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McCain-Palin ad distorts Obama's remark on Afghanistan and support for troop-funding bills.

By Joe Miller | factcheck.org
Oct 6, 2008 | Updated: 5:48  p.m. ET Oct 6, 2008

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  • Posted By: wendydk @ 11/01/2008 11:48:27 AM

    Comment: How to bring down a democracy: the steps toward totalitarian rule, in the order followed by Hitler and the Nazi Party; SEE IF THEY SOUND FAMILIAR.

    1. Improvise an attack (or take advantage of an attack) on the country
    2. Declare the country under attack by an enemy; real or improvised
    3. Force legislation that limits civil liberties and gathers broad powers unto government
    4. Brand dissenters and peacemakers as unpatriotic and browbeat them into submission
    5. Keep the fear factor high to make the public easier to manage
    6. Institute massive propaganda campaigns using state-controlled no-longer-free media and fear of government retribution
    7. Law enforcement and government personnel and ordinary citizens are used to spy on, control and break dissent.
    8. Institute the equivalent of a national homeland security department, overseen by one person with unlimited powers
    9. Confiscate all firearms from the citizenry
    10. Institute the mass murder and imprisonment of any who resist the new ideology.
    11. Launch pre-emptive strikes into other countries in an attempt to spread the new ideology

    Sound familiar? It should, its not only the direct path of Hitlers rise to power, but also parallels the events starting with and following 9/11. President Bush was very familiar with the game plan, as his Grandfather and his Grandfathers father-in-law were supporters of Hitler and Nazism, both before and after the war. (See George Herbert Walker and Prescott Bush and the Union Banking Corporation)

    Of course, the Bush Administration has skipped a couple of the items on the list, but theyll get to them if their party is allowed to remain in power; it will be the only way for them to retain control over the citizenry.

    The Reichstag Fire: the funeral pyre of German democracy

    http://www.essortment.com/all/nazireichstag_rghx.htm

    THE BEST REASON TO VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA THIS ELECTION YEAR

  • Posted By: StevenNavy @ 10/29/2008 4:27:16 PM

    Comment: I have ask this question before, at what level will McCain and Palin stoop to? Why don't the two racist just come out and call Obama racial slurrs? Mc Cain will not be able or have hope to repair his standing after this election. Palin can of course flash her legs and get the stupid members of the republican party to follow her. I know that's hard to tell which one those are but there has to be some kind of hope. The republican party is ruined and I'm belong to it, Yes I am a republican voting for OBAMA.

  • Posted By: VNamVet70 @ 10/23/2008 11:12:41 AM

    Comment: As a white southern Democrat I recognize racism when I see it. The GOP are digging for any derogatory word to use against Sen. Obama. I grew up in the 50's and there is not much about racism that I have not personally witness. Every effort has been made to keep the black population out of the political process. The Republican ads and comment bring back Jim Crow and poll tax. My grandfather once said, "Any politician who won"t help a poor black man; sure as hell won't help a poor white man."

    Rev. R.H. Moose, DMin
    Catawba. NC

  • Posted By: VNamVet70 @ 10/22/2008 8:10:04 PM

    Comment: As a white southern Democrat I recognize racism when I see it. The GOP are digging for any derogatory word to use against Sen. Obama. I grew up in the 50's and there is not much about racism that I have not personally witness. Every effort has been made to keep the black population out of the political process. The Republican ads and comment bring back Jim Crow and poll tax. My grandfather once said, "Any politician who won"t help a poor black man; sure as hell won't help a poor white man."

    Rev. R.H. Moose, DMin
    Catawba. NC

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/22/2008 5:09:56 PM

    Comment: 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: krohn2 @ 10/21/2008 12:26:30 AM

    Comment: 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 8:55:55 PM

    Comment: 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: Jim Johnson @ 10/16/2008 1:13:46 PM

    Comment: Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!!


    Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.

    The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
    Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."

    Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.

    Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.

    Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.

    Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.

    It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.

    Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luck­being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}

    Capitalism is the only social system that rewards virtue and punishes vice. This applies to both the business executive and the carpenter, the lawyer and the factory worker.

  • Posted By: Nins @ 10/15/2008 4:22:03 PM

    Comment: The GOP is grasping at straws. They have nothing substantive against Obama, but boy are they good at making up lies. This is the leading Karl Rove tactic for years, and if America falls for this again we should be ashamed of ourselves. Not to mention the obvious fact that this is all a smokescreen to keep the focus off of the fact that Palin and her Alaska associates are in contempt of court for refusing to testify in the Troopergate hearings. After Nixon and Clinton, Americans are to some extent jaded, but really, would you want a VP who refuses to attend hearings in her own defense, and instructs her employees not to testify? That smells like guilt. It surely doesn't give the impression that she has done no wrong and has nothing to hide.

    This year, the GOP offers you an angry old man and a woman who, while personable, is desperately uniformed about national and international issues. Both of them are far right politically. McCain used to be a maverick, but since 2004 he's voted 90% with Bush. McCain's policies are not original or reformist, despite how he's tried to co-opt Obama's popular message of change. Please go to the websites of both of the candidates and read their platforms. Obama's Blueprint for Change has more good ideas than McCain's plan. Compare them yourself. Obama's basic premise is that tax dollars should be spent to make America stronger and to improve the lives and well being of our people. For example, he uses education programs to train a new technology workforce, contributing to energy independence, creating jobs and improving the economy. When you read McCain's plan you will find no over-arching design to get America back on track. Instead you'll find more tax cuts for the wealthy, de-regulation of the health care industry, and a stated intent to overturn Roe v. Wade.

    I'm a Republican. Although I embrace some forward-thinking social values, in the past I've rarely voted Democrat. My thinking was that since Republicans grow robust economies, by voting Republican I'd be endorsing a plan that would grow wealth for our nation, and then we'd be able to afford social programs. It was a good strategy for a couple decades, but I have to say that the tenure of W. Bush has changed my mind. Not only is there nothing fiscally responsible about today's GOP, the insidious alignment of the party with religious intolerance has really turned me off.

    On the other hand, the intelligent luminous thought of Barack Obama has ignited my patriotism. I want a President who puts America first and can get the economy back on track. In my mind, values voting takes a back burner when we are faced with a meltdown of the economy. It is time for a change, a real change. The Republicans have controlled the Presidency for 28 of the past 40 years, but they have fallen down on the job. The Democrats have a stellar candidate this year, and I am voting for Obama.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDofbll86dY&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_922988

  • Posted By: melandmike @ 10/13/2008 11:26:29 AM

    Comment: Angry convervative posters: Do me, yourself and the GOP Party a favor: Put just half the effort that you put into bashing Obama and the Democrats into praising the real values of the Republican Party and it's ticket if you want to get McCain elected. All of this peurile and acrimonious name calling and outright antagonization is not helping our cause, makes the conservative base look childish, unintelligent, frightened and self serving. It turns off Independent voters and so basically serves the Dem's interests. I'm sure you are venting, but it's NOT helping us.

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/12/2008 10:28:51 PM

    Comment: Obama explains his objection to our National Anthem and Flag!!

    Hot on the heels of his explanation for why he no longer wears a flag pin, presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama was forced to explain why he doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.

    According to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171, During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart.

    "As I've said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as taking sides,' Obama said. 'There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression. And the Anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all. It should be swapped for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing.' If that were our anthem, then I might salute it.'

    WHAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this could possibly be our next president. I, for once, am speechless.

    He better take sides..........if he is not on the side of AMERICA he MUST NOT EVEN BE CONSIDERED for the office he is seeking. We do not need a man in office that will not salute the flag. The world knows how to sing, what they need to know is that the USA will defend what that flag stands for.

    • Posted By: VNamVet70 @ 10/22/2008 8:22:37 PM

      Comment: If you have to wear a flag pin to prove your patriotism maybe you need to explore other venues . As a VNam Vet I don't wear a flag pin or flag sewed on my Cammo jacket.. I wear this jacket along with a cap with many Army patches including those units that I was stationed with, along with medals I earned or was awarded. I have unit pins, armor pin, infantry pin, CIB pin etc. If the flag pin is the only pin you wear then I believed it is right to doubt your patriotism.

    • Posted By: John Dough @ 10/13/2008 8:37:39 PM

      Comment: Obama will give our national independence over to United Nations if elected president.Our nation will no longer control our destiny the UN will. He has hinted at it in speeches but one has to listen closely. He refuses to wear a flag pin because he doesn't want to seem he is taking sides. HE BETTER TAKE OUR SIDE!!! He refuses to place his hand over his heart during the national anthem because it is war like and bellicose. No he has a secret agenda to hand control of our natinn over to the global authority of the UN - he cannot be trusted

    • Posted By: John Dough @ 10/13/2008 8:36:42 PM

      Comment: Obama will give our national independence over to United Nations if elected president.Our nation will no longer control our destiny the UN will. He has hinted at it in speeches but one has to listen closely. He refuses to wear a flag pin because he doesn't want to seem he is taking sides. HE BETTER TAKE OUR SIDE!!! He refuses to place his hand over his heart during the national anthem because it is war like and bellicose. No he has a secret agenda to hand control of our natinn over to the global authority of the UN - he cannot be trusted

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/12/2008 10:28:25 PM

    Comment: Who can answer all these questions honestly and completely?

    1. Which member of the Communist party was a mentor of Obama???s while he lived in Hawaii?

    2. Which domestic terrorist was a close friend and associate of Obama???s, held a fund raiser for Obama, jumpstarted Obama???s career, and contributed to Obama???s campaign fund?

    3. Which domestic terrorist appointed Obama to chair his charity, who Obama attended meetings with and shared in the presentations, and who bombed government buildings and said he was proud of it??

    4. Which convicted real estate embezzler was close friends with Obama, helped Obama buy his mansion at a $300,000 discount, and who paid full price for a lot next to Obama???s mansion and sold Obama a strip at a great price to enlarge his yard?

    5. Which convicted real estate embezzler received an ear mark of 14 million taxpayer dollars from Obama, held a political fundraiser for Obama, and donated to Obama???s political campaign fund??

    6. Which convicted real estate embezzler was close friends with a real estate tycoon wanted by England, who had ties with Arafat and Saddam Hussein and who the Obama???s share a table with at a dinner??

    7. For which convicted real estate embezzler did Obama work on one of his real estate projects?

    8. Which university professor was a close friend of Obama???s that supported the PLO terrorists, was anti-Israel, and was the main supporter of Ahmadinejad???s visit to the U. S. and his university??

    9. At which university professor???s retirement did Obama give a speech and praise the professor even though Obama knew he was a terrorist supporter?

    10. Which church did Obama attend for 20 years whose minister preached hate for America and white people, and whose minister served as Obama???s personal and political advisor?

    11. Which radical Catholic priest was a close friend and advisor to Obama?

    12. Who is the leader of the Nation of Islam who praised Obama and whose million man march Obama participated in?

    13. Who hired members of the Nation of Islam to work in his political offices?

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/12/2008 10:27:59 PM

    Comment: I have always believed that birds of a feather will always flock together and if you CANNOT trust one of them, you can't trust any of them.

    We all select our friends and associates by their character. If we do not agree with their character and how they lead their lives, then we will NOT accept them as our friends. I, personally, would never associate with anyone that was involved in any kind of criminal activities or racial activities, or involved in any kind of demonstrations against the country which I love with all my heart. I have too much self respect and pride to associate with these types of lowlife trash.

    But, for some reason, we CANNOT and will NOT hold our President to these same standards and good judgement. It seems that a president who has 'no sex' with a young intern in our Oval Ofiice is beyond scrutiny and is still considered to be a GREAT president. It doesn't matter that his actions destroyed the view of the office of the presidency in the eyes of our friends around the world and destroyed the morals of all of our young people. The character of a president is just not important to the American people any longer.

    Promises of 'hope and change' and empty rhetoric has replaced the need of a presidential candidate to have good judgemnet and good character. As long as they are shrewd enough to 'look presidential' and said what the POOR STUPID Americans want to hear, that is all that is important. The American people no longer need evidence, REAL evidence, that a candidate is capable of fulfilling his promises and is capable of protecting and serving the people. Talk is cheap, but the right talk has proven to be all that is required by the American people. Judgement, character, and experience is no longer required.

    I have always believed that birds of a feather will always flock together and if you CANNOT trust one of them, you can't trust any of them. The American voter is willing to accept Obama at face value, without thoroughly researching his background. I would like to know how many Americans are willing to send our young men and women into combat overseas to fight terrorists, and, at the same time, are willing to accept a president who has been friends with domestic terrorists for years, and a president who is supported by Hamas and many, many other radical groups and leaders from around the world.

    Just keep in mind that Obama would never be accepted in the FBI or CIA, but the American voters would elect him as their president and Commander-in-chief of their brave military men and women!!!! May God bless and have mercy on the souls of all the misguided voters!!!!

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/12/2008 10:27:33 PM

    Comment: Obama, the one you can trust! The American people are like leeches on the government. They can no longer think for themselves. They can no longer take care of themselves. They need to be bottle fed and have their diapers changed. Obama is their savior, their Messiah. They can no longer fight for their freedoms. They must succumb to the beautiful words of promise and hope from Obama. He will make their lives great and trouble free. He will make us one world with no bounderies. Everyone will be equal. There will never be rich people or poor people again. We will all be middle class. That is where the world is headed and we will be the first to get there. All medical help and medicine will be socialized. The government will lead the people down the rosey path to hell. The people will serve the mighty leader, Obama. He controls all human activities and tells us were and when to go. He will tell us what to drive and when to drive. He will tell us where to set our thermostats in our houses. He will tell us the kind of food we must eat. He will create the perfect society, the perfect human race. We will never want again. He will provide everything we need. If we are without, he will make the neighbors share with us. He will insure that everyone will have something to eat and something to wear. He will be the guiding light to our future. We will all be happy and full of joy because Obama says we are. He will control our attitudes and provide us with hope that he will always make things better for us. Life could not be easier or better. He will look out for us. Put your full trust in him and he will deliver. He is the almighty, the Messiah, and the keeper of the people. We will get on out knees and worship him and the ground he walks on. We will never want anything again because he will make everything readily available to us. He has the answer to all our problems and our shortcomings. He will forgive us for our misdeeds and make us whole again. May our new God have mercy on our souls and bless our new kingdom; Obamanation! Always remember that you will have the Quran to fall back on, to read, and to enjoy! Always keep it near you and always look into the eyes of Obama in the pictures that will be provided to you. The pictures will always remind you who your savior is and to whom you will owe your great life. Teach your children and grandchildren to worship the man in the picure and they will always remain wholesome and happy! He will always show them the path to follow to become a great person like him! They must idolize him if they expect to be blessed. And, be sure to pat yourself on the back for choosing the Messiah and giving your children and grandchildren the security and wellness the Messiah has to offer. Always keep your Quran and his picture next to your bed and close to your heart and you will be happy forever! Brothers and sisters, I love you, and we will be together as one forever and ever!

  • Posted By: angrycitizen @ 10/12/2008 2:14:27 PM

    Comment: McCain is an idiot! If he is elected president, will just become another George Bush Jr. incompetent, deceitful, fraudulent and untrustworthy. Not only that but do we really want to elect another homophobic president? I mean, if we ever plan on making peace in any other country, don't we first have to make peace within our own country? One thing that i have learned in my life is that we should respect what we do not understand, not fear it. And as long as we keep putting homophobics and racists in control of our government how will we ever solve our own countries problem's?

    • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/12/2008 10:30:01 PM

      Comment: You are letting your anger interfere with your good judgement.

      • Posted By: lexi97701 @ 10/24/2008 11:12:45 PM

        Comment: And you are letting your ignorance interfere with yours!

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/11/2008 8:14:32 PM

    Comment: Lou Dobbs reports on ACORN corruption and ties to Obama, including Obama Campaign paying ACORN $800,000 for voter registration activities.

    http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/10/09/ldt.tucker.acorn.under.fire.cnn

    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: Wall Street Journal

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

  • Posted By: americanpie @ 10/10/2008 8:43:21 PM

    Comment: You people scare the hell out of me! This is an election of the President of the United States --- not a high school football rally! Study the issues, ask the candidates to tell us what they specifically plan for our country, make up your mind and then VOTE --- but please stop the name-calling, the hyperbole, the exageration and accusations. Whether it is McCain, Obama, Palin or Biden speaking --- quote them correctly and in context, or not at all. We are Americans. How embarrassing!

  • Posted By: wayoutjd2 @ 10/10/2008 5:03:57 PM

    Comment: john mccain should be pulled from the ticket after knowingly condoning such threats as he stands and listens what a fake smile if i have ever saw one

  • Posted By: Truth Seeker 2 @ 10/10/2008 4:59:13 PM

    Comment: Apparently a lot of people aren't taking the time to check facts. McCain and Palin haven't said anything that wasn't true. You can't attack someone by telling the truth. I also would like to know why no one has mentioned how former CEO of Fannie Mae, Frank Raines, who was responsible for "cooking the books" and the main cause of the failure of this financial system, is now one of Obama's economic advisors. Or, I would like someone to explain to me if Obama is so good and honest how he was the 3rd highest paid goverment offical of Fannie Mae, and he has been if office for the shortest amount of time!

  • Posted By: libertysDaughter @ 10/10/2008 10:07:01 AM

    Comment: I write to you today regarding a matter of grave concern and fear - and that is
    the tenor and tone of the rallies and public speaking venues of McCain/Palin in
    recent weeks.

    In event after event, it appears as if they are actually encouraging hatred and
    racism, encouraging a kind of "mob mentality" in the crowds, and it is
    frightening. In video after video that I see, the crowds are becoming angry and
    ugly, and Mccain/Palin seem to be encouraging this - they certainnly have not done
    anything to discourage it - even after one person in a crowd shouts out "kill
    him" referring to Barak Obama.

    Palin of course, fails to mention her and her husband's ties to the Alaskan
    Successionist movement.
    The kind of projection going on here is worthy of any clinically diagnosed personality
    disorder description.

    To myself and my family and friends, this behavior is vile, dangerous, and treasonous.
    Their rallies have a "Nuremburg" feel to them - I am very very afraid
    of where this will lead, if allowed to continue unchecked.

    This is America - but it is rapidly feeling like Germany in the late 1930's.
    I urge
    you in the strongest way possible - to please raise awareness about this hate mongering,
    because inciting crowds to shout out racial slurs and death threats is vile, dangerous,
    and treasonous, and not at all the kind of behavior becoming of candidates for the
    highest offices in the country.

  • Posted By: Alphonse @ 10/10/2008 10:06:48 AM

    Comment: McCain-Palin Out of Control
    Not only McCain-Palin campaign has become desperate saying anything, but also dangerously inciting anger, hate and divisions. I think the McCain-Palin rallies are getting out of control. ???The implication here is clear. It's foreign sounding. It's Muslim sounding. It's un-American sounding. It's dangerous-sounding. What it is, is race-baiting. And that is what is dangerous. Inciting crowds, encouraging their angry outbursts, McCain supporters shouting "treason" and "terrorist" about Obama at these rallies -- that's dangerous. Earlier in the campaign, McCain denounced this stuff. He strongly denounced it. And today it requires a stronger response, a much stronger denunciation than a campaign-generated paper statement.???

  • Posted By: obgyn @ 10/10/2008 8:08:33 AM

    Comment: Enough, Enough,Enough Where are the intelligent people who check facts.
    Mr. Obama has done more for the troop than McCain.
    McCain voted against the same bill he is accusing Obama of voting against.

    McCain voted against Body Armour for our troops.
    IAVA is a group of veterans who want you to check your facts.
    veterans report card website will show you that Cindy McCain should have had chills down her body over her husband.

    Just because McCain was a POW (who spilled his guts against the USA.)
    does not mean he has supported our troops as people seem to just assume.

    Inciting crowds and HATE is exactly the kind of talk that lead to millions
    of my people (Jewish) being lead to gas chambers.

    If McCain cannot win by running a clean campaign that does not include HATE
    and incite people to call for the assassination of Mr.Obama.

    The media must impliment a McCain blackout. If someone would have stopped this type of HATE speech, making people believe that we Jewish people were something to be feared,
    maybe my family would be larger.

    Decent Americans who really love this country and all that it has stood for, must
    be decent enough to say ENOUGH, McCain, ENOUGH HATE, stick to the real campaign issues.

  • Posted By: John Dough @ 10/09/2008 8:10:53 PM

    Comment: The dems would lose in a fair election. Too much voter fraud on their side. In Wiscnsin the 2000 election was decided by 5000 votes. Nearly 1300 votes cast in a heavily deomcratic region of the city of Milwaukee were found to be phony. This is just the tip of the iceberg. They will cheat to WIN that is proven.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/09/2008 7:54:58 PM

    Comment: 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: HarleyisHere @ 10/09/2008 5:42:53 PM

    Comment: WHOOP! Mrs McCain came out talking sh!t about Obama voting against funding her son while he was in Iraq...EXCEPT HE WAS NOT IN IRAQ when OBAMA VOTED...awe darn, and Cindy, that cold chill you felt, yeah that was probably just withdrawls.....and what a great Idea trade shoes with Obama, he could sell yours and buy a couple of houses for some of the HOMELESS VETS John has voted against for years.

    EVEN CINDY GETS IN ON THE LYING

    THE IRONY: When John Mccain Voted against funding our troops, his son was there...DOH!

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 10/09/2008 5:08:41 PM

    Comment: Just a reminder to Daviehandjob, whjo is in complete panic anddesperation:

    I love that every time a REPIG says Barack HUSSEIN Obama, Rev Wright, or William Ayers, Obama moves up a piont in the polls yesterday he had a 9 point lead, and today.....Gallup Daily: Obama's Lead Over McCain Expands to 11! And that's because mccain dropped by one also...LMAO! keep up the good work for OBAMA, REPIGS, we all thank you. Same for today son, he is kicking your old man's a$$ son.

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 10/09/2008 5:02:53 PM

    Comment: HOLLY CRAP!

    Obama has thrown down the gauntlet...when asked about mccain FAILING to mention Ayers in the Town Hall debate, yet continuing to bring it up on the trail....Obama said "SAY IT TO MY FACE." it's all on John now, or will he keep letting Sarah fight his battles.....D@MN! "SAY IT TO MY FACE"....my man ;)

  • Posted By: Davidhnaz @ 10/09/2008 3:15:36 PM

    Comment: Just look into how NObama got elected, he had the other guys name taken off the ballet, He is a politician, only in for himself.

  • Posted By: sunset1972 @ 10/09/2008 3:03:50 PM

    Comment: Davidhnaz. I am from Illinois and the politics here are so dirty. Graft and corruption, patronage hiring, nepotism, Cook County has the highest sales tax in the nation to name a few. Tax, tax, tax..... Chicago mayor are so obsessed with 2016 olympic that he is not even aware how many people are killed everyday. That's Illinois politics and they are Democrats.

  • Posted By: Davidhnaz @ 10/09/2008 2:59:33 PM

    Comment: Why would anyone vote for NObama, I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy, I mean, that's a storybook, man.

  • Posted By: Davidhnaz @ 10/09/2008 2:47:21 PM

    Comment: I think Barack NObama will find a job for domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, his good friend they've worked together for years. Why not in the white house, two American haters together again.

  • Posted By: Davidhnaz @ 10/09/2008 2:16:02 PM

    Comment: McCain doesnt have a failed campaign, theres just more racist and socialist pigs that support NObama.

  • Posted By: Davidhnaz @ 10/09/2008 2:08:50 PM

    Comment: A vote for NObama is a vote for socialism

    • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 10/09/2008 5:06:20 PM

      Comment: and A vote for Mccain is a vote for BUSH 44 and Hitler II, oh yeah don't forget teh AIP or Alaskan AL Qaeda of Palins Family Tree.

  • Posted By: bluebloodedLV @ 10/09/2008 1:57:21 PM

    Comment: sunset1972

    Do you also wonder which crooked lobbyists McCain will select to help him run the White House? Probably at least a few of the many that are currently helping him run his failed campaign.

    • Posted By: sunset1972 @ 10/09/2008 2:23:22 PM

      Comment: BluebloodedLV. If McCain has a failed campaign, I don't have to wonder who he will select. USE YOUR COMMON SENSE.

  • Posted By: Davidhnaz @ 10/09/2008 12:26:27 PM

    Comment: If we really want to save America we need to start with this election, I???m not a McCain fan he is just another politician, been in office way to long. But a vote for NObama is a vote for the death of America, yes the country will still be here but it will not be America. It will just be another socialist failure. McCain will only get 4 yrs and then maybe we can find a real statesman not a politician.

  • Posted By: sunset1972 @ 10/09/2008 11:35:28 AM

    Comment: Just wondering if Sen. Obama will be elected President of the United States of America, who among his friends in Illinois will he select to help him run the White House.

  • Posted By: genxmomtakeson @ 10/09/2008 10:53:15 AM

    Comment: McCain's negative campaigning isn't just deplorable, it's a direct about-face from his pledge to the American people. Read more at http://genxmom.blogspot.com.

    • Posted By: sunset1972 @ 10/09/2008 12:36:22 PM

      Comment: Smears campaigning are coming from both sides not only from Sen McCain side. And both are deplorable.

  • Posted By: John Dough @ 10/09/2008 7:18:38 AM

    Comment: The dishonorable is said to be heavily edited gee just like all the ads and the attack interviews on Sarah Palin by Gibson and Kuric. Anything positive she said surely ended up on the cutting room floor.

  • Posted By: John Dough @ 10/09/2008 7:14:30 AM

    Comment: The democratic party opposes voter id requirements while the GOP supports it. The phony sound bite you hear all the time is that it will disinfranchise voters particularly minority voters who may not be able to afford the id cards. In our state the proposal was to give the ids free of charge and the dems struck it down. This is just a bunch of BULL!!! The real reason they don't want voters to have to have valid id is that they know the illegal voters and the great majority of persons who vote more than one time (ALL FELONIES) vote for democrats. If they suspected or knew it was the the way around it would already be the law of the land period.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/09/2008 12:02:32 AM

    Comment: "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: John Dough @ 10/08/2008 10:40:12 PM

    Comment: to D & D:

    You think FDR stopped the depression with his make work government programs? You need a lesson in history and economics! Nearly 100% of economists today agree that his policies actually prolonged the depression and the belief is the recovery would have occurred within 2-3 years if government intervention hadn't occurred. In addition, his polices did not end the depression World War II did!!! We began producng goods and weapons for friendly nations then ourselves when yet another democrat got us into a major war !! Just for a pint of refernce more US soldiers died on Omaha and Utah beaches in several hours on D-Day then have died in Iraq in 5 years. One dead soldier is one to many but democrats have been in power for all major wars and have caused the deaths of nearly 600,000 American soldiers..

  • Posted By: John Dough @ 10/08/2008 9:26:31 PM

    Comment: To frianna:

    Since the top 1% pay 55% of the bill 389 billion of the bailout will be paid by them!!! The top 10% will pay 630 billion of the bill. You and I will help pay for 70 billion or 10%/. If you are in the bottom 40% you will pay nothing toward the bailout. THESE ARE IRS FACTS!!! LOOK IT UP!!! As far as loophoiles the alternative miniimum tax forces those making over 250K to pay 38% federal tax period. No loophole no break.

  • Posted By: John Dough @ 10/08/2008 9:19:41 PM

    Comment: I do not like either candidates health care plans period. Obama's plan keep you r employer coverage - cut costs and force insurance companies to take less money. Provide insurance for those with pre-existing conditions (I can agree with this to some degree) and expand government coverage for those with no insurance. This will drive costs up and if you force doctors and hospitqls to take less money it will mean employee cuts for them, reduced care and in some cases hospitals will close. If you do not have insurance then you need to help pay for it not get it free at other taxpayers expense. I have employer based health.nsurance but it is not free!! It ultimately costs me over $3000.00 out of pocket excluding drug costs and co-pays. .In addition I have to buy insurance for my son who just graduated from college because he is no longer covered under my plan. This costs me an addtional 114 per month plus a $500 deductable on health care, $500. on drugs and 10% of the first 5K. So despite the fact I have an employer provided health care plan I still pay 5K out of pocket for health care.. No one should get it free including tthose on welfaer they must be charged something to help defray costs. Universal government health care will cripple this country resulting in an overall federal, state, local property and sales taxes approaching 80% of income.

  • Posted By: bkyla @ 10/08/2008 8:28:41 PM

    Comment: McCain's Plan
    $5000 credit for insurance which forces individuals to pay $10000+ to buy insurance from the same cheating insurance companies, plus he taxes this credit as well
    $200B in tax credits to the Exxons of the world who are already receiving billions in tax credits and sending this money to the terrorists in the middle east, now who is dishonorable
    $100B in tax credit to the big CEOs who make 100s of millions and got us into this hole to begin with
    $4B/week on Iraq war when they have $80B in surplus, btw, there was no Al Qaida in Iraq before we went in

    I identified myself with the republican ideology but these neocons are no republicans, this is not Lincoln's republican party.

    I am voting Obama,
    GObama

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 10/08/2008 8:16:33 PM

    Comment: Barack Obama and the politics of envy. Over and over Barack during the Town Hall Meeting debate spouted his politics of envy. He pointed out that Iraq has a 78 billion dollar surplus at the same time that the United States is suffering financial problems. His conclusion or inference that Barack left hanging was that we should steal their money and take the 78 billion dollars or perhaps we should have never wage the war to begin because they are a bunch of ungrateful people who would hoard this money.
    Would Barack Obama be more pleased if Iraq emulated their main supporter the United States and ran up huge deficits and became nearly bankrupt.

    Would he think that is more representative of a struggling democracy. The fact that Iraq is financially solvent with our help is a testament of the hard work and sacrifice of our troops. Please do not comment and try to draw a negative inference from this success. Please Barack keep your politics of envy confined to local Illinois politics where it works.
    Barack Obama???s tax plans similarly focus on the politics of envy. He is so focused and determined that the oil companies do not make one penny too much in profit that Barack Obama dces not care if all of the Southeast periodically experiences gas shortages with closed gas stations and empty gas pumps. The oil companies did not make any profits when there was no gas to sell so Barack Obama must have been jumping with joy. Refinery capacity in the United States has been stretched to its limits for decades. The oil companies would have to be crazy to invest another penny in new refineries or production capacity or even do basic repairs in the United States in light of Barck Obama???s policies to tax what he deems are excess profits and his proposed mandates on alternative energy. Barack Obama???s proposals to raise taxes only on the top five percent of Americans are ridiculous and only pander to the politics of envy. Our economy has been propped up for years by people from around the world investing in the United States. Foreign investors in United States companies also are subject to United States taxes. All of these investors are in the top five percent making more than two hundred and fifty thousand a year and they will be subject to higher taxes. Do you think that foreign investors will continue to make direct investments in the United States when they can go anywhere in the world? Barack Obama will do for the United States what North Korean President Kim has done for North Korea and that is drive all foreign investors out of the country. That is a great idea to help our economy and drive all foreign investors out. Americans can also chose where they invest and they do not have to invest in the United States if taxes become exorbitant.

    • Posted By: centerpull@hotmail.com @ 10/09/2008 11:01:33 AM

      Comment: Thank You, we need more of your type of example, because Obama supporters just dont get it. Personally I think Obama is some sort of Manchurian Candidate, comming out of a sleeper cell. Too many strange rumors comming out of Kenya.
      Centerpull

      • Posted By: bluebloodedLV @ 10/09/2008 2:07:23 PM

        Comment: Paranoia will destroy yah!! Get a life. You sound ridiculous!! Sleeper cell? He has been center stage for over a year now - he's totally transparent. Admit that you're afraid to vote for someone different than an old white man. At least be honest!

  • Posted By: datobaxter @ 10/08/2008 8:14:34 PM

    Comment: MCain has "STRONG MORAL VALUES???" Cheating on your wife, betraying the most sacred vow that one can swear to our Lord(marriage),abandoning his crippled wife and family because he found a younger, wealthier, more attractive option(Cindy McCain) are strong moral values???? You hippochristian have run our country into the ground with your crap. I'll gladly vote for an American like Barack who grew up poor and earned his status, over another spoiled rotten rich white brat that rode daddy's coattail into the entitled class.

  • Posted By: tlm041260 @ 10/08/2008 8:07:21 PM

    Comment: can't wait for this election to be over. I can't wait for McCain and Palin to get their just desserts. I don't believe in GOD, but I do believe in Kharma, and man, she can be a bitch!!! ROCK ON OBAMA/BIDEN!!!

    • Posted By: centerpull@hotmail.com @ 10/09/2008 11:03:50 AM

      Comment: Your problem is obvious, you head is in your butt, as for not believing in God, good luck you goning to need it.
      Centerpull

  • Posted By: John Dough @ 10/08/2008 7:56:50 PM

    Comment: Just remember every major war was started with a democrat in office except the civil war which Lincoln tried to prevent. (Both Iraq wars are minor) in comparison to WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam. The republicans freed the slaves, the republicalocksons passed the civil rights act in the 60's under heavy democratic opposition. The dems then started their "GREAT SOCIETY" programs permanently enslaving the poor and large blocks of minortiy populations to government dependency. Albiet a new form of slavery.

  • Posted By: Lara4jesus @ 10/08/2008 7:44:28 PM

    Comment: Hate always consumes those that perpetrate it and live by it. Obama has been calling for one America while McCain and Palin continue to call for a divided America. I think I have come to realise one thing: the American people sincerely know who serves their interest best. Obama is a reality the likes of hate-mongering and desperate politicians cannot wish away. By Jan. 20, 2009, they will have to live with reality of Barack Obama as their president and commander-in chief. Good luck.

    • Posted By: John Dough @ 10/08/2008 8:29:56 PM

      Comment: You claim Mc Cain and Palin want a divided America please cite an example. The Dems constantly use class warfare against the republicans saying the GOP and Bush are for the rich and the oil companies. They constantly claim the tax cuts only helped the rich. Bull____!!! My fedral taxes went down over 5% and my tax return up 1000.00 under Bush's tax cuts for the rich. Well I can tell you I'm not rich but here are some facts from the IRS:
      The top 1% wage earners pay 55% of the federal tax burden. In case your wondering that amounts to 1.7 trillion dollars. The top 10% pay 90% of the federal tax burden that is 2.75 trillion dollars. The next 50% pay the remaining 310 billion dollars or 10%. The bottom 40% pay no taxes at all and they get a tax return. These are the REAL FACTS. As for the oil companies, they make 4 1/2 cents out of every dollar worth of oil. This is well below what the average business makes in profit percentage wise. The federal tax per dollar of oil is 15% or 15 cents out of every dollar. The govt. benefits more than the oil companies with none of the risk. Obama is pushing a windfall profit tax on oil companies. This will result in higher prices to make up for the tax. His plan to tax corporations who move jobs overseas at a higher level willl likely result in the corporations moving too!! Both parties need to reduce the size of the governnent tremendously. They then need to reduce the fedral tax to about 10%. Jobs will swarm back here and our economy will soar. The problem is that it would mean an end to all enttitlements except social security and medicaid and medicare. Social Security roles need to be slashed. I know several families that have mutliple ADHD children and hey are getting over $550.00 per child . Drug addicts and alcoholics stay on the roles forever.One year for treatment and they should be off forever until they retire. Social Security was designed to help the disabled and for retirement/supplement. When the program began there was 37 workers for every retiree/reciepient. Toady it is 2 workers to every receipient. It is time to move those who ccan work back into the workforce and help the truly needy elderly and the truly disabled.

  • Posted By: John Dough @ 10/08/2008 7:35:12 PM

    Comment: The media is nearly 100% biased against the GOP. They attack Palin claiming she tried to get her former brother-in-law fired from his job. Wow she must be SATAN!!! They however completely ignore the fact that Obama is friends with a known terrorist William Ayers, a major fraud suspect in Rezko (who by the way helped him get his home for well below market value) he's just nice I guess and his connections to bigoted pastors Wright and Al Queda supporter Farraken. If this was the other way around it would be in the headlines everyday!!!

  • Posted By: neos @ 10/08/2008 6:14:07 PM

    Comment: Say what you will, at an Obama rally you will not hear John McCain the person being demonized. Sure, his stands on the issues will be booed, but he will not be subjected to the outrageous and divisive smears like those that McCain and Palin are spewing about Obama and you will never hear his patriotism being questioned. When McCain's name is mentioned in an Obama rally, you will NOT hear a mob crying 'terrorist', and worse, 'kill him!' as has been heard at McCain and Palin rallies.
    'For each tree is known by its own fruit.' I respect those honest republicans who simply have a respectful difference of opinion with Obama. Many of them are my neighbors and we get along just fine. But those decent Americans aside, and in contrast to the hope filled positive Obama campaign, we now have a negative hate-mongering 'No Obama.' campaign on the right which draws in religious bigots.like Unholyroller and crew, racists (you know who you are), and rabid McCarthyists left over from the 50's. On Nov.5 we will all still be Americans and will have a new president-elect based on the American institution of majority vote. We can have honest differences of opinion without causing a permanent rift between neighbors if we don't give in to hate.

  • Posted By: DarleneS @ 10/08/2008 3:36:05 PM

    Comment: McCain is trying to use scare tactics with the American voters since he can no longer run on his positive experience and future knowledge and plans.

    Many, many people are quick to judge Obama because he is black, which does not affect his mental capacities, however, we are walking on eggshells regarding McCain's age which does affect his mental capacity. Two big example of lack of judgement just within a few weeks (1) Sarah "who is she" Palin aka "Chatty Kathy"; (2) Letting his campaign resort to continual mudslinging on non-related issues. McCain is too old to be President and it is starting to show.

  • Posted By: SCOOBY3399 @ 10/08/2008 3:26:01 PM

    Comment: DO NOT FORGET THAT OBAMA IS HALF WHITE AND HALF AFRICAN. HIS MOTHER BORN HERE AND HIS FATHER IS FROM AFRICA. AMERICA HAD ONLY INDIANS HERE PRIOR COLONIZATION. EVERYBODY CAME FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY. LIKE ME I CAME FROM BRAZIL AND MY MOTHER IS FROM ITALY AND MY FATHER IS FROM RUSSIA. I AM BRAZILIAN AND NATURALIZED AMERICAN. I LIVE AN AMERICAN LIFE WITH MY HUSBAND AND CHILDREN. I SERVE THE VETERAN'S. I HAVE POST-GRADUATE DEGREE. I MADE OVER $100,000 A YEAR AND A LOOK WHITE. MY STORY IS VERY SIMILAR FROM OBAMA . I REGISTER REPUBLICAN BUT I WILL CHANGE MY VOTE TO OBAMA. MOST REPUBLICANS THAT I KNOW (NOT GENERALIZED EVERYBODY)ARE RACISTS EVEN THOUGH THEY SAY THEY ARE NOT. YOU ARE KIDDEN ME.

  • Posted By: nitiisdone @ 10/08/2008 2:55:46 PM

    Comment: Centerpull,
    Do you have a job? Why are you responding to EVERYBODY? Is that you Sarah? John? Karl? The fact that they only aired a portion of a sentence spoken by Obama is what told people the ad was bulls**t, not Newsweek. Anybody with an ounce of intelligence could see this is a really desperate attempt to dirty Obama's name.
    As a BLACK woman, I was actually leaning towards McCain--until he chose the village idiot as a running mate. I was really hoping he would choose Romney, but anybody would have been better than that chick.As a woman, I was insulted that the Republican party would assume that throwing ANY woman in there would get my vote--and more women should feel the same.
    I do have some encouraging words for you though. America would rather elect a blind monkey with its thumb up its ass than to elect a black man. If Obama were white, with the exact same education and history, there would not even be a discussion. He would win in a landslide.

    • Posted By: centerpull@hotmail.com @ 10/09/2008 11:16:29 AM

      Comment: Thank You for proving most Black folks are bigots and raceists. Your a real asset to Obama, go help him sign up more trash off the streets and help Acorn get him elected. Obama is surley a planted flower of deciet and will do all he can to bring America to it's knees, 9-11 released this vermon.
      Centerpull

    • Posted By: John Dough @ 10/08/2008 7:49:29 PM

      Comment: I would vote for Alan Keys or J.C. Watts in a heartbeat but not Obama. Not because of who he is but what he stands for - he is ultra liberal and will tax us to death. A third of my taxes already goes to the federal govt.. He says he is going to give the middle class a tax break. That is lie because he plans to let the Bush tax cuts expire on schedule and give the middle class a tax rebate. The joke is that the rbate is less than half of what the tax increase will be when the Bush Tax Cuts expire. If you make 50K a year your taxes will go up 200.00 bucks month. That is not chump change at that icome level. Don't be;ieve the half-truths you hear from both sides. Vote for someone with strong moral values. That is McCain not Obama.

      • Posted By: frianna @ 10/08/2008 9:09:26 PM

        Comment: Excuse me, but where doe this come from?? The past 8 years have seen me & my husband, our family, (including hi smother who will be 103, God willing-in Feb.2009) and many of our friends have their leftime earnings, hard work, savings, and plans for a secure future either eroded or destroyed, thanks to President Bush & his party of "no tax increases, etc.) Unless you are part of the wealthy minority in this country,you could not be any wrse off thsn you are now, unless you ARE wealthy and missed the "loopholes" afforded you. This "fear mongering" over taxes that Obama & the Democrats are supposedly going to assail us with is just that:: how did McCain, riding in as the WHITE KNIGHT for the current bailout expect all this to be paid for?--of course: THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER(not the WEALTHY American tapayer) will be the bottom line..think about it!!

    • Posted By: John Dough @ 10/08/2008 7:08:22 PM

      Comment: Your buying into the media hype and bias. The press is smearing Palin because they know a woman could bring votes to the ticket. Find out about the real Sarah Palin not the media description. She has done a great job in Alaska!!! If they went after Obama with the same vigor Hillary Clinton would be the nominee for the dems.

  • Posted By: ravidia @ 10/08/2008 2:38:46 PM

    Comment: at least some news source isn't cowed by republican ownership of media, and control of what qualifies as "facts." thank you, newsweek!

  • Posted By: Davidhnaz @ 10/08/2008 2:35:10 PM

    Comment: Lets look were the real racist are, they are in the Democrat party. Talk about wanting to keep the country white, look at their history. Why does the higher percentage of blacks favor NObama even though they don???t know what he stands for. They wouldn???t even think about voting republican. They have been brain washed for the last 50yrs. Republicans with President Lincoln fought for the rights of blacks, not democrats.

    The civil Rights bill was proposed by Republican Senator Charles Sumner and Republican Congressman Benjamin F. Butler. In the 60???s it was held up by democrats not republicans. Rules Committee chairman, Howard Smith a Democrat from Virginia, indicated his intention to keep the bill bottled up indefinitely. At the Senate, Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage. Said Russell "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our states.

    So tell me again what party has the history of being racist.

    • Posted By: NoVA Mom @ 10/08/2008 4:51:14 PM

      Comment: Your comment is very elementary and fundamentally ignorant. No one denies that the Republican party of old is the party that brought about the emancipation proclamation, but you seem to be devoid of the fact that Blacks (as a whole) have not voted Republican for at least 40 years. The modern day Republican party is nothing like the Republican party that freed the slaves. No one is disputing the history of how slavery came to an end, but to suggest that the same party is active today is, well, stupid.
      Please don't pretend to understand minority issues as you are minimizing whatever valid points you may have.

  • Posted By: Davidhnaz @ 10/08/2008 2:34:42 PM

    Comment: Lets look were the real racist are, they are in the Democrat party. Talk about wanting to keep the country white, look at their history. Why does the higher percentage of blacks favor NObama even though they don???t know what he stands for. They wouldn???t even think about voting republican. They have been brain washed for the last 50yrs. Republicans with President Lincoln fought for the rights of blacks, not democrats.

    The civil Rights bill was proposed by Republican Senator Charles Sumner and Republican Congressman Benjamin F. Butler. In the 60???s it was held up by democrats not republicans. Rules Committee chairman, Howard Smith a Democrat from Virginia, indicated his intention to keep the bill bottled up indefinitely. At the Senate, Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage. Said Russell "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our states.

    So tell me again what party has the history of being racist.

    • Posted By: ThePrairiePrankster @ 10/08/2008 3:54:49 PM

      Comment: So the party that is most racist has nominated a Man of mixed race. Sounds like progress. Thanks for pointing out the great progress we have seen in our lifetimes.

      Just say no to lies.

  • Posted By: SJDUKES1CP @ 10/08/2008 2:34:23 PM

    Comment: SHIRLEY, MIKE , I AGREE WITH YOU!!!! I'M WHITE .. ALSO...WHAT AN HONORABLE WAY TO PUT THE TRUTH OUT THERE....HOW SAD, IT IS TO HAVE TO ADMITT. BUT, THE TRUTH... IT IS ...AND, WHAT IT IS....IT IS.!!!..

  • Posted By: quasqueton @ 10/08/2008 2:27:17 PM

    Comment: Well, "plyerized4"?? One thing I can tell you for certain. Obama ain't no Jesus! My girlfriiend in Des Moines, Iowa, was a precinct captain for John Edwards. Obama-binLadin was as dirty as dirty can be!

  • Posted By: quasqueton @ 10/08/2008 2:22:20 PM

    Comment: Gee whiz! I haven't seen this advertizement. Of course, Newsweak is just "Obama - our next Messiah", and so are most of the people of that ilk.

  • Posted By: kyd70 @ 10/08/2008 2:21:44 PM

    Comment: "We'll leave it to readers to sort out who's honorable and who's not. "

    Then why insinuate in the article that McCain's ad is false or misleading!?

    This "fact" check is dispicable. How did the AP verify that the civilians killed were actually civilians and not Taliban? Also, such reckless mouthing off by Obama reveals what he thinks about the job our military is doing.

    I suppose he believes that he could lead them a lot better than McCain can.

    NOT!

  • Posted By: Plylerized4 @ 10/08/2008 1:27:27 PM

    Comment: Mike--I could not agree more. At the ripe old age of forty-six, I realized this year why my heart has always said I am a Democrat, even though my head wasn't completely sure of the facts. The Republican foundation seems to be based on an unspoken sense of entitlement--white entitlement, that is. They hide behind their holier than thou values, all the while clinging to their main concerns: their own pocketbooks, and the desperate need for their continued silent battle for white supremacy. As a white, born-again Christian from the Old South, it completely crushed me to have the curtain drawn back to reveal such blatant disingenuity, but I know now that is what it is. They talk the talk, but when it comes to the question of "What would Jesus do?" Their actions speak louder than their words by far. Jesus would care for those who are less fortunate; this is abundantly clear. His concepts are so much simpler than what we've turned them into. It's how the country and the world would best work. Matthew 19:23, Matthew 19:24, Mark 10:25, Luke 16:14, 1 Timothy 6:10 all address the idea of the pursuit of money over everything else and the harm it can bring. It works both ways, not only for the person, but for the nation as well. I am so tired of the dangerous republican rhetoric. It has become comical at this point. Make your conscience clear. DO the right thing. All races matter--we all came from the same place, ultimately.

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 10/08/2008 1:18:40 PM

    Comment: I love that every time a REPIG says Barack HUSSEIN Obama, Rev Wright, or William Ayers, Obama moves up a piont in the polls yesterday he had a 9 point lead, and today.....Gallup Daily: Obama's Lead Over McCain Expands to 11! And that's because mccain dropped by one also...LMAO! keep up the good work for OBAMA, REPIGS, we all thank you.

  • Posted By: alfa11 @ 10/08/2008 1:02:52 PM

    Comment: BLAME FOR THIS AD "KARL ROVE" THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICAN POLITICS.
    A TOTAL LIAR AND FACTS MANIPULATOR, WHO DIRECTED TWICE THE CAMPAIGNS OF
    GEORGE W. BUSH, IN ORDER TO WIN ""AT ANY COST "" AND KNOW IS BEHIND THE CAMPAIGN
    OF THE "COMPULSIVE LIAR JOHN MCCAIN ",LIKE BUSH; FOR DESASTEROUS RESULTS.








  • Posted By: ND2000 @ 10/08/2008 11:42:13 AM

    Comment: Audacity of Hope!! Obama can lead America back n the right track. Obama can do for America what John.F. Kennedy did for America. Look beyond the colour and look at the man. He is an honourable man who does not need to tell lies about his opponent! He will do what he has said he will do and that is to bring peace and stability to America and give back to the middle class what the rich have been taking formany years now under Bush!

    • Posted By: John Dough @ 10/08/2008 7:20:17 PM

      Comment: You need a lesson in who pays what percentage of federal income taxes. The richest 1% of the population pay 55% of the federal tax bill.. The top 5% pay over 70%. The top 10% pay 90 % of the bill. The remaining 90% pay 10% of the federal tax bill. If you break that down down 50% pay the last 10% and the lowest 40% of wage earners pay no federal income tax at all but they all receive a tax return.

  • Posted By: logicthinker @ 10/08/2008 11:03:18 AM

    Comment: Nice article full of fluff and no real substance reaffirming Newsweek???s ga-ga love affair with Barack Obama.

    First, I gave up my subscription to Newsweek because of its left wing slant.

    Second, most white people are not racist but the fact that 98% of blacks vote Obama tells me that this is about race but only in the black community. I used to think that 90% or more of the black community voted democrat was because they are democrats but the overwhelming vote of 95% blacks for Obama over Clinton proved differently.

    Third, and most importantly, Obama has a resume that at best would get him an entry level mid-management job. As a past CEO of 4 smaller companies (no golden parachutes or obscene bonuses), I would look at his resume and not see any concrete evidence that he has ever held a position that demonstrated leadership and sound decision making abilities.

    Lastly, it disturbs me that such a large number of people are willing to put a person in the most powerful CEO position in the world with the only proven asset being a golden tongue.

    Sorry if this offends you liberal idealists with the rose colored glasses that are waiting for an Elmer Gantry to blindly follow to the promised land.

    • Posted By: ND2000 @ 10/08/2008 11:24:48 AM

      Comment: I am black and I have always viewed each candidate with respect and have been open-minded about their views and how they'll put America back on the right track. I read your comments and feel you need to open your eyes and see the facts before you.
      McCain will only bring doom and more turmoi for the country. He is every bit like Bush!!! America needs peace and stability right now and that is why Obama is my candidate. Not because he's black, but because he doesn't have to sttch the truth to win, he doesn't have to take words out of context to win, he certainly doesn't have to act like a slave owner and throw insults around to win.
      I have come to respect Obama and hope he'll be given a chanc e to lead America in the right direction.
      Stop being racist and look beyond his colour. See the man for his values and take him for his words because he is a man of honour!
      Vote Barack Obama as the next President of the United States of Amerca! God Bless America!!!

    • Posted By: centerpull@hotmail.com @ 10/08/2008 11:12:46 AM

      Comment: Thank You, the hysterical left is willing to give Obama the Keys to the nucular button with out knowing any thing about Obama's missing years, I do not hane a problem that he is black, I have a problem with is BIO and the fact he is a security risk, his dealing of the past have nothing to do with his color, his past is clouded and murkey, guilt by association is still reason enough to question his character and giving him the keys to all our nations secrets boggels the same mind.
      Centerpull

      • Posted By: ND2000 @ 10/08/2008 11:33:02 AM

        Comment: What are you talking about? you come off sounding like a ranting whatever! Guilty by association? McCain sold weapons to Iran in the 80s!!!! Is he guilty by association too????
        Vote for the candidate that will bring peace, stability and prosperity to America and that is Obama! McCain has proved from his words that he will wreck the economy further and many more troops will lose their lives for a war that has no end. There should be a time frame for pull out so our boys can come home to a stronger, well-respected country!
        It is time for the Iraqi government to spend their $10,000,000,000 billion that they have in excess and give the American economy a chance to get back on the right track.
        McCain cannot and will not deliver. I have seen him talk and believe me r not, he will worsen the trend that Bush has started!!!
        Vote Barack Obama so America can get back on the right track. Stop the racism and let him get to the business of building the American back!

        • Posted By: centerpull@hotmail.com @ 10/08/2008 11:44:30 AM

          Comment: yea, right. keep thinking this way, and when if obama is elected you will be the first one to defend his policys when he give us up.
          Centerpull

  • Posted By: SavethisCountry @ 10/08/2008 10:56:49 AM

    Comment: Seems to me McCain is leveraging his days in the H Hilton by running a propoganda campaign of hate only equal to the Vietnamese. I think it reveals a lot about both their souls. He is a puppet of his lobbyists, and she just does what she is told. And this campaign style is similar to the bully at school when finally questioned on his motives he tries to redirect attention elsewhere. McCain/Palin, if you feel you're the right choice, show is with wisdom, not 'betchas', winks, and pitbull strategies. Very childish at best. But again, coming from the party of Red level warnings, phone taps, and WMD. . . what can you expect. Expect more of the same. . .

  • Posted By: jaljean @ 10/08/2008 10:41:55 AM

    Comment: The Republicans are desparate and it will get worse. For those who are uncomfortable with a biracial President, one who is both white and black, consider this -- this is not England in the 1800s. We are not voting in a king. We are electing an entire party that represents a way of life. As for me, I will be voting for the party that represents working men and women. I am voting for a party that stands between us and greedy corporate executives. I am voting for a party that will lead us to peace and prosperity. I am voting Democrat.

  • Posted By: jaljean @ 10/08/2008 10:36:45 AM

    Comment: In the final analysis, Americans will want a party in office that will lead the United States .to peace and prosperity -- not just for 5% of the population, but for all of us. I believe that the Democratic Party will help strengthen the lower and middle class. And for those white Americans who find a biracial President distasteful -- remember this -- this is not England in the 1800s. We are not electing a king with no checks and balances. This is the United States of America and we are voting for a party and its ideals. As for me -- I am comfortable with the ideals of the party that reprsent working men and women, not greedy corporate America.

  • Posted By: Phil Hayes @ 10/08/2008 10:24:22 AM

    Comment: I am an independent who, up until these recent ads, was willing to give McCain the benefit of the doubt regarding his obvious poor choice for VP....his kne