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  • Posted By: saberman @ 10/18/2008 7:10:12 PM

    I have just about lost all respect for Sen. McCain. He tries to paint Obama as inexperienced. That doesn't work. And it's not true. Then he claims he is a terrorist. People realize that is complete nonsense. Now he tries to say that a progressive tax, a well accepted concept in our democracy, is somehow socialism. This man already has far more power than he deserves. I want someone in the Presidency who will fight for the common ordinary man and woman. That's not socialism. That is simply good government---something that we have been missing for the last 8 years under Bush and his various cronies such as Cheney, McCain, and the rest of the Republican leadership.

    • Posted By: mcbrim1998 @ 10/18/2008 7:17:17 PM

      Ummmm, Obama IS inexperienced. He is an empty suit and he hangs with radicals who are not pro-America. McCain NEVER called him a terrorist, but he still has not answered why he hangs with the low-life he hangs with. If you kid is hanging out with gang-members, it is not a good thing. So, when Obama hangs with domestic terrorists, why do you excuse those actions.

      Face it. Obama reminds me of a young Hugo Chavez...take the wealth and distribute as he sees fit. By the way, how is Hugo's economy going? If you like the way congress has handled the energy crisis and the financial crisis, you will LOVE Obama's government run health care.

      • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 7:59:51 PM

        McCAIN:
        Rolling Stone Magazine: Make believe Maverick, A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty.
        By TIM DICKINSON
        http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain?commentPage=8#rate

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

        Sarah Palin, the AIP, and the Extremist Fringe
        By MICHAEL STICKINGS, Assistant Editor http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/sarah-palin/23395/sarah-palin-the-aip-and-the-extremist-fringe/
        BOTH:
        http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-lux/guilt-by-associations_b_133758.html

      • Posted By: neos @ 10/18/2008 7:19:35 PM

        Is this a list of Fox news programming tonight?

        • Posted By: mcbrim1998 @ 10/18/2008 7:25:15 PM

          No, it is a PBS, NBC, PMSNBC, ABC, CBS, CNN listing.

          • Posted By: neos @ 10/18/2008 7:52:09 PM

            Unlikely, they deal with real news. Sounds more like the Fox republican infomercial channel to me.

      • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 7:37:54 PM

        Read about Palin and the AIP, it does not get more anti-american than that............
        There you have something to be scared of, not the DEMOCRATIC party, the party of Kennedy helping middle class, the party of Clinton bringing prosperity and peace.
        THE AIP, be scared!

  • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 7:56:24 PM

    SHAME ON CORPORATE WELFARE AND ALL INCENTIVE TO THE WEALTHIEST!!

    CORPORATE SOCIALISM: Practiced by republicans to spread wealth from poor to rich

  • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 7:44:52 PM

    HOW DO YOU LABEL THIS APPROACH?

    $500 MILLION CORPORATE WELFARE PLAN TO ATTRACT BIOTECH FACILITY SPURS DEBATE; GOV. BUSH'S PROPOSED GIVEAWAY PACKAGE
    original by Jerry W. Jackson and Barry Flynn, Sentinel Staff Writers
    Jeb Bush's bold plan to lure the prestigious Scripps Research Institute with more than $500 million in state and local money promises to be one of the nation's most expensive government incentives ever.
    Bush characterizes the deal as a landmark opportunity to diversify beyond tourism. Legislators, who meet Monday in a special session to consider the proposal, have a chance, he said, to "endorse a grand new vision for our economy."

    No one in Florida is likely to object to the prospect of bringing good jobs to the state. The key question is value: How much will the jobs cost, and are they worth the diversion of half a billion dollars from other potential uses?

    Scripps says that within seven years of its start in South Florida, the nonprofit biomedical leader would employ 545 people in Florida with an average salary of $58,000 a year.

    While the details are still unfolding, economic-development specialists from throughout the country are stunned by the basic arithmetic: The state's $310 million paired with up to $200 million that Palm Beach County has pledged, the package amounts to a staggering $935,780 per job.

  • Posted By: neos @ 10/18/2008 6:41:55 PM

    I saw the exchange between Matthews and.GOP congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (MN). 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.
    Still, i can remember when this used to be the UNITED States of America. Good work Karl.

    • Posted By: TheVigil @ 10/18/2008 6:59:08 PM

      Don't worry. Rove's not the first divisive demagogue we've had, he's not the only one we have now, and he won't be the last either. But none of them have the power to destroy our nation..

  • Posted By: daleiden@kingwoodcable.net @ 10/18/2008 6:40:00 PM

    I had always enjoyed your commentary on shows like Imus in the Morning. This article really exposes what a pompous elite you are.

  • Posted By: love234america @ 10/18/2008 3:54:14 PM

    "SPREED THE WEALTH' Obama's motto. Just like the communist and very socialist countries. Look what happened to France. They became socialist, the workers got hugh vacations, hugh benefits, less working hours, etc. It was very difficult for companies to do business in France. For example, the middle workers receiived company vehicles. The country was in dire needs of economic reform which the workers resisted. Finanlly they elected a leader who was more conservative and he is making progress reforming France to their benefit. The United States under Obama will go so far left that there will be no bending to the middle again. The only benefit would be that Russia will become our ally and maybe sell us cheap oil and loan us money like she did to Venezuela for weapons. There's always a silver lining but this time it looks like it will be a "red" lining. Your being brainwashed by this Obama will ruin our country; just wait and see.

    • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 5:38:10 PM

      Obama is not SOCIALIST, he is DEMOCRAT, remember CLINTON S YEARS!!!!

      PROSPERITY FOR ALL, JOBS FOR ALL, NO WAR!, CLEAN ENVIRONMENT, he is just adding things Clinton could not complete like HEALTHCARE FOR ALL and ENERGY INDEPENDENCE FOR ALL............

      You are just upset because YOUR PARTY is a DISASTER and do not know how to govern. Look last 8 years, look all Bush promises, The Reformer with Results (his slogan), sound familiar?........

      DEMOCRATS are fair and govern for ALL AMERICANS not just the rich and well connected..........

      • Posted By: AnnieBrum @ 10/18/2008 6:33:14 PM

        You state Nobama is not socialist - well I consider him a communist. When anyone wants to take from the rich to give to the non-working is the communist doctrine. Just be prepared to give up a lot of your freedoms and nicities that you now have. Obama has NOT clarified any of his background issues. He has classified all his papers & thesises from college to serving in the IL Senate where he did not do much of anything except responding 'present' rather than make a decisive decision. Didn't want to be on record with a vote either way. I will be glad to have him out of Illinois but I sure feel despondent when I think how he will be hurting our great country.

        Just remember the Dems have been in power in both houses the past two years and they had promised many changes in their first 100 days. Looks like they failed. I pray a lot of them will be voted out this year.

    • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 5:51:24 PM


      I have read many blogs where republicans say over and over that the crisis WAS NOT Bush fault. Even today there was an article showing ALL the actors that contributed to the crisis. Some republicans are even blaming CLINTON!!!!
      So, if Bush is not responsible for the ECONOMICAL situation of the country, how come only one person in the whole government even as president can CHANGE to whole ECONOMIC SYSTEM established in this country for centuries.......

      You CAN T have it BOTH WAY.....If Bush policies DID NOT have an impact in the economy, HOW Obama would be solely responsible for all your blames? Hemmmm!
      Clinton could not even change the Healthcare system!

      Obama have been in the campaign trail for almost 2 years and it is 2 weeks before elections that he is SUDDENLY socialist? That s desperation. McCain tries every day something different and it says MORE about him that is says about Obama.

      He is really erratic!!! And the fear tactics that are so clear and obvious in ALL republican candidates will backfire big time!


    • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 5:28:54 PM

      WE ARE TALKING FAIRNESS HERE!!!!!!!
      Trillions and trillions in CORPORATE WELFARE and BAILOUTS and executives living like KINGS on taxpayers monies, HOW DO YOU CALL THAT ONE?

    • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 5:26:56 PM

      Other Resources on Corporate Welfare
      Take the Rich Off Welfare, Odonian Press, Zepezauer and Naiman.
      191 pages; costs $9.00; available by calling 1-800-732-5786
      A couple of the fine statistics covered are:
      "If you cut 26 percent of the welfare now given to the rich you have instantly balanced the budget."
      "If you cut out welfare, you could pay off the national debt in 11 years."

  • Posted By: RueDee @ 10/18/2008 6:14:52 PM

    McCain's spreading the wealth plan is more of the same of Bush's redistribution. So pick your spreader!

  • Posted By: PaulStewart @ 10/18/2008 2:57:38 PM

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    Posted By: mcbrim1998 @ 10/18/2008 2:50:47 PM

    Comment: How come I know more about Joe the Plumber than I know about Barak Obama?
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    Because you didn't bother to follow the election. And you are too lazy to weed out the garbage comments from the truth on Obama. there are two books he published, his web site. There are many interviews, 26 debates. The list goes on. If you don't know about Obama, you are just hiding from the truth. He is a good man and he will be America's next President. Because American's will choose him, based on who he is and how he will govern.

    • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 5:53:17 PM

      Well you may know about everyone more than SARAH PALIN!!!!!

  • Posted By: love234america @ 10/18/2008 4:00:24 PM

    "WE THE PEOPLE". How very naive. It's the liberal press and foreign money that is running this campaign. This is not an election that will be decided by the people because the people have been brainwashed, just as the Germans once were. Wait until you live in a socialist nation for a while and then let's hear about WE THE PEOPLE. In 1967 I toured East Germany and East Berlin and the brainwashing of the communist was unbelieveable. I saw the barbed wire, towers with soldiers with guns, dogs to hunt the people attempting to escape, the burned grass so that the escapees could more easily be seen, etc. I saw Check Point Charlie, the Wall, saw the buses east to west having mirrors rolled under them to detect people attempting to escape. WE THE PEOPLE, bullshit........that no longer is a statement to be spoken in this nation. The White House is for sale and it probably will be bought with the help of foreign nations and organizations, and many, many lies from obama. To hell with We The People.

    • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 5:26:33 PM

      Other Resources on Corporate Welfare
      Take the Rich Off Welfare, Odonian Press, Zepezauer and Naiman.
      191 pages; costs $9.00; available by calling 1-800-732-5786
      A couple of the fine statistics covered are:
      "If you cut 26 percent of the welfare now given to the rich you have instantly balanced the budget."
      "If you cut out welfare, you could pay off the national debt in 11 years."

  • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 5:25:12 PM

    Why We Need to Abolish Corporate Welfare
    by Todd Altman
    Jan 20, 2003
    Corporate welfare is defined by the Cato Institute as "any government spending program that provides unique benefits or advantages to specific companies or industries." Although transfer payments in general (to the extent they redistribute the earned incomes of labor and capital) are morally wrong, corporate welfare is the worst transfer payment of all because it constitutes stealing from the poor in order to give to the rich. Examples of such giveaways can be found online at the Banneker Center's corporate welfare shame page.
    The federal government currently spends roughly $93 billion a year on programs that provide subsidies to private businesses. Not only does this give big business an unfair advantage over smaller competitors, it gives politicians an excuse to deny much-needed tax relief to the bottom 75% of taxpayers -- those who, according to the Tax Foundation, make less than $55,226 a year.
    Specifically, the bottom 75% (over 96 million people) pay approximately $156.8 billion a year in federal income taxes -- with those who make below $27,682 (the bottom 50%) paying a little over $38.3 billion, and those who make between $27,682 and $55,225 paying the rest.
    Thus, if we eliminated corporate welfare, that alone would allow for the income tax to be reduced by nearly 1/2 for those making between $27,682 and $55,225, and abolished entirely for those making below $27,682. This would benefit wage-earners enormously by offsetting the regressive nature of the payroll tax, and would benefit small businesses by eliminating the anticompetitive nature of corporate welfare spending.

  • Posted By: mcbrim1998 @ 10/18/2008 5:08:33 PM

    Face it. This poll tells it all. Once the curtain is drawn, many democrats and independents will NOT vote for Obama.

    http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/09/20/can-obama-win-anti-black-democrats/

  • Posted By: jefflz @ 10/18/2008 4:47:57 PM

    The right wing nuts are out in force. Does McCain believe that labeling Obama as a socialist will bring moderate voters who have already rejected most of his negative campaigning? Why not go all the way and call him a commie, pinko,. Neocon, Bushie are the dirty words for this campaign cycle. They both fit McCain.

  • Posted By: kmemini @ 10/18/2008 4:44:17 PM

    If only. I keep hoping. I remember RIchard Nixon (a crook) Ronald Reagan (an actor) who started all the de-regulation-- he was the one that deregulated the Airline industry--and now look at it. The anti- big government line is so tired and worn-out. It's not big gov or 'socialism' (eek!) versus "free enterprise" -- we just need
    real honest government that is accountable, transparent, monitored and acting FOR the people. Yay Obama!

  • Posted By: robynsalmon @ 10/18/2008 4:39:23 PM

    yes and the thought that it self-corrrects by lefting and then righting is indeed intriguing, rather jeffersonian only bloddleslsly

  • Posted By: tlangsr @ 10/18/2008 2:56:33 PM

    Even if Joe stays Republican, Barack Obama will still likely win. That's because he has built a huge base of non-Joes???better-educated, younger whites, --- Wow, just call off the election, swear Barak in, and I guess Joe, your dumb-white-a** is irrelevent anyway....

    Is this a news story or just a political commentary.. move lef,t move left, move left... umm I think most US Citizens are sick and tired of govt interference in EVERYTHING.. they take our hard earned money and give it to others, both foriegn and domestic, put more laws, rules and regulations in place to make any reasonible business person scream and in the end just make more americans dependant onthe govt.. instead of being independant.

    • Posted By: love234america @ 10/18/2008 4:08:50 PM

      I read both of Obama's books, I have studied his many speaches (some very radical) and have researched him extensively. His mentor Frank Marshall Davis was a card carrying communist subservient to the Soviet Union. Obama wrote that he and Frank visited in Hawaii and Frank was full of hard earned knowledge and ADVISE. They read poetry (Frank was a poet). Obama also wrote that he attended socialistic conferences. In a speach on the internet which I viewed about a year ago, Obama's programs for American could not have been more socialist, I won't list them as there were so many but one was a universal 401ks govt. matches contribution for low & moderate income families. This is socialism at its best: take from the ones who have worked hard for their money and distribute it thru taxes to the poor (too lazy to work?) and moderate income families. If obama wins, our friends will be Putin, Castro, Chavez, and the rest of the communist country leaders. ISRAEL, you will be on your own as Obama will not support you defensively; he has too much Arab blood.

  • Posted By: me8980109 @ 10/18/2008 3:58:41 PM

    I just chuckle at the fact that John McCain has accused Obama of being a black, radical, Muslim, terrorist, and that's the guy he is going to loose this election too? That by itself speaks volumes about what the American public thinks of John McCain the decorated American war hero. The country is telling the world we are ready to move in a new direction even if the Republican Party isn't.

  • Posted By: me8980109 @ 10/18/2008 3:57:16 PM

    I just chuckle at the fact that John McCain has accused Obama of being a black, radical, Muslim, terrorist, and that's the guy he is going to loose this election too? That by itself speaks volumes about what the American public thinks of John McCain and the Republican party.

  • Posted By: cherstinane @ 10/18/2008 3:35:50 PM

    People who look to the government or Wall Street either one to save them are naive at best. Anyone who puts their trust in someone else to save them will never be saved. It is not the government that makes us great nor Wall Street - it is us - the little people who do nothing but go vote for President once every four years and then complain that they didn't do what we wanted! We have the power within us, we just don't use it. We put our energy and efforts in to voting once every four years for people who truly have no interest in us - NO MATTER WHAT THEY PREACH the year before an election. When we little people wake up and realize that we have given all our control and power over to a giant money consuming monster (either Wall Street or the Government) then maybe WE can fix the problem. Until then - all you people who think your one little vote is going to change the world -wake up - it takes far more than getting people elected to fix the mess we have allowed big government and big business to make. We are not helpless - as we may feel - we just complain on sites like this about the "other side" being wrong and then go about about on our merry way continuning to do nothing. No matter who wins - we deserve what we get and either way it will be bad - and we will have no one to blame but ourselves. And people who write articles like this that make us believe "government is our last best hope" when they are at the core of the problem to begin with!

  • Posted By: mbojmike @ 10/18/2008 3:34:01 PM

    For my opinion I believe this to be the most exciting time in American Politics. Despite the constant bombardment of overwhelmingly negative news coming from every corner you can imagine the voting citizens of this nation have an opportunity to affect change in a way unprecedented in decades. I, like many of the rest of you, will vote with our conscious, we will vote for what we believe is true and good, we will vote because deep down each American knows and believes in their heart that WE THE PEOPLE are what make this nation great. When the polls close and the confetti settles no matter who we will call the next president this nation will continue to be a great nation because WE THE PEOPLE have an unbreakable spirit that will continue to permeate through the grief and the hardship and the disappointment. I encourage each and every person to go out and vote your mind be the change you know deep down inside you can be and don???t ever forget what you are capable of if you believe.

  • Posted By: mbojmike @ 10/18/2008 3:33:19 PM

    For my opinion I believe this to be the most exciting time in American Politics. Despite the constant bombardment of overwhelmingly negative news coming from every corner you can imagine the voting citizens of this nation have an opportunity to affect change in a way unprecedented in decades. I, like many of the rest of you, will vote with our conscious, we will vote for what we believe is true and good, we will vote because deep down each American knows and believes in their heart that WE THE PEOPLE are what make this nation great. When the polls close and the confetti settles no matter who we will call the next president this nation will continue to be a great nation because WE THE PEOPLE have an unbreakable spirit that will continue to permeate through the grief and the hardship and the disappointment. I encourage each and every person to go out and vote your mind be the change you know deep down inside you can be and don???t ever forget what you are capable of if you believe.

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