Coming out of the Democratic Convention my lean was to McCain, as I think it is dangerous on many levels when one party has too much control and I had always liked him to begin with. However, when he selected Palin and threw his lot in with the same Bush team that trashed him in the South Carolina primary in 2000, I had to reconsider.
I doubt with the financial meltdown he could have won regardless of the path he chose, but he lost a bunch of what they like to refer to Ron's Democrats when he decided to stick with the fear and smear game plan.
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Posted By: Aggie Independent @ 10/09/2008 5:14:51 PM
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Posted By: americandefender @ 10/09/2008 5:02:21 PM
Keep your negative attacks up McMsame, I guess this is the real you before you picked Palin I actually thought maybe you weren't so bad that maybe you did care about the real issues. Boy was I wrong you are going down for the count asta la vista.
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Posted By: shef4him @ 10/09/2008 4:58:52 PM
A moment of truth about the financial crisis. GUess who is to blame?
watch and meditate on this. you may want to pause to read. Great stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPUuaFXjx1s
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Posted By: DaveWK @ 10/09/2008 4:51:04 PM
Attack is all he McCain can think of to do, and he isn't doing it well. The return to the "no smoke/no fire" Ayers story borders on pathetic. There's no evidence Obama was "pal" to this gentleman who was something of a radical back in the 60's. Of course there's abundant evidence of McCain's more recent and real connections to fraudulent financier Charles Keating and Catholic hating Reverend Hagee, not to mention Ms. Palin's friendship with various extremists like the nuts who want Alaska to secede from the United States--she's spoken at their meetings! What matters a great deal more than guilt by association is the ability and temperament to lead this nation out of the financial disaster that Bush, with McCain's help, got us into. McCain's lack of perspective on what matters, and his wildly eratic behavior historically and currently, are driving voters away from him and toward Obama.
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Posted By: Aggie Independent @ 10/09/2008 4:24:33 PM
Unless there is a major change in the political landscape this race is over. McCain, while once a good and honorable man (perhaps inside he still is), bought into the Republican game plan that has worked for Bush and Rove the last two elections. However, the results of what that led to are too obvious for the fear and smear tactics to work this time.
Personally, I think McCain would have still had a good chance of winning if not for going negative and pandering to the fringe with his VP pick (they would have voted for him anyway). I actually am concerned when either party has control of all three elected branches. It simply enables the fringe on either side to get things passed into law that are dangerous.
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Posted By: cani77 @ 10/09/2008 2:32:49 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 ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything in the last 80 years.
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 didnt 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. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
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 crashing 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 talking about obama
which means 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 and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ-
Posted By: blackcourt @ 10/09/2008 2:39:32 PM
In 2005 Senator McCain brought a bill before congress that would have regulated the habits of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The bill was rejected by congressional democrats who said that neither Fannie Mae nor Freddie Mac have any problems. Go do some research.
In that time Senator Obama has received $144,000 from Fannie and Freddie. As a matter of fact he is the third highest recipient over the last ten years. A pretty daunting figure considering he has only been a senator for three of those ten years.
You tell me who is to blame... the guy who tried to fix it three years ago... or the guy who was sucking money out of them until they went under.-
Posted By: Aggie Independent @ 10/09/2008 4:18:03 PM
Were not the Republicans fully in control of Congress in 2005, only losing that control barely in 2006?
Own up to your own party's part in these problems, or you simply sound like a hack.
McCain has and may still be a good man, but he has sold his soul to the Bush/Rove machine.
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Posted By: max in fl @ 10/09/2008 4:02:32 PM
Mccainsupporter
Obama was one of these "community organizers". How many false registrations did he turn in? How many of them are being done in order to get him the votes he needs to become President of this country?
SMEAR, that was not his job only advising the system is in place. and the bad apples are being weeded out. Hopefully they are caught using proper procedures.
Lets talk about the fact that Obama can't even provide a real birth certificate to prove that he was born in the United States.
SMEAR, Republican fabrication, do you think for a second IF the correct papers were not shown, the other primary candidates would not have called him out before now
Lets talk about his record as a legistator and a senator.
SMEAR, the record speaks for itself, its your interpretation.
Lets talk about the fact that "this one" doesn't stand for one single thing...
SMEAR, that is a total exaggeration. Let's start with Health Care and the middle class.
but tells whoever he is talking whatever they want to hear in order to get himself elected.
SMEAR you are projecting your image of McCain on Obama. Everyone can clearly see who looks desparate.
You want to talk about REAL FEAR... lets talk about Barack Obama as President of the United States.
KING of SMEARS Obviously YOU find it difficult to imagine, but everyone doesn't not think as you, they are actually saying imagine McCain or possibly Palin as president, now THAT's scary!
Don't come here with your BS. AS I SAID, let's talk real FEARS not republican SMEARS!
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Posted By: blackcourt @ 10/09/2008 2:38:15 PM
Obama's followers are doing what they do best... creating voters where there aren't any. Take a look into the front page of MSNBC... ten states are looking into a scandal of voter registration. This is the exact kind of tactics that ACORN and Ayers use in order to get what they want. Obama is the voice they are using in order to gain the power that they want.
Obama can't even prove that he was born in the United States. There is a lawsuit going now to force him to prove it by providing his birth certificate... like John McCain had to do. But for some reason it doesn't seem that Obama is being held to the same measure that McCain is. Wasn't he a constitution lawyer? Shouldn't he know that being born outside of the United States makes it illegal for him to be President of the United States.
Why aren't these questions being asked by the media? Why isn't the media putting Obama under any sort of scrutiny? Seems that they are doing everything that they possibly can to get this man elected. Just look at this Romano kids articles. He has never once done any research into Obama... but he talks about him as if he is the next coming of the Messiah.
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Posted By: neos @ 10/09/2008 3:33:30 PM
At least Obama voted present . When McCain faces a politically unpopular vote, he jumps on the Double-Talk express without voting at all.
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Posted By: max in fl @ 10/09/2008 3:21:02 PM
blackcourt
Here is some research for you
S.190
Title: A bill to address the regulation of secondary mortgage market enterprises, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Hagel, Chuck [NE] (introduced 1/26/2005) Cosponsors (3)
Latest Major Action: 7/28/2005 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
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COSPONSORS(3), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)
Sen Dole, Elizabeth [NC] - 1/26/2005 Sen McCain, John [AZ] - 5/25/2006
Sen Sununu, John E. [NH] - 1/26/2005
1) it was not his bill 2) it was voted for it needed an amendment 3) the bill was returned 7/05 and McCain takes credit for the idea by signing on the bill 5/06
This is obviously not the first time McCain took credit for an idea that was not his.
Case closed
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Posted By: max in fl @ 10/09/2008 3:11:18 PM
mccainsupporter
How dare we no how dare he;
On November 11, 1992, Dolores Alfond, sister of missing airman Capt. Victor Apodaca and chair of the National Alliance of Families, an organization of relatives of POW/MIAs, testified at one of the Senate committee's public hearings. She asked for information about data the government had gathered from electronic devices used in a classified program known as PAVE SPIKE
The devices were primarily motion sensors, dropped by air, designed to pick up enemy troop movements. But they also had rescue capabilities. Someone on the ground--a downed airman or a prisoner on a labor gang--could manually enter data into the sensor, which were regularly collected electronically by US planes flying overhead. Alfond stated, without any challenge from the committee, that in 1974, a year after the supposedly complete return of prisoners, the gathered data showed that a person or people had manually entered into the sensors--as US pilots had been trained to do--"no less than 20 authenticator numbers that corresponded exactly to the classified authenticator numbers of 20 US POW/MIAs who were lost in Laos." Alfond added, says the transcript: "This PAVE SPIKE intelligence is seamless, but the committee has not discussed it or released what it knows about PAVE SPIKE."
McCain, whose POW status made him the committee's most powerful member, attended that hearing specifically to confront Alfond because of her criticism of the panel's work. He bellowed and berated her for quite a while. His face turning anger-pink, he accused her of "denigrating" his "patriotism." The bullying had its effect--she began to cry.
This is how he takes care of POW's and thier families. That's right it was THAT ONE.
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Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 10/09/2008 1:55:35 PM
Vote John McCain!!!!! Ohio is proud of John Glenn and John McCain both fighter pilots who served their country when their country was at war.
The Barack Obama campaign is dumb as a doorknob to raise Keating 5 and criticize John Glenn. You just put Ohio in the Red state column for the Republicans. The people of Ohio are proud of John Glenn, a former Marine Corp fighter pilot during World War II. John Glenn was awarded the Congressman Medal of Honor and flew aboard the space shuttle at the age of 77. The Barack Obama campaign should stop criticizing an 87 year old war hero John Glenn by raising the Keating 5 scandal that happened over twenty years ago. For two people who have no military service between them and have never worn the uniform, Barack Obama and Joe Biden have a lot of gaul to obliquely criticize a fellow Democrat and elder statesman and an 87 year old war hero and first man in space John Glenn.
It is also pretty stupid to criticize an Ohio native son when Ohio is in play during this election.
Does the Barack Obama campaign have to destroy the reputations of four Democratic Senators to lob an ineffectual attack against John McCain. Senator Alan Cranston is dead and can not even defend himself.
Vote for John McCain, he respects veterans especially 87 year old fellow fighter pilots like John Glenn.
Vote John McCain!!!!! Vote John McCain!!!!!!-
Posted By: max in fl @ 10/09/2008 3:06:11 PM
mccainsupporter
Obama did not throw the first punch, but he WILL throw the last, you weren't listenling? If Palin wants to continue, even more things will pop up. So McCain is eventually going to have Palin put a sock in it..One of the problems in Keating 5 is that McCain leaked information to the press. One of the problems as a POW is that he broke the code of conduct.
John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn't return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero people would logically imagine to be a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.
McCain is still using this patriot stick to beat people over the head to silence them and it will NOT stop if he gets to Washington. It worked for Bush and he didn't serve. McCain (if he gets the chance) will show us how its done..
Obviously you feel war heros have card blanch . Republican can say WHATEVER they want but Democrats cannot. Good luck with that.
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Posted By: pumapurr @ 10/09/2008 11:15:23 AM
There is nothing wrong with being effeminate. But-- it does not translate into votes for president. When Obama trys to pull off big macho talk about chasing down bad guys it only reinforces his weak brand of maleness. Is he going to hissy-slap Putin into submission? Pull his hair?
Obama is certainly not a classic "manly man". More of a "girly boy" image, which is why little quivering boys like Chris Matthews and the sports-loving-male-body-worshipping Olbermann just swoon for him. They do like to... think about him. Unfortunately the job of president is not about electing your neat and effete social studies teacher, which is exactly how Obama comes off. Being president is about perceived strength - and that's one big reason Kerry lost to the alpha male Bush.
Everyone senses that McCain, Palin, Hillary, Biden, Bush, AND Michelle could kick Omama's ass. (On the other hand Dukakis would be a fair fight. That tells you quite a bit.) This is a truth that registers down deep.
Sorry, PC or not, if this were 18th-century France, Omamaboy would be parading around in his "fop" clothes, wearing a wig and taking his snuff with a perfumed handkerchief on his frilly sleeve, all the while exclaiming that he is not to be trifled with for he is a most fearsome fellow. Oh! I dare say!-
Posted By: Mimi13 @ 10/09/2008 11:24:53 AM
What a detailed study of Obama! You must want him really, really bad.
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Posted By: yayobama! @ 10/09/2008 12:57:15 PM
Comparing Obama to an 18th century French dude? Really? Maybe you should send that cheap one liner to the McCain campaign and see if they'll use that one, too. Seems like they're really reaching to score points these days...
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Posted By: Cazador1972 @ 10/09/2008 3:01:26 PM
Sadly, it would probably be their most creative line too! : )
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Posted By: yayobama! @ 10/09/2008 12:59:28 PM
Comparing Obama to an 18th century French dude? Really? Maybe you should send that cheap one-liner to the McCain campaign - they might like to use that one, too. Seems like the are really reaching to earn points these days...
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Posted By: cani77 @ 10/09/2008 2:31:50 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 ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything in the last 80 years.
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 didnt 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. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
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 crashing 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 talking about obama
which means 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 and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ-
Posted By: blackcourt @ 10/09/2008 2:43:58 PM
In 2005 Senator McCain brought a bill before congress that would have regulated the habits of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The bill was rejected by congressional democrats who said that neither Fannie Mae nor Freddie Mac have any problems. Go do some research.
In that time Senator Obama has received $144,000 from Fannie and Freddie. As a matter of fact he is the third highest recipient over the last ten years. A pretty daunting figure considering he has only been a senator for three of those ten years.
You tell me who is to blame... the guy who tried to fix it three years ago... or the guy who was sucking money out of them until they went under.
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Posted By: cani77 @ 10/09/2008 2:31:41 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 ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything in the last 80 years.
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 didnt 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. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
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 crashing 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 talking about obama
which means 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 and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ-
Posted By: blackcourt @ 10/09/2008 2:40:21 PM
In 2005 Senator McCain brought a bill before congress that would have regulated the habits of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The bill was rejected by congressional democrats who said that neither Fannie Mae nor Freddie Mac have any problems. Go do some research.
In that time Senator Obama has received $144,000 from Fannie and Freddie. As a matter of fact he is the third highest recipient over the last ten years. A pretty daunting figure considering he has only been a senator for three of those ten years.
You tell me who is to blame... the guy who tried to fix it three years ago... or the guy who was sucking money out of them until they went under.
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Posted By: cani77 @ 10/09/2008 2:32:00 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 ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything in the last 80 years.
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 didnt 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. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
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 crashing 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 talking about obama
which means 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 and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ-
Posted By: blackcourt @ 10/09/2008 2:39:54 PM
In 2005 Senator McCain brought a bill before congress that would have regulated the habits of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The bill was rejected by congressional democrats who said that neither Fannie Mae nor Freddie Mac have any problems. Go do some research.
In that time Senator Obama has received $144,000 from Fannie and Freddie. As a matter of fact he is the third highest recipient over the last ten years. A pretty daunting figure considering he has only been a senator for three of those ten years.
You tell me who is to blame... the guy who tried to fix it three years ago... or the guy who was sucking money out of them until they went under.
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Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 10/09/2008 1:24:15 PM
Vote John McCain!!!! Vote John McCain!!!!
I want the President to be someone who can think for himself and not rely exclusively like a blind person on a particular advisor. I want someone who understands numbers and can make analytical decisions himself. Years of computing payloads, fuel requirements, weather and distances as a pilot are the experiences that John McCain brings to the table when listening to economic proposals. His eyes will not glaze over when there are ten page budget spreadsheet proposals presented to him.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden have no mathematical or quantitative education or experience between them. They do not teach accounting in law school.
That is why they offer basic basic accounting to attorneys as continuing education classes after they are licensed. I also am willing to bet that neither Barack Obama or Joe Biden never took a basic accounting continuing legal education class to improve their lack of skills.
Both Obama and Biden were political science majors as undergraduate which means they have no quantitative training or mathematical background. The average nurse who gives vaccinations or antibiotics shots have better computational and mathematical training than either Joe Biden or Barack Obama. A nurse knows not to give you a tenfold quantity of any particular drug and has a good foundation in mathematics. Similarly all pilots are trained in vectors and physics.
John McCain is the one who can come up with solutions to our economic problems.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden are mathematically challenged. Send them back to school.
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Posted By: forte88 @ 10/09/2008 1:51:27 PM
I'm so glad you brought up education. Lets see.. McCain graduated 5th from last in the Naval Academy. Yeah, I'm sure accounting is a HUGE on the carriculum there. Even if it was, he was 5th from last in his class. Then there's Palin. She took 6 years and attended 5 seperate colleges to obtain a 4 year degree in journalism. Now, Obama, Harvard Law Degree, Graduated Magna cume loude, and President of Harvard Law Review (an extremely prestigous position). Biden has a law degree from Stanford and teaches Constitutional law. Now, given the fact that the president is sworn in to Protect, and Uphold the Constitution of the United States, I would prefer someone that is learned in Constitutional Law over an accountant. Palin couldn't even name one supreme court ruling other than Roe V Wade nor does she understand the position of the Vice President per her debate statements. And this is who you want to protect and uphold the constitution? You my friend are scary..
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Posted By: blackcourt @ 10/09/2008 2:08:51 PM
How is turning our country into a socialist republic defending the constitution? How is trying to rewrite the 2nd amendment defending the constitution? How is being unable to prove that you were born in the United States defending the constitution?
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Posted By: Pia1981 @ 10/09/2008 2:23:16 PM
You are scary.
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Posted By: blackcourt @ 10/09/2008 2:36:49 PM
It is scary to think of what Obama will do to this country. I agree.
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Posted By: Pia1981 @ 10/09/2008 2:22:44 PM
Second. Excellent comment!
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Posted By: barfly @ 10/09/2008 1:51:12 PM
You can't be serious...
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Posted By: cani77 @ 10/09/2008 2:32:12 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 ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything in the last 80 years.
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 didnt 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. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
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 crashing 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 talking about obama
which means 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 and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ-
Posted By: blackcourt @ 10/09/2008 2:35:29 PM
In 2005 Senator McCain brought a bill before congress that would have regulated the habits of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The bill was rejected by congressional democrats who said that neither Fannie Mae nor Freddie Mac have any problems. Go do some research.
In that time Senator Obama has received $144,000 from Fannie and Freddie. As a matter of fact he is the third highest recipient over the last ten years. A pretty daunting figure considering he has only been a senator for three of those ten years.
You tell me who is to blame... the guy who tried to fix it three years ago... or the guy who was sucking money out of them until they went under.
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Posted By: LLiving10 @ 10/09/2008 1:55:38 PM
...VP who clearly, clearly is not even close to being ready for National office, specifically the next in line to the Presidency?"
THIS is another thing I don't understand, keeping in mind that i could not care less who is pres, since I'm not reliant on the govt for anything, but i see NO obama experience? None. Palin, that is Palin the VP pick, has significant more executive / leadership experience. How do people keep writing this about her when this is completely indisputable. It completely boggles the mind, and i have 2 Masters. A governor/mayor vs a community activist is apples and oranges. All I want the govt to do is to provide a defense for our country, nothing else.-
Posted By: forte88 @ 10/09/2008 2:09:12 PM
Educate yourself. If all you want is military, then vote for the libertarian.
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Posted By: forte88 @ 10/09/2008 2:07:56 PM
If you consider leaving the city you were a mayor of millions in debt, and as governor you appoint your high school buddies as your cabinet (cronyism), abuse of power to settle a personal vendetta (troopergate), obstruction of justice (refusing to honor subpoenas), and you consider this as leadership experience; I'd rather have the guy that has been in his state senate for many years, and 2 years in the Fed Senate that has a running mate with over 20 years in the Senate. The rest is idealogy. Obama and Biden support my political idealogy.
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Posted By: LLiving10 @ 10/09/2008 2:06:38 PM
By the way, most of the pro obama posts are paid people from moveon and other orgs. Been proven. It explains the insane logic if you are sitting their with a boggled mind.
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Posted By: LLiving10 @ 10/09/2008 2:04:30 PM
USA changes its name to Detroit. That's where things are headed with an obama administration. Is that what you people want? Did you know that MI is a ruined state, because of Detroit? It's a giant sucking hole filled with unproductive lazy govt reliant leaches.
Please Americans, don't let the US become Detroit. I guess you can take any inner city for that matter.
The United States of Detroit. Detroit is what happens when this type of mentality leads.
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