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  • Posted By: fvbee @ 10/10/2008 7:42:16 PM

    I don't understand McCain's current strategy at all. Does he really think he can win the White House simply by telling ever bigger and scarier lies about Obama? That kind of attack worked for Republicans before, but not in today's circumstances. It makes him look sour and bereft of ideas. If I were a Reublican strategist, I would tell McCain (and Palin) to stop completely the infantile attacks on Obama and spend the next three weeks telling the American people why he would be the best president. and how he would solve the people's problems.

  • Posted By: abadreview @ 10/10/2008 7:41:18 PM

    Oh thank f$%^ing God!!! McCain and Palin give me the willies. I have a couple of nephews in grade school who are more intelligent and better qualified to be Preesident/V.P. than these two space cadets. Obama vs. McCain is like Einstein vs. Nick Lachey (and that's me being NICE)! Obama had me a long time ago. I was like....wow, BRAINS!? The Obama campaign has been executed flawlessly, and I honestly almost feel bad the McCain camp....NOT.

    OBAMA/BIDEN '08

    AMERICA NEEDS FIXIN'

  • Posted By: masudisa @ 10/10/2008 7:40:51 PM

    How could McCain chose a running mate who claims to have foreign policy experience living near Russian border and does have no clue about $700 billion bailout package What Christian value is she upholding - witchcraft to cleanse herself, pregnant unwed daughter? How could McCain chose a running mate like Sarah - she will be a biggest joke of the century if somewhow she is catapulated to USA presidency. Mr. Bush has already dragged down USA economy which was prospering before him with a surplus of above $5 trillion and created an unstable and uncertain world receding to darkness and chaos. Another extension of the same policy will finish what is left and that so with a team like McCain and Sarah Palin. The USA and the world deserve better than this.

  • Posted By: quechalk @ 10/10/2008 7:19:57 PM

    I guess a nation led by Obama would be an "Abomi-nation."

    • Posted By: Character Counts @ 10/10/2008 7:34:24 PM

      ???and a nation led by McSame/Palin would be a McFailing nation. Stop spamming you racist.

  • Posted By: moderate @ 10/10/2008 7:33:55 PM

    LISTEN AMERICAN VOTORS IF YOU PUT ASIDE ALL OF YOUR RACIAL BIGOTRYS AND VOTE FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN FUTURE AND NOT FOR JOHN MCCAIN TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS THESE CHILDREN MAY HAVE A FUTURE YET.

  • Posted By: masudisa @ 10/10/2008 7:31:21 PM

    Its strange that some of the voters justify Palin's eligibility to be president of the United States knowing fully well that she asserted her foreign policy experience by living closer to Russia!! Being washed off through witchcraft cleansing, upholding Christian value by not being ashamed of unwed daughter's pregnancy and showing an utter lack of understanding of what the bailout is all about, shows a person dreadfully dangerous to lead the world that needs sanity, intelligence, leadership, understanding, tolerance and brilliance. How could McCain chose a person like Palin? Did he think he could get the female voters by selecting someone whose genitals are like them or what? War, threats, lies, fear mongering and deceits don't make a better , prosperous country and a safer world. USA and the world needs a change - change for understanding, tolerance, dialogue and pro-people policies. In a span of only 8 years, a peacful and prosperous world has been relegated to an unstable and potentially dangerous world and more of the same policy will simply drag this down to darkness and total collapse. Anyway who are these 10% who are saying the things are going in the right direction ?

  • Posted By: Teleologicus @ 10/10/2008 5:57:37 PM

    Here is a place marker for all so inclined to ponder after the November election. Mr. Obama will lose the election. There was never the slightest, remotest, faintest possibility that he could have won. The polls are, have been, and will continue to be wrong. In the aftermath attention will go to the misleading and harmful effects of polling and continued reporting of poll results as though an election is the same sort of phenomenon as a horse or car race in which one or another contestant pulls ahead or falls behind in a meaningful way. This is a profound misunderstanding of the phenomena and one that will lead to much shock and outrage when it is suddenly seen how misleading polls have become. Perhaps more restraint will be used in the future. There is no need whatever for organizations to be conducting and reporting such polls every day or even every few hours. I wouldn't mind a regulation restricting or preventing public broadcasting of such results at the level we have lately been subjected to.

    Mr. Obama will lose the election. He was always going to have lost the election. He could never have become President of the United States - not because of his skin color, but because he is both unqualified for the office and also and as importantly because his entire ideological thrust is towards the far Left, the un- and anti-American Left. His candidacy has been symbolic only.

    But because the polls and the media hype have caused so many wishful and gullible partisans to assume that he can and will and should be President, the shock of reality is going to be unpleasant and possibly dangerous.

    When this prophecy is fulfilled the natural question will become: How could anyone have known in advance what so many people clearly do not know? And how could so many so-called experts and professionals in politics and media have been so misled and gotten it so wrong? This will be a fruitful question for them to explore among themselves after the dust settles and Obama becomes the historical footnote he was always meant to be.

    • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 10/10/2008 7:29:45 PM

      I wouldn't put any money on McCain in Vegas, if I were you. I've said Obama will win all along, and the facts now back me up. So, we have a little bit more credibility.

    • Posted By: TheMightyMidget @ 10/10/2008 6:48:35 PM

      Dear Teleologicus,

      Seriously dude, you need to sell whatever it is you're smoking. Arguments about Obama's qualifications aside... you clearly do not believe he is, and of course you're entitled to that opinion, though I like approximately 52% of Americans who plan on voting diasgree... but to claim Obama not only will not win in November, but never had a shot and never will have a shot, displays a level of ignorance seldom seen in a public forum. You may have the opinion (again, one which I vehemently disagree with) that McCain could still somehow pull this off, but to claim that you are right and every single polling institution is wrong, to include highly partisan republican organizations, is either a sign of someone who is profoundly ignorant, in a deep state of denial, or both. Best of luck facing the cruel and terrible truth of things on November 5th, LOLOLOL.

    • Posted By: Puuda @ 10/10/2008 6:42:35 PM

      Well then you are wrong by your own standards....

      Bush was elected...twice.

    • Posted By: sharkey2008 @ 10/10/2008 6:26:02 PM

      teelologicus:he is both unqualified for the office.
      And McMac is qualified? How so? He leaves a bad taste in my mouth, sort of like a big Mac. Really hard to take the garbage.

  • Posted By: Bernice123 @ 10/10/2008 7:29:38 PM

    Obama stay focused on most important issues, keep hatred out of it and you will win!

    AND PRAY! CAN'T FORGET TO PRAY & BELIEVE!

  • Posted By: quechalk @ 10/10/2008 7:21:39 PM

    I guess a nation led by Obama would be an "Abom-nation."

    • Posted By: Character Counts @ 10/10/2008 7:29:08 PM

      ???and a nation led by McSame/Palin would be a McFailing nation.

    • Posted By: suzyku @ 10/10/2008 7:24:47 PM

      a nation led by mccain/palin would be a disaster! They have now proven they are filled with hate, they are holding kkk type rallies, they are inciting violence and condoning it, they continue to appeal to the worst element of our society, racists, bigots, klan members, bigots, ignorant uninformed people who buy into their hatefilled rhetoric! They are both unfit, unpatriotic and can only lead this country further into the gutter!

  • Posted By: Claude Scales @ 10/10/2008 5:35:07 PM

    RiversideWarrior: "Final solution" is a really, really bad choice of words. I'm solid for Obama/Biden, and we shouldn't be posting things like that.

    • Posted By: blaine @ 10/10/2008 7:28:00 PM

      Claude Scales : I agree. Questionable choice in the phrasing. But in river's defense, sometimes the subjugation one feels by the opposing agenda makes you think that's the way they feel! Really.

  • Posted By: Northern Neighbor @ 10/10/2008 7:27:19 PM

    Voters are coming to realize the terribly dangerous situation in which electing an old man for President, with the related risk of having Sarah Palin as the accidental President, would place the U.S. What McCain has shown, and now the majority of Americans have come to see, is that he is prepared to risk the future ot the U.S. to total incompetence so as to win the Presidency for himself. McCain is not ready to lose a chance at the Presidency even if that risks exposing the country to an accidental disastrous replacement. Country first? Not really!! Looks a lot more like McCain first, and damn the consequences.

  • Posted By: abadreview @ 10/10/2008 7:26:43 PM

    GOP=KKK

    Anybody with half a brain knows that.

  • Posted By: abadreview @ 10/10/2008 7:25:51 PM

    "republican"--You can't even structure a coherent sentence, why would anybody listen to what you have to say? If you think Palin is qualified to be V.P. then you are tool.

  • Posted By: neos @ 10/10/2008 7:24:24 PM

    Senator McCain, sorry, but you're screwed. It just wasn't to be. Now you have a choice. You can run a clean campaign and lose with honor, or you can continue on the path of this dishonorable scorched earth campaign which will only further divide and damage our country. Please put 'country first.'

  • Posted By: abadreview @ 10/10/2008 7:24:08 PM

    WooHooooooo!!!

    Looks like America isn't buying into the joke of a ticket the GOP is offering!
    8 years of FAILURE is ENOUGH!!!

    Let's make Obama President already so we can start fixing Bush's mistakes!!!

  • Posted By: alfa11 @ 10/10/2008 5:36:09 PM

    THE MAIN CULPRIT IN THIS FINANCIAL MESS WAS ""RONALD REAGAN" HE STARTED IT;
    CONSEQUENTLY HE SPENT WITHOUT LIMIT AND LEFT A HUGE DEFICIT.
    CLINTON LEFT A SURPLUS,AND BUSH; WHO WAS NEVER QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT,
    HAS CAUSED WITH HIS ERRATIC AND WARMONGER POLICIES ""MORE DAMAGE TO THE
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THAN ALL ITS ENEMIES COMBINED INCLUDING AL QAIDA IN 9/11.
    ENTER MCCAIN, ALSO A WARMONGER PATHETIC ""LIAR"",WHO WANTS TO BE ELECTED AT ""ANIY COST""; BUT AT HIS RECORD SHOWS NEVER CARED ABOUT THE PEOPLE;IS RUNNING THE
    DIRTIEST CAMPAIGN IN HISTORY FULL OF SLANDER ,CALUMNIES AND INUENDOS AGAINST
    OBAMA;WITH ""THE COACHING" OF THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICAN POLITICS
    "KARL ROVE" WHO DIRECTED TWICE THE CAMPAIGNS OF GEORGE W.BUSH;AND HIS
    GOVERNING DESASTER HAS COST AMERICA TWO TRILLION DOLLARS IN THE RED.

    • Posted By: sharkey2008 @ 10/10/2008 6:04:40 PM

      Alfa11
      Wrong. It's Clinton that started this mess, by deregulating/easing the rules on mortgage applications.

      • Posted By: dafame @ 10/10/2008 6:21:15 PM

        Wait isn't that the Republican way or am I missing something? If not then why didn't W. stop it and save us from economic disaster the way that he saved us from the terrorist "IRAQIS" that attacked us on 9/11?

        • Posted By: blaine @ 10/10/2008 7:23:53 PM

          Deregulation, deregulation, deregulation! Pubs been pushing that agenda for better part of 30 years that I know of! Lived through it. Ugly man. Plus the requisite type mess we have today.

    • Posted By: blaine @ 10/10/2008 7:22:11 PM

      Man, take it from someone who was a working adult during the early and mid eighties. It started with Reagan. Uncle Ronny was also one of the most divisive world leaders of the later half of the 20th century. Oh yeah, "trickle down economics" didn't work then. Truly won't work now.

  • Posted By: WISCUSEDTOBE @ 10/10/2008 6:18:51 PM

    YOU GUYS ARE A JOKE! 4 YEARS AGO EVERYONE OF YOUR SURVEYS HAD HORSE HEAD LEADING BUSH BY 10% AND THEN BUSH WON. WHERE DO YOU DO YOUR SURVEYS- AT A DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS?

    • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 10/10/2008 7:23:30 PM

      At least they know where the Caps-Lock key is located.

      Please show where Kerry was up by 10 at this point in 2004. The fact is, he wasn't. Don't feel bad, you won't be the first or the last right-wingnut to get their facts wrong.

  • Posted By: boloughlin @ 10/10/2008 6:31:07 PM

    If Newsweek wasn't such a Democratic biased new service, I may believe the polls. The only time the polls are correct is when the actual vote comes through. During the pre-election for Bush's 2nd term, the lead wasn't in Bush's interest either.

    • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 10/10/2008 7:20:26 PM

      Huh? Why are right-wingers so incoherent?

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 10/10/2008 7:20:26 PM

    Good news for Obama: He is beating McCain in the polls. Bad news: Swing voters will not be voting for McCain on Election Day. They will be voting to affirm themselves. To secure their future. To deny power to a radical Leftist.

  • Posted By: caspar56 @ 10/10/2008 6:25:51 PM

    Right now neather canadate has a chance to even make one proomis they had in there campain except staying in Iroc

    • Posted By: NeoconsareFascists @ 10/10/2008 7:20:00 PM

      Djee caspar eyoore uh ghud spalur, eu muzt b won uv thoz Bush cheldrun lepht bihinduh.

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