man knows nothing about what it will take to get back on track?

    • Posted By: Notrepublican @ 10/06/2008 3:28:40 PM

      Wow, do you know how stupid you sound. You say Obama will say something and the economy is fixed. Like he'll wave his hand and everything will be okay. Are you retarded or something. One, Obama is in no position to fix the economy. He's in an election, he's a candidate for president. "Candidate", candidate. Only the president would have enough power to make decisions to fix the economy, and that would probably take his whole term. I know president and candidate can get confusing because they're so close together, but they're not the same thing. Jesus

      • Posted By: AskPlus @ 10/06/2008 4:53:51 PM

        I can guarantee he does not know how stupid he sounds.

    • Posted By: HAL--- @ 10/06/2008 3:21:24 PM

      Umm...we have a President dont we? Obama's a senator and at best all he can do is represent his state, introduce legislation and vote. What more leadership do you want? Want Obama to act? Vote for him in November.

  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/06/2008 4:53:20 PM

    In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
    The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.

    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.

    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
    even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
    If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why are the polls even close then ?



    Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time
    running the biggest smear campaign in history.



    They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
    Let's teach him we are smarter than that .
    Elect Obama Biden 2008


    Check out this video of sarah palins interview it will blow you away
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/06/2008 4:53:09 PM

    In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
    The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.

    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.

    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
    even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
    If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why are the polls even close then ?



    Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time
    running the biggest smear campaign in history.



    They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
    Let's teach him we are smarter than that .
    Elect Obama Biden 2008


    Check out this video of sarah palins interview it will blow you away
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

  • Posted By: Notrepublican @ 10/06/2008 3:31:04 PM

    Yeah sportlock, Obama hasn't offered any solutions for our economic crisis, except for the solutions Obama's offered for our economic crisis. Your such a great blogger LMAO!!! More like the most oblivious person ever.

    • Posted By: sportlock009 @ 10/06/2008 3:38:43 PM

      Notrepublican,
      I understand completely how unbiased you are and you are more then willing to listen to both sides. Your screen name screams unbiasedness. LMAO

      • Posted By: AskPlus @ 10/06/2008 4:52:50 PM

        My man Mr. Mo-nay! How's the thug life baby?
        Teach any kids to fight first today? Threaten to beat up old ladies today? Snatch any pocketbooks? Good to see your still below the fray.

  • Posted By: danfromAlabam @ 10/06/2008 2:37:14 PM

    So, lets talk about real reasons to criticize Obama? Judgment, Inexperience, questionable financial dealings, most liberal voting record in the senate (when he didn't vote present). There is plenty to criticize. Trouble is, you can't do that without being labeled a racist.
    But we can go on and on about the Republican vice presidential candidate in misogynistic terms possible and these same liberals will stand by silently in order to get there savior elected. Sad, Sad.

    • Posted By: Iconoblaster @ 10/06/2008 4:50:29 PM

      If inexperience REALLY bothered you, you couldn't possibly support Palin. If suspicions about financial dealings REALLY worried you, you wouldn't be supporting one of the Keating Five. "Most liberal voting record"? That depends how you categorize each specific vote... it isn't true at all if your characterizations are biased or incorrect (and we can be pretty sure they are from the context), and it isn't relevant anyway unless the word "liberal" is an insult.

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 10/06/2008 3:36:48 PM

      The Obama campaign has been doing this since January when Hillary was maligned all through the primary process, tossed out of consideration by the party elites, then screwed over being on the ticket. It is sickening.

  • Posted By: Jim F. @ 10/06/2008 4:43:42 PM

    What about the mindlessness of being an empty suit, transformed from being a far-left liberal by political handlers during a presidential campaign.

    Barack Obama was the Number 1 liberal in the Senate as rated by the National Journal PRIOR TO the presidential campaign. After he announced his presidency and got some help with the political issues, he STOPPED his pork-barrel spending, STOPPED voting for tax hikes for the middle class, and started talking about tax cuts.

    Barack Obama is a PHONY.

    WHO IS THE REAL BARACK OBAMA AND WHO WILL HE BE AFTER THE POLITICAL HANDLERS FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN GO BACK TO THEIR REGULAR JOBS?

  • Posted By: CallMeJoe @ 10/06/2008 4:41:41 PM

    If "Joe Six-Pack" is so unqualified to lead the country, why are national polls showing unpopularity of President Bush and his Iraq policies given so much emphasis by Newsweek and other national media? Don't national polls, by definition, reflect the judgment of the common folk?

  • Posted By: StephenHNIC @ 10/06/2008 4:15:37 PM

    How dare you state that Palin "won the debate?" Shame on you. She did not even answer the questions put to her. And what she DID say made no sense. She merely gave Republican talking points, and mangled ones at that. What do you suppose the purpose of a debate is? To wink and give shout-outs? To make bogus claims like "Obama voted 94 times to raise taxes" when, by that absurd metric, her own ticketmate voted 477 times to do the same? To blithely pass off her own idiocy by claiming it was somehow a product of the "mainstream media filter?" I should expect no better from a publication that prints the "analysis" of Karl Rove, but seriously, even HE would have trouble asserting that Caribou Barbie "won" the VP debate. Have you no decency? Why should I even bother reading the rest of your article? Stop lying.

    • Posted By: danfromAlabam @ 10/06/2008 4:34:13 PM

      This is an OP-Ed piece. Opinion Editorial. I don't agree with the author either but. It is opinion. So he can't really be lying unless it is to himself. Hence the debate that has followed. And I think she answered just like Biden, cautiously and towing the ticket line. To think otherwise shows extreme bias on your part. IMHO.

  • Posted By: neos @ 10/06/2008 4:07:46 PM

    loriw said, 'Word on the street is that Obama has campaign money coming from outside the country...I wonder which countries are funding him and what he has promised them in return.'
    Word on the street???
    OK, Loriw, exactly what street where YOU standing on when you got this 'word?' Was it by any chance at the intersection of Fox St.and Limbaugh Drive?

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 10/06/2008 4:33:21 PM


      It definitely is being discussed in articles I found . Here is one:

      * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
      Secret, Foreign Money Floods Into Obama Campaign

      Monday, September 29, 2008 9:23 PM

      By: Kenneth R. Timmerman

      http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/Obama_fundraising_illegal/2008/09/29/135718.html

  • Posted By: bostongmw @ 10/06/2008 4:03:14 PM

    The only difference between Palin and Obama is that he has had 18-months to practice. Experience-wise it's a draw. Neither are qualified. But no media will challenge Obama in the same manner. And he is running for President.

    • Posted By: GregAugustaGA @ 10/06/2008 4:27:57 PM

      Bravo Boston. Please relay those sentiments to one of the lead Obamanist Mike Barnicle from your neck of the woods.

  • Posted By: Abots22 @ 10/06/2008 4:06:25 PM

    The one assumption this author and many Americans are making is that preparedness for an interview (with a VERY biased host) or a debate is the same thing as preparedness for Vice Presidential office. The fact that Palin was as prepared as she was for her debate with Biden speaks volumes about her ability to learn and memorize facts. Her executive record speaks to her judgement and ability to make decisions as VP. Obama was a Junior Senator for something like 143 DAYS before he decided to run for president...and as Bill Clinton said, when you run for president you don't do much else. I, and the media apparently, have yet to uncover one meaninfull piece of legislation that Obama made during his time as JUNIOR Senator. For that matter, what has he even done for the state of Illinois that can be compared to what Palin did for Alaska?? I have every confidnece that once in office, she will be a fine VP. Better than Chaney...better than Biden...Better than Obama.

    • Posted By: bluebloodedLV @ 10/06/2008 4:13:13 PM

      I'd like to answer that question with reference to both candidates work for voters and legislative achievements in the Senate during the two year period, 2007-2008, while they were campaigning. This information is available on the US Senate website.

      McCain sponsored 158 bills, 22 of which he introduced and 20 were just commemmorative resolutions. McCain only sponsored 4 bills in 2008, the rest were in 2007. Obama, on the other hand, sponsored 481 bills , all on major domestic and global policy issues, 129 of which he inntroduced and 196 of them were sponsored by him in 2008. So his productivity in the Senate on legislation is three times that of McCain.

      Obama presented 17 oral statements from the floor of the Senate, again on key issues, McCain managed only one. Obama published 78 written statements, letters to the President or members of his administration, such as Treasury Secretary, issue-based requests for action to be taken, etc.

      Including 5 during September on the topic of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. McCain issued little after April 2008. Obama also published 4 4-color newsletters summarizing the legislative work of his office and sicussing issues under debate. McCain published none.

      So, when McCain camp says (as Governor Palin did) "Senator Obama has never authored a major law when in either senate", it's an outright and shameless lie, unfortunately American voters are lazy and listen to what they're told and don't research for themselves.

      Obama's legislative record and Senate achievements are significant compared with McCain's, and he has continued throughout the campaign attending to his senate work, dropping the pace only a little. He is a multi-tasker, a multi-achiever and as for McCain's claim to be a leader in the area of bipartisan relations - in the period noted, Obama sponsored around 25 or so bipartisan bills and McCain only 4 or 5. Please note, it was not the GOP who called for McCain to come to Washington, it was McCain who decided to try avoid putting either himself or Palin before the public in a time-honored debate format.

      I hope this clarifies prior questions about Obama's experience, qualifications and dedication as a US Senator for his achievements far out perform McCain.

      • Posted By: lexi97701 @ 10/06/2008 4:24:15 PM

        GREAT POST trueblooded! Thanks for doing the research! Keep sticking this everywhere, people need to know this! Send it to some journalists too that may not have done anything this extensive.

  • Posted By: AmericanPatriot92 @ 10/04/2008 10:53:47 PM

    Palin is a pathetic candidate for Vice President. We have serious problems, and we can't have half-witted candiadtes who rely on winks and folksy charm to handle these issues. I was offended with her cheap attempts to try and use her sexuality to make herself more appealing. Her performance at the debate was laughable, a high school student who memorized lines could have done EXACTLY the samething. I expect more from our leaders. She is completely unqualified, and I don't care how many times she says "you betcha", this woman is a menace to the future of our country.

    • Posted By: PROTOTYPE_0 @ 10/06/2008 4:22:11 PM

      You're goshdarn right about that buddy. You betcha. Palin is an airhead and anyone who defends her ineptitude is part of the problem, not the solution.

  • Posted By: danfromAlabam @ 10/06/2008 2:15:54 PM

    Funny how, all Dems can talk on is emotion. All this talk of middle class. Come on ! What has Democrats ever done for the middle class. They have just convinced you that lower class is the middle class. Its a confusion tactic. The middle class pays all the taxes which Obama wants to increase. What is traditionally the constituency of the Democrats is the lower class, paying no taxes, getting Earned income credit (which is not earned), or the fringes of society seeking special classification. The elites make up the remainder. They have there own socialist agenda, primarily tied to Universities, where less face it, they have a great financial interest in a socialist society where the government pays for their students tuition. Look at how the states break down during the voting. Your urban areas, colleges, geographical locations which live outside the societal norms make up almost all of the electoral map for the Democrats. Let me just say this, if you get earned income credit, you are not middle class. If you don't pay any federal income tax, you are not middle class. We who pay all these taxes that Barak wishes to redistribute to you are the middle class. We pay all the bills and typically vote Republican because we know were are money will go if we don't. Right down the socialist road to the "new middle class".

    • Posted By: eagles1776 @ 10/06/2008 3:58:10 PM

      Listen, you punktilious twit, you wouldn't know a Socialist if you saw one. You would call me a Socialist because I happen to vote Democratic in most elections and I happen to care about the poor and am middle class. Yes, I have a college degree, a Masters degree from a PRIVATE University which I earned after a Bachelors from a PRIVATE University where no public money was used by either. No one taught Socialism and there was no Socialist agenda in either of the colleges I attended. The blanket statement accusing anyone who is not an extremist right winger of being a Socialist or Communist is stupid. Unfortunately to an extremist, anyone who doesn't agree with their narrow viewpoint to the letter is somehow a scary bad undesirable something or other. I could call you a Fascist but you are probably no more Fascist than the people you call Socialist. Then again, I am not an extremist and don't hold extreme views politically. Since we need all kinds of opinions in a democracy it is good that you and I both can have our say and let the majority rule.

      • Posted By: danfromAlabam @ 10/06/2008 4:21:26 PM

        Only trouble is, you can have your say without resulting to insults. And your education should have informed you of the vast difference between Socialism and Communism, which I never mentioned. However, seems you got your moneys worth. Not many people can use "punctilious twit" in a sentence and manage to spell it wrong. Except maybe W.C. Fields in a 30's movie. Way to prove your point.
        Sir, Socialism is government run health care, public works, public housing, free for all education. Tell me that is not what Barak Obama wants.
        I get the feeling your some kind of a teen ager in an honors class with access to a computer during your lunch.. Right?

  • Posted By: smckenz123 @ 10/04/2008 10:29:20 PM

    Sarah Palin is going to have to learn that if she wants to be taken seriously in a man's world she is going to have to "dress for success". She is a very attactive woman and she came to the debate dressed like she was going on a date.

    She needs to tone down her good looks. Cut her hair, wear longer skirts or pants of solid dark colors, low heels or flats

    • Posted By: PROTOTYPE_0 @ 10/06/2008 4:19:34 PM

      Yea. A short haircut with a part in it and a pants suit wouldn't hurt. While she's at it, she could dye her hair blond and say absolutely nothing in public. Every time she speaks in public or on camera, she guarantees that her and McCain will never make it to the White House. McCain should've chosen "THE GONERNATOR". LOL!!!

  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 10/06/2008 3:44:39 PM

    With all due respect Jon,you oversee and run a mindless rag. The problem in the possibility of populism,is that it is only ''mindless''to leftwingers such as Meacham when it is being directed by the right. Jon will be proven the hypocrite that he is when,and not if,a president Obama becomes even less than a Ford or a Johnson. Indeed,even Howard Fineman,who is the Lincoln-Obama Standard Bearer,already fears Obama ''hunkering down''with his fellow majoritarians due to the fact that they had a huge hand in wrecking this nations financial fortunes and forsees ''no good''coming from such a marriage. Thus,hyperpartisanship,will not serve the fortunes of the Republic no matter if it is Stephen Hawking, or Jethro Clampett running the White House. Then too,Palin is being treated no differant than Lincoln in his own day,a backwoods bumpkin who was

    ''A buffoon to have at the head of our nations affairs''[this from the general of all of the Union armies and one who later ran on the 1864 Democratic ''Peace''ticket,Gen.George Brinton McClellan].

    ''The original gorilla''. A ''hayseed''. ''The bumpkin personified''. ''Ignorant''. ''Stupid''. ''How could this nation have been burdened with such a man''?

    It was the Jon Meachams of the day,these ''elitists'',who used such words to describe Lincoln.

    ''He has no-one to bet on his head'' [This from the London Times William Russell,a better reporter in one man than all that America is producing now].

    ''A first-rate,second-rate man''[William Lloyd Garrison].

    Palin thus becomes the ultimate westerner. The thing most feared by eastern elitists no differant in our day than they were in Lincolns,when Illinois comprised what was seen as the outside boundries of the known America,with even California and Oregon,viewed as places that could have been on Mars. He Is One Of Us,Meacham may as well be saying about Obama. Thus he will lead the way into a bright future unfettered by ''Joe Six Packs'',''flyover country'',and BBQ rednecks.

    Or will he?

    You have much to answer for Meacham,you and all the rest [outside of the lone FOX perhaps],if,you are proven wrong.

    • Posted By: lexi97701 @ 10/06/2008 4:18:15 PM

      In case you hadn't noticed....this isn't 1864...the world has changed a great deal and someone that barely knows anything outside her own little world isn't going to hack it on the world stage. Asise from the fact that everything that's been coming from her mouth is talking points and lies. And McCain couldn't tell the truth anymore if his life depended on it. They are nothing but BS and blind ambition. You pinheads will take the rest of us with you into the next world war, and frankly, I love my kids and my country too much to let you idiots do that just for your freakin party. INDEPENDENTS UNITE AND SAVE US!

  • Posted By: bluebloodedLV @ 10/06/2008 4:17:25 PM

    Palin is a joke, and McCain will pay in November for choosing her, demonstrating he does not put his country first.

  • Posted By: neos @ 10/06/2008 4:13:01 PM

    abots22. I couldn't agree with you more. Why the nerve of that mean old Katie Couric asking our little Sarah all those presidential-type questions! And Katie was never as nice as that dear old sweetheart O'Reilly when he interviewed Sen. Obama, or even when he did that calm talk with Rep. Barney Frank. Just wait 'til Sarah goes on Meet the Press, she'll show them a thing or two!! Anybody know when she's scheduled??

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