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  • Posted By: 7dollars @ 10/08/2008 8:40:43 PM

    america deserves another prez just like bush...

    i hope the republicans win.

    i'd love to see america go down the drain!

    i'd laugh...ha,ha,ha....

    phony republcan creeps...ha,ha,ha.

    christians & rednecks...bush's kind of people! ...mc cain's kind of folks.

    • Posted By: mcdeere72 @ 10/09/2008 10:22:44 AM

      I've seen you post this other places, why waste time if you're just going to post the same thing every time?

  • Posted By: DoNotWantOpinionNEWSPlease @ 10/08/2008 9:14:32 AM

    If McCain's wife had made the comment, "This is the first time I have been proud of my country!" The liberal news would still be running her in the ground...Obama's wife said it...Nothing!

    McCain is experience. He has put his LIFE on the line for this country. Obama...is a junior senator. He will turn this country into a socialist country. He will tax us all into poor house. Why are people looking for the government to fix their lives...Go to WORK..Study...Get a LIFE...and vote McCain...Sit at home and wait on a check ...Vote for Obama.

    As far as Palin for VP, she is a breath of fresh air. You ask who is she? As mayor, she has been working for her country longer than Obama...She has much more experience that Obama does...Look at his record!! How smart does someone have to be to see the records...Or do you just refuse to look at the facts. God help us!!

    • Posted By: Rahz @ 10/08/2008 11:08:32 AM

      I know what Michelle was expressing when she said this is the first time that she was proud of this country. You obviously don't understand that even though we (Black Americans) have lived in this country for more than 400 years, we have never been considered "human" and often treated worst than livestock. Imagine that it was only 40 years ago that we were "granted" the right to vote ( which becasue it is the Voting Right " Act" could be taken away at any time). We have struggled through slavery, jim crow and Civil Rights and all the while treated like we were less than and not a part of America. To me, it was not until 9/11 that the view of us changed. I often tell people that on 9/10 I was still a n----. On 9/12 I became an American because that is when White America fimally recognized that we were not the enemy.

      • Posted By: edjones65 @ 10/09/2008 10:15:46 AM

        That statement you made was very well said, asides from a difference of political opinion. I can agree with what you said whole heartedly in terms of racism, thank you.

      • Posted By: dianlarkin @ 10/08/2008 11:35:33 AM

        Rahz you are right we white americans do not really get it

        and Obama -- if he never did another thing -- will go down in history as a hero for the race speech he gave which brought tears to both myself and my son who works now with black colleagues and sees racism first hand and hears from his co-workers how they feel in white america.....

        i naively thought if we only married each other the race issues would melt away -- not until obama's speech did i realize how wrong and naive that idea was

        the harm is much deeper than that....

    • Posted By: TJ21 @ 10/08/2008 9:36:58 AM

      What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review
      What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?

      What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said "I do" to?
      What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards?

      What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
      What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

      • Posted By: dianlarkin @ 10/08/2008 10:20:29 AM

        Why are McCain's record as an adulterer and his current wife's drug addiction and Palin's husband's terrorist activites and so much more ignored by the media and by the Chaos Train to Hell supporters

      • Posted By: dianlarkin @ 10/08/2008 10:19:15 AM

        thank you TJ -- and what if Joe Biden had spent his debate time winking and smirking and acting inappropriately sexual?

        What if Obama incited a crowd to KILL McCain the way 6-Pack swilling Palin incited her recent rally crowd to KILL Obama?

        BTW why won't 6-Pack Sarah agree to another debate with Biden? Too busy rallying the KKK ......

        McCain:
        Keating Five
        Iran Contras

        Palin:
        Alaskan Freedom Fighters (AIP)
        Abuse of Power
        Drill baby drill the polar bears to extinction

        Anyone who disagreed with Palin when she had only a little power as Mayor was swiftly retialiated against. The woman is now touring the country inciting hate. Just like Hitler in pre-WWII Germany. Can you imagine if this under-educated, know-nothing-about-foreign-policy-education-health care-economy but know plenty about hate and retaliation gets any real power!

  • Posted By: zenwriter @ 10/08/2008 6:01:13 PM

    You don't mention the disruptive, annoying role played by Tom Brokaw, who seemed intent on making the debate about him. Instead of drawing the candidates out on questions from the audience or Internet, he kept substituting his own not-so-brilliant questions, further distancing the event from a true Town Hall. He also kept worrying about the time they talked, without regard to whether it was interesting and absolutely stepping on what could have been interesting give and take. Also, the questions he chose from those submitted were rather bland and very similar to those of the previous debate, almost ensuring a high snooze factor. Others have noted he frequently said, "Thank you ,senator," after McCain spoke, but not after Obama. All in all a boring and rather pretentious performance.

    • Posted By: bherath @ 10/08/2008 7:27:14 PM

      I agree whole-heartedly. I hope he isn't selected for any debates in the future. He set such a dull tone and took up most of the candidates' time constantly reprimanding for how long the candidate is taking to state his point. he should have just said, "your time is up." rather than rattling on about it.

      • Posted By: mcdeere72 @ 10/09/2008 10:12:14 AM

        The amazing part is that same type of question was asked of Obama in a Reader Digest article. Went something like of these three options which would you work on first. Obama responded with I would work on all three, again like the yes no question, why listen to the question and answer with the information given to you.

  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/09/2008 9:53:59 AM

    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: dwolfe96 @ 10/08/2008 6:36:35 PM

    I Tivo'd the debate and watched it at my liesure. I felt McCain looked old and tired. His attacks are old news. The best part of the debate was when Obama responded to attacks about his judgement and brought up the very valid issue that McCain voted for the war and Obama didn't. This definitely points out McCains lack of judgement. As far as the economy, Barack wins. McCain is for his big business cronies and has a lackluster health plan. Do you know how much insurance you can purchase for $5000.00? Here in CA, my husband and myself pay $1330 per month with a $2000 deductible each. We can't retire because of this. I'm ready for a change.

    • Posted By: mcdeere72 @ 10/09/2008 9:51:40 AM

      The change will come and then you might be asking yourself why did I vote for this guy again?

  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/09/2008 9:43:52 AM

    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: cani77 @ 10/09/2008 9:43:39 AM

    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: researchman @ 10/08/2008 10:33:13 PM

    McCain doesn't have to talk about himself because his years of Political record define this man and his Patriotism. What is most alarming is the publics acceptance of Obama's Tax and Spend politics (voting to raise taxes 90 times) and voting present almost every other time. If you look at the taxation watch dog organizations you'll see that his plans will far outspend McCain in this time of deficit. Spending in a deficit...sounds like California and its social policy woes. Does anyone care about small businesses or his flip flopping on drilling and nuclear energy. You don't know Obama he has very little record to stand behind. Obama's terrorist and felon affiliations are alarming too. You don't know this man. It's time that McCain exposes him and stops being polite.

    • Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 10/08/2008 10:42:36 PM

      Well actually, considering McCain's entire political life has been funded by Cindy McCain's family business, which was founded on the strength of the Mafia in her daddy's assocations with Bugsy Segal, I'd say McCain's ties are more than just a little shady. Obama is a political SAINT by comparison. That's why McCain's camp keeps trying to embellish and aggradize this Ayers stuff - it's such a stretch and the Annenberg Foundation was founded by staunch Republicans (this is the org that Obama chaired while Ayers was a board member).... so BIG DEAL, Dummies, is that all you got? Oh, no, sorry, next you'll be dredging up Reverent Wright again.

      Believe me, the McCains and the Palins have got plenty of nasty skeletons, way worse than Senator Obama's little flies, in their closets. Palin looks like the biggest damn phony that ever existing - she's a total piss artist for becoming the VP nominee, totally out of her league!!!

      Does it not bother you to support two candidates who are making a farce of our democratic election process this year?

      • Posted By: mcdeere72 @ 10/09/2008 9:39:50 AM

        Maybe you should look at the adv. that Barrack has put out. You know the one with the Keating 5, but your the one saying that McCain is the only one that is doing character attacks.

      • Posted By: mcdeere72 @ 10/09/2008 9:34:25 AM

        So, we are allowed to say whatever we want about McCain and Obama is off limits? Thats what you are saying by stating "your facts" about McCain and the money he's using to run and then the Mafia claim. Your logic is like your canidate's on taxing corporations, not thought through.

  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/09/2008 9:29:38 AM

    http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo

  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/09/2008 9:29:29 AM

    http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo

  • Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 10/08/2008 10:46:07 PM

    McCain attacked relentlessly, but didn't knock Obama down.

    Hooray for OBAMA and all he stands for: Change, Progress, Hope, Intelligence, Fairness/Justice

    Here's what the McCain campaign is sounding like lately: The Straight-Hatred Express.

    • Posted By: mcdeere72 @ 10/09/2008 9:26:15 AM

      Why not eliminate the screening process and give the crowd the microphones and state the crowd can address either canidate and the moderator is there to enforce time? Then we would get some real answers than just the rhetoric. Then we could see an effect on the polls.

  • Posted By: Debunked! @ 10/08/2008 10:37:17 AM

    I think the only debate the really made a difference was the VP debate. It was Sarah who had to prove herself. If Sarah would have fell flat on her face then I believe that would have been a game changer but that definitely was not the case. I thought last night's debate was boring. I was taken aback to hear McCain refer to Obama as "that one", I gotta admit I got a chuckle out of that. But it was a bit strange.

    It would be interesting if the next debate mainly focused on the candidates character, judgment and associations. I think that would be game changer in either direction. Instead of voters getting caught up in rhetoric, they will be able to get a good sense of who both men really are and how likely they are to follow thru with everything they are promising.




    • Posted By: dianlarkin @ 10/08/2008 10:42:30 AM

      Sarah did fall flat on her face HELLO winking and smirking and you betcha and talking about Joe 6-Pack -- are you kidding? she is an insult

      any why won't she agree to another debate?

      • Posted By: edjones65 @ 10/08/2008 10:49:08 AM

        She did agree but only one was scheduled.

        • Posted By: dianlarkin @ 10/08/2008 11:02:53 AM

          wrong ABC has asked her repeatedly to do another debate and she says repeatedly no

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

            I'd love to see an article or something to prove that Palin has declined any other debates. It'd be interesting to see if there are any reasons provided as to why. But it'd also be interesting to see if its actually true or not.

            • Posted By: kirkinsocal @ 10/08/2008 2:57:30 PM

              Blackcourt ??? Why do I feel I am reading a McCain employee???s words? Sure I love to read these when I get the chance but you are on every post - Just wondering in this economy what do you get paid to do this ??? Hope it is enough to make your mortgage payment this month? Come on she won't even do interviews - now your just being silly if you want me to believe that G. Palin wants to talk to anyone besides those torch burning mobs! Oh sorry I disagree with you am I a Terrorist now? Not sure where the decency and moral line is now? IF I remember correctly we have freedom of Speech still, At least of course until Palin has her way - Oop's I gave it away "I'm a Catch voter"

              Does it bug you that no matter what you say or what venom you spout we cancel each other out ??? You vote is null???. Shucks and golly gee - Sorry bud???

              • Posted By: blackcourt @ 10/08/2008 3:43:56 PM

                Thanks for proving my point for me. I assumed that this was all a bunch of made up BS and it is. There isn't one person on here who can provide a link to anything that says that she has said no to more debates. The only response I got was a personal attack, accusing me of being a McCain employee. To be honest with you I don't even really like McCain... but I definately don't like the direction that Obama wants to take this country in. I don't need more government telling me what I can and cannot think, how I can and cannot spend my money or any of the other socialist beliefs that they are trying foster through the media. So I'm going to vote for the lesser of two evils. As far as who you vote for affecting me... it doesn't bother me in the slightest. You are the one who seems to be getting all worked up about it. I'll vote for who I want to and I guess you'll do the same. In the mean time I am going to share what facts I can find about each candidate and discuss them. If you dont' like I guess its a free country and all :)

                • Posted By: b dune @ 10/09/2008 9:05:40 AM

                  I notice you haven't commented on the link that shows Palins Polling numbers in Alaska have dropped - you asked for that link - you got it and yet no response....maybe you just don't want to get all confused with facts or the truth!

          • Posted By: edjones65 @ 10/08/2008 11:42:49 AM

            I will look into that, if it's true I will be disappointed by Palin and her tough talk after the debate.

        • Posted By: Russk2t @ 10/08/2008 11:03:34 AM

          A tax cut to everyone making less than 200K will stimulate the economy far better than a cut to the rich CEO's and oil companies. Why does McCain cling to the deceit that giving to the ultra rich will make it all better due to "trickle down" economics? The oil companies are already raking in money at windfall rates, and have been for years. If they are not already investing their surplus to create more jobs with higher pay (and they are not) then how can anyone believe that increasing their surplus of money will make any difference?

          • Posted By: Abots22 @ 10/08/2008 11:31:55 AM

            I'm really do not think that it will. Take for example Detroit (where I live) where something like 1 in 7 jobs is auto-related (I am not, but that's besides the point). When I say auto-related, I'm not soley talking directly about GM, Ford or Chrysler I'm talking about tier 1, 2, and 3 companies such as the seatbelt manufacturers, navigation system manufacturers, management consulting firms, etc., etc. My point is, that as companies like GM, Ford and Chrysler have their taxes raised not only does it impact their ability to be profitable, hire, and make cars, it absolutley "trickles down" to adversley affect the profitability or mere existance of the tier 1, 2 and 3 suppliers as well. So, not only will the tier 1, 2 and 3 supplier hurt because the Big 3 are taxed higher, but also because a good majority of them will also be taxed higher under Obama. This is the principle behind the fact that basic economics says to not raise taxes, for anyone, during a time of economic decline. This is also why when a city tries to attract corporations, and diversify it's economy they usually give corporations tax incentives to relocate. You can even see this phenominon on a state by state basis. States like Michigan and Ohio have lost jobs while states like Arizona and Florida have seen signifigant growth. It is not cooincidence that Flroida and Arizona have lower state tax rates for businesses.

            • Posted By: Russk2t @ 10/08/2008 11:47:13 AM

              Your comments have some merit, but this is what has been going on for years and we are still in this mess. Time to try something different.

              • Posted By: Abots22 @ 10/08/2008 1:59:58 PM

                I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I would rather have a job than a tax cut.

            • Posted By: edjones65 @ 10/08/2008 11:41:13 AM

              good point, I bet many didn't think about it that way, very insightful thank you.

          • Posted By: dianlarkin @ 10/08/2008 11:14:56 AM

            thank you russkct

      • Posted By: blackcourt @ 10/08/2008 11:06:13 AM

        She has an 80% approval rating as the Governor of Alaska. Obama and his fellow Democrats in congress have an approval rating of 13%. What part of her doing a greater job makes her an insult? The real insult here is you sharing such an uninformed and biased opinion.

        • Posted By: bartsimpson2008 @ 10/08/2008 11:36:47 AM

          As of today it has been reported that Palin's approval rating in Alaska has dropped to 63%. I just saw the report on CNN. oops!

          • Posted By: blackcourt @ 10/08/2008 12:58:36 PM

            I'd love to see a link that supports your comment.

            • Posted By: b dune @ 10/09/2008 9:02:27 AM

              they gave you the link - check it out - or have your cousin do it - interesting for someone who spews "alot of nothing" as soon as someone challenges you - you want proof! Tough arguing with those who see your little game isn't it?

            • Posted By: bartsimpson2008 @ 10/08/2008 4:19:26 PM

              I can't find a link on CNN that says what the newscaster said on TV this morning but here is an older poll taken before todays results.
              http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/back-home-sarah.html
              This poll shows her approval rating is now at 68%.

        • Posted By: b dune @ 10/09/2008 9:00:04 AM

          Blackcourt - you sure do alot of yapping for someone who knows so little. Palins poll number was at 83% -one month after her nomination her number went down to 68% in Alaska - as of yesterday it is down to 63%...what is it the people in Alaska know that we don't? Maybe she's not telling the same story to all of us and they know it - bet your 3rd grade cousin knew that - give him a call!

        • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 10/08/2008 10:02:48 PM

          Not anymore. Before the debate she was at minus 10. Inform yourself before you post.

        • Posted By: sailorgirl @ 10/08/2008 12:13:55 PM

          You might want to do another poll for popularity after her debate performance.

      • Posted By: Debunked! @ 10/08/2008 10:57:33 AM

        Yeah, she fell so hard that she is having to move her rallies to bigger venues to accommodate everyone who wants to attend her rallies. She fell so hard that tickets have to be issued to attend her rallies. She fell so hard that she is pulling in larger crowds than Obama, McCain and Biden (in some cases probably put together) You are so right-----she fell hard!!!

        Sarah is a sensation INSPITE of the constant attacks from the liberal media and democrats!! Now that's impressive!!

        • Posted By: dianlarkin @ 10/08/2008 11:02:03 AM

          and debunked that is terrifying -- why is this country so full of anti-God and anti-American haters following that no-nothing under-educated arrogant vicious trash spewed by Palin? what has happened to this country

          • Posted By: AskPlus @ 10/08/2008 12:00:43 PM

            No. It's not true. And the only people attending her rallies are those who would vote for them no matter what. There numbers are the same and dropping. She's not a sensation, she's a train-wreck.

            • Posted By: blackcourt @ 10/08/2008 1:12:35 PM

              Yes... it is true... people like Sarah Palin. Some people hate her... but thats the way it goes when you actually stand for something. As far as anit-God... anti-American... isn't that the Obama campaign? Palin is a very devoted follower of God... something that the media has actually attempted to use against her.

              • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 10/08/2008 10:04:32 PM

                What exactly does Sarah Palin stand for? Certainly not morals and family values. She herself was pregnant before marriage.

        • Posted By: Oilhater @ 10/08/2008 12:11:09 PM

          They're only sending her to places where the Rebublican base is very strong. I also bet that the people who attend her rallies are screened to make sure of their political affiliation just like McTheusula does in his so call town hall meetings.

        • Posted By: AskPlus @ 10/08/2008 12:01:50 PM

          Wasn't Ms. Clinton a Dem too? Like you? Oops, you slipped.

      • Posted By: Abots22 @ 10/08/2008 10:53:12 AM

        Diane, let's talk policy for just a second. I've tried to read all of your posts, and it seems you haven't yet laid out a logical, unemmotional arguement for why you feel Obama is the better candidate. Unfortuanly, I've seen a lot of the same from most democrats. It seems the best answer you and they have is, "I'm sick of W so I'm voting for the furtherest thing from him", without actually examining whether that makes sense on a policy by policy basis. Let's start with an easy one, why do you think Obama's tax policy is better than McCain's? If you do not want to talk taxes, then you pick a topic. Personnaly, I'm sick of hearing rhetoric when it comes to people deciding about our president.

        • Posted By: luelue @ 10/08/2008 2:07:10 PM

          Abots22, were you listening last night? Obama clearly laid out his tax policy. The top 5% income earners will see their taxes increase (those earning over $250K annually). 95% of income earners will not be adversely affected by these tax changes: those making between $200k and $249k will have no tax changes. and those making less than $200k will see their taxes go down. Obama hopes that increasing taxes on the affluent will pay for the social programs - such as healthcare reforms and energy independence - that he also proposed.

          Clean your ears out.

          Question: what is McCain's tax policy? How is he going to pay for what ails us?

          • Posted By: Abots22 @ 10/08/2008 5:12:48 PM

            My question wasn't "what is Obama's tax plan?" It was "Why do you think it is better?" I know what his plan is and it scares the &^%$$ out of me. Read further down and you'll see my view.

        • Posted By: dianlarkin @ 10/08/2008 11:13:44 AM

          Actually i am beyond W and do not recall mentioning him -- can you tell me where I mentioned bush -- McCain & Palin are worse than W and do not, as far as i can see, have much to do with W other than the DERAGULATE and IRAN-CONTRA and KEATING FIVE fraud and crime pieces

          Policy -- Palin's lawsuit against the national government to remove the polar bear from the endangered species list so 6-pack sarah can drill baby drill their habitat, and them, out of extstence.

          policy -- McCain's 'health care' adds the cost of employer paid health care to our taxes (thereby raising the middle classes taxes) and does not force health insurance companies actually providing health care -- obama's policy does not increase our taxes and does take on insurance providers to make them actually provide health insurance -- health insurance is important to me

          Policy -- Chaos McCain 'suspended' his presidential campaign causing all sorts of confusion and chaos and never really did suspend his campaign -- that sort of operating policy is dangerous and unstable

          Policy -- McCain intends more wars -- how will he fund them without raising taxes and where will he get the human cannon fodder for them

          Policy - McCain intends to stop all government programs except military ones (& vet programs which I agree must stay in place and evern expand) i personally believe strongly in education and I believe in public television and I beleive in athletic programs and I believe in the arts and in medicare and social security...etc.

          Policy -- Palin intends to shove abstinance down everyone'e thraot and call it sex education when your own high school daughter's pregnancy tells you taht doesn't work

          Policy -- Palin -- a fundamtentalist -- wants to ban books and erode the first amendment -- I support the Constitution what don't you Chaos supporters understand about our freedom being based in the Consitution?

          Policy -- McShame & 6-Pack want a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage -- the Constitution is to confer and protect rights not withhold rights that is a perversion of our sacred Constitution

          Policy -- Beer swilling, hate mongering Palin wants to take away this country's hard fought abortion rights. No thanks.

          Policy -- McCain & Palin calling their opponent a lair and a terrorist scares the hell out of me -- i am FOR the constitution and AGAINST nazi politics

          etc. -- and the policies of Chaos McCain & 6-Pack Palin that you favor? he changes his policies all the time so really who can say what he is for other than hate and being white

    • Posted By: AskPlus @ 10/08/2008 12:02:34 PM

      Palin lost that one too. Needs more witch craft.

  • Posted By: StefS @ 10/08/2008 11:29:43 AM

    It's clear the Obama was more composed and honest about his plan while in the white house. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what questions McCain answered. He reminds me of a young boy facing his parent's, trying to avoid punishment.

    • Posted By: paproudmom @ 10/08/2008 11:32:47 AM

      It is not clear to me. While watching with friends, we counted numerous times where Obama never answered the question. It was so hard to listen to him without falling asleep. He reminds me of some of my really really boring professors who attempted to sound impressive but really said nothing much at all.

      • Posted By: AskPlus @ 10/08/2008 11:52:45 AM

        You must have attended one of those "here's a degree" colleges, or haven't progressed far enough to actually count the answers. Every news outlet reported that it was McCain that needed to answer questions - and did not. But you must have a different independent news source and are right -- and the news sources are wrong.

        • Posted By: blackcourt @ 10/08/2008 12:04:23 PM

          Really hard to take much stock in the media's interpetation of anything political these days. They are doing everything that they can to get Obama elected. They don't run one single negative story about Obama, in direct contrast to the stories they run about McCain. Its hard to believe that someone so "well educated" can't see this for themself. But I'm sure you have some excuse or another for it so lets hear it...

          • Posted By: ChurchOfRealism @ 10/08/2008 1:28:06 PM

            The problem is your candidate sucks and has about as much charisma and likability as a toad. He can't campaign on issues. Abortion is not an issue this cycle, neither is gay marriage, it's the economy and with the economy, Republicans lose big time, sorry.

            • Posted By: blackcourt @ 10/08/2008 2:59:19 PM

              Well I'm glad that you think that the President of the United States should be the most popular guy instead of the best guy for the job. Thats what is wrong with this election. As far as the economy being the focus of the campaign... I can't disagree with you there... but I can disagree with you on the Republicans losing. It was the Republicans and McCain specifically who brought the issues with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before congress... TWO YEARS AGO!!! Democrats shot them down.

              • Posted By: b dune @ 10/09/2008 8:39:28 AM

                there you go again - little facts - actually you repubs blame this on Clinton from 1999. Then McCain said he made it an issue in 2003 - Let's see Repub President - Repub controlled Congress - why not make the changes then? Then in 2005 McCain said he brought it up again - Repub President - Repub Congress - why not get it changed then? Now you repubs say nothing happened because Dems took charge in 2006 - what were you waiting for?

              • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 10/08/2008 9:52:37 PM

                What of the years before 2006? What did McCain do about the mortgage crisis?

            • Posted By: MissWorld @ 10/08/2008 2:53:19 PM

              ChurchofRealism...thank you for saying that.

    • Posted By: blackcourt @ 10/08/2008 11:40:14 AM

      What exactly is Obama's plan once he becomes President then... because I haven't found one single answer to the question. I mean he talks about alot of things... but he never pins anything down. At least McCain came out last night and said that he thinks that the $700B should be used to buy up peoples bad mortgages and rework the financing on it so that they can actually afford them.

      • Posted By: b dune @ 10/09/2008 8:35:01 AM

        you do alot of talking - little facts - McCain didn't say use the 750 Billion Bailoout to buy up mortgages - HE SAID HE WANTED ANOTHER 300 BILLION ON TOP OF THE 750 ALREADY ALLOCATED - you know, from the guy who wants to cut spending!

  • Posted By: floridacadman @ 10/09/2008 8:19:31 AM

    As an employer, I notice 2 types of employees. Those that try and make themselves look good by making everyone else look bad, and those that make themselves look good by doing the job.
    McCain is clearly the former. I dont trust those types, its all about misdirection. He should know better, and the fact he doesnt, makes him a scarey choice.
    By the way, I saw Obama in Asheville last weekend. He was 11 minutes late, which was ok with me. But I guess the point of the poster below is that if it was raining, he'd make a bad president??? Brilliant conclusion.

  • Posted By: newsweek is garbage @ 10/09/2008 5:45:46 AM

    Larry Sinclair accuses Barack Obama of homosexual acts and drug use in video posted on YouTube


    WASHINGTON ??? The electrifying presidential campaign of Barack Obama faces a new challenge ??? a Minnesota man who claims he took cocaine in 1999 with the then-Illinois legislator and participated in homosexual acts with him.

    When his story was ignored by the news media, Larry Sinclair made his case last month in a YouTube video, which has now been viewed more than a quarter-million times. And when it was still ignored by the media, Sinclair filed a suit in Minnesota District Court, alleging threats and intimidation by Obama's staff.

    Sinclair, who says he is willing to submit to a polygraph test to validate his claims, will now get his chance ??? thanks to a website offering $10,000 for the right to record it and $100,000 to Sinclair if he passes.

    "My motivation for making this public is my desire for a presidential candidate to be honest," Sinclair told WND by telephone. "I didn't want the sex thing to come out. But I think it is important for the candidate to be honest about his drug use as late as 1999."

    (Story continues below)


    Sinclair, who lives in Duluth and describes himself as "gay," claims he "personally engaged in sexual activity and personally used illegal drugs in November 1999" with the man who is now the leading Democratic presidential candidate. He claims the activity took place in the back of Sinclair's limousine and occurred again, later, in his hotel. Sinclair also says he personally no longer uses drugs.

    In his lawsuit, filed last week, he charges his civil rights have been violated by Obama and the Democratic Party. Named as defendants in the case are the presidential candidate, David Axelrod of AKP Message and Media in Chicago and the Democratic National Committee.

    Sinclair charges Obama smoked crack cocaine in the limo while Sinclair snorted powdered cocaine provided by the legislator. He says the two met in an upscale Chicago lounge before leaving in Sinclair's limousine where the drug use and sex took place for the first time.

    Sinclair says he is a registered Democrat but has never voted for any candidate. He is 46 and claims to be physically disabled.

    He says he was not physically impaired in 1999 when the alleged incidents with Obama took place.

    Calls placed to the Obama campaign were not returned.

    See Larry Sinclair's allegations:

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    • Posted By: b dune @ 10/09/2008 8:02:08 AM

      now if you could add that the drugs had been stolen and supplied by Cindy McCain they I think he would have had a story!

    • Posted By: joe_mama @ 10/09/2008 6:06:10 AM

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      Tell us another joke....that one was hilarious.

      JM

  • Posted By: neda @ 10/08/2008 7:04:34 PM

    I was looking at presidential clips from today's campaign. One clip had obama rattling of all these things he is going to do and had McCain saying nothing. I thought to my self that mccain should be saying more, and then I realized I was watching cnn. At which point, I became immediately and absolutely angry. I realized the clips ccn showed was played to manipulate my view of the candidates. How dare cnn rob me? They are trying to rob me of my right to make an unbais informative decision on who I believe is the best candidate for president. Their report was distorting and abused my rights. Cnn is wrong. I have been rob by fannie mae and freddy mac, daily my retirement is being flushed down the toilet, wall street is reaping me of, I???m to pay for others bad judgment and greed, what little I have is going to eaten by taxes and now I???m being robbed by the media. Is there no end to this misery?

    • Posted By: b dune @ 10/09/2008 7:56:36 AM

      you and lori just nedd to go to where you can hear what you want - FOX! Now there is an organization that is fair and balanced - it's viewers are fair and balanced - and I might add objective. The poll results of Debate #1 - McCain 86% - Obama 12% - Debate #2 - Palin 86% - Biden 12% - Debate #3 - McCain 86% - Obama 12% - the good thing is if for some reason they lose the power at Debate #4 at least the FOX viewers won't have to stay up late - pretty sure the results will be 86% -12%!

  • Posted By: ICYEYES800 @ 10/09/2008 12:06:29 AM

    I think Obama should take some good advice John McCain's dad gave him....that a man without honor has absolutely NO WORTH.....and when I heard that I thought it may serve Osama well....because he is apparently lacking in the HONOR department!!

    • Posted By: joe_mama @ 10/09/2008 6:16:26 AM

      Why? Because he didn't serve in the military?

      For the record:

      WWI - Woodrow Wilson (no military experience) - we won
      WWII - FDR (no miiltary experience) - we won
      Korean War - Ike (tons of military experience) - we tied
      Bay of Pigs - Kennedy (military experience) - YIIKES!!!!
      Vietnam/Cambodia - LBJ/Nixon (military experience) - we tied (lost, depending on who you ask)
      Beirut - Reagan (stateside military experience during WWII) - got spanked
      Somalia - Cinton (no military experience) - got spanked

      In summation:
      Military Experience: 0-4
      No Military Experience: 2-1

      Does this mean that not having military experience makes you a better or worse President?

      No it means IT DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL!!!!

      Love,
      JM

  • Posted By: izme @ 10/08/2008 9:45:58 AM

    Wow...Obama will cut taxes for all those families that DON'T MAKE ENOUGH TO PAY TAXES!!!!

    • Posted By: joe_mama @ 10/09/2008 6:04:24 AM

      McCain will raise them.

    • Posted By: TJ21 @ 10/08/2008 9:51:44 AM

      You throw out the most random nonsense. Do you not have google on your computer?

      • Posted By: izme @ 10/08/2008 10:19:25 AM

        Did you say your mind is garbled???

  • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/08/2008 9:39:12 AM

    Did someone noticed when McCain said they would defend Israel militarily if Iran bomb it w/o UN consent and Obama said first I would avoid Iran to obtain the nuclear capabilities.......
    That's brain!!!!! no Bomb, bomb Iraq, lets bomb Syria, Irak etc.
    I don t want McCain or Palin near that red button!!!!!!

    • Posted By: izme @ 10/08/2008 9:44:08 AM

      So, Obama doesn't plan to defend our strongest ally. He never said he would bomb Iran if they bombed Isreal. He's weak!! Would he bomb Iran if they bombed us?????

      • Posted By: joe_mama @ 10/09/2008 6:03:12 AM

        If Iran bombed us...

        ....Obama would first raise taxes. Then he would tell all the pregnant women out there that they have to get abortions. Then would bomb us too! Then he would surrender unconditionally (iIsn't that what happens when you talk to somebody? You automatically surrender?).

        Oh yeah, then he would bomb us too! Don't forget, he is, Muslim, and this is part of some 48 year old plot by Muslim radicals who prepared their Manchurian candidate JUST IN CASE they ever had an ideological war with the Western World, right? That whole thing about going to a Christian Church for 20 years (and being blasted for it) was just a ploy to distract people from the obvious. Right?

        Grow up and get a life, loser. Iran can't bomb Israel IF THEY DON'T HAVE THE BOMB!!!

        Of course, that's FAR TO COMPLICATED for an idiot like you to understand.

        Love,
        JM

  • Posted By: MChieco @ 10/08/2008 11:51:44 PM

    If you ran a small business office and wanted to hire a "clerk" and that "clerk" was 72 years old and told you economics were not his strong point and he did not know how to send an email , would you hire him ?

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