Giving In to the Dark Side

Confident in his own integrity, McCain excuses himself for less honorable actions.

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  • Posted By: haynessemperfi @ 10/18/2008 2:03:18 AM

    PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TO BE HELD SUNDAY AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

    The Free and Equal Elections Coalition (FREE) and the Columbia Political Union are pleased to announce that a Presidential debate will be held this coming Sunday, October 19th, 2008, on the campus of Columbia University.

    ALL SIX of the Presidential candidates who appear on enough state ballots to acquire the 270 Electoral Votes needed to become President are invited. They are as follows (listed in alphabetical order by affiliation):

    Constitution Party Candidate: Chuck Baldwin
    Democratic Party Candidate: Barack Obama
    Green Party Candidate: Cynthia McKinney
    Independent Candidate: Ralph Nader
    Libertarian Party Candidate: Bob Barr
    Republican Party Can John McCain

    The Columbia Political Union will present the debate from 8:00pm to 10:00pm in the Altschul Auditorium, located at 417 International Affairs Building. The debate will be moderated by Pacifica Radio's Amy Goodman, the host of "Democracy Now!". CSPAN will cover the debate, and live radio broadcasts are expected.

    "The Columbia Political Union is committed to energizing political discourse on Columbia's campus," said Allon Brann, Columbia Political Union Publisher. "As a non-partisan organization, we work to provide students with opportunities to encounter and engage with political ideas across a wide ideological spectrum, and on a wide range of issues."

    "It is with these goals in mind that we have organized this Presidential Debate: to give all candidates-- either within or outside of the political "mainstream"-- the opportunity to speak directly to students about their goals on the issues they deem critical for this country."

    "We have invited all eligible candidates, and it is our sincere hope that all will participate, to ensure the substance and rigor of the dialogue which we believe is crucial at this time."

    Certified letters officially inviting each candidate have been sent to the respective campaigns.

    The Free and Equal Elections Coalition and the Columbia Political Union await the response from the candidates. All candidates' supporters are encouraged to contact the Presidential campaigns and urge them to attend.

    The Columbia Political Union seeks to enhance involvement in the political process, domestic and international, and draw every member of the campus community into an ongoing discussion of political ideas.

    FREE is a coalition of political parties, independent citizens and civic organizations formed to promote free and equal elections in the United States.

    http://www.freeandequal.org/events.php?id=7

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/16/2008 12:44:01 PM

    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: Young Hickory @ 10/17/2008 4:19:31 PM

      You ignoramus. Bush is just completing the most massive socialist expansion of government in history. His expansion of Medicare combined with the socialist takeover of the financial sector make his Republican administration the most socialist president since Nixon. Republicans talk a good game but the usually run administrations that are more socialist than Democrats ever could imagine. Also, only a fool would believe that the people who ran these financial institutions into the ground deserve the millions they are making off their incompentence.

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/16/2008 8:28:09 PM

    Baby I'll be there to take your hand,
    Baby I'll be there to share the land
    That they'll be giving away, when we all live together.

    So, in the exchange with "Joe the plumber" we find out that Obama really is as radical as his early political acquaintances, and is into the failed economic policy of wealth redistribution. Yahoo, back to the 70's we go! So now we know that an Obama presidency really would be as if it were Carter's lost second term after all.

    • Posted By: Young Hickory @ 10/17/2008 4:15:37 PM

      McCain taking our tax money and giving it to wealthy bankers, now that is what I call socialist wealth distribution on a massive 700 billion dollar scale. Let's see Obama top that!

  • Posted By: OrangeCountyCA @ 10/17/2008 12:48:31 AM

    Lest you labor under the mistaken belief that all black people favor Obama....



    http://www.atlah.org/broadcast/ndnr09-03-08.html

  • Posted By: The Dominican @ 10/16/2008 9:22:27 PM

    He choose to free fund raising instead the stablished by Electoral Law, it is an unfair battle,.... INSTEAD McCain maintain his promise using only the funding stablished by law!!!!

  • Posted By: The Dominican @ 10/16/2008 9:20:08 PM

    Gentle, soft, naive, pasive.... NOOOOOO!!!!! We need a MAN in the White House, the though job need a Though guy ... I will vote for McCain to the White House!!!!!!

  • Posted By: The Dominican @ 10/16/2008 9:18:11 PM

    "The free trade NAFTA revision speech was for politic use only I didn't meant that..." I will vote for McCain!!!

  • Posted By: The Dominican @ 10/16/2008 9:15:56 PM

    USD800,000 FOR ACORN!!!!!! WATCH OUT AMERICA!!!!

  • Posted By: The Dominican @ 10/16/2008 9:15:08 PM

    After de ACORN's fraud intent, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, etc. I will vote for McCain!... Risk to much for too little? No way!!!

  • Posted By: J.R. Seus @ 10/16/2008 11:47:23 AM

    Obama???s Peacock

    Obama has a peacock, it???s red and blue and green.
    Obama has a peacock to keep his image clean.
    Obama has a peacock to cover up his lies.
    Obama has a peacock to watch him when he flies.
    Obama has a peacock to censure John McCain.
    Obama has a peacock to wash the nation???s brain.
    Obama has a peacock to dirty Palin???s hair.
    Obama has a peacock that???s unjust and unfair.
    Obama has a peacock to keep us in a box,
    Until the peacock???s eaten by an angry, hungry FOX!

    Hold on to your feathers, for soon you will be stuck,
    And sir, good sir, at last, you???ll see you have run out of luck!

  • Posted By: J.R. Seus @ 10/16/2008 11:47:10 AM

    Obama-bin-Biden

    Obama-bin-Biden,
    Obama-bin-Biden,
    How does your ticket grow?
    With peacock spells and AKORN shells,
    And Farrakhan/Ayers in a row.

  • Posted By: ADELFAPINEDA @ 10/16/2008 10:37:55 AM

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  • Posted By: trazer222 @ 10/16/2008 12:09:59 AM

    Obama will tax those who fix our toilets - as such we will have to pay ten times more than we do now to fix a leak in our toilets. He will tax them so hard, we will not even be able to have working toilets in our house. Its sort of like the buildings in Chicago that Obama has allowed to deteriorate. We will get perhaps a small tax cut....but will be gouged by Obama hurting each and every one in the country. Don't Vote for this man!

  • Posted By: trazer222 @ 10/16/2008 12:07:48 AM

    There are so many young people who really don't understand that Obama is in bed with terrorists - he launched his campaign in his livingroom. He believes and has trained on how to defraud the American voter. He wants to take $ away from small business - meaning our cost to fix our toilets will sky rocket under Obama. Obama is just that - someone who cannot in any way - in any way - be trusted for anything.

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/15/2008 8:05:04 PM

    Meanwhile, Rep. John Murtha (D. Pa.) calls his own constituents "racist" but says Obama will win anyway.
    What a great way to campaign!

    http://www.newsweek.com/id/164058

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 10/15/2008 4:41:46 PM

    Why Bill Ayers is important to this campaign?
    John McCain should make the argument personal and something that the American people can identify and understand. John McCain views Bill Ayers as a founder of the Weathermen and Weather Underground and also founder of the Students for Democratic Society SDS on the campus of the University of Michigan. The University of Michigan had held the first sit-in against the war. John McCain and the other 600 Vietnam POWs believe Bill Ayers was responsible for prolonging the war and causing them to receive extra beatings by the North Vietnamese for refusing to show their exuberance for the antiwar effort in the United States. The North Vietnamese fought even harder and refused to negotiate or return our POWs given the organized antiwar protests in the United States. All the North Vietnamese had to do was wait and domestic antiwar protests orchestrated by Bill Ayers would cause the United States to surrender.
    John McCain spent five and half years as a POW and personally received extra beatings because of Bill Ayers. Barack Obama views Bill Ayers as a reformed domestic terrorist who did despicable things in the past but should be given a second chance today. For Barack Obama there was never a need to keep a distance from Bill Ayers. Maybe if Barack Obama could have walked in John McCain???s shoes for just one day and suffered just one of the extra beatings that John McCain endured for five and a half years because of Bill Ayers and his Weathermen antiwar movement then maybe Barack Obama might appreciate a need to keep a distance from Bill Ayers. Along with the SDS Students for Democratic Society, Weathermen Underground, the Black Panther Party also actively opposed the Vietnam War. Barack Obama received the support of Southside Chicago Congressman and former Black Panther party member Bobby L. Rush during his bid for the Illinois US Senate seat.
    The Black Panther Party along with the Weathermen Underground prolonged John McCains captivity and caused him to receive extra beatings. It is ironic, that Bill Ayers led the antiwar protests during the Vietnam era that caused John McCain to receive extra beatings and to experience nearly six years of captivity, and today Barack Obama has been leading antiwar calls against the Iraq war. Barack Obama can not understand why John McCain is not happy that Barack Obama has not kept a distance from Bill Ayers. If Barack Obama had walked in John McCain???s or any of the other 600 American POWs shoes one day, he would have no problem understanding why he should have kept his distance from Bill Ayers. The word shunning comes to mind. If Barack Obama would have shunned Bill Ayers and members of the Black Panthers Party there would be no issue in tonights debate.

  • Posted By: good conscience @ 10/15/2008 3:42:15 PM

    Uh, 'scuse me, but I think we've already seen the latter, Mr McDarkSide himself. Over and over, because he thinks, like so many people befogged by their own colossal hubris, that apologizing is all that it takes. Apologies are only empty, ugly words unless they are immediately followed up with every action necessary to right the wrong done. Can any thinking person see McShame ever doing that? He would rather suffer a painful death! His past is so darkly tainted -- I think the things named in this article are just a very few of the total items -- that when he delivers his concession speech, he should at least have the spine to say to his party, ok, this nation has been forced to suffer at the hand of the Bush/Cheney/Rummy/Gonzalez/Rove/Addington/Rice thugs for 8 interminable years. Now, it's our turn to suck it up and deal with a new order. Think that will happen?

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/14/2008 9:52:24 PM

    "Press Releases

    AJC Strongly Condemns Rev. Jesse Jackson's Comment on American Jews
    October 14, 2008 - New York - The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has condemned the Rev. Jesse Jackson's statement about 'Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades.'
    "Rev. Jackson's remarks, which appeared in an interview with the journalist Amir Taheri in today's New York Post, echo classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish power," said AJC Executive Director David A. Harris. 'This statement, regrettably, is not the first troubling comment by Rev. Jackson regarding Israel, Zionism and the Jewish people.'

    Arguing as a private citizen that an Obama administration could bring significant change to U.S. foreign policy, Jackson was quoted as saying that "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" would lose much of their influence should Senator Obama be elected president."


    http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=849241&ct=6107743

    And people are upset about raciest comments some in the crowd are allegedly saying at Palin events. Isn't this the same Democrat leader who once called New York "Hymietown"?

    • Posted By: NJ-BJ @ 10/15/2008 12:04:41 PM

      Jesse Jackson speaks for Jesse Jackson. Remember this is the person who made unkind comments about Obama when he thought the microphone was not turned on.
      Also, this comment, as bad as it is, was not made at an Obama rally, nor was it encouraged by Obama the way Mrs. Pailen encouraged her supporters.

      Thirdly, This is NOT an incitement to violence the way some yelling "Kill him" or "off with his head" was at the republican events. I submit these are basically different things and cannot be compared. What do you think?

      • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 10/15/2008 1:25:12 PM

        I think you would be wrong.

        The FBIs Uniform Crime Reports as a portion of the US Dept.of Justice[ www.doj.gov],finds that Jews in America are among the most targeted for hate crimes in this nation,exceeding gays. The reasons for this lay in the libels aimed at this group of people by those such as Jackson,who espouses opinions no differant than those of the National Socialists who also felt that the ''Zionists''were a wirepulling cabal,exercising control of the economic,social and political destinies of entire nations. Anti-Semitism runs rampant in the black community,with Jews the images of distrust due entirely to words uttered by black leaders they look up to. This was a main focus of the Jackson-Sharpton tirades that led to the killings of Jews in NYC during the 1990s [Jackson,still smarting from his ''Hymietown''remarks in the 1980s,and Sharpton,for comparing Jews to ''diamond merchants'' and ''white interlopers'' ,whose invective led a young black man to walk into a Jewish-owned business[FREDDIES FASHION MART Massacre], off 125th St. in Harlem in 1995 and gun down seven people,including the owners, and kill another seven when he burned the business down including himself. This is precisely an incitement to violence couched in the suave terms of urbane racists such as Dr.Kaltenbrunner[executed at Nuremberg],Sir William Chamberlain, Reinard Heydrich, and other ''gangster intellectuals''who lived to see more violent means to deal with the Jews but began their rabble rousing towards this end with precisely the same sorts of comments as made by the anti-Semitic Jackson.

  • Posted By: GregHere @ 10/14/2008 8:04:33 PM

    ..................................The McCain Campaign Motto that Maverick McCain is using, Country First, is a real joke!!!! McCain and his Campaign are using what amounts to False Patriotism and Twisted Rhetoric when they say Country First when their policies and supporters on the Right Wing realy are for a philosophy of Me, Me, Me and Mine, Mine Mine!!! The Far Right Republicans are those who represent the Entrenched, Priveledged, Elite Special Interests who expect to hold their fine and comfortable protected positions while others get the Trickle Down Bits of life in America.......this is so obvious to see!!!

    • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 10/15/2008 12:57:38 PM

      Your reply is a non-sequitur. It does not carry within it the sort of factual instances I have already provided.[ Indeed,NEWSWEAK censors deleted the distasteful slang word for the female vagina as it was aimed at Palin for its obscene content,yet did not have the guts to report on how the men wearing these t-shirts in Philadelphia the day before yesterday applied it to a candidate for the Vice Presidency of this nation].
      Thus Clift is exposed as a farcical partisan. Those who espouse ''tolerance''yet show so damned little of it themselves ,while at the same time,seeing their outrages totally ignored by the Lamestreams,[or worse,in the case of the Washington Post ,actually praising the obscentity-hate-filled rage of actress Bernhard towards Sarah Palin], are certain of succeeding in one critical area.

      That even with an Obama presidency,there will be no national ''healing''and the sectionalism in this nation will only get worse. It is to those who observe outrages on both sides of the ideological fence,in both McCains and Obamas camps,that must point out Eleanor Clifts disservice to this nation in her media role.[a role that is as distrusted,if not more so,than that of the President or Congress as all of Americas polls prove].

  • Posted By: Karenn1 @ 10/15/2008 9:44:00 AM

    Jackson is nothing more than a preacher trying to make money,on anybody side.Obama took it to the corporation preacher stooge and he don't like it.Jackson rides coatails ,rode kings tail for years.Never was the leader to the people ,only thru the corp. he was given a stage.He was self serving in the name of god. Now Obama can put this chapter to rest, Jackson was a reccession to civil right in america.

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