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  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/13/2008 12:50:22 AM

    I have always believed that birds of a feather will always flock together and if you CANNOT trust one of them, you can't trust any of them.

    We all select our friends and associates by their character. If we do not agree with their character and how they lead their lives, then we will NOT accept them as our friends. I, personally, would never associate with anyone that was involved in any kind of criminal activities or racial activities, or involved in any kind of demonstrations against the country which I love with all my heart. I have too much self respect and pride to associate with these types of lowlife trash.

    But, for some reason, we CANNOT and will NOT hold our President to these same standards and good judgement. It seems that a president who has 'no sex' with a young intern in our Oval Ofiice is beyond scrutiny and is still considered to be a GREAT president. It doesn't matter that his actions destroyed the view of the office of the presidency in the eyes of our friends around the world and destroyed the morals of all of our young people. The character of a president is just not important to the American people any longer.

    Promises of 'hope and change' and empty rhetoric has replaced the need of a presidential candidate to have good judgemnet and good character. As long as they are shrewd enough to 'look presidential' and said what the POOR STUPID Americans want to hear, that is all that is important. The American people no longer need evidence, REAL evidence, that a candidate is capable of fulfilling his promises and is capable of protecting and serving the people. Talk is cheap, but the right talk has proven to be all that is required by the American people. Judgement, character, and experience is no longer required.

    I have always believed that birds of a feather will always flock together and if you CANNOT trust one of them, you can't trust any of them. The American voter is willing to accept Obama at face value, without thoroughly researching his background. I would like to know how many Americans are willing to send our young men and women into combat overseas to fight terrorists, and, at the same time, are willing to accept a president who has been friends with domestic terrorists for years, and a president who is supported by Hamas and many, many other radical groups and leaders from around the world.

    Just keep in mind that Obama would never be accepted in the FBI or CIA, but the American voters would elect him as their president and Commander-in-chief of their brave military men and women!!!! May God bless and have mercy on the souls of all the misguided voters!!!!

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/13/2008 12:50:02 AM

    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!

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 10/13/2008 12:28:52 AM

    Just released....Philip Berg on pending lawsuit to determine Hussein eligibility concerns. Bergs website www.obamacrimes.com has broken the 21,000,000 hits mark, and he has been contacted by most media sources.......DON'T BE AFRAID....HUSEEIN WILL NO DECLARE YOU APOSTATE....

    Here it is...VERY INTERESTING...Hussein is most likely an illegal alien.......

    http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6_k3NtXZs

    Allah Akbar Ya'll

    NOBAMA!!!

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 10/13/2008 12:16:39 AM


    Barack Obama back in his Community Organizer days on the South Side of Chicago was enamored by a man called Saul Alinsky - who had a radical philosophy and tactics that went along with that which embraced by taking a course and eventually teaching students how to be radical activists. Take a read below:

    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
    Obamas Radical Roots And Rules
    By INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 4:20 PM PT
    Part 1 of 3

    Election '08: Most Americans REVILE SOCIALISM, yet Barack Obamas poll numbers remain competitive. One explanation: He is a longtime disciple of a man (Saul Alinsky) whose mission was to TEACH RADICALS TO DISGUISE THEIR IDEOLOGY.

    The Democratic presidential nominees choice of the word CHANGE as his campaigns central slogan is not the product of focus-group studies, or the brainstorming sessions of his political consultants.

    One of Obamas main inspirations, SAUL ALINSKY, was a man dedicated to revolutionary change that he was convinced must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward CHANGE AMONG THE MASS OF OUR PEOPLE. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are WILLING TO LET GO OF THE PAST AND CHANGE THE FUTURE.

    Saul Alinsky, circa 1946: Like Obama, he wanted CHANGE. Sen. Obama was TRAINED by Chicagos INDUSTRIAL AREAS FOUNDATION, founded in 1940 by the RADICAL ORGANIZER SAUL ALINSKY. In the 1980s, Obama spent years as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), which operated USING ALINSKYS STRATEGIES, and was involved with two other Alinsky-oriented entities, ACORN and PROJECT VOTE.

    On the OBAMA CAMPAIGN WEB SITE can be found a PHOTO of him teaching in a University of Chicago classroom with POWER ANALYSIS AND RELATIONSHIPS BUILT ON SELF INTEREST written on the blackboard ??? key terms utilized in the Alinsky method.

    The far-left Alinsky had no time for liberalism or liberals, declaring that a liberal is (someone) who puts his foot down firmly on thin air. He WANTED NOTHING LESS THAN TRANSFORMATIONAL RADICALISM. America was begun by its radicals, he wrote. America was built by its radicals. The hope and future of America lies with its radicals. And so, This is the job for todays radical . . . to FAN THE EMBERS OF HOPELESSNESS INTO A FLAME TO FIGHT. TO SAY, . . . LET US CHANGE IT TOGETHER!

    ALINSKY STUDENTS ranged from militant Indians to Chicanos to Puerto Ricans to blacks from all parts of the black power spectrum, from PANTHERS TO RADICAL

    http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303605575673142

    (Continued in my post below - Obamas Radical Roots And Rules)

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 10/13/2008 12:11:52 AM


    (Continued from my post above - Part 2 of 3 - Obamas Radical Roots And Rules)

    PHILOSOPHERS, from a variety of campus activists, S.D.S. and others, to a priest who was joining a revolutionary party in South America.

    CAPITALISM always was considered the ENEMY. Americas corporations are a spiritual slum, he wrote, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society. Is it surprising that an ALINSKY DISCIPLE SUCH AS OBAMA can promise so blithely to increase taxes on CEOs?

    Obama calls his years as an ALINSKYESQUE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER in Chicago THE BEST EDUCATION I ever had, and where I learned the true meaning of my Christian faith. But as radicalism expert Richard Lawrence Poe has noted, CAMOUFLAGE is key to ALINSKY-STYLE ORGANIZING. In organizing coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama caught flak for not attending church himself. He became an instant churchgoer.

    Indeed, Alinsky believed in SACRIFICING ETHICS AND MORALS FOR THE GREAT CAUSE. Ethical standards must be elastic to stretch with the times, Alinsky wrote in his last book, Rules for Radicals, adding that ALL VALUES ARE RELATIVE IN A WORLD OF POLITICAL RELATIVITY.

    Published a year before Alinskys death in 1972, Rules for Radicals includes a dedication in which he gives an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical . . . who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom . . . Lucifer.

    Alinskys writings even explain what often seems like OBAMAS OVERSIZED EGO. In New Hampshire in January, for example, the senator told an audience that A BEAM OF LIGHT WILL COME DOWN UPON YOU, YOU WILL EXPERIENCE AN EPIPHANY . . . and you will suddenly realize that YOU MUST GO TO THE POLLS and VOTE FOR OBAMA.

    It was a bizarre spectacle, but consider that ALINSKY BELIEVED that anyone who is working against the haves is always facing odds, and in many cases heavy odds. If he or she does not have that complete self-confidence (or call it ego) that he can win, then the battle is lost before it is even begun.

    http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303605575673142

    (Continued in my post below - Obamas Radical Roots And Rules)

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 10/13/2008 12:10:43 AM



    (Continued from my post above - Part 3 of 3 - Obamas Radical Roots And Rules)

    According to Alinsky, EGO must be so all-pervading that the PERSONALITY of the organizer is CONTAGIOUS, that it CONVERTS the people from despair TO DEFIANCE, creating a mass ego.

    Alinsky also readily admitted that he did not trust the people themselves. It is the schizophrenia of a free society that we outwardly espouse faith in the people but inwardly have strong doubts whether the people can be trusted, he wrote. Seeking some meaning in life, the MIDDLE CLASS, according to Alinsky, TURN TO AN EXTREME


    CHAUVINISM AND BECOME DEFENDERS OF THE AMERICAN FAITH.

    This is evocative of Obamas remark during the primaries that small-town Americans are BITTER and cling to guns or religion.

    Obama is also following Alinskys instructions to the hard left for attaining power in America. In the last chapter of Rules for Radicals, titled The Way Ahead, is found this declaration: Activists and radicals, on and off our college campuses . . . people who are committed to change . . . must make a complete turnabout.

    Alinsky noted that our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and way of life of the MIDDLE CLASS. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt.

    According to Alinsky, They are right, but he cautioned his comrades that the power and the people are in the big middle-class majority. Therefore, an effective radical activist discards the rhetoric that always says pig in reference to police officers, plus other forms of disguise, to radicalize parts of the middle class.

    Obamas RHETORICAL WINDOW-DRESSING is easily recognizable as ALINSKYESQUE CAMOUFLAGE. New annual spending of more than $340 billion, as estimated by the National Taxpayers Union, is merely a wish to recast the safety net woven by FDR and LBJ, as Obama describes it in his writings. The free market is disparaged as a winner-take-all economy. Big tax increases masquerade as restoring fairness to the economy.

    Barack Obamas CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN is simply SOCIALISM . . . imposed by stratagem because Americans have never believed in Marxist economics. Saul Alinsky understood this, and his ghost is alive and well. . . and threatening to haunt the White House.

    http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303605575673142

  • Posted By: trazer222 @ 10/13/2008 12:05:32 AM

    The liberal press calls this negative ads. As an American voter, I have the right to know if a candidate has used hard drugs; has worked with terrorists in launching their campaign; has openly stated he will attack Pakistan with military power; has taught ACORN classes at top seminars for the organization. At the same time I need to see the views on the issues. Both are important as it shows where he will lead!

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/12/2008 10:28:09 PM

    Bill Clinton points to liberal Congressional Democrats' protection of Fannie and Freddie from scrutiny as a primary cause of the current economic meltdown.

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

    To prove Bill Clinton's point, this is a link to a C-SPAN video clip of the Congressional hearings at roughtly the time McCains attempt at S.190. to fix fannie and freddie.

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

    "Video Unearthed Democrats in their own words Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam that caused our Economic Crisis"

    The link below describes how some of those Democrats in Congress tried to use the original version of the bailout bill to divert money eventually recovered to groups like ACORN. See: Wall Street Journal

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122247015469280723.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

    And here is Lou Dobbs reporting on ACORN corruption and ties to Obama, including Obama Campaign paying ACORN $800,000 for voter registration activities, and Obama representing them when he was a practicing attorney.

    http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/10/09/ldt.tucker.acorn.under.fire.cnn

    • Posted By: Right is RIGHT!!! @ 10/12/2008 10:33:16 PM

      http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain/page/1

      The article repigs do not want you to see

  • Posted By: British Biscuit @ 10/11/2008 10:55:55 PM

    Probably the best thing that could happen to the
    Republican party at this point would be to be decisively
    defeated at the polls. They would have to examine
    why they lost.

    But then, we would be stuck with the Democrats.
    You Europeans are looking at Obama and saying,
    "Wow, how smart he is!" The problem is that you
    don't know about Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

    Stupidity does not even begin to describe their
    world-views. In fact, they make the average
    congressman look intelligent.

    If you understood this, you might even vote for
    McCain and Palin. Sad, but true.

    • Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 10/11/2008 11:44:14 PM

      Stop picking on Pelosi and Reid, it's very lame and hardly matters - they're not that effective, sure, but they're trying their best. I'd say they're a whole lot better than the morons who've been ruining our Government for the past 20 years - that would be the GOP.

      • Posted By: cobalt6 @ 10/11/2008 11:57:30 PM

        Pelosi and reed are not at all better! They are the worst!

        • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 10/12/2008 12:02:21 PM

          Geez, cobalt is back....or shall I refer to you as citron16?

          • Posted By: Mimi13 @ 10/12/2008 7:21:48 PM

            Citron and cobalt are the same? How colorful. What's next: Mauve? Burnt umber?

            • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 10/12/2008 8:58:08 PM

              Hi Mimi! Next=pyramid. I believe cobalt, citron and the blogger pyramid are one and the same. All three are obsessed with exclamation marks.

              Mimi, thanks for all of your excellent comments and informative posts. As usual, I am very impressed!

      • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 10/12/2008 12:02:38 PM

        Second.

    • Posted By: Mimi13 @ 10/12/2008 7:17:45 PM

      I don't understand the logic here. Brit. If Reid and Peliosi are all that dumb, wouldn't we want an intelligent president to provide the leadership and sensible policies we need so much? Wouldn't a McCain-Palin administration just exacerbate the dumb factor? Seems to me you made a case for voting Obama-Biden. Thanks.

  • Posted By: junkmail6 @ 10/12/2008 8:39:03 PM

    McCain must be desperate to run the ad I saw linking Obama to Chicago politics and a Weatherman. I did help me, though. I will NEVER vote for someone who runs an ad like that. The Democrats are the worst party in this country. Except for the Republicans.

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/12/2008 7:53:59 PM

    This link of a CSPAN video clip may help set the context, as these hearings were at the time of McCains attempt at S.190.

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

    "Video Unearthed Democrats in their own words Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam that caused our Economic Crisis"

  • Posted By: neos @ 10/12/2008 6:52:27 PM

    Said the public trust to Sarah Palin, 'I feel violated.'
    Repub apologists are quick to point out that her abuse of power wasn't illegal, just unethical.

  • Posted By: lucy2008 @ 10/12/2008 6:46:01 PM

    Mrs. Begley,
    Your article poppycock to say the least. It isn't even well researched or up to snuff on what is happening. Why is this when you work for Newsweek? What happened to Newsweek in this case? First, I'm sure you know about Karl Rove and his minions and their work and you mention nothing. Frank Luntz, Drew Weston, George Lackoff are all psychologists who have written of the "Political Brain" and speak of methods that use it. Values and emotion, words and associations- and you speak of none of this. This is the new propagnada. Remember Tennessee Senate race 2006 with Harold Ford and Bob Corker? Race, white prosititute, white women, and a lost election. Shame on you, Mrs. Begley. Shame.

  • Posted By: queenbeethatsme @ 10/12/2008 6:30:06 PM

    I think this article while sounding intellectual, also indicates misinformation about how our minds work. Ads are marketing pure and simple and are not directed at disciplined persons but at gullible rabble. Those who already have their mind made up or who do their research, neither listen to or give any credence to attack ads except bloggers who use the information to discredit or underline the point of the ad. As for the "sheeple" who actually are susceptible to ads--they lack the means to understand or read this article anyway and so the "justification factor falls short. No one with half a brain would validate an attack ad--and it stands to reason that the only people who use negativity are those who lack positive information about themselves. Negativity = distraction. If McCain and Obama had to finish this campaign out, not touting anything from their past or their party's past and not saying anything negative about their opponent but only concentrated on their ideas and vision for our country and policy--how would they fare? What would all of their staffers and gurus and pundits come up with? How would they spend themselves?

    And most heinous of all..If each man and their VP selection had to solemnly swear to commit to the proposals and election promises they made during this period under penalty of immediate impeachment; exactly how would each equivocate and try to promise nothing while pretending to promise everything? The fact is attack ads are for the weak and for suckers of either party--for people who think--they are an insult and a frustration..because contrary to how our elections are actually run..this is NOT a popularity contest or some sort of game--we are playing with our future..so when it devolves into picking airheads or tokens of ignoring ethical lapses or the law--we do a disservice to ourselves and the world. That is a FACT

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 10/12/2008 5:30:54 PM

    http://www.mcclatchydc.com/100/story/53812.html

    Even Gov. Charlie Crist, who helped deliver Florida for McCain during the primary, said he will spend the final weeks before Election Day minding the state's weak economy rather than campaigning for the Arizona senator.

    ''When I have time to help, I'll try to do that,'' Crist said last week, after he flew around the state with McCain running mate Sarah Palin. Saturday, he skipped a McCain football rally and instead went to Disney World.

    Once considered a potential running mate, Crist had pledged to do all he could for McCain and spent several days this summer campaigning for the Republican nominee in and outside Florida. He faults the tough economic times for McCain's difficult time in Florida, where he trails rival Barack Obama by about 5 percentage points in the polls.

    No Republican has won the White House in modern times without carrying Florida. The last to lose the state was McCain's former colleague, Sen. Bob Dole, in 1996. Some Republicans say the state party hasn't done enough, while others blame McCain's national campaign.

    Roger Stone, a longtime McCain supporter, said the state party and the national campaign bear almost equal blame.

    ''This effort lacks coordination and a cooperative spirit and it's showing,'' Stone said. "But it's more than mechanics. The campaign has no consistent message.''

    Over the summer, the Obama camp spent at least $10 million on Florida television ads ??? 4,000 of the spots attacking McCain ??? while McCain spent nothing.

    The failure by the party and McCain's campaign to respond to an Obama radio ad in Florida that bashed McCain over embryonic stem-cell research was ''a perfect example of them not being on the ball in Florida,'' Stone said, echoing numerous Florida Republicans.

    But national campaign officials said McCain is within striking distance of Obama in the polls, has ample time to turn things around, and had a winning strategy until Wall Street's crash.

  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/12/2008 5:09:26 PM

    In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
    The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
    the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything in the last 80 years.
    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He didnt realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
    even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a crashing economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
    If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why are the polls even close then ?
    Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
    which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
    They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
    Let's teach him we are smarter than that .
    Elect Obama Biden 2008


    Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/12/2008 5:09:17 PM

    In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
    The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
    the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything in the last 80 years.
    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He didnt realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
    even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a crashing economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
    If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why are the polls even close then ?
    Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
    which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
    They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
    Let's teach him we are smarter than that .
    Elect Obama Biden 2008


    Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/12/2008 5:09:08 PM

    In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
    The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
    the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything in the last 80 years.
    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He didnt realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
    even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a crashing economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
    If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why are the polls even close then ?
    Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
    which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
    They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
    Let's teach him we are smarter than that .
    Elect Obama Biden 2008


    Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

  • Posted By: Taoist_redneck @ 10/12/2008 4:43:12 PM

    Way to keep it nice and tight when this election process has become so messy Cani77! I appreciate your lucid analysis and clear message. I totally agree. Whoever is elected will inherit a devestated economy, so let's put the best and brightest in charge. Vote Obama-Biden 2008, for the sake of our country and our future.

  • Posted By: kingtuttski @ 10/12/2008 4:27:21 PM

    I notice that you go to the trouble to define a difference between 'negative' and 'attack' ads early in the piece. However, after making that differentiation you continue on to totally conflate the two, not telling us whether the reported benefits of negativity apply equally to issue-oriented 'negative' ads and to character-oriented 'attack' ads. Do they? Your thesis would be stronger for the additional information.

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