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Pulling Away

Obama opens a double-digit lead in new NEWSWEEK poll

By Jonathan Darman | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Oct 10, 2008

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  • Posted By: murillorobert @ 11/01/2008 6:48:11 PM

    Comment: It is sad how the news media distorts everything! I have always said that citizens with excellent qualifications shy away from running for the presidential office of the USA because of that distortion and violation of their privacy; so we are stuck with people who are not fully qualified, regardless of the party they represent, and do not have the experience to lead the country in the right direction. As it is, I don???t believe in any politician as they say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they are in the White House; however, let???s not forget the saying: ???The lesser of two evils???!

    If we remember history of previous administrations in the USA, every time the Republicans are in the White House the economy goes into the red and it is sad to see that most people do not see that, they don???t recall previous Republican administrations and they don???t care, I believe, and vote for the party they belong to, or are plain ignorant. I recall when Regan and Bush Senior were in the White House for 12 years in a row, our economy was in bad shape and yet people kept voting Republican so in a nut shell the people get what they ask for. On the other hand, when the Democrats are in the White House everything tend to go back to normal and our economy recuperates but people do not see that and they go back to the Republican administration. As it is, the Republicans, historically, favor the military build up and also the big corporations neglecting the needs of the working class; so, I would say that we are always better under the Democrat administration than Republican. Probably people, specially the seniors, don???t remember that Ronald Regan took so much money from the Social Security that if the government would pay back what they took the Federal Government would go into bankruptcy but there again all they have to do is raise taxes in order to pay debts which they have incurred with people???s money ... In other words, they steal from the people and never pay back!

    I honestly believe that it is time for the government to clean their on back yard and stop giving money away to countries all over the world instead of looking up after our own people; as it is, our seniors don???t even have money to eat and get the medical care they deserve.

    There is also the subject of ???Fighting Foreign Wars??? for fanaticism as we did in Viet Nam, Korea, Iraq, and many other wars which all they have accomplished is death, destruction, and drive our economy into disaster such is the present Bush administration. So, what is the lesson which our politicians never learn? ... Our people first and then combat famine instead of governments which do not meet the democratic ideals and never will. Let???s not forget the sayings: ???Live and let live???, ???To each its own???, and ???The road to peace is the respect for the rights of others???.

  • Posted By: Payday Loan Advocate @ 10/25/2008 1:27:42 AM

    Comment: Teamwork is vital in a harmonious relationship towards a successful management in the organization. Whatever political agenda it is, if it will bring goodness in the society, well let it be.

    The President of the United States in 1932 was Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the country was twirling into a severe recession. Is the U.S. better off today than it was back then? FDR???s ???New Deal??? economic policies radically reformed the way the U.S. Economy works. The government???s role in the economy evolved to a dire extent that America had never seen. In the short-term, Roosevelt's policies provided the country with a needed lift. On the other hand, it can also be argued that his policies have left long-term damage to the country. Paul Rubin gave his opinion on a Wall Street Journal article, suggesting that while our current state of the U.S. economy is not in the same state it was in 1932, both share many of the same aspects: stock market in a whirlwind, credit markets locking down and Sen. Barack Obama, a Democratic presidential candidate running on a platform that will put increased government regulations in place and into problem areas like the economy.
    Supporters of the free market economy are concerned that Obama???s governmental ???hand-on??? policies will not provide the long-term direction that the American economy so desperately needs. Those who support the standards of the free-market system will no doubt say we are in for the same economic disaster as it was back in 1932.
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  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/24/2008 1:27:04 AM

    Comment: Spread the wealth how.? Look at his past. Obama in this video, addressing his work with ACORN litigation against the banks and relating to the Community Reinvestment Act and the failure of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, as they relate to the current real estate and financial crisis, states that, and I quote:

    "Subprime lending started out as a good idea, helping Americans buy homes who previously could not afford to. Financial institutions created new financial instruments that could securitize these loans, slice them into finer and finer risk categories, and spread them out among investors and around the country, as well as around the world. In theory, this should have allowed mortgage lending to be less risky, and more diversified."

    "The original idea was a good one, which was, lets see if we can distribute risk more broadly, and make it easier to provide loans to people who otherwise might not be able to get one."

    Listen for yourself. You cannot dispute the mans on words recorded live:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1M1T2Y314&feature=related


    Obama in this second video is campaigning at a convention of Acorn and I believe two other ???Community Activist's organizations. Ask if he will be their ally if he becomes President, Obama says, quote:

    "Yes, but let me say that before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda."

    See and hear it for yourself. Obama promised that Acorn and other groups like it will setting his agenda if elected:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU
    Below is a link to C-SPAN video clips of the Congressional hearings at roughly the time McCains attempt at S.190. to fix Fannie and Freddie. See for yourself who said what.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs
    See also
    http://www.newsweek.com/id/164732 from this web site. (oops!) stating that Freddie Mac was spending tax payer money to target Republicans in 2005 who were trying to regulate Fannie and Freddies fraud. Democrats were not targeted, as the were all in the tank with Fannie and Freddie to kill the regulations. Hear that, the article admits that Republicans were trying to regulate Freddie and Fannie, and Democrats were trying to stop it from happening as a means to facilitate the Community Reinvestment Act.

    See also: http://www.newsweek.com/id/164972
    Stating that Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act wasn't what caused the meltdown, and noting that "economists on both sides of the political spectrum have suggested that the act has probably made the crisis less severe than it might otherwise have been."

  • Posted By: ThePrairiePrankster @ 10/22/2008 2:24:03 PM

    Comment: Well, there's nothing very mavericky going on here. Please move one, nothing to see....just more MSM elitist propa-mc-ganda.

  • Posted By: hellbreaksloose @ 10/21/2008 10:16:56 AM

    Comment: What happened, a backlash. many people have come to realize that the people promoting this hate, fear, anti American baloney are the same people responsible for the mess they are in. That will not stick .
    people begin to think why is this guy super rich and I am just getting by. and my community is going down the tubes. A little research shows them that it is not the liberals but the super rich corporate, no nations problem while pushing the fear pro

  • Posted By: greatmidwest @ 10/18/2008 10:05:10 PM

    Comment:
    Combining the cold economic clouds above us mixed with all that GOP HOT AIR, and you get one helluva democratic Obma -Biden tornado racing across our great nation tunign all those red states purple to blue! We need more of McCain & Palin hot air to feed this democratic whirlwind!!! YIPPEE! Grab Dorothy n Toto!

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 10/18/2008 4:13:21 PM

    Comment: "Hillary Clinton has said Obama is not qualified."...nowforthePoo

    Well actually 18million Americans say he is, the current world leaders say he is, McCain says he is, and Hillary said that just before getting her a$$ handed to her in the primaries...lol, Relax repig, we've got this one ;)

  • Posted By: haynessemperfi @ 10/18/2008 1:58:34 AM

    Comment: 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: haynessemperfi @ 10/18/2008 1:30:12 AM

    Comment: by Ralph Nader
    October 10. 2008
    Rolling the Dice on Derivatives - The Nader Page

    The derivatives markets of today have become a high stakes casino of unimaginable magnitude. Wall Street???s bets have gone bad, and now the whole financial system is in peril. In a best-case scenario, it appears, the taxpayers will be required to rescue the system from itself. This is why Warren Buffett labeled derivatives ???weapons of financial mass destruction.???

    Amazingly, there seems to be some lingering sense that current-day derivatives properly perform an insurance function.

    Case in point: Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve Chairman. Greenspan says the world is facing ???the type of wrenching financial crisis that comes along only once in a century,??? but, reports the New York Times, ???his faith in derivatives remains unshaken.??? Greenspan believes that the problem is not with derivatives, but that the people using them got greedy, according to the Times.

    This is quite a view. Is it a surprise to Alan Greenspan that the people on Wall Street ??? said to be ruled only by the opposing instincts of greed and fear ??? ???got greedy????


    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/rolling-the-dice-on-derivatives-by-ralph-nader/

    www.votenader.org

  • Posted By: george1389 @ 10/18/2008 12:52:16 AM

    Comment: I just got over viewing the video of the exchange between Rep Bachmen and msnbc.. Iam sitting at my computer as mad as hell and I need to express my view of Bachman. I am 76 years old have served in uniform of the UA Army for over thirty years. had a SECRET Security Claerence. was a scout leader and the president of the stste of MN org' os emergency managers. I think bachman has had her nose to far in the Presidents business. She has served 1 termand thinks she knows me? She says because I am A democrat thea I hate my country.. She is out of her mind

    • Posted By: neos @ 10/18/2008 1:06:49 PM

      Comment: I feel you pain, friend. I saw the same exchange. As a retired Army vet who votes Democratic, I was dismayed to find out that I am anti-American. Hmm. I guess that there's nothing for it but to move out of Palin's 'pro-America' part of the country, become a Islamo-facist terrorist and sign up for Communism.

  • Posted By: tswun71 @ 10/17/2008 6:57:22 PM

    Comment: Palin speaking now on CNN is calling for the Obama campaign to release all of its "communications" with ACORN. This is the same Sarah Palin who tried to scuttle the Alaska legislature's investigation into her abuse of power as governor. Transparency is as transparency does, I guess.

    Since they're claiming questionable associations, can we get all of the McCain campaign's communications with, say, Pastor Hagee? Pastor Parsley? Heck, at this point, the McCain campaign won't even divulge its financial arrangement with campaign manager Rick Davis' lobbying firm.

    I think we could come up with quite a list of "communications" the McCain camp has had that the public deserves to see.

    The Obama campaign should embrace the McCain campaign's newfound transparency and run hard with it.

    --David Kurtz

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 10/17/2008 1:47:34 PM

    Comment: WOW! did you hear? Sarah Palin says Obama has a "questionable past", says Obama has had friends in the "past" that he should be held accountable for, "PAST" associations, "PAST" actions, and then Sarah Palins says..."WHY DO DEOMCRATS WANT TO LOOK AT THE PAST FOR BLAME? John and I look to the future."

    Need I say more...LMAO!

    You have to admit though she has her "credibility" to stand on...HA!

  • Posted By: MikeKinFla @ 10/17/2008 12:34:54 PM

    Comment: The good News is after the election we will all see how accurate these Newsweek polls really were, or how skewed they were. This will resolve the perception that NBC/NEWSWEEK is a Liberal leaning Media outlet.

  • Posted By: OrangeCountyCA @ 10/17/2008 12:41:42 AM

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



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

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/16/2008 8:30:06 PM

    Comment: 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: Nowforthetruth @ 10/16/2008 6:41:21 PM

    Comment: Do absentee ballots facilitate fraud?
    Lessons from East Chicago ??? could a statewide election be subverted?

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27166150/

  • Posted By: Margaret40 @ 10/16/2008 5:44:18 PM

    Comment: Can anyone explain how the system works in case Palin had to take over McCain? How and who would step in as her VP?
    But let's hope that none of these 2 are in power.

  • Posted By: make over 250k per year @ 10/16/2008 4:18:33 PM

    Comment: I loved McCain and would have voted for him in 2000 if he had won the repub primary. I probably still would have voted for him now if Hillary had won the democratic primary- nothing against Hillary- but that other McCain from 2000 was so impressive. From the first time I saw Obama in 2004, he made me feel like there's hope for this country- real intelligent hope based on truth and not Fox News spinning things to seem wonderful- but hope for real progress for all our people rich and poor alike. Hope that we can once again lead the world -biggest superpower, most influential, strongest, best human rights, inventiveness, education etc. The last 8 years have been so slanted to the few in power- and McCain is one of the few. He's been in power- he failed- supporting Bush the majority of time in his wrong headed policies. Now it's time to move out of the way and let the guy who's inspiring millions take over. And Obama will not destroy the other side to get in or stay in power. Notice last nights debate- he said nothing negative about Palin who's been attacking Obama at every opportunity. Gracious- yes- adult- definitely, but there's something more. Obama is a healer- a true uniter, someone that will find something in each of us that he likes and use that to unite. Please give him a chance. Not attacking Palin last night (and you betcha it would have been easy) said more than millions of dollars worth of attack ad's, or millions of mentions of Wright or Ayres.

  • Posted By: Margaret40 @ 10/16/2008 3:08:31 PM

    Comment: Who would step in as the VP if Palin had to take over for McCain?

  • Posted By: Ryder @ 10/16/2008 2:44:50 PM

    Comment: One thing I do take comfort in, is the fact that the media is putting its own spin on the election. They are biased. The polls they have do not share the opinon of your average legal age voters. They claim these polls operate within a small margin of error usually 3.5 to 4.5%. Where do they poll the people? Who do they poll? Who are the pollsters? Maybe the pollsters are people with grudges against the Republican party or McCain. I experienced this first hand an Obama campaigner came to my door and asked who I was voting for last week, I told her McCain. As she walked away, I saw over her shoulder as she marked my slot under Obama; and when I confronted her about it, she said she was not authorized to show me the results of her poll. I was not allowed to see where she said that I voted. I guess we will just have to see how many people vote their convictions on election day. And how many people stay home, because they believed the news media's spin and felt as though their time would be wasted by voting. If you don't make a stand, you will fall for anything.

  • Posted By: Ryder @ 10/16/2008 2:26:43 PM

    Comment: Another reason to vote AGAINST Obama, look at the polls of other countries Specifically the ones that would do America harm. They want Obama in the office because they too believe that he would weaken the American military. He wants to pull out our service personnel from Iraq, but then he wants to attack Pakistan, he says he's against reviving the draft, but in the same breath he is supporting a move to make it mandatory for our young women between 18 and 25 to register with the Selective Service (if the draft was revived, this is where they will pull the names). Furthermore he supports an action that would use more of our female soldiers in the combat lines. It's bad enough that he supports the murdering of the unborn. If he gets into office, it may very well turn out that soon we will not have enough youth to carry on the American way of life because over 4,500 babies are being aborted in the USA on a daily basis. And what about the 4,000 plus troops that we've lost to the war in Iraq, or better called the war to spread freedom to an otherwise oppressed people. Our 4,000+ soldier's lives will have been ended in vain, if our troops are pulled out before our mission is finalized. Not to forget that Obama also voted against fundings for our troops, defensive funding that would keep our soldiers safe. And what is he going to do for our veterans? Our disabled? Those on social security? Senator McCain may be older than Obama, but at least he knows what is going on. He has suffered thru it, he has been to war, been a prisoner of war, and has spent more time in the senate than Obama. McCain knows what the veterans need, he knows what the elderly, and the disabled need. His running mate Palin knows what the youth need. What has Biden done? Does Biden know the pains of raising a disabled child? I think not. Although I guess my words will fall on deaf ears or blind eyes, because our country is at the threshold of becoming a morally decrepit nation. One that allows people to murder the unborn because two people couldn't keep their pants on. There is no sanctity in human life anymore. Whether you believe in God or not, human life is the most precious thing we have, and people that have abortion with the exception of rape, or incest, they are basically throwing away life. It is my belief that those who participate in the death of the unborn will have to account for that one day. GOD help us, because we can't seem to understand down here.

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/16/2008 12:28:49 PM

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    • Posted By: neos @ 10/16/2008 2:06:34 PM

      Comment: Thank you, Joe McCarthy.

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/16/2008 12:46:49 PM

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

      Which is why Canada is a communist nation today, right?

      Also, it is well known that Canada, being socialist for its entire history, is obviously full of Nazis. Right?

  • Posted By: You are a FOOL @ 10/16/2008 3:07:16 AM

    Comment: The debate was won again by Obama. You can spin your bu!! sh!t anyway you want Repigs. The fat lady has sung. I will be back November 5th going I told you all so. Meet your next POTUS Barack Obama. CC, eyce, and the truth person, whatever start crying, because McSame is going to his ranch and retire.

  • Posted By: florich @ 10/16/2008 1:48:15 AM

    Comment: well surprise surprise. Did Newsweek poll only democrates.

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 10/16/2008 1:35:23 AM

    Comment: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA SAYS HE STOOD UP AGAINST ENVIRONMENTALISTS WHEN HE SUPPOSEDLY SUPPORTED CLEAN COAL ENERGY AND THATS HIS CLAIM TO SHOW HE WORKS ACROSS THE AISLE...CONCLUSION..THE MAN IS A LIAR !!
    MCCAIN HAS THE RECORD THAT SHOWS HE ALWAYS WORKED ACROSS THE AISLE IN BI-PARTISEN FASHION....100 TIMES LONGER THAN OBAMA'S RECORD.
    BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WON'T REPUDIATE THE VILE AND MALICIOUS ATTACKS OF CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS TO JOHN MCCAIN AND SARAH PALIN. WHO DO THESE ARROGANT AFRICAN AMERICANS THINK THEY ARE ? ....OBAMA AND AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE CONSTANTLY TRYING TO INSTILL RACISM TO DEFLECT THE ATTENTION FROM BARACK OBAMA'S BAD POLICIES.
    BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IN THE DEBATE TONIGHT ALWAYS HAD A SMURK ON HIS FACE..BECAUSE HE'S ARROGANT , HE NEVER ANSWERS THE QUESTION STRAIGHT LIKE MCCAIN DOES. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IS DECISIVE. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA DID NOT DISCLOSE HIS FULL RELATIONSHIP WITH BILL AYERS...COME CLEAN OBAMA....OBAMA GAVE ACORN $832,000.00 AND GUESS WHO IS ENDORSING OBAMA AND IS INVOLVED IN VOTER FRAUD IN MANY OF THE KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES...BARACK OBAMA !! OBAMA BEGAN HIS POLITICAL CAREER IN BILL AYERS LIVINGROOM AND OBAMA TRIES TO DENY THIS AND HE IS AWARE OF BILL AYERS DOMESTIC TERRORISM...THIS GOES TO JUDGMENT AND OBAMA EXERCISES VERY POOR JUDGMENT...HE SAT IN A CRAZY RACIST CHURCH FOR 20 LONG YEARS AND HE CLAIMS HE DID NOT KNOW REV WRIGHT PREACHED THIS HATE..BARACK OBAMA IS LYING AND INSULTS THE INTELLIGENCE OF ALL AMERICANS WITH HIS
    SPIN WITH HIS NON-ANSWERS. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT BARACK OBAMA ACCOMPLISHED IN THE SENATE..WHATS THAT ?...I HEAR NOTHING. LOOK IT ..JOHN MCCAIN PROVED BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT THAT HE HAS THE JUDGMENT AND READY TO BE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF ON DAY ONE. ANY AMERICAN WHO SUPPORTS OBAMA IS UNPATRIOTIC AND BASICALLY A TRAITOR AND THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE IMMENSE HARM THAT OBAMA'S SOCIALIST FAR-LEFT TAX AND SPEND ECONOMIC POLICY WILL DEVASTATE AMERICA AND ITS CITIZENS. I HOPE AMERICANS CAN THINK FOR A FEW SECONDS WHEN THEY'RE IN THAT BOOTH....AND VOTE MCCAIN !!
    DRILL HERE !! DRILL NOW !! ....THAT TRANSLATES INTO JOBS, REVENUE AND MCCAIN IS RIGHT WHEN HE SAID OBAMA WAS WRONG TO UNILATERALLY NEGOTIATE THE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WHICH DIRECTED CANADA TO SELL ITS OIL TO CHINA INSTEAD. OBAMA IS STUPID..PLAIN & SIMPLE.

    • Posted By: dustytrails @ 10/16/2008 7:24:27 AM

      Comment: Its not voter fraud its regestrations if there wrong theres no voter

      • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/16/2008 12:47:49 PM

        Comment: This guy must be from the loud part of Canada. LOL.

    • Posted By: You are a FOOL @ 10/16/2008 3:04:25 AM

      Comment: Happy trails to you, until we meet again. You were probably the woman who called Obama an Arab.

    • Posted By: ICYEYES800 @ 10/16/2008 1:56:19 AM

      Comment: It's wonderful to have a NEIGHBOR who sees clearly how this election is going down the tubes and it's been manipulated from the get go, by media, and special interest groups...We're all praying that with Rezko in custody in Illinois for all of his racketeering and mofia association.....that he's gonna finally GIVE UP the the information that he's been attempting to hide from investigators...WIth any luck he'll be serving time in the really "BIG HOUSE" on election day....maybe dems could write in Hillary?? McCain '08

      • Posted By: dustytrails @ 10/16/2008 7:26:31 AM

        Comment: OBAMAS going to win get used to it

        • Posted By: Vypurr @ 10/16/2008 8:26:06 PM

          Comment: Very ignorant statement. Bush was behind at this point in both of his elections.

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/16/2008 12:25:07 AM

    Comment: Whether McCain won or lost tonight is not relevant. He succeeded in the first half hour to plant the seeds of a Reagan style wipeout. Reputable historians and economists overwhelmingly agree that the taxation imposed by and the ???stimulus??? spending and public works programs of FDR actually deepened and prolonged the Great Depression. It was the production demands of WWII that got the economy going again. And when the war was over, the economy promptly went into recession.

    Point is, Obama's programs are tax and spend, and it does not really matter who he taxes, those taxes are going to be passed through the economy. Any first year economics student knows that taxation is a tool used to contract an economy experiencing inflation, because it reduces demand by reducing the amount of money individuals and businesses have to spend. It is contractionary, which is exactly what you do not want to do when the problem is that the economy is contracting already into recession. Like FDR, Obama's plans will only make it worse for longer.

    Obama's tax and spending plans alone would be bad enough, but add Wright and Pelosi to the mix, with the three of them controlling both houses of Congress and the executive without and effective restraint, and you have something that should be something that causes concern even among moderate Democrats. Don't think so? Watch and listen to a C-SPAN video clip of the Congressional hearings at roughly the time McCain's attempt at S.190. to fix fannie and freddie.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

    • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/16/2008 1:51:57 PM

      Comment: SOrry, meant Reid, not Wright.

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/16/2008 12:48:30 PM

      Comment: "Whether McCain won or lost tonight is not relevant. He succeeded in the first half hour to plant the seeds of a Reagan style wipeout. Reputable historians and economists overwhelmingly agree that the taxation imposed by and the ???stimulus??? spending and public works programs of FDR actually deepened and prolonged the Great Depression. "

      Link?

      • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/16/2008 2:03:39 PM

        Comment: Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian argue that the "New Deal labor and industrial policies did not lift the economy out of the Depression as President Roosevelt and his economic planners had hoped," but that the "New Deal policies are an important contributing factor to the persistence of the Great Depression." They claim that the New Deal "cartelization policies are a key factor behind the weak recovery." They say that the "abandonment of these policies coincided with the strong economic recovery of the 1940s." Cole and Ohanian claimed that FDR's policies prolonged the Depression by 7 years.

        Lowell E. Gallaway and Richard K. Vedder argue that the "Great Depression was very significantly prolonged in both its duration and its magnitude by the impact of New Deal programs." They suggest that without Social Security, work relief, unemployment insurance, mandatory minimum wages, and without special government-granted privileges for labor unions, business would have hired more workers and the unemployment rate during the New Deal years would have been 6.7% instead of 17.2%.

        As an example, during the depression there were extreme food shortages and widespread famine. To solve this, the government enacted legislation in the form of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933. This sought to increase the prices of food, to benefit farmers, by reducing supply. It did this by destroying over 10 million acres of crops, slaughtering 6 million pigs, and leaving fruit in the fields to rot. The result was even more widespread famine.

        Cole, Harold L and Ohanian, Lee E. New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression: A General Equilibrium Analysis, 2004.
        FDR's Policies Prolonged Depression by 7 Years, UCLA Economists Calculate, ucla.edu, 8/10/2004
        Gallaway, Lowell E. and Vedder, Richard K. Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America, New York University Press; Updated edition (July 1997).
        Gene Smiley. "Great Depression: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty". Econlib.org. Retrieved on 2008-10-11.

        http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx

  • Posted By: trazer222 @ 10/15/2008 11:21:59 PM

    Comment: Given the fact that Ms. Pelosi plans to abandon American business forcing us all to lose our jobs, and to also abandon our 401K plans and make us give all our money to her failed polices, I think Newsweek will be shamefaced when they have to admit in one year that they backed the wrong candidate. Your owner is so stupid that he does not even realize how he has trashed American values.

  • Posted By: hitobito @ 10/15/2008 10:56:49 PM

    Comment: Barack Obama swept the third debate! He looked Presidential, cool, calm and collected in his detailed discussions of his plans. McCain looked angry and pained at times. His expressions looked creepy at times. He is known to have an anger problem. Tonight it showed! McCain said to Obama after the debate, "Good Job!". I agree, Senator Obama won this one!

  • Posted By: Lexus2lovr @ 10/15/2008 9:51:59 PM

    Comment: I hope John McCain and Sen Palin are not going to start paying people to vote for them. They are way behind in all the polls and Sen McCain is such a ignorant person. That racial slur "not like that one" was just way over the top and once again proves how old and ignorant McShame really is.

  • Posted By: Lexus2lovr @ 10/15/2008 9:47:41 PM

    Comment: I am becoming more and more convinced that Sen Obama should be our next president. I am listening to John McShame make himself look even more desperate! He skirts the truth and won't answer directly when confronted with the lies he's told. Sen Obama you have won me over..

  • Posted By: ICYEYES800 @ 10/15/2008 8:33:34 PM

    Comment: Seems that the double digit lead has narrowed, now that the AMERICAN people are understanding the desperation that Obama has displayed by having HIS ACORN dudes out to register everyone...dead people, children and registering teens 73 times!!!!! Tallk about desperate.....it's reminiscent of jokes about typical blacks, and their motto....If you can't come by it honestly...just STEAL IT!!!! We do not need to have a black guy with a funny name and NO EXPERIENCE in the oval office. JUST SAY NO TO O.....McCain/Palin '08

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/16/2008 12:49:46 PM

      Comment: "Seems that the double digit lead has narrowed"

      Actually, it's widened. Wishful thinking won't help. Sorry.

    • Posted By: You are a FOOL @ 10/16/2008 3:08:07 AM

      Comment: What kool aid are you drinking? Sorry son, McCain is finished

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/15/2008 8:00:32 PM

    Comment: 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: dustytrails @ 10/15/2008 5:41:04 PM

    Comment: Ive been working for BARRACK FOR 20 MONTHS i see everything coming together for real change that we all need DEMOCRATES AND REPUBLICANS

    • Posted By: Pocolodi @ 10/15/2008 7:33:17 PM

      Comment: Glad to see your paid blogger position paying off! Obama is so very proud of you! Next stop for you...

      Acorn!!!

      • Posted By: You are a FOOL @ 10/16/2008 3:14:42 AM

        Comment: McCain is a [Acorn Man] and other Republicans too !!!

        40% of Acorn's Registered Voters have been [Republicans]

        Hahahaha !!

        On Monday, the Democratic-leaning group ACORN, which has been painted as a criminal enterprise by the GOP for its voter registration and housing policy efforts, pushed back against its critics by producing a photo of John McCain attending its March 2006 rally.



        It was a reminder that, for all their electoral histrionics, Republicans have aligned themselves with ACORN in the past.

        Indeed, in addition to the McCain photo, there is a host of examples of prominent McCain surrogates attending ACORN events, signing ACORN legislation, or complimenting the group's efforts.

        Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, for example, partnered with ACORN in March 2008 for a "Homeownership Promotes The Economy" taskforce. More recently, Crist declared that -- contrary to GOP outrage -- he was not upset with the group's voter registration efforts in his state. The New York Times reported that ACORN supported a law signed by Governor Crist, which "changed the rules last year to restore the voting rights of about 112,000 former convicts."

        In July 2005, meanwhile, another Republican governor, Rick Perry of Texas, signed ACORN's Lending Law Reform Bill that changed the state's homelending practices.



        In July 2008, California Governor and McCain supporter Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill that ACORN helped draft aimed at California homeowners facing foreclosure.


        In June 2007, Minnesota Governor and McCain VP short-lister Tim Pawlenty signed a similar bill -- drafted by ACORN -- that helped homeowners get fairer deals on their mortgages.

        "The legislation was drafted according to recommendations made by a predatory lending study group established by Swanson prior to the legislative session," wrote the Northwestern Financial Review. "The study group contained representatives from the banking industry and the mortgage brokers association, as well as consumer advocates from organizations such as Illegal Aid and ACORN."

        As Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney signed an anti-predatory lending bill that ACORN supported. In February 2006, Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman met with the ACORN Katrina Survivors Association. And back in July 2005, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg actually got a kiss from ACORN's state leader, according to the publication City Limits, during an announcement that the city would protect or create 65,000 affordable units in a new housing proposal. Bloomberg, it should be noted, has not endorsed a candidate.

        Did you enjoy putting your foot in your mouth?

        • Posted By: Pocolodi @ 10/16/2008 5:27:21 PM

          Comment: 40 percent registered are republicans? And your point? Of course they have to register republicans.... if they didn't they would be completely shut down for being 100 percent in the tank for Obama.

          And you don't see them out registering the Dallas Cowboys as republicans in Nevada, do you?

          Laugh that off......

      • Posted By: You are a FOOL @ 10/16/2008 3:08:45 AM

        Comment: How do I sign up to be a paid blogger for either campaign?

  • Posted By: dustytrails @ 10/15/2008 5:29:43 PM

    Comment: Bring on the DEBATE cool calm OBAMA will when again then McCAIN WILL HAVE TO TRY A NEW STRATEGY

  • Posted By: dustytrails @ 10/15/2008 5:24:30 PM

    Comment: VIRGINIA what good news today OBAMAS lead keeps getting wider everytime McCAIN opens his mouth

    • Posted By: florich @ 10/16/2008 1:58:56 AM

      Comment: YOU WATCH TOO MUCH MESSNBC.

      • Posted By: You are a FOOL @ 10/16/2008 3:09:28 AM

        Comment: Truth hurts, every personal attack McCain pulls is one point into Obama's side. Independents rule.

  • Posted By: neos @ 10/15/2008 4:10:13 PM

    Comment: RNC hoarding resources for last-ditch efforts to save Utah and Idaho....

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 10/15/2008 4:02:06 PM

    Comment: BREAKING NEWS!

    Obama now UP BY 10!!!! in Virginia...LMAO! keep up the hate repigs, you're doing a great job.

    • Posted By: florich @ 10/16/2008 1:57:20 AM

      Comment: You watch too much MESSNBC.

    • Posted By: ICYEYES800 @ 10/15/2008 11:23:07 PM

      Comment: HARDLYABRAIN, why, oh why, do you continue to just keep posint when nobody on this blog cares to answer any of your STUPID AND UNSUBSTANTIATED challenges??? YOU are continuing to look clueless and stale...boring and ignorant.....oh, don't forget is black and has a funny name....Just a word of encouragement for you and the homies......Passed a truck today with a picture of Osama, and the caption below said.....dead man walking.....KKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey, he reminded me of your nation of Islam idiots....I could just see him getting away with walking down city streets carrying an AK47????? McCain/Palin '08

      • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/16/2008 12:51:03 PM

        Comment: "Passed a truck today with a picture of Osama, and the caption below said.....dead man walking.....KKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "

        Which of your racist buddies was it?

      • Posted By: You are a FOOL @ 10/16/2008 3:10:17 AM

        Comment: obviously you cared enough Repig to put your reply to him. You sold yourself out. ROTFLMAO

  • Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 10/15/2008 4:00:38 PM

    Comment: This one is for any repig who thinks tey can handle a direct answer, give it a shot, Palinsore, Vypu$$y, Nowforthep00p, quashedhopeofwinning, Floridouche, etc....

    Here I'll give you something to oppose, see if you can with out saying or typing the words CLINTON, Obama, or Democrat, just tackle the subject at hand, let's see what you got Vypu$$y. Once you have answered the question, directly and in context of the question, we can get back to calling names, and Obama bashing, but let's see if you can deal with just an HONEST answer, ready, here ya go:

    The problem for McCain is his "Judgment", if he really had superior military insight, he would have never agreed to go to Iraq until Afghanistan was "mission accomplished". If mccain would have wanted to defeat Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, where they make base and train, if he would have wanted to actually bring BIN LADEN to justice, if MCCAIN has TRUE judgment, he would have stood on the floor of the Senate and said "WRONG WAR, WRONG TIME!" We would have "WON" in Afghanistan, instead of "cutting" our ability to supply more troops and "running" to Iraq, for a "WAR FOR OIL" and for the bush ego.

    If McCain had done that, there would not have been a "SURGE" required, AT ALL. thousands of Iraqis and hundreds od Americans would have been saved...but NOPE! McCain and BUSH wanted to go to a country that NEVER ATTACKED THE US, and star another war, and now MCCAIN AND BUSH want to go "bomb Iran, bomb bomb Iran". before AFGANISTAN or Iraq are clear...and you call that a "military mentality", you call that "Judgment"?


    A:

    Good luck, now we'll see what you're really made of.


    Come you repig cowards, see when it's about actuall issues and John McCain, all you can say is "acorn/ayers" lets have a "debate" I posted this quetion on the 13th and got NO ANSWERS from any repigs, what's the matter, did McCain privatize your tounge?

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/15/2008 12:38:37 AM

    Comment: "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: You are a FOOL @ 10/16/2008 3:11:24 AM

      Comment: old news, you sound like sharenews. Its over son the fat lady has sung her song. Strike 3 for mcSame and he is out.

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/15/2008 1:12:03 PM

      Comment: Why is Obama responsible for what Jackson says?

      • Posted By: florich @ 10/16/2008 1:55:56 AM

        Comment: These people are placed there by good ole nobaba people.

        • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/17/2008 5:12:06 PM

          Comment: Oh, yes. You should probably line you hat with more tinfoil, so they don't mind control you, too.

          LOL.

  • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 10/15/2008 12:34:44 AM

    Comment: Dear Red States:
    We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and
    we're taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren't aware,
    that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota,
    Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe
    this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the
    people of the new country of New California.
    To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave
    states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get the
    Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood. We get Intel and Microsoft. You
    get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss. We get 85 percent of
    America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We
    get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay
    their fair share.
    Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the
    Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a
    bunch of single moms. Please be aware that Nuevo California will be
    pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens
    back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your
    evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to
    their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show
    pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you
    success in Iraq , and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not
    willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.
    With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent
    of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple
    and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of
    America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners)
    90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most
    of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and
    condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Cal
    Tech and MIT. With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to
    cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected
    health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100
    percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent
    of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all
    televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the
    University of Georgia. We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.
    Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was
    actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred
    unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent
    say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was
    involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you
    are people with higher morals then we lefties.
    Finally, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed
    they grow in Mexico
    Peace out,

    • Posted By: You are a FOOL @ 10/16/2008 3:11:51 AM

      Comment: Thats my man! Go Mark Go!

      • Posted By: Pocolodi @ 10/16/2008 5:29:33 PM

        Comment: I agree FOOL, and you go with him.

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/14/2008 9:42:27 PM

    Comment: "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: marksgershenson @ 10/15/2008 12:32:28 AM

      Comment: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

      Here is the truth in polls. Better than Rasmussen, or any other poll. The truth at this website will make you free from torturing yourself.

    • Posted By: neos @ 10/14/2008 11:03:54 PM

      Comment: Distraction, anyone?

  • Posted By: deaneg63 @ 10/14/2008 7:12:50 PM

    Comment: HI : I have never seen the USA election for president in such a mess!
    One candidate is to old and the other is to young and has many qustions about his past. If i were an American i would throw them both out and start over. It is very sad to see this when you had men like JFK,., FDR., LBJ and even Nixon was better the the clowns running now.

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/15/2008 1:17:22 PM

      Comment: Unfortunately, those two are the choices we have, the ones we chose in the primary.

      The fact that "if you were an American, you'd throw them out" is all very well and good, but we here have to abide by the will of the people (even when the people are dumb).

      That being said, I'm voting for the young guy, because any questions I have about his past are outweighed by the crazy old guy's lunatic behavior, and his fruitcake VP pick.

  • Posted By: janiemc24 @ 10/14/2008 6:57:23 PM

    Comment: as to dusty he spend it all on folks like you who want the government to pay your bills to lazy to get out and work for yourself...find your own ins.......go to middle east... see how that works for you... still trying to clean the the who mess that Bill Clinton left.....have you been asleep the last 16yrs or what......

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/15/2008 1:18:40 PM

      Comment: WTF? Clinton? He's been out of office for almost 8 years.

      You're ADDICTED to the guy. Enough excuses. Your party had all 3 branches and buggered it up. Clean up your act and try again in 4 years.

  • Posted By: dustytrails @ 10/14/2008 6:34:14 PM

    Comment: As for BUSH he had a surplus what did he do he spent it all and then some more like a kid in a candy store VOTE OBAMA

  • Posted By: dustytrails @ 10/14/2008 6:16:39 PM

    Comment: ANTI-CHRIST YOU GOT TO B E KIDDING WHAT A JOKE YOU ARE TRYING TO SCARE PEOPLE THAT DOG DONT HUNT VOTE OBAMA

    • Posted By: mikeconserve @ 10/14/2008 8:36:09 PM

      Comment: Obama is going to loose the election and libs will freak.......You underestimate how many Americans have common sense. Obama would not put his hand over his heart for the national anthem or wear an American Flag lapel pin.........big deal for true Americans..........unlike you.

      • Posted By: You are a FOOL @ 10/16/2008 3:12:34 AM

        Comment: strike three repig, your man has struck out on the last debate too.

      • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/15/2008 1:20:25 PM

        Comment: The flag pin thing? Why should he? The damn flag pins are made in China, and the flag was never meant to be worn as a decoration, anyway. Likewise, the founders didn't need a pledge, neither do I.

        Screw your pin AND your pledge.

  • Posted By: tammy.h.cook @ 10/14/2008 5:45:51 PM

    Comment: The world has gone crazy with over spending, credit cards, loans, living beyond our means. A lot of people seem to be blaming President Bush because they don't want to take the responsiblity themselves. Obama says he is gonna do some changing. He is not a saint by any means, he has snowed a lot of people. He has friends that are very questionable. Where is he getting his financial support from? Again questionable! In the Bible in Revelation it talks about the Anti-Christ and how he is going to snow everyone. That kind of change I can do without. We need to do a lot of soul searching before we make our decision on who we want in control of this wonderful USA. At least someone who loves the USA.

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/15/2008 1:35:16 PM

      Comment: What? The anti-Christ? Naw. Obama is actually Godzilla in disguise, and once elected, he'll shed his human skin and start tearing buildings down. No, seriously.

  • Posted By: tammy.h.cook @ 10/14/2008 5:29:39 PM

    Comment: I think the world has gone crazy with credit card and loans and living beyond their means. Everyone is blaming President Bush because they dont want to take the responsiblity themselves. We need to get back to where we need to be. Obama is not the answer. He says he is gonna make some changes, that scares me and a lot of other people. He is no saint and has some very questionable friends. And where he is getting is financial support is questionable to. So many people are snowed and I can't understand why. It's like the way it will be with the Anti-Christ. That kind of change I can do without.

  • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/14/2008 11:39:13 AM

    Comment: Bill, is there any reason for spamming that article everywhere?

  • Posted By: billtill @ 10/14/2008 10:34:53 AM

    Comment: 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: LudwigVanBeet @ 10/14/2008 9:59:55 AM

    Comment: What A Joke , McLame is now repeating Fighter, Fighter, I am a Fighter. He brought me a vision . it would look like Elmer Fudd fighting Bluto.. McCain needs to get his wife Cydni out of the background, my God she looks like a Lipless Cadaver. Is she there all the time to change his Diaper or what? The best thing they could do for her is buy her one of those Wax Halloween Lips, Bright Red of course.

    • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 10/15/2008 12:19:14 AM

      Comment: LMAO :-)

    • Posted By: mikeconserve @ 10/14/2008 8:53:26 PM

      Comment: Put the crack pipe down and step back..................

  • Posted By: LudwigVanBeet @ 10/14/2008 9:48:01 AM

    Comment: ATTENTION, ATTENTION ALL REPIGLICAN's , A dramatic Increase in Polls i n Colo. N.Dakato,, Minn. show increases of 10 for Obama.. So Repukes' after you get your Stinking Breath back , you can wipe the Foam and Froth from your Racist Lips, Relax Rednecks , slap your wives, grab a Beer , chew on a little HogJowl, and Chug a quart of Jim Jones Kool-Aid and have a nice long sleep..

    • Posted By: mikeconserve @ 10/14/2008 8:54:48 PM

      Comment: You sukk like a Hoover....................

  • Posted By: KnightHawk @ 10/14/2008 8:46:58 AM

    Comment: So many comments about voter fraud in this blog associated with ACORN. Surely none of these post are from past generations of white-Americans who sponsored a voter deception known as "Jim Crow" which did not count the votes of black-Amercians and/or did not allow blacks to even register at all. When one decides to decieve, chances are, more deception is likely to follow in due time.

    Life has a way of demanding that past debts be paid in full. Many white-Americans fear a black president because they likewise fear that the ghastly wrong-doing perpetrated by the KKK and others may be now visited upon today's generations of whites. Mass murder, lynch mobs, the burning and bombing of churches, hate speech against minorities and now; shouts of "hang that darky from a tree", "Terrorist", "Obama is an Arab", "Traitor" and "Bomb Obama" seem to have an all too familiar ring, doesn't it?

    I find this particular discourse to be quite fascinating because in the part of the U.S. that I live in; I see so many blacks and whites married to each other and they proudly display their beautiful mixed children as they travel to and fro. Amazing how all efforts to stamp out black America just didn't work! Now...how many mixed families do you think will support hate-speech that have half-black, half-white babies. Pure white America will never exist in these United States; give up the hate rhetoric, its doesn't apply now-a-days!

    Whites who hate blacks (mostly white-Republicans) simply cannot recruit liberals and that's where John McCain is loosing his base of supporters of real terrorism as they continue to try to equate Barack Obama to Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright. Be careful white-America that you do not label yourselves the world's greatest hypocrites...

    "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men (and women) are created equal."

  • Posted By: ICYEYES800 @ 10/13/2008 10:38:52 PM

    Comment: Hardleyabrain, YOU ARE THE ESSENCE of what white AMERICANS see wrong in the black community...you are vulgar, disrespectful and YOU are a
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    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/14/2008 11:42:04 AM

      Comment: Wow. Some things never change.

    • Posted By: KnightHawk @ 10/14/2008 9:11:36 AM

      Comment: I do trust that the above sentiment is not shared by the majority of white-Americans. Such bitterness can only lead to a repeat of the riots of the 1960's and I dare say that nothing good could come from such a recreation because blacks today are likewise armed to the teeth. Automatic weapons, 9mm and such are the weapon of choice in this day and time. The streets of America would flow red with blood and that is something all Americans should choose to avoid.

      All that needs to be done is for us to respect one another...please! The alternative might prove to totally self-destructive; truely an about face and a plunge into a dark abyss. Vote the facts, not the rhetoric!

    • Posted By: newsweek is garbage @ 10/14/2008 4:09:04 AM

      Comment: Please guys, do not use such vulgar and cruel attacks/remarks to each other. Thiat is how Newsweek and the political establishment wants us to be. They want us to attack each other and forget what criminials they are. You are placing your anger in the wrong direction. Cancel your subscription to Newsweek and you will feel much better. Both of you stay away from politics for awhile,, until you become levelheaded. Listen to some Led Zeppelin or Crosby, Stills, and Nash, then you'll feel new again.

    • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 10/13/2008 11:44:46 PM

      Comment: McCain is a [Acorn Man] and other Republicans too !!!

      40% of Acorn's Registered Voters have been [Republicans]

      Hahahaha !!

      On Monday, the Democratic-leaning group ACORN, which has been painted as a criminal enterprise by the GOP for its voter registration and housing policy efforts, pushed back against its critics by producing a photo of John McCain attending its March 2006 rally.



      It was a reminder that, for all their electoral histrionics, Republicans have aligned themselves with ACORN in the past.

      Indeed, in addition to the McCain photo, there is a host of examples of prominent McCain surrogates attending ACORN events, signing ACORN legislation, or complimenting the group's efforts.

      Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, for example, partnered with ACORN in March 2008 for a "Homeownership Promotes The Economy" taskforce. More recently, Crist declared that -- contrary to GOP outrage -- he was not upset with the group's voter registration efforts in his state. The New York Times reported that ACORN supported a law signed by Governor Crist, which "changed the rules last year to restore the voting rights of about 112,000 former convicts."

      In July 2005, meanwhile, another Republican governor, Rick Perry of Texas, signed ACORN's Lending Law Reform Bill that changed the state's homelending practices.



      In July 2008, California Governor and McCain supporter Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill that ACORN helped draft aimed at California homeowners facing foreclosure.


      In June 2007, Minnesota Governor and McCain VP short-lister Tim Pawlenty signed a similar bill -- drafted by ACORN -- that helped homeowners get fairer deals on their mortgages.

      "The legislation was drafted according to recommendations made by a predatory lending study group established by Swanson prior to the legislative session," wrote the Northwestern Financial Review. "The study group contained representatives from the banking industry and the mortgage brokers association, as well as consumer advocates from organizations such as Illegal Aid and ACORN."

      As Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney signed an anti-predatory lending bill that ACORN supported. In February 2006, Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman met with the ACORN Katrina Survivors Association. And back in July 2005, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg actually got a kiss from ACORN's state leader, according to the publication City Limits, during an announcement that the city would protect or create 65,000 affordable units in a new housing proposal. Bloomberg, it should be noted, has not endorsed a candidate.

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