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  • Posted By: hitobito @ 10/15/2008 9:24:42 AM

    John McCain showed his lack of character and values when he divorced his first wife, Carol, when he returned from five years as a POW and found his waiting wife seriously injured. He abandoned his wife and children, committed adultery with Cindy Hensley and others and went on with his life. Values? Not!

  • Posted By: Caleb Murdock @ 10/15/2008 5:37:55 AM

    Please visit my site:

    The Lies of John McCain
    www.liesofjohnmccain.com

  • Posted By: drjalee52 @ 10/14/2008 9:46:28 PM

    You are a good media person. You have always had and have a solid position on the issues. Palin hurts America. Her little kid with child ,will make the father drop out of school. Her family needs her. McCain needs to concede the election. America will and must move forward into a new history. Middle America will be helped. There are too many poor people in the world that need our help. We have pushed them away. thprice.

  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 10/14/2008 8:28:13 PM

    Dunno. David Gergen,no rightwinger,observed Democrat John Lewis'disgraceful performance [''wrong and unacceptable''] while on CNNs Anderson Coopers 180 last night. Lewis was able to use his more noble civil rights career to self-endorse a race-baiting tirade that linked McCain first to George Wallace,then extending it back to the Birmingham bombings of 1964. Fully aware that Obama supporters had turned two people into a ''mob''by the media,conservative blog host and sometimes FOX fill-in Michelle Malkin loaded up her website with dozens of leftwingers,Tinseltown celebrities,authors,and directors who advocated the assassination of the president[Bush],made sexist comments directed at Palin,or committed various acts of violence aimed at those representing the GOP including vandalism,firebombings,and death threats.[The Portland OREGONIAN,and the cities WATC station reported yesterday of two pro-Obama college-aged men who lobbed Molotov cocktails at a southeast Portland residence because it bore a McCain /Palin sign in their front yard. The two have been charged with arson]. Democrat Alcee Hastings appeared before a Florida group of elderly Jewish voters and proclaimed that ''anyone who uses a gun and hunts moose doesn't care much for blacks and Jews either''. Another group of anti-Palin voters ,all males,appeared under her hotel a few days ago wearing t-shirts that proclaimed ''Palin Is A ***''

    . Rapper Ludicris,has made a popular new song about the election disparaging McCain while Madonna compared him to the Nazis.

    What of this Eleanor? Have you not even the scintilla of human,much less journalistic courage to remark upon such outrages that are legion in their numbers? When a man picks up a firebomb to light it and send it sailing towards those he has probably never met in his life,what portion of your ''Dark Side''does this exist in? Hillary was never a favorite. But I never referred to her as a ''***''. Nor did I see McCain invoke the images of the Holocaust in order to scare Jews. When the son of a Michigan Democrat congresswoman who endorses Obama,goes out and slashes tires to the tune of thousands in damage due to his vandalism,when the son of another Democrat in Tennessee hacks Palins most private e-mails,when has-beens like Puff Daddy[Diddy],can appear on an awards show and shout ''Vote Obama or Die'', what portion of the human conscience compells these to go to your ''Dark Side''?

    Quit acting like this is a GOP scene Clift. We have many,too many really,instances of the other side of the ''dark side''to observe.[Indeed,too many for Obama to even comment upon himself].

  • Posted By: BadBuoy @ 10/14/2008 7:05:02 PM

    Read what his peers; military, POW, and Congressional: have to say about McCain's temperment before you decide who would be bast able to lead this country.
    The article, out last Friday, is at:
    http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

  • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 10/14/2008 5:43:53 PM

    Gayle Quinnell is the McCain supporter who referred to Sen. Obama as an Arab at a McCain rally. There is a video, this woman is priceless.

    an interview with Quinnell done via streaming cell phone. Interviewers include Noah Kunin, Senior Political Correspondent from The UpTake, Adam Aigner of NBC News and Dana Bash of CNN.

    Quinnell said she obtained the information on Obama being an Arab at "her local library" and from a pamphlet obtained at a local McCain campaign office (provided by a fellow volunteer not the campaign itself). She has taken it upon herself to redistribute the information as widely as possible by making copies of the pamphlet and sending it to random names in the phone book.

    Transcript:

    Gayle Quinnell: I went to the library in Shakopee and I got lots of ... three pages of information about Obama
    Adam Aigner of NBC News: And what kind of information did you get?

    Quinnell: I got to tell you, you call me. It's a long story. I'm afraid of what's going to happen to this country.

    Aigner: What would you think would happen? Do you think it would become Muslim country and what would that mean?

    Quinnell: It would be bad

    Aigner: So even though Senator McCain told you that he didn't feel that was true and you ought to be more respectful, you still fear that?

    Quinnell: I still do. Yeah. I'm not alone. I go to Burnsville, the main Republican headquarters and I do a lot of work over there. A lot of sending out mail and talking to people. And all the people agree with what I'm saying to you about Obama

    link to entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-uptake/mccain-responds-to-arab-a_b_133820.html

  • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 10/14/2008 4:15:24 PM

    Bush Strategist: McCain Knows He Put Country At Risk With Palin Pick

    Matthew Dowd, a prominent political consultant and chief strategist for George W. Bush's reelection campaign eviscerated John McCain on Tuesday for his choice of Sarah Palin as vice president.

    Dowd proclaimed that, in his heart of hearts, McCain knew he put the country at risk with his VP choice and that he would "have to live" with that fact for the rest of his career.

    link to entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/bush-strategist-mccain-kn_n_134570.html


  • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 10/14/2008 4:08:05 PM

    McCain Transition Chief Aided Saddam In Lobbying Effort

    William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.

    The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government.

    link to entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/mccain-transition-chief-a_n_134595.html

  • Posted By: emmarcee @ 10/11/2008 6:30:16 AM

    Who played the financial markets to crash down for Obama's favor? THE TIMING WAS VERY CRITICAL. Right when Mccain was in the lead. How many "international " investors were involved? who is bent to make Barack Husein Obama the POTUS? fIRST THEY PLAYED THE energy crisis. WE beat them. Then they withdrew their holdings and support for our fianancial system. "AMERICA had it coming". WE entertained all these back stabbers who were more than ready to pull the money away from wall street market. All so legally. Govt had to step in to stop the short sale of uSA. YOu liberals who play with antiamerican terrorist coutries, we will let you know you also hold the other end of this stick.

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/14/2008 12:42:27 PM

      "Who played the financial markets to crash down for Obama's favor? THE TIMING WAS VERY CRITICAL. "

      Tinfoil goes shiny-side OUT, sir.

    • Posted By: chris s. @ 10/11/2008 4:26:28 PM

      If you are going to use his dreaded, fearful middle name, at least spell it correctly!

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 10/14/2008 11:58:45 AM

    I love the quote Obama use the other day "if you are going to tell lies about me I'm going to tell the true about you"

  • Posted By: billtill @ 10/14/2008 10:14:32 AM

    About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

    'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.'
    'A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.'
    'From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.'

    'The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years'

    'During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

    1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
    2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
    3. from courage to liberty;
    4. from liberty to abundance;
    5. from abundance to complacency;
    6. from complacency to apathy;
    7. from apathy to dependence;
    8. from dependence back into bondage'

    Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

    Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
    Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
    Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million
    Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1

    Professor Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare...' Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the 'complacency and apathy' phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the 'governmental dependency' phase.

    If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

    If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message. If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

    WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE,
    ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE

  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/13/2008 6:27:27 PM

    THE GREAT BUSH DEPRESSION
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    He perfectly predicted the current meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen next
    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 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 seen in generations
    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 how its been broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use quantum 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 was the last to know somthing 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 budget 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
    Stand up and hold them accountable
    Bush isn't on the ballot this year but his policies are
    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 @ 10/13/2008 6:27:14 PM

    THE GREAT BUSH DEPRESSION
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    He perfectly predicted the current meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen next
    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 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 seen in generations
    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 how its been broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use quantum 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 was the last to know somthing 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 budget 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
    Stand up and hold them accountable
    Bush isn't on the ballot this year but his policies are
    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 @ 10/13/2008 6:27:03 PM

    THE GREAT BUSH DEPRESSION
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    He perfectly predicted the current meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen next
    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 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 seen in generations
    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 how its been broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use quantum 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 was the last to know somthing 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 budget 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
    Stand up and hold them accountable
    Bush isn't on the ballot this year but his policies are
    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: Chuck Doberman @ 10/13/2008 2:52:27 PM

    Well stated melandmike! The bash tactics of 2004 were one of the reasons I changed my registration from republican to independent, and the bash tactics of 2008 are a large part of why I will vote democrat this year. The fact that the GOP views us as THAT ignorant is downright insulting to independants. Additionally, the fervor and hatred encouraged and promoted by the McCain campaign and embraced by the sheeple in the GOP base is scary and points to serious issues that we as Americans are apparently too lazy in our denial to address. Initially when I changed my party affiliation I had some regrets (in hopes that W's slimy tactics were a temporarything) but I can tell you todat that as long as the GOP embraces the politics of diversion and ignorance I will gladly vote against them.

  • Posted By: melandmike @ 10/13/2008 11:05:39 AM

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

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 10/13/2008 10:11:20 AM

    Sarah Palin is a traitor to America and to her party.

    Palins un-American activities
    http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/10/07/palins_unamerican/index.html

    Alaskan Independence Party chairwoman Lynette Clark talks about why she does not identify herself as an American, and about her kindred spirit Sarah Palin.
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/10/alaska_secession/index.html

    The pastor who clashed with Palin
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/15/bess/index.html

    Troopergate Report Concludes Palin Abused Power. Full 263 Page report here???
    http://download2.legis.state.ak.us/DOWNLOAD.pdf

    Palins Attack On Obamas Patriotism Legitimizes Questions About her Association With Group Founded By America-Hating Secessionist
    http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/palins_attack_on_obamas_patrio.php

    Palin And The Alaska Independence Party
    http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/the_alaska_independence_party.php

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/13/2008 9:28:19 AM

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  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/13/2008 8:46:55 AM

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    CLICK AND GET SICK!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!


    http://usawakeup.org/USSA.htm

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/12/2008 10:19:44 PM

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

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